13这时神来安慰并鼓励亚伯拉罕,应许要把他所能看见的迦南地赐给他和他的后裔,也要使他的后裔如同地上的尘沙那样多。没有人能数算神所给亚伯拉罕的后裔有多少,因为他们是数不清的。在珥一4说到,有许多亚伯拉罕的子孙被四种蝗虫所表征的外邦政权和入侵军队所杀害。这些蝗虫如同地中海的波浪,来冲洗如同尘沙的以色列。但无论有多少尘沙被水冲去,仍然有些沙子留下来。所以在创二二17,亚伯拉罕的子孙不是比作尘沙,乃是比作海边的沙。……有些好像尘沙,但其中有许多被冲走了。在冲洗之后还留下的人,如同在地中海边的沙(李常受文集一九九一至一九九二年第四册,一二九至一三一页)。 13Then God came to comfort and encourage [Abraham] in promising to give him and his seed the land of Canaan as far as he could see and to make his seed as numerous as the dust of the earth. No one can count how many descendants God has given to Abraham, because they are innumerable. Many of his descendants were killed by the four kinds of locusts in Joel 1:4, signifying the Gentile governments with their invading armies. These locusts were like the waves from the Mediterranean Sea, which came to scour Israel as the dust. But regardless of how much the water washed away the dust, there was still some sand left. This is why in Genesis 22:17 Abraham’s descendants are not likened to the dust but to the sand on the seashore…Some are the dust, but many of them were scoured away. The ones who remain after the scouring are as the sand on the seashore of the Mediterranean. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The History of God in His Union with Man,” pp. 97-98)