圣经中关于鼓掌的教导（三）：拍掌来嘲笑和蔑视人

旧约中的鼓掌是表示赞同或反对。这是针对人，不是针对神。然而，鼓掌表示欢迎或在某人发言之前拍掌，这是完全没有问题的。...



我在旧约找到的第二个目的是：人们拍掌去嘲笑蔑视失败的人。

耶利米哀歌2:15 凡过路的都向你拍掌。他们向耶路撒冷城嗤笑、摇头，说：“难道人所称为全美的，称为全地所喜悦的，就是这城吗？”

嗤笑或发出"啧啧"的声音是形容那些外邦人路过一座曾经强盛一时的城市时所作出的反应，要么就是啧啧摇头，要么就是吹口哨。当人们路过耶路撒冷，看到城市和圣殿的破败时，他们就发出"啧啧"的声音以示嘲笑。他们嘲弄挖苦说：“难道这就是他们所谓的全地所喜悦、全地最完美吗？”

路过的人们用拍掌来表示他们对这废墟的鄙视的情感。他们谈论嘲弄以色列和耶路撒冷的遭遇。

他们不是在赞美或者欢庆。这掌声是针对这个陷落的国家以及神的百姓和耶路撒冷的灭亡。我们再一次看见，拍掌不是归给神的。

他们因为城市和圣殿遭受毁坏而拍掌。

以下是关于这个主题的更多经文：

拿鸿书3:18-19

18 亚述王啊，你的牧人睡觉，你的贵胄安歇，你的人民散在山间无人招聚。

19 你的损伤无法医治，你的伤痕极其重大。凡听你信息的，必都因此向你拍掌，你所行的恶谁没有时常遭遇呢？

他们因尼尼微的败落而拍手。

约伯记27:19-23

19 他虽富足躺卧，却不得收殓，转眼之间就不在了。

20 惊恐如波涛将他追上，暴风在夜间将他刮去。

21 东风把他飘去，又刮他离开本处。

22 神要向他射箭，并不留情。他恨不得逃脱　神的手。

23 人要向他拍掌，并要发叱声，使他离开本处。”

通过拍手和喝倒彩的方式把一个不称职的公职人员赶下台，这看起来是自古以来就有的做法《亚当·克拉克圣经评论》。

以西结书25:6 主耶和华如此说：因你拍手顿足，以满心的恨恶，向以色列地欢喜，

“因为你拍手”欢喜庆祝耶路撒冷的败亡，“所以我也要伸出手”来击打你，使你败亡《耶梅森，法舍，及布朗圣经评论》。

因此，旧约中的鼓掌是表示赞同或反对。这是针对人，不是针对神。然而，鼓掌表示欢迎或在某人发言之前拍掌，这是完全没有问题的。

“拍手”是一个动词，在牛津字典里的意思是“鼓掌喝彩，以示支持。”《牛津大词典》

我们向人喝彩或表示对那人的支持。以拍手为祭献给神，或是向神拍手鼓掌，这在圣经里是找不到的。教会在圣经的修辞手法上建立了一种教义。What Does the Bible Teach About Clapping: Clapping Hands to Scoff and to Scorn People

The second purpose I found in the Old Testament is, people clapped their hands to scoff and to scorn people who were fallen.

Lamentations 2:15 (NIV) All who pass your way clap their hands at you; they scoff and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?”

To scoff or to hiss was the reaction displayed by the gentiles who passed by the ruins of a once great city or power. They saw the fallen condition of the Israelites and they were disgusted with the city of Jerusalem, which was once known as the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth.

The people who passed by clapped their hands to display their despicable feelings towards the ruin. They spoke to mock what happened to the Israelites and Jerusalem.

They weren’t praising or rejoicing. The clapping of hands were directed at the fallen state and the ruin of God’s people and Jerusalem. Again we see, clapping of hands were not given to God.

They clapped at seeing the destruction of the city and temple.

Below are more scriptures concerning this subject matter:

Nahum 3:18-19
 (NIV)

18 O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your nobles lie down to rest. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.

19 Nothing can heal your wound; your injury is fatal. Everyone who hears the news about you claps his hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?

They clapped their hands at the fall of Nineveh.

Job 27:19-23 (NKJV)

19 The rich man will lie down, but not be gathered up; he open his eyes, and he is no more.

20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest steals him away in the night.

21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

22 It hurls against him and does not spare; he flees desperately from its power.

23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

It seems it was an ancient method to clap the hands against and hiss a man from any public office, who had acted improperly in it (Adam Clarke’s Commentary).

Ezekiel 25:6 
(NIV) For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the land of Israel,

“Because thou hast clapped thine hands,” exulting over the downfall of Jerusalem, “I (also) will stretch out mine hand upon thee,” to cause thy downfall (Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary).

So clapping is about "approval" and "disapproval" in the Old Testament. It was directed towards man and not God. Then it is perfectly alright to clap to welcome and acknowledge someone before he speaks.

The 
Oxford dictionary definition of “To Clap” is a verb and in the Oxford dictionary, it means “to applaud, to show approval.”

We applaud man or to show approval of man. To give God a clap offering or to clap our hands to God has not been found scriptural from the Bible. Therefore the church has been building a doctrine based on figure of speech from the Bible.

作者简介：

张耀光牧师（Rev.Cheong Yew Kwong），新加坡信心圣经教会（FBCS）创办人兼主任牧师，毕业于美国瑞玛圣经培训中心，美国瑞玛国际事工协会成员。张牧师也是新加坡信心圣经学院（FBSS）的创办人兼校董事会主席。

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