英语听书《白鲸记》第31期
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(单词翻译)
As sinful men,it is a lesson to us all,because it is a story of the sin,hard heartedness,suddenly awakened1 fears,
the swift punishment,repentance,prayers,and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.As with all sinners among men,
the sin of this son of Amittai was in his
wilful2 disobedience of the command of God never mind now what that command was,
or how conveyed which he found a hard command.But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do remember that and hence,
he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade.And if we obey God,we must disobey ourselves;and it is in this disobeying ourselves,wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
With this sin of disobedience in him,Jonah still further
flouts3 at God,by seeking to flee from Him.
He thinks that a ship made by men will carry him into countries where God does not reign,but only the Captains of this earth.
He
skulks4 about the
wharves5 of Joppa,and seeks a ship that's bound for Tarshish.There lurks,perhaps,a hitherto unheeded meaning here.
By all accounts Tarshish could have been no other city than the modern Cadiz.That's the opinion of learned men.And where is Cadiz,shipmates?
Cadiz is in Spain;as far by water,from Joppa,as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days,when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea.
Because Joppa,the modern Jaffa,shipmates,is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean,the Syrian;and Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the
westward6 from that,
just outside the Straits of Gibraltar.See ye not then,shipmates,that Jonah sought to flee world wide from God?
Miserable7 man!Oh!
So disordered,self
condemning12 is his look,that had there been policemen in those days,Jonah,on the
mere13 suspicion of something wrong,had been arrested ere he touched a deck.
How plainly he's a
fugitive14!no baggage,not a hat box,valise,or carpet bag,no friends accompany him to the
wharf15 with their adieux.At last,after much
dodging16 search,
he finds the Tarshish ship receiving the last items of her cargo;and as he steps on board to see its Captain in the cabin,
all the sailors for the moment desist from
hoisting17 in the goods,to mark the stranger's evil eye.Jonah sees this;
but in vain he tries to look all ease and confidence;in vain essays his wretched smile.
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