加尔文：圣经注释

这本加尔文圣经注释选集，我们首 尔文翻译协会的译文。然而事实证 我们还是需要有自己的翻译。对于 点，有两个很好的理由：旧版翻译 已有大约一百年之久，语言已经发 巨大变化。加尔文的圣经注释是通 座或口述的形式创作的。其拉丁语 虽然不规则，但在言语上十分生动 ，颇有语言大师的风范，既不怪异 陈旧。因此，对我们来说，若是保 些注释的英译版本，对加尔文和读 说都是不公平的，因为它确已过时 呆板。我们尝试忠于原著，运用形 动的现代英语。我们无法保证对节 每段内容的诠释都精准无误。每个 都知道想要忠实地把握作者所要 的思想情感是一件微妙而冒险的 我们只希望我们的翻译朗朗上口， 分违背加尔文本意。我们希望读者 享加尔文思想的同时也能够理解 尽管无法避免一些瑕疵，但我们希 一翻译是成功的。

In making this selection from Calvin’s 制作 Biblical Commentaries, our first intention 选加 was to use the translations of the Calvin 明， Translation Society. However, it soon 这一 became clear that we had to make one of 至今 our own. For this there were two very 生了 good reasons. The older translation is 过讲 about a hundred years old, and its style is 风， no longer our own. Calvin’s 直接 Commentaries were composed by way of 也不 either lecture or dictation. Their Latin 持这 style, although uneven, has the vividness 者来 and directness of the spoken word. It is 且很 the style of a master of the language, and 象生 it is neither strange nor archaic. 选的 Therefore, it seemed to us unjust both to 译者 Calvin and to the reader to perpetuate 表达 English versions of the Commentaries 事。 that are both out of date and to us stilted. 不过 We have tried to make a translation 在分 which is at once true to the original and 他。 in good and vivid present-day English. It 望这 is too much to hope that we have succeeded in every passage we have selected. Any translator knows that fidelity in expressing the meaning and feeling of an author in another tongue is a subtle and risky business. We only hope that we have produced a readable translation without doing Calvin undue violence. We wanted the reader to enjoy Calvin as well as understand him. We hope we have met with some, even if uneven, success.

的翻译出自许多学者之手。风格迥 质量不同。除此之外，译者们的神 点和注释各不相同，也就很自然地 们的拉丁文译本着上了不同的色 像我们这样的选集，本可以把不同 、不同适应性的翻译直接整合在一

The older translations are from the hands 旧版 of a number of scholars. Their English 异， styles are different, and not of the same 学观 quality. Besides, the exegetical and 为他 theological predilections of the several 彩。 translators have understandably colored 风格

、令人 可容忍的缺

their versions of the Latin text. In a 起，但这样就会形成一种混乱的 selection like ours we would have had to 困惑的风格。为避免这种不 put together, in immediate succession, 陷，我们重新进行了翻译。 passages with different styles and different adequacy as translations. This would have produced a book with a garbled and bewildering style. We made a new translation to avoid such an intolerable defect.

们必须声明为什么在加尔文注释的 大体系中向读者提供这个特别卷。对 选集我们没有特定规则，我们选取那 我们欣赏的，当然，由于条件有限， 们只选取了其中一小部分。我们决心 读者展现加尔文的解经方式，展现他 释家的风采。我们还要向作者传达加 文对圣经中文学和历史问题的关注、 对圣经从神的道和人类文献角度的 解、以及他对教会建设问题的深入思 。在对圣经进行注释的过程中，我们 法，也未曾忽视在神学领域和教会实 生活中的现实问题。我们竭尽所能地 集了加尔文对现今教会有所帮助的 料。在进行选材的时候我们心中谨记 些原则。同时我们也希望这本书有一 的连续性，能够将加尔文的思想传达 恰当完整。

We must say a word as to why we offer 我 the reader this particular volume out of 庞 the vast body of Calvin’s Commentaries. 于 We had no single principle of selection. 些 We took what we liked — rather, a small 我 fraction of what we liked and would have 向 included if we had had the space. We 注 were intent upon giving the reader good 尔 specimens of Calvin’s way of explaining 他 Biblical texts, to bring out his qualities as 理 an exegete. We wanted to show his 考 concern with literary and historical 无 questions, his understanding of Scripture 际 both as the Word of God and as a human 收 document, his constant preoccupation 材 with the upbuilding of the church. We 这 could not and did not ignore present-day 定 issues in the interpretation of the Bible in 得 theology and practical church life. We did the best we could to include material in which Calvin can be of some help to the church today. We did our selecting with such interests in mind. However, we do hope that this book has a certain continuity which will convey a proper sense of the integrity of Calvin’s mind.

材料的整理，在众多的方法中我们选 了一种，那种对我们来说很自然的。 们没有收录过多加尔文在人类、罪 、圣灵、末世论以及政治方面所阐释 教义。在表达他思想的深度和广度之 ，我们选择了深度。我们手头上还有 多的材料，如果有一天有大量的需

Our organization of the material is one of 对 many possible. The one we adopted 取 seemed natural to us. We have not given 我 special chapters to Calvin’s teachings on 恶 man, sin, the Holy Spirit, eschatology, 的 politics. We had to choose between depth 间 and spread, and we chose depth. We have 更

路易斯 P.史密斯教授的配合， 约篇章的准备工作中，她功不 对圣经和加尔文的了解、她的 强的判断力、以及她的鼓励在 的工作中无疑是一份宝贵的 还要感谢编辑和出版商的大力 谢乔治 W.贝尔德夫人对手稿 的打印工作。感谢雷夫肯尼斯 和新墨西哥州圣达菲第一长老 提供了七个月的书房供我快乐 也要感谢麦考密克神学院图书 文·施密特教授为我提供所需 目。感谢小爱德华 A.杜威对我 建议，尤其是在引言部分。

much more material in hand, and 求，以便我们可以利用。 someday we may be able to use it, especially if there is sufficient demand for it.

哈洛图尼亚 神学院 伊利诺斯州

I wish to express my gratitude to Prof. 我要感谢 Louise P. Smith who collaborated with 尤其在旧 me, especially in preparing the Old 可没。她 Testament passages. Her knowledge of 耐心、超 Scripture and Calvin, her patience and 这项艰苦 good sense, her encouragement, have 财富。我 been invaluable in this laborious 支持，感 undertaking. I am also grateful to the 主要部分 editors and the publisher for their help, M.基勒 and to Mrs. George W. Baird who typed 会，为我 the major part of the manuscript. I wish 地创作。 to thank Rev. Kenneth M. Keeler and the 馆的加尔 First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 的参考书 New Mexico, for giving me a study 的批评和 where I worked happily for seven months. My thanks are due also to Prof. Calvin Schmitt of the McCormick Theological Seminary Library for the bibliographical help he gave me, and to Prof. Edward A. Dowey, Jr., for his criticisms and suggestions, especially with regard to the Introduction.