4三 喇合虽是被定罪的迦南人,又是在耶利哥这受神永远咒诅之地(书六26)的妓女(二1),却在归向神和神的百姓后(六22~25,来十一30~31),嫁给以色列领头的犹大支派中一个首领的儿子(代上二10~11),也许是两个探子之一的撒门(太一5),然后生了敬虔的波阿斯,基督乃是从他而出;喇合就联于成为肉体的基督,为着完成神永远的经纶(5)。 4C Although Rahab was a condemned Canaanite and a prostitute in Jericho (Josh. 2:1), a place cursed by God for eternity (6:26), after she turned to God and to God’s people (vv. 22-25; Heb. 11:30-31), she married Salmon (Matt. 1:5), the son of a leader of Judah, a leading tribe of Israel (1 Chron. 2:10-11), and probably one of the two spies; then she brought forth Boaz, a godly man, out of whom Christ came, and she became associated with Christ in His incarnation for the fulfillment of God’s eternal economy (Matt. 1:5).