第九章
Chapter 9
9:1 那时，多俾亚叫了辣法耳来，对他说：2 「阿匝黎雅兄！请你带上四个仆人，两匹骆驼，到辣杰斯，往加贝罗那里去，把契据交给他，好把银子索回来；并请他与你同来参与婚礼。
9:1 Then Tobias called Raphael, and said unto him, 2 Brother Azarias, take with you a servant, and two camels, and go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and bring me the money, and bring him to the wedding.
奥古斯丁。天使隐藏了他的名字。「我是阿匝黎雅，」他说，「大阿纳尼雅的儿子」（多 5:18），他并未说：「我是天使辣法耳。」他用第一个名字隐藏了他的尊位，以免惊吓雇用他的人。因为如果他说：「我是天使」，他就不会成为多俾亚的雇工了。名字的尊位被保留下来，以便这尊位的大小最终得以显明。我最亲爱的人啊，请看施舍的功德是何等大：他竟赢得让天使作雇工的殊荣。你看埋葬死人是多么有益：它使他的奉献借着天使辣法耳上升到天上的威严。[希波的奥古斯丁，《讲道集》226.6，论托彼特]
AUGUSTINE. The angel concealed his name. “I am Azarias,” he said, “the son of the great Ananias” (Tob. 5:18), and he did not say, “I am the angel Raphael.” With the first name, he concealed his dignity, so as not to cause fright in his hirer. For if he had said, “I am an angel”, he would not have been Tobias’s hired servant. The dignity of the name was reserved, so that the magnitude of the dignity might become clear in the end. See, my dearest, how great the merit of alms-deed is: he earned the privilege of having an angel as a laborer. You see how beneficial it is to bury the dead: it made his offering ascend to the heavenly majesty through the angel Raphael. [Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 226.6 On Tobit}
9:3 因为辣古耳曾起誓叫我不可离开。[然而，我求你带着牲畜和仆人，到玛待人的城辣杰斯去见加贝罗；把他的借据还给他，向他收取银子，并请他来参加我的婚宴。武加大译本]
9:3 For Raguel has sworn that I shall not depart. [However, I beseech you, to take with you beasts and servants, and to go to Gabelus to Rages the city of the Medes: and to restore to him his note of hand, and receive of him the money, and desire him to come to my wedding. Vulgate]
安波罗修。因为如果你以为被差者低于差遣他的那一位，你就当知道，卑者也曾差遣过尊者，而尊者也曾被差往卑者之中。例如多俾亚曾差遣总领天使辣法耳；天使也曾被差往巴兰（民 22:22）；神的儿子也曾被差往犹太人那里。[米兰的安波罗修，《论基督教信仰》5.94，《尼西亚及后尼西亚教父集》第二辑第 10 卷]
AMBROSE. For if you think that he who is sent is inferior to him by whom he is sent, you must learn also that an inferior has sent a superior, and that superiors have been sent to inferiors. For Tobias sent Raphael the archangel, and an angel was sent to Balaam, (Num. 22:22) and the Son of God to the Jews. [Ambrose of Milan, on the Christian Faith 5.94 NPNF s.2 v.10]
比德。他们求他来到他们中间，将那些尚未领受信仰奥秘、却只因传闻听过的万民，都聚集到他的信仰中来。他们以慈悲之心求他允许万民将那借听闻所学到的「道的他连得」，换取真实的信心顺服，并因此也凭他们的信仰与正直生活，被邀进入圣教会的婚宴。在那婚宴上，基督是新郎；在那婚宴上，他以水变成新酒，也就是赐下对律法的属灵领悟。主并不拒绝他们的祈求，而是俯听那些按真理寻求他之人的祷告，他每日将新的万民聚集到教会之中。[尊者比德，《多俾亚传寓意解》，《拉丁教父集》91.932B]
BEDE. They ask him to come among them to gather into his faith nations that have not yet received faith’s mysteries, but have heard of it only by report. They ask him in his mercy to allow the nations to exchange the talent of the Word, which they have learned by report, for the actual obedience of faith, and so also to be invited by virtue of their belief and upright living, into the Holy Church’s wedding feast. At that feast Christ is the Bridegroom; at that feast He has made new wine from water, that is, he gives spiritual understanding of the law. And the Lord does not deny their request, but heeding the prayers of those rightly seeking him, he daily gathers new nations into the Church. [Bede the Venerable, Allegorica interpretatio in Tobiam PL 91.932B]**
奥古斯丁。那么他所归结的是什么？「我的脚站在平坦的地方，在聚会中我要称颂耶和华！」（诗 26:12）这就是说，在众教会中我并不称颂自己，仿佛我对人有什么把握，乃是要在我的行为中称颂你。事实上，我的弟兄们，在众教会中称颂神，就是如此生活，以致神借着人的行为而得称颂。那用口称颂主、却用行为咒诅主的人，并不是在众教会中称颂主。几乎人人都用口称颂他，但不是人人都用行为称颂他。[希波的奥古斯丁，《论诗篇》25]°°
AUGUSTINE. So what does he conclude In the churches I will bless you, O Lord (Ps. 25:12). That is, in the churches I will not bless myself, as if I had confidence in men, but I will bless you in my works. Indeed, to bless God in the churches, my brothers, means to live in such a way that God is blessed through one’s conduct. For he who blesses the Lord with his tongue but curses him with his actions, does not bless the Lord in the churches. Almost everyone blesses him with their tongue, but not everyone with their actions. [Augustine of Hippo, On Psalm 25]°°
9:3 你知道我父亲在计算着日期，若我耽误了一天，必使他十分挂心。5 辣法耳于是带了四个仆人，两匹骆驼，往玛待辣杰斯去了，住在加贝罗的家里，把契据交给了他，并且把托彼特的儿子多俾亚娶妻，和请他参与婚礼的事，也报告了给他。他便起来，给他按原数数了几个尚封着口的袋子，放在骆驼上，6 清早一起动身，前来参与婚礼。当他们进到辣古耳家时，看见多俾亚正在坐席。多俾亚便跳起来，向他请安。加贝罗不禁哭起来了，祝福他说：「善良无比的人啊！你是善良无比和正义好施的人的儿子，愿上主赐予你、你的妻子和你的岳父岳母天上的祝福！愿天主受赞扬！因为我看见了肖似我表弟托彼特的多俾亚。」
9:4 But my father counted the days; and if I tarry long, he will be very sorry. 5 So Raphael went out, and lodged with Gabael, and gave him the handwriting: who brought forth bags which were sealed up, and gave them to him. 6 And early in the morning they went forth both together, and came to the wedding: and Tobias blessed his wife.