【Genesis 9:12,13,14,15,16,17 李杜圣经札记】

12 神说，我与你们并你们这里的各样活物所立的永约，是有记号的。 

13 我把虹放在云彩中，这就可作我与地立约的记号了。 

14 我使云彩盖地的时候，必有虹现在云彩中， 

15 我便记念我与你们和各样有血肉的活物所立的约，水就再不泛滥，毁坏一切有血肉的物了。 

16 虹必现在云彩中，我看见，就要记念我与地上各样有血肉的活物所立的永约。 

17 神对挪亚说，这就是我与地上一切有血肉之物立约的记号了。 

EVR:

12 And God said, “I will give you something to prove that I made this promise to you. It will continue forever to show that I have made an agreement with you and every living thing on earth. 13 I am putting a rainbow in the clouds as proof of the agreement between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth, you will see the rainbow in the clouds. 15 When I see this rainbow, I will remember the agreement between me and you and every living thing on the earth. This agreement says that a flood will never again destroy all life on the earth. 16 When I look and see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the agreement that continues forever. I will remember the agreement between me and every living thing on the earth.”

17 So God said to Noah, “This rainbow is proof of the agreement that I made with all living things on earth.”

NIV:

12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.” 

17 So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”

评述：

风雨之后见彩虹。彩虹的出现，是在风雨中最绝望之时，阳光突然投射下来。上帝以此为标记，与大地订约，降下恩典。

大地混沌漆黑时，上帝说，“要有光”。这里，上帝说，还要有七彩的光。

英国作家劳伦斯的小说《虹》里，基督教意象比比皆是。劳伦斯痛恨工业革命对人性的压制与摧残。小说末尾，雨后的下午，一条彩虹横跨天际。披着坚硬躯壳的芸芸众生，在腐烂的大地上蝇营狗苟。这轮彩虹将使他们的精神重获生命。

我在想，工业革命之后的技术革命，带来互联网、手机、人工智能、区块链，裹挟着人类滚滚向前，劳伦斯笔下的彩虹又在何处呢？