The Nephilim[1]

拿非利人

QUESTION: Were the Nephilim the product of angels fornicating with women? When did they exist? Were they giants?

問題：拿非利人是天使與女人私通後的產物嗎？他們什麼時候存在的？他們是巨人嗎？

ANSWER: While the word Nephilim is not found in the KJV or most other English Bible translations, it does appear in the original Hebrew of the Old Testament. It appears once in the book of Genesis and once in the book of Numbers.

答案：雖然在欽定版或是大多數其他英文的聖經翻譯中都找不到Nephilim這個字，但它確實有出現在原始希伯來文的舊約之中。它在創世紀中出現一次，在民數記中出現一次。[2]

The Hebrew word nephilim, Strong's Concordance #H5303, is defined as someone who is a feller, meaning a person who is a tyrant or bully. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Definitions reference simply translates the word as "giants."

希伯來文中的nephilim (史特朗原文編號＃H5303)，被定義成一個男的，指得是一個暴君或惡霸。在Brown-Driver-Briggs詞典的希伯來文參考資料的定義中則是簡單地將其翻譯成「巨人」。

Giants did indeed exist before and after Noah's flood. These large people were especially abundant when the earth was experiencing a population explosion (Genesis 6:1) prior to the deluge. Conservative estimates place the world's population, before it was covered with water, at around one billion!

在挪亞大洪水之前和之後，巨人確實是存在的。在大洪水之前，當時的地球正經歷著人口爆炸的時期（創世記6：1），而這些高大的人特別地多。保守估計世界人口在被水覆蓋之前，大約有十億人！

One common question is who were the "sons of God" who married women and produced the nephilim. Some believe they were demons who took the form of human flesh and produced giants through human females. This theory does not make any sense, however, since there is no place in Scripture where God calls demons his "sons."

一個常見的問題是，與女人結婚並生下拿非利人的「上帝的兒子」是誰。有些人認為他們是有著人類肉體，利用人類女性來產下巨人的惡魔。然而，這個理論完全是胡說八道，因為在聖經中上帝是不可能會將惡魔稱作他的「兒子」。

Additionally, there is a giant (pardon the pun) problem with the belief that angels and women were able to produce a race of supersized humans called Nephilim. Scripture says the sons of God took wives for themselves, meaning they were married, and together they produced such children (Genesis 6:2). It does NOT say these women were raped by angels and then produced bastard giants.

此外，有一個巨大（抱歉在這玩了個雙關語[3]）的問題是關於相信天使和女人能夠生下一種稱為拿非利人的超大型人類種族。聖經說上帝的兒子為他們自己娶了妻子，也就是說他們結婚了，然後他們一起生下了這樣的孩子（創世記6：2）。它並沒有說這些女人是被天使強姦，然後才生下巨人私生子。

Marriage is a Holy, binding relationship between a man and a woman God instituted in Eden (Genesis 2:24 - 25). There is not even a HINT in scripture that He ever spoke about or approved of angelic beings somehow marrying humans and then allowing them to create the Nephilim.

婚姻是一種在伊甸園中男人與女人之間建立的神聖而有約束力的關係（創世紀2：24-25）。在經文中甚至沒有出現任何暗示說上帝曾談過或批准天使般的生物能以某種方式與人類結婚，然後允許他們創造出拿非利人。

The possibility of angels and humans marrying and producing nephilim was also indirectly addressed by Jesus. He stated that marriage was a human institution that will not exist after people are resurrected and changed into spirit like the angels (Matthew 22:30). Angelic beings are incapable of marriage and cannot reproduce through procreation.

耶穌間接地解決了天使與人類結婚並產下拿非利人這個問題的可能性。他說，婚姻是一個人類的制度，在人類死而復生並變成像天使一樣的靈之後，這個制度就不再存在了（馬太福音22:30）。天使般的生物無法結婚，也無法通過生育來繁衍。

The Bible informs us, in places other than Genesis, that God's sons are those who have his Holy spirit dwelling in them (John 1:12, Romans 8:14, 1John 3:2). The nephilim or giants were produced by righteous men who foolishly married worldly women (see Genesis 6:2). Instead of relying on God to guide their marital decisions, these men picked mates they lusted after. They became, as the apostle Paul states, "unequally yoked" with unbelieving women (1Corinthians 7).

聖經中告訴我們，在創世紀以外的地方，上帝的兒子是那些有他的聖靈住在他們其中的人（約翰福音1：12、羅馬書8：14、約翰一書3：2）。拿非利人或巨人是由那些愚蠢地與世俗女人結婚的義人所製造出來的產物（見創世紀6：2）。這些人不是依靠上帝來指導他們對婚姻的決定，而是挑選了那些他們對其產生慾望的人來當成伴侶。正如使徒保羅所說，他們就變得與那些不信的女人「同負一軛」了（哥林多前書第7章）。