巴別塔,倒

巴别塔。。

难道不应该是“巴别塔,立”吗。

《創世記》第11章1-9節(中文:和合本;英文:King James Version, KJV)

1 那時,天下人的口音、言語都是一樣。
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 他們往東邊遷移的時候,在示拿地遇見一片平原,就住在那裡。
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 他們彼此商量說:「來吧!我們要作磚,把磚燒透了。」他們就拿磚當石頭,又拿石漆當灰泥。
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 他們說:「來吧!我們要建造一座城和一座塔,塔頂通天,為要傳揚我們的名,免得我們分散在全地上。」
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 耶和華降臨,要看看世人所建造的城和塔。
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 耶和華說:「看哪,他們成為一樣的人民,都是一樣的言語,如今既做起這事來,以後他們所要做的事就沒有不成就的了。
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 我們下去,在那裡變亂他們的口音,使他們的言語彼此不通。」
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 於是耶和華使他們從那裡分散在全地上;他們就停工,不造那城了。
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 因為耶和華在那裡變亂天下人的言語,使眾人分散在全地上,所以那城名叫巴別(就是變亂的意思)。
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

当年上帝怕人类联合起来造巴别塔,就让大家说不同的语言,彼此没法沟通。

几千年后,马斯克给 X 开了自动翻译,大家终于看懂彼此在说什么了,结果骂得更凶了。

上帝:我真是闲的。

所以說巴別塔象徵的不是語言…
象徵的是 “你們” 和 “我們” 的界限