Tobit
Chapter 14
1 Tobit died peacefully at the age of a hundred and twelve, and received an honorable burial in Nineveh.
他于一百一十二岁上平安去世，哀荣地葬在尼尼微。
2 He was sixty-two years old when he lost his eyesight, and after he recovered it he lived in prosperity, giving alms and continually blessing God and praising the divine Majesty.
他双目失明时六十二岁；复明以后，生活也很幸福，且继续施舍救济，时常赞美天主，颂扬天主的伟大。
3 Just before he died, he called his son Tobiah and Tobiah's seven sons, and gave him this command:＂Son, take your children
当他临终的时候，叫了他儿子多俾亚来，吩咐他说：＂孩子！你要领你的孩子，
4 1 and flee into Media, for I believe God's word which was spoken by Nahum against Nineveh. It shall all happen, and shall overtake Assyria and Nineveh; indeed, whatever was said by Israel's prophets, whom God commissioned, shall occur. Not one of all the oracles shall remain unfulfilled, but everything shall take place in the time appointed for it. So it will be safer in Media than in Assyria or Babylon. For I know and believe that whatever God has spoken will be accomplished. It shall happen, and not a single word of the prophecies shall prove false.＂As for our kinsmen who dwell in Israel, they shall all be scattered and led away into exile from the Good Land. The entire country of Israel shall become desolate; even Samaria and Jerusalem shall become desolate! God's temple there shall be burnt to the ground and shall be desolate for a while.
快往玛待去，因为我确信天主借纳鸿先知论尼尼微所说的话，必要应验，临于亚述国和尼尼微城。凡天主遣发到以色列的先知所说的一切，也要来临，其中一字也不能删去，必要一一按时应验；只有在玛待比在亚述和巴比伦更为安全，因为我知道，并确信天主所说的一切，必要成就应验；预言中一句也不会落空。但是，我那些住在以色列地的同胞也要被驱逐，并从福地里被掳去；以色列全地必要荒芜，撤玛黎雅和耶路撒冷也要变成荒地，天主的殿宇也要被烧毁，变成灰烬，直到某一时期。
5 2 But God will again have mercy on them and bring them back to the land of Israel. They shall rebuild the temple, but it will not be like the first one, until the era when the appointed times shall be completed. Afterward all of them shall return from their exile, and they shall rebuild Jerusalem with splendor. In her the temple of God shall also be rebuilt; yes, it will be rebuilt for all generations to come, just as the prophets of Israel said of her.
可是，天主还要怜悯他们，天主要再领他们回到叫以色列地，重建殿宇，但不如从前的那一座，直到指定的时期圆满为止。此后，众人将要从流徒之地回来，重建耶路撤冷，恢复繁荣，其中也将重建天主的殿宇，照以色列的众先知所预言的。
6 3 All the nations of the world shall be converted and shall offer God true worship; all shall abandon their idols which have deceitfully led them into error,
普天下所有的外邦人，将回心转意，离弃那些迷惑他们走入歧途的偶像，虔诚敬畏上主天主，以行义来赞颂永生的天主。
7 and shall bless the God of the ages in righteousness. Because all the Israelites who are to be saved in those days will truly be mindful of God, they shall be gathered together and go to Jerusalem; in security shall they dwell forever in the land of Abraham, which will be given over to them. Those who sincerely love God shall rejoice, but those who become guilty of sin shall completely disappear from the land.
在那些时日内，凡得以逃生的以色列子民，必诚心诚意怀念天主，聚集起来，回到耶路撒冷，永远在亚巴郎的土地上安居乐业，因为这土地应归还于他们。凡诚心诚意敬爱天主的人，必要欢乐；作恶犯罪的人，必要从地上灭绝。
8＂Now, as for you, my son, depart from Nineveh; do not remain here.
孩子！现今你该离开尼尼微，不要留在这里。
9＂Now, children, I give you this command: serve God faithfully and do what is right before him; you must tell your children to do what is upright and to give alms, to be mindful of God and at all times to bless his name sincerely and with all their strength.
孩子！现今我吩咐你们该诚心事奉天主，作他喜欢的事。也该命令你们的子女，行善施舍，使他们时常记念天主，永远全心全力赞美他的圣名。
10 4 The day you bury your mother next to me, do not even stay overnight within the confines of the city. For I see that people here shamelessly commit all sorts of wickedness and treachery. Think, my son, of all that Nadab did to Ahiqar, the very one who brought him up: Ahiqar went down alive into the earth! Yet God made Nadab's disgraceful crime rebound against him. Ahiqar came out again into the light, but Nadab went into the everlasting darkness, for he had tried to kill Ahiqar. Because Ahiqar had given alms to me, he escaped from the deadly trap Nadab had set for him. But Nadab himself fell into the deadly trap, and it destroyed him.
自你把你母亲埋葬在我身旁的那天起，就要离开这里，因为我看见城中充满了不义，人任意欺诈而不以为耻。 孩子！你看看纳达布怎样对待了教养他的阿希加：阿希加不是被他活活地逼入地下吗？但是天主，当面补偿了他所受的凌辱，阿希加出来重见天日，纳达布却进入了永远的黑暗中，原来他想谋杀阿希加。阿希加因为施舍哀矜，所以能脱离纳达布为他预备的死亡圈套；而纳达布自己却陷入了死亡的罗纲丧失了性命。
11 So, my children, note well what almsgiving does, and also what wickedness does--it kills! But now my spirit is about to leave me.＂
孩子！所以你们看？：施舍的结果是什么？不义的结果是什么？是死亡。现在我的灵魂要离开了。＂
12 They placed him on his bed and he died; and he received an honorable burial. When Tobiah's mother died, he buried her next to his father. He then departed with his wife and children for Media, where he settled in Ecbatana with his father-in-law Raguel.
于是众人把他放在床上；他便死了。人们隆重地埋葬了他。多俾亚的母亲亚纳死后，他便把她同他的父亲葬在一起；随后，便同自己的妻子儿女离开了那里，到玛待去在厄克巴塔纳与他的岳父辣古耳住在一起。
13 He took respectful care of his aging father-in-law and mother-in-law; and he buried them at Ecbatana in Media. Then he inherited Raguel's estate as well as that of his father Tobit.
他孝敬他们直至他们寿终正寝，把他们埋葬在玛待厄克巴塔纳，也承继了辣古耳和他父亲托彼特的家产。
14 He died at the venerable age of a hundred and seventeen.
生时很受尊荣，死在玛待厄克巴塔纳，享年一百一十七岁。
15 5 But before he died, he heard of the destruction of Nineveh and saw its effects. He witnessed the exile of the city's inhabitants when Cyaxares, king of Media, led them captive into Media. Tobiah praised God for all that he had done against the citizens of Nineveh and Assyria. Before dying he rejoiced over Nineveh's destruction, and he blessed the Lord God forever and ever. Amen.
他死前听到了尼尼微毁灭的消息，也亲眼见了玛待王基雅撒勒掳到玛待的俘虏，而赞美天主对尼尼微和亚述子民所作的一切。如此，在他未死之前，能为尼尼微的毁灭而喜乐，赞美上主天主于无穷之世。阿们。
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Footnotes（注解）
1 [4] (4-5) Nahum: one of the minor prophets, whose book contains oracles of doom against Nineveh. Here, in keeping with the period to which he assigns his story, the sacred author makes Tobit speak as if the punishment of Nineveh, the destruction of Jerusalem (587 B. C.), the exile from Judah and the return, would all take place in the future. The technique of using the facts of past history as seemingly future predictions, is a frequent device of apocalyptic writers. The Good Land: a favorite name for the promised land. Cf Deut 1:35; 3:25; 4:21, 22.
2 [5] Until the era . . . completed: a reference to the advent of Messianic times, in which a new, more perfect temple was to be expected. Cf Hebrews 9:1-14.
3 [6] Conversion of the Gentiles is also to come in the Messianic era.
4 [10] Nadab: In the Story of Ahiqar, the hero Ahiqar, chancellor under the Assyrian kings Sennacherib and Esarhaddon, adopts his nephew Nadab and prepares him to become his successor. But Nadab treacherously plots to have his uncle put to death. Ahiqar hides in a friend's house, and is finally vindicated (came out again into the light) when Nadab's scheme is discovered. Thereupon Nadab is thrown into a dungeon where he dies (went into everlasting darkness). It was Ahiqar's almsgiving that delivered him from death; see note on Tobit 2:2.
5 [15] Cyaxares: Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, and Cyaxares conquered and destroyed Nineveh in 612 B. C.; see note on Tobit 1:15.