洗拉又生了土八該隱;他是打造各樣銅鐵利器的【或作:是銅匠鐵匠的祖師】。土八該隱的妹子是拿瑪。 22 Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of 4:22 Or ((who instructed all who work in)) bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.
April 8 "Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong."(2 Cor. 12:10.) THE literal translation of this verse gives a startling emphasis to it, and makes it speak for itself with a force that we have probably never realized. Here it is: "Therefore I take pleasure in being without strength, in insults, in being pinched, in being chased about, in being cooped up in a corner for Christ's sake; for when I am without strength, then am I dynamite." Here is the secret of Divine all-sufficiency, to come to the end of everything in ourselves and in our circumstances. when we reach this place, we will stop asking for sympathy because of our hard situation or bad treatment, for we will recognize these things as the very conditions of our blessing, and we will turn from them to God and find in them a claim upon Him. ─A. B. Simpson. George Matheson, the well-known blind preacher of Scotland, who recently went to be with the Lord, said: My God, I have never thanked thee for my thorn. I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but not once for my thorn. I have been looking forward to a world where I shall get compensation for my cross; but I have never thought of my cross as itself a present glory. "Teach me the glory of my cross; teach me the value of my thorn. Show me that I have climbed to Thee by the path of pain. show me that my tears have made my rainbows." "Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through the cypress trees."