金牛犊

亚伦根据以色列人的要求制造金牛犊来对抗神。

Aaron made the golden calf at Israel 's request because the people rebelled against God .

金牛犊刚好要做成王位的基座，而这个基座会招引异教诸神。

The golden calf was just going to be the base of a throne , to which pagan deities would be drawn .

金牛犊则能将他们引向某种力量，可平息他们的恐惧。

The calf would give them access to forces that could assuage their fears .

人们为什么要铸造金牛犊呢？

Why did the people make it ?

这个故事因表现了人们膜拜自己创造的金牛犊而被广为铭记。

The story is popularly remembered as having the people worshipping the golden calf they had made .

我们发现有趣的是，北方的王耶罗波安在伯特利设立的错误的崇拜竟然是一个金牛犊。

It is interesting that the false worship established in Bethel by Jeroboam was a golden calf .

亚伦用这些金子作了一个金牛犊，以色列人把它当神崇拜。

With the gold Aaron made a golden calf and the people worshipped it as their god .

你认为金牛犊会向他们点头微笑吗？当然不会。

Do you think that golden calf nodded and smiled and joined in ？ Of course not !

金牛犊的问题起源于摩西长时间的离开营地。

The problem of the golden calf began with the prolonged absence of Moses from the camp .

以色列人在西乃山用金牛犊代表上帝，就是这样犯罪。

This is what happened when the Israelites at Sinai made a visible symbol of God in the form of a golden calf .

一个原因就是，金牛犊本可用作一个基座，以吸引旧式埃及众神。

One reason is that the golden calf would have acted as a pedestal to bring in the old-style gods of the Egyptians .

保罗可能是想到了亚伦曾在以色列叛离神时应众人的要求，制造金牛犊。

Paul may also been thinking of the time when Aaron made the golden calf at Israel 's request when they rebelled against God .

这讲的是金牛犊的故事，以色列人违背摩西和律法，熔铸了一尊巨大的金牛犊雕像。

Then it tells about the golden calf story , how the Israelites rejected Moses and the law , and made a golden fat calf to worship .

不过，如果金牛犊不是个偶像，又没有亵渎任何一条戒律，为什么《圣经》要如此抵触建造它呢？

But why was the Bible so against the making of the calf , if it was not an idol and did not violate any of the commandments ?

只是耶户不离开尼八的儿子耶罗波安使以色列人陷在罪里的那罪，就是拜伯特利和但的金牛犊。

However , he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat , which he had caused Israel to commit-the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan .

因为人们完全有理由认为，在最初的希伯来奴隶逃离沙漠的历程中，金牛犊事件根本就从未出现在他们的记忆中。

For there is every reason to think that the incident of the calf was never a part of what the original Hebrew slaves remembered as happening in their desert escape at all .

他们所作的实在满了罪恶。他们对着金牛犊献祭，然后，就唱歌跳舞，吃喝玩耍，做了很多有罪的事。

They brought offerings and laid them on the altar before the golden calf . Then they began to sing and dance , to eat and drink and do all sorts of sinful things .

我们知道偶像虽然有眼睛，但它们能看见吗？有耳朵，但它们能听见吗？有嘴巴，但它们能讲话吗？金牛犊根本没有感觉，又不能看见，不能听见，也不能说话。

We know statues have eyes , but can they see ？ Ears , but can they hear ？ A mouth , but can it speak ？ ? ? That golden calf didn 't know or see anything .

《圣经》故事记载，摩西在西奈山上忙于接受《十诫》时，他留在山脚下的逃亡奴隶熔铸了一尊巨大的金牛犊异教雕塑。

In the Bible , the story goes that while Moses was busy up on Mount Sinai collecting the Ten Commandments , the escaped slaves he had left at the base of the mountain smelted a great pagan sculpture of a golden calf .

然而，《出埃及记》之所以花了如此长的篇幅来反对金牛犊，还有第二个原因&而随着人们会在未来数周数月讨论银行业监管问题，这个原因预示了到时无疑会发生的事情。

Yet there is a second reason that the book of Exodus goes on at such length against the golden calf – and it prefigures what is undoubtedly going to happen as banking regulations get argued about in the weeks and months to come .