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创世记生命读经 · 第17篇

神作到人里面作生命

To Work God into Man as Life
1我们现在来看创世记二章的最后部分。创世记头二章虽然十分简略，却包含许多项目。我们从前曾指出，在这两章里几乎每一项都是神真理的种子，需要整本圣经来解释并发展。圣经中的神圣启示揭示了许多属灵的事，这些属灵的事是奥秘的、抽象的，就人来说是不具体的。由于我们了解这些事的能力有限，神不得不将祂的神圣启示用图画和譬喻的方式揭示出来。创世记二章就是用寓意的方式写的，其中一切的项目都是譬喻。我们不该只照著表面的字句去了解，而应深入领会那些譬喻的意义。生命树与善恶知识树都是寓意。到底生命树是甚么？人难以了解。但无论如何，那是生命树。在创世记二章我们也看到一道河，在河中有金子、珍珠和红玛瑙。这些东西表征甚么？有甚么意义？我们在前面几篇信息已经看过，这些都是含有寓意的譬喻。
1In this message we come to the last part of Genesis 2. Although Genesis 1 and 2 are quite brief, they contain many basic items. We have previously pointed out that nearly every item in these two chapters is a seed of divine truth, and that these seeds require the entire Bible to expound and develop them. The divine revelation in the Bible unveils spiritual things, and these spiritual things are mysterious, abstract, and, humanly speaking, unsubstantial. Due to our limited ability to understand them, God was forced to disclose His divine revelation in the way of picture and allegory. Genesis 2 was written in a figurative way, and all the items found therein are figures. We should not understand them merely according to the outward letters, but probe into the inner sense of the figures. Both the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil are figures. What is the tree of life? It is difficult for people to understand. Nevertheless, it is the tree of life. In Genesis 2 we also find a river, and at the flow of this river we have gold, pearl, and onyx stone. What do all of these things signify? What do they mean? As we have seen in earlier messages, all of them are figures and compose an allegory
2就人来说，创世记二章的末了是很容易明白的，因为这里说到婚姻的故事。亚当已经创造出来了，但他还没有妻子，所以神给他豫备一个妻子。这不像譬喻。如果我们只读创世记二章，我们不会看出这是个譬喻。但我们若读完整本圣经，就会领会创世记二章的婚姻，实在是个譬喻。我们为甚么这样说？因为以后在旧约里，神告诉祂的百姓说，『因为造你的，是你的丈夫。』（赛五四5。）人的创造者是人的丈夫，这就是说，在宇宙中独一的男人乃是神自己。神所造的男人实际上不是男人，乃是女人。我有一个问题，要问所有读本篇信息的男人：你们究竟是女性，还是男性？我是女性，因为我是妻子的一部分。首先，神是造我的神；其次，祂成了我的救赎主；现在，祂是我的丈夫。
2Humanly speaking, the end of Genesis 2 is easy to understand because it relates the story of a marriage. Adam was created, but he had no wife. Thus, God provided a wife for him. This does not sound allegorical. If we only read Genesis 2 we will not recognize it as an allegory. However, if we read through the whole Bible, we will realize that the marriage found in Genesis 2 is indeed an allegory. Why do we say this? Because later in the Old Testament God told His people, “For thy Maker is thine husband” (Isa. 54:5). Man’s creator is his husband, meaning that in the universe the unique man is God Himself. The man created by God actually is not a man, but a woman. I have a question to address to all the men reading this message: are you male or female? I am a female. I am a female because I am part of the wife. Firstly, God was my creator. Secondly, He became my redeemer. Now He is my husband
3这观念到了新约就彻底的得了发展并解释。虽然许多人认为耶稣基督是伟大的教师，有的以祂为救主，但四福音也启示祂是新郎。不错，祂是教师，是救主，然而祂也是来迎娶新妇的新郎。（约三29。）有一天，约翰的门徒来见主耶稣，问说为甚么祂的门徒不禁食。主耶稣的回答启示出祂自己是新郎。主问他们说，『新郎和伴友同在的时候，伴友岂能哀恸？』（太九14～。）此外，最大的使徒保罗清楚的告诉我们，召会是妻子，基督是丈夫。他在林后十一章二节说，『我曾把你们许配一个丈夫，要将一个贞洁的童女献给基督。』因此，我们是基督的妻子。此外，在以弗所五章保罗论到婚姻时说，人要与妻子联合，二人成为一体。在以弗所五章三十二节保罗又说，婚姻表征那极大的奥秘，就是基督与召会。
3This concept is thoroughly developed and expounded in the New Testament. Although many people think of Jesus Christ as a great teacher and others regard Him as their Savior, the four Gospels also reveal Him as the bridegroom. Undoubtedly He is a teacher and the Savior. However, He is also the bridegroom come to receive the bride (John 3:29). One day the disciples of John came to the Lord Jesus, asking Him why His disciples did not fast (Matt. 9:14-15). In His answer the Lord Jesus revealed Himself as the bridegroom. The Lord asked them, “Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?” 15 Furthermore, Paul, the greatest apostle, told us clearly that the church is the wife and that Christ is the husband. In 2 Corinthians 11:2 he said, “I betrothed you to one Husband, to present a pure virgin to Christ.” Thus, we are a wife to Christ. Moreover, in Ephesians 5 Paul speaks of marriage, saying that when a man is joined to his wife the two become one flesh. In Ephesians 5:32 Paul says that marriage signifies the great mystery concerning Christ and the church.
4在创世记二章的亚当是基督的豫表，豫像。按照寓意，可以说亚当就是基督。我们看到创世记二章的亚当，就看到了基督。那么夏娃表征甚么？表面上她只是个女人，是亚当的妻子。但我们若有以弗所五章属灵的异象，就会看见在园中的夏娃乃是召会的豫像。我们如果有这样透视的眼光，就会知道创世记二章发生在亚当身上的事，就是基督的经历，而发生在夏娃身上的都与召会有关。我们必须这样领会创世记二章。在寓意上，亚当是基督，夏娃是召会。
4Adam in Genesis 2 was a type, a prefigure of Christ. Speaking figuratively, we may say that Adam was Christ. When we see Adam in Genesis 2, we see Christ. What then does Eve signify? Apparently she was only a woman, Adam’s wife. However, if we have the spiritual vision from Ephesians 5, we will see that Eve in the garden was a prefigure of the church. If we have this perspective, we will realize that whatever happened to Adam in Genesis 2 was an experience of Christ and that whatever happened to Eve was related to the church. We must understand Genesis 2 in this way. In figure, Adam was Christ and Eve was the church
5这好像一个人的照片。假如我有一张某弟兄的照片，我拿这张照片给你看，问你这是谁。你若说这是某弟兄，你是对的。但我们必须小心。因为这是某弟兄的照片，并不是某弟兄本人。这不过是某弟兄的照片，印著他的样子，给你一点印象他长得怎样。照样，在创世记二章，我们藉著亚当与夏娃的豫表，看见了基督与召会的寓意或照片。我们细察亚当与夏娃的图画，就能明白召会是怎样产生的。我们若仅仅谈论基督与召会，人很难领会；但人若观看图画，就很清楚。图画节省了许多文字。我就是用许多话描述某弟兄的样子，你还是难以想像。但我只要把他的照片拿给你看一看，你对他就立刻清楚了。照片虽然不是真人，但至少使你对本人有若干认识，免去你的猜想。神用创世记二章亚当与夏娃的图画，给了我们对基督与召会明确的启示。没有这一章，我们必定无法这样准确的知道基督与召会的关系。这张图画显示出召会是怎样产生的。
5This is similar to the photograph of a person. Suppose I have a photograph of Brother John. If I show you the photograph and ask you who it is, you will be correct if you say that it is Brother John. However, we must be careful, for although it is a picture of Brother John, it is not the real person of Brother John. It is simply a photograph of Brother John, depicting his appearance and giving you some idea of what he is like. Likewise, in Genesis 2 we see a figure or picture of Christ and the church in the types of Adam and Eve. When we examine the picture of Adam and Eve, we understand how the church comes into existence. It will be difficult to understand this if we simply talk about Christ and the church; however, if we look at the picture, we will be very clear. The picture saves a great many words. If I describe Brother John to you, using many words, it would still be difficult for you to picture what he is like. However, if Is how you his photograph, you will immediately be clear about him. Although the photograph is not the real person, it does afford you some understanding of the person, relieving you of the need to guess. God uses the picture of Ad am and Eve in Genesis 2 to give us a definite revelation of Christ and the church. Without this chapter we could never understand the relationship between Christ and the church so exactly. This picture shows how the church came into being.
6请记得创世记一、二章揭示了两件大事。创世记一章启示神永远的目的，就是藉著人彰显祂自己，并与人一同管治。人被造是为著彰显神并代表神。创世记二章接著显示神达成祂目的的方法。神有了目的，但祂必须有方法达成祂的目的。神的方法是甚么？我们已经看过，祂的方法乃是生命。神要进到人里面作生命。为了达成祂的目的，神要进到人里面作人的生命和生命的供应。此外，创世记二章启示神的手续包含三个步骤。第一步是神造人为器皿，好盛装神作生命。人既被造为器皿盛装神，就能凭神而活，彰显祂并代表祂。第二步是神将人摆在生命树跟前。我们已经看过，生命树代表神自己。神将人摆在生命树跟前，就是指明神要人接受祂到里面，使人为著召会的建造，变化成为宝贵的材料。
6Please remember that Genesis 1 and 2 unveil two main things. Genesis 1 reveals God’s eternal purpose, which is to express Himself through man and to exercise His dominion with man. Man was created to express God and to represent God. Genesis 2 continues by showing the way to fulfill God’s purpose. Although God has a purpose, He must have a means of fulfilling it. What is God’s divine way of accomplishing His purpose? As we have seen, His way is life. God desires to come into us as life. In order to accomplish His purpose, God wants to come into man to be man’s life and life supply. Furthermore, Genesis 2 reveals that God’s procedure involves three steps. The first step was for God to create man as a vessel to contain Him as life. Since man was made as a vessel to contain God, man can live by Him, express Him, and represent Him. As the second step, God placed man in front of the tree of life. We have seen that the tree of life represents God Himself. In placing man before the tree of life, God was indicating that He wanted man to take Him into his being that he might be transformed into the precious materials for the building up of the church
４ 第三步－将神作到人里面作生命 二18～25
4. The Third Step— to Work God into Man as Life—2:18-25
7现在我们来到第三步。第一步是造器皿，第二步是将这器皿摆在生命树跟前，第三步是将神作到人里面作生命。神怎样能将祂自己作到人里面作生命?赞美主，我们有一个譬喻帮助我们明白。我们需要清楚这个譬喻。虽然你很熟悉亚当婚姻的故事，但你可能对这故事的意义从未留下深刻印象。
7Now we come to the third step. The first step was to make the vessel, the second was to put this vessel in front of the tree of life, and the third is to work God into man as life. How can God work Himself into man as life? Praise the Lord that we have an allegory to help us understand. We need to have a clear view of this allegory. Although you are familiar with the story of Adam’s marriage, perhaps you have never been impressed with its significance
ａ背景 二18～20
a. The Background—2:18-20
8神造天是为著地，造地是为著人。然后神造人，人是为著神，有灵可以接受神。男人豫表神这真正的宇宙丈夫，要为祂自己寻找一个妻子。
8God created the heavens, which are for the earth, and the earth, which is for man. Then God created man, who is for God, with a spirit to receive Him. Man typifies God as the real, universal husband who is seeking a wife for Himself
（一） 神独居不好
1) Not Good for God to Be Alone
9人造好以后，神说，『那人独居不好，我要为他造一个帮助者作他的补满。』（创二18，另译。）虽然人是完全的，但不完整。正如人的头是完全的，但没有身体就不完整。每一个人都像半个西瓜。他既是半个，就不完整。他虽然完全，但需要另一半使他完整。两个一半的西瓜合起来才是一个完整的西瓜。照样，夫妻好像两个一半的西瓜，合在一起才是完整的一体。这就是为甚么我告诉年轻人要结婚的原因。你若不结婚，你虽然完全，却不完整。因此当神看亚当的时候，祂似乎说，『亚当，你是完全的，但你只是一半。你太孤单了，我要给你造一个补满，我要给你造一个配偶。』
9After man was created, God said of him, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his complement” (Gen. 2:18, Heb.). Although man was perfect, he was not complete. For example, a human head is perfect, but without the body it is incomplete. Every person resembles a half of a watermelon. Since he is just a half a watermelon, he is in complete. Although he is perfect, he needs a counterpart to complete him. It takes the two halves of a watermelon to make a whole melon. Likewise, a man and wife, resembling the two halves of a watermelon, together make a complete unit. This is why I frequently tell the young people to get married. If you are unmarried, though you may be a perfect person you are incomplete. Thus, as God looked at Adam, He seemed to say, “Adam, you are perfect, but you are only a half a unit. You are too lonely. I will make a complement for you. I will make you a counterpart.”
10男人是神那真正宇宙丈夫的豫表。神在没有得著祂正确的人之前，祂是孤单的。神独居不好。虽然神是绝对而永远的完全，却不完整。说神不完全是亵渎。我们的神是永远完全的。但无论如何，没有召会祂不完整。没有召会，祂就像丈夫没有妻子，就像头没有身体。所以当神说亚当独居不好，意思就是说祂自己不完整，祂独居不好。亚当需要一个妻子，豫表并描述神需要一个补满。我们若看见这点，创世记二章各方面就都清楚了。
10Man is a type of God, the real, universal husband. Before God had secured the proper man, He was alone. It was not good for God to be alone. Although God is absolutely and eternally perfect, He is not complete. To say that God is imperfect is to speak blasphemy. Our God is eternally perfect. Nevertheless, without the church He is incomplete. Without the church He is like a husband without a wife or like a head without a body. Therefore, when God said that it was not good for Adam to be alone, it meant that God Himself was incomplete and that it was not good for Him to be alone. Adam’s need for a wife typifies and portrays God’s need to have a complement. If we see this, every aspect of Genesis 2 will be clear
（二） 没有一个像神的可作祂的补满
2) No One Like God to Be His Complement
11神用土造了野地各样的走兽，和空中各样的飞鸟，并将这一切带到亚当面前。（创二19。）神带一匹马到亚当面前，亚当也许说，『这是一匹马。这个动物绝不能与我相配，因为牠有四条腿，我有两只脚。』神带一只牛到亚当面前，亚当也许说，『这是一只牛。牠有两只角。牠不像我，不能作我的补满。』神将一样一样的动物都带到亚当面前，亚当给一切牲畜和空中的飞鸟，野地的走兽，都起了名，但他在牠们中间找不到一个可作他的补满，（创二20，）找不到一个配得上他。虽然亚当有智慧给各样活物起名，他似乎说，『牠们都离我太远，牠们不像我，我怎能以其中任何一个作为配偶？』亚当为各样活物起名之后，就著一面说，他失望了。在一切受造之物中，他竟找不到一个与他相配，作他补满的。但神清楚的知道祂在作甚么。
11Out of the ground God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them to Adam (Gen. 2:19). When God brought a horse to Adam, perhaps Adam said, “This is a horse. This animal can never match me because it has four feet and I have two.” When God brought a cow before Adam, perhaps Adam said, “This is a cow. It has two horns. It does not resemble me and it cannot be a complement to me.” God brought item after item to Adam, and Adam gave names to all the cattle, to all the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field, but he did not find among them a complement for himself (Gen. 2:20), one that could match him. Although Adam, having wisdom, named all the creatures, he seemed to say, “All of them are far removed from me. They don’t look like me. How can I have any of them as my counterpart?” After fulfilling the task of naming all the creatures, Adam, in a sense, was disappointed. Among the entire creation he could not find one to match him, to complement him. However, God knew exactly what He was doing.
12于是耶和华神从亚当肋旁取了一根肋骨，建造成一个女人，并将这女人带到亚当面前。（创二22。）当亚当从沉睡中醒来，看见夏娃，他就说，『这次是我骨中的骨，我肉中的肉。』（创二23，直译。）亚当似乎说，『这次不像以前各次；以前是狮子、马、鸽子、乌龟…。这次是我骨中的骨，也是我肉中的肉。这当然是我的另一部分，我的第二部分。这是我的配偶，她完全与我相配。』当他和夏娃联合的时侯，他们就成了一体，成了完整的一个。由此我们能看见，妻子夏娃是丈夫亚当的补满；亚当若没有夏娃就不完整。夏娃取自亚当又归给亚当，使他们二人能成为一体。我们若看见这一点，我们对创世记二章譬喻的意义就有了基本的领会。
12Then out of a rib taken from Adam’ss i de the Lord God builded a woman and brought her to the man (Gen. 2:22). When Adam awoke from his sleep and looked at Eve he said, “This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Gen. 2:23, Heb.). Adam seemed to say, “This is not like the former times. Before it was a lion, a horse, a dove, a turtle....This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. Certainly this is my other part, my second part. This is my counterpart that fully matches me.” When he and Eve, the two parts, are joined, they become one flesh, one complete unit. By this we can see that the wife, Eve, was the complement to the husband, Adam. Without Eve, Adam was incomplete. Eve was taken out of Adam and returned to Adam that the two of them might become one flesh. If we see this, we have the basic understanding of the significance of the allegory in Genesis 2
13夏娃如何是亚当的补满，召会照样是基督的补满。按寓意说，基督教中有许多东西不过是『马、牛、乌龟、鸽子，』因为那些都不是出于基督，不能与基督相配。只有那由基督重生，凭基督活著的召会，才能与基督相配，并作祂的补满。当基督看到这个，祂必定会说，『这次是我骨中的骨，我肉中的肉。』（参弗五30，有古卷下加，就是祂的骨，祂的肉。）
13In the same way that Eve was the complement of Adam, the church is the complement of Christ. Figuratively speaking, so many things in Christianity are just “horses, cattle, turtles, doves” because they are not out of Christ and cannot match Christ. Only those who are regenerated of Christ and who live by Christ as the church can match Christ and complement Him. When Christ sees this, He surely says, “This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Eph. 5:30
ｂ过程 二21～24
b. The Process—2:21-24
14现在我们需要来看过程。神要为自己产生一个补满，神作了些甚么？
14Now we need to consider the process. What did God do in order to produce a complement for Himself
（一） 成为人－造出亚当
1) To Become a Man—Adam Created
15有一天神成了一个人。（约一14。）这人为童女所生，生在伯利恒，名叫耶稣。神成为人，是由人的被造来豫表。在创造之先没有人；藉著神主宰的创造，一个人忽然出来了。照样，在耶稣生在伯利恒的马槽之先，神仅仅是神；但藉著成为肉体，神成了一个人。这人乃是真亚当。创世记二章的亚当是照片，（罗五14，）藉基督在肉体中出生，真亚当来了。根据圣经，在园中的亚当叫作首先的亚当，主耶稣这真亚当称为末后的亚当。（林前十五45。）末后的亚当才是真亚当。
15One day God became a man (John 1:14). This man was born of a virgin in the town of Bethlehem and was named Jesus. God becoming man was typified by the creation of man. Before creation there was no man. By God’ss ove reign creation a man suddenly came into being. Likewise, before the birth of Jesus in the manger at Bethlehem, God was only God. However, through the incarnation God became a man. This man was the real Adam. The Adam in Genesis 2 was a photograph (Rom. 5:14); with the birth of Christ in the flesh, the real Adam came. According to the Bible, Adam in the garden is called the first Adam, and the Lord Jesus as the real Adam is called the last Adam (1 Cor. 15:45). As the last One He is the real One
（二） 经过死－亚当睡了
2) To Pass through Death—Adam Sleeping
16有一天真亚当被摆在十字架上，祂在上面睡了六小时，从上午九时到午后三时。（可十五25，33。）这是创世记所说，『耶和华神使他沉睡，…于是取下他的一条肋骨，』（创二21，）为他建造一个妻子的话所表征的。亚当的沉睡是基督为产生召会死在十宇架上的豫表。这就是基督那释放生命、分赐生命、繁殖生命、扩增生命、繁衍生命的死，由一粒麦子落在地里死了，长起结出许多子粒，（约十二24，）好作成饼，就是身体－召会（林前十17）所表征。藉著这样产生召会，神在基督里就作到了人里面作生命。首先，神成为人；其次，这位有神圣生命和性情的人，经过死与复活，扩增到许多信徒里面，使他们成为众肢体，组成真夏娃，和祂相配，成为祂的补满。藉著这样的过程，神在基督里带著祂的生命和性情，就作到人里面，使人有祂同样的生命和性情，好与祂相配，作祂的补满。
16One day the real Adam was put to sleep on the cross where He slept for six hours, from nine o’clock in the morning until three o’ clock in the afternoon (Mark 15:25, 33). This was signified by the phrase in Genesis 2 which said that “God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam” and that “He took one of his ribs” to build him a wife (Gen. 2:2 1). That sleep of Adam’s was a type of Christ’s death on the cross for producing the church. This is the life - releasing, life - imparting, life - propagating, life - multiplying, and life - reproducing death of Christ, which is signified by a grain of wheat falling into the ground to die and to grow up in order to produce many grains (John 12:24) for the making of the loaf which is the Body, the church (1 Cor. 10:17). By producing the church in this way God in Christ has been wrought into man as life. Firstly, God became a man. Then this man with the divine life and nature, was multiplied through death and resurrection into many believers who become the many members to compose the real Eve to match Him and to complement Him. It is through this process that God in Christ has been wrought into man with His life and nature that man in life and nature can be the same as He is in order to match Him as His complement.
（三） 流出生命－亚当的肋骨被取出
3) To Flow Out His Life—Adam’s Rib Taken Out
17基督被钉十字架的末了，犹太人不愿意被钉罪犯的身体留在十字架上过安息日，就求彼拉多叫人打断他们的腿。（约十九31。）当兵丁来到耶稣那里，要打断祂的腿，发现祂已经死了，所以无须打断。这应验了经书所说的：『祂的骨头一根也不折断。』（约十九32～33，出十二46，民九12，诗三四20。）然而兵丁用枪扎祂的肋旁，随即有血和水流出来。（约十九34。）血是为著救赎。（来九22，彼前一18～19。）水是表征甚么？在出埃及十七章六节，我们看到被击磐石（林前十4）的豫表。磐石被击打就裂开，流出活水。耶稣在十字架上也是被摩西的杖击打，那杖就是神的律法。祂裂开了。祂的肋旁被扎，水从那里流出来。这水是祂神圣生命的流，表征产生召会的生命。
17At the end of Christ’s crucifixion, the Jews, who did not want the bodies of the crucified criminals to remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, a sked Pilate to have their legs broken (John 19:31). When the soldiers came to Jesus to break His legs, they found that He had died already and that there was no need for them to break His bones. This fulfilled the scripture which said, “A bone of Him shall not be broken” (John 19:32-33, 36; Exo. 12:46; Num. 9:12; Ps a. 34:20). Nevertheless, the soldiers pierced His side and blood and water came out (John 19:34). The blood was for redemption (Heb. 9:22; 1 Pet. 1:18-19). What does the water signify? In Exodus 17:6 we find the type of the smitten rock (1 Cor. 10:4). After the rock was smitten, it was cleft, and living water came forth. Jesus on the cross was smitten with the rod of Moses, that is, by the law of God. He was cleft. His side was pierced, and water came forth. This water was the flow of His divine life signifying the life which produces the church.
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18This life was typified by the rib, a piece of bone taken out of Adam’s opened side, of which Eve was produced and built. Hence, the bone typifies the divine life that is signified by the water flowing out of Christ’s side. None of His bones was broken. This signifies that His divine life cannot be broken. His physical life was killed, but nothing could break His divine life which flows out to produce the church.
（四） 复活－亚当醒了
4) To Be Resurrected—Adam Wakened
19当神在亚当沉睡中完成产生夏娃的工作后，亚当从沉睡中醒了过来。亚当的沉睡豫表基督的死，因此他的醒过来表征基督的复活。亚当醒了以后，连同那出自于他的夏娃，成了另一人。亚当如何从沉睡中醒来，娶夏娃作他的配偶，基督也从死人中复活，娶召会作祂的补满。
19After God finished the work of producing Eve during Adam’s sleep, Adam awoke from his sleep. As Adam’s sleep typifies the death of Christ , so his waking signifies the resurrection of Christ. After waking, Adam became another person with Eve produced out of him. After His resurrection Christ also became another person with the church brought forth out of Him. As Adam eventually awoke from his sleep to take Eve as his counterpart, so Christ was also resurrected from the dead to take the church as His complement
（五） 产生召会－建造出夏娃
5) To Bring Forth the Church—Eve Builded
20亚当从沉睡中醒来，立即看见用他肋骨建造的夏娃在他面前。照样，当基督从死人中复活，（林前十五，）召会也藉著祂神圣的生命产生了。藉著祂的死，祂里面神圣的生命得以释放出来;藉著祂的复活，这释放出来的神圣生命得以分赐到我们信祂的人里面。所以圣经说，藉耶稣基督从死人中复活，重生了我们。（彼前一3。）祂是那落在地里，又结出许多子粒的麦子。（约十二24。）我们就是那许多子粒，藉祂复活的生命所重生。因著我们是重生的人，有祂作生命，并凭祂而活，我们就构成了祂的召会，就是在复活中的真夏娃。
20When Adam awoke from his sleep, he immediately discovered that Eve, who was builded with his rib, was present. Likewise, when Christ was resurrected from the dead (1 Cor. 1 5:2 0), the 20 church was brought forth with His divine life. Through His death the divine life within Him was released and through His resurrection this released, divine life was imparted into us who believe in Him. So, the Bible says that through His resurrection we were regenerated (1 Pet. 1:3). He was the grain of wheat that fell into the ground and died and produced many grains (John 12:24). We are the many grains who have been regenerated with His resurrection life. As regenerated ones who have Him as life and who live by Him, we compose His church, the real Eve in resurrection.
21当亚当看见夏娃，就说，『这次是我骨中的骨，我肉中的肉。』（创二23,直译。）当基督看见召会，祂也许曾这样说，『我看过牲畜、狮子、鸟龟、鱼和鸟，但没有一样能配我。这次是我骨中的骨，我肉中的肉，因为召会是藉著我的死与复活产生的。召会出自于我，召会和我能成为一。』
21When Adam saw Eve he said, “This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Gen. 2:23, Heb.). When Christ saw the church He might have said, “I have seen the cattle, lions, turtles, fishes, and birds, but none of them could match Me. This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, for the church is produced by My death and resurrection. The church comes out of Me. The church and I can be one
22许多基督徒谈论召会。有人说召会是物质的建筑物，因此说去召会。在我们看过创世记二章亚当和夏娃豫表的意义后，就绝不会把物质的建筑物称为召会了。物质的建筑物不是召会，不过是用木头、砖块造成的房子。有些人进步一点，说召会是一班真基督徒。但一班真基督徒不一定可以构成召会。他们也许仍然是天然的人，是许多美国人、中国人、日本人和墨西哥人。这样一班天然人的聚集，并不是召会。
22Many Christians are talking about the church. Some say that the church is a material building and speak of going to church. After seeing the significance of the type of Adam and Eve in Genesis 2, we can never again refer to a physical building as the church. A material building is not a church; it is a house built with wood and brick. Other people, somewhat improved, say that the church is a group of genuine Christians. However, a group of genuine Christians may not constitute the church. They may still be the natural man, so many Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexicans. Such a gathering of the natural man is not the church.
23召会是甚么？召会是基督的一部分，一点不差就是基督自己。召会是信徒里面之基督的元素。把许多信徒里面的这元素加在一起，就等于召会。召会不是美国人、墨西哥人、日本人、中国人的组合。召会是所有信徒里面基督的总和。我们虽然是重生的人，但若仍旧照天然个性生活行动，就在实际上还不是基督身体上的肢体；我们只能在肤浅的意义上，说我们是祂身体的肢体。当我们仍照天然个性生活行动时，我们可能是标准的美国人、犹太人或中国人，但在实际上并不是基督的肢体。基督的肢体实际上是甚么？乃是由基督的元素，就是人的灵里那赐生命的灵所产生的。基督是那赐生命的灵，住在信徒里面。当这位在信徒里的基督加在一起，总和就等于召会。因此，我们都必须脱去旧人，脱去一切天然的生命，直到活的基督从我们灵里彰显出来，然后我们才有召会的实际。在召会这新人里，没有犹太人、希利尼人或化外人，惟有基督是一切，又在一切之内。（西三11。）凡所活出的，若不是基督，就不是召会。『现在活著的，不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活著。』（加二20。）『因为在我，活著就是基督。』（腓一21。）这才是召会！『这次才是』祂骨中的骨！一切出于人天然生命的，如各种人的组织，以及基督教中一切人的活动，都不是召会，都不能成为基督的补满，也不能与基督相配。就寓意说，这些东西不能算是夏娃，只能算作亚当所起名的各种动物而已。
23What is the church? The church is a part of Christ; it is nothing less than Christ Himself. The church is the element of Christ in the believers. When this element in so many believers is added together, it equals the church. The church is not a composition of Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, and Chinese. The church is the totality of the Christ in all His believers. Although we are regenerated people, if we live and act according to our natural disposition, we are not in reality members of the Body of Christ. Only in a shallow sense can we say that we are members of His Body. When we behave according to our natural disposition we may be typical Americans, Jews, or Chinese, but we are not actually the members of Christ. What actually is a member of Christ? It is a person produced with the element of Christ who is the life-giving Spirit in our spirit. Christ as the life- giving Spirit indwells His believers. When this Christ in His believers is added together, the sum equals the church. Therefore, we all must put off our old man. We need to put off all the natural life until the living Christ can be expressed from within our spirit. Then we will be the church in reality. In the church, the new man, there is no Jew, Greek, or barbarian, but Christ is all and in all (Col. 3:11). To live out anything other than Christ is not the church. “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me” (Gal. 2:20). “For to me to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:21). This is the church! “This time it is” bone of His bones! All things that come out of man’s natural life, such as all man’s organizations and all kinds of human activities in Christianity, are not the church and cannot be the complement of Christ to match Him. Figuratively speaking, these things should not be considered as Eve, but as all the other things named by Adam
24让我们思考四福音中所描绘的图画。当主耶稣成为末后的亚当而来，祂看那些犹太教徒，似乎说，『这是一匹马，那是一只乌龟。』在马太十六章祂转向彼得说，『撒但！』主似乎说，『这些不是我的配偶，他们与我不能相配。他们绝不能作我的补满。』因此，主耶稣必须死。祂必须在十字架上睡了，使祂释放祂的生命，产生能与祂相配的真补满。当祂从死里复活醒过来时，祂看见了召会。那时，特别在五旬节那天，祂能说，『这次才是我骨中的骨，我肉中的肉。』
24Consider the picture depicted in the four Gospels. When the Lord Jesus came as the last Adam and looked at the Jewish religionists, He seemed to say of them, “This is a horse and that is a turtle.” In Matthew 16 He turned to Peter and said, “Satan.” The Lord seemed to be saying, “These are not My counterpart. They do not match Me. They can never be My complement.” Thus, the Lord Jesus had to die. He had to sleep on the cross that He might release His life to produce His real complement to match Him. After He awoke from death in resurrection, He saw the church. At that time, especially on the day of Pentecost, He could say, “This time it is bone of My bones and flesh of My flesh.”
25只有出于基督的才能得到基督认可，只有出于基督的才能归给祂，与祂相配。只有出于基督复活生命的才能作祂的补满和配偶，就是基督的身体。只有出于基督，且是基督的，才能与基督成为一。
25Only that which comes out of Christ can be recognized by Christ. Only that which comes out of Christ can return to Christ and match Him. Only that which comes out of the resurrection life of Christ can be His complement and counterpart, the Body of Christ. Only that which comes out of Christ and which is Christ Himself can be one with Christ
26新约书信告诉我们，从五旬节以后，许多消极的事物偷进了召会，有些动物，像马和乌龟，再度出现。因此，主耶稣不得不再说，『这个不是，那个不是。』祂现在等候要来的婚娶。在婚娶的那日，祂要看著得胜者说，『这次是我骨中的骨，我肉中的肉。』
26The Epistles reveal that after the day of Pentecost many negative things crept in. The animals, such as the horse and the turtle, appeared once again. Thus, the Lord Jesus had to say again, “This is not and that is not.” Now He is waiting for the coming wedding. At that wedding day He will look at the overcomers and say, “This time it is bone of My bones and flesh of My flesh
27我们现今正在往那婚筵的路上，我们必须除去一切天然的事物，属于天然人的事物，基督以外的事物。我经历过许多事物。我是生在基督教，长在基督教。当我看见并考察许多事物时，在我里面复活的生命对我说，『这个不是，那个不是。』有一天我碰著了对的事物，在我里面复活的生命就说，『这一次是的！』许多次甚至在我们中间，我里面的生命说，『这个不是。』但更多次复活的生命说，『这就是了。』我们需要听基督的声音，就是在我们里面复活生命的声音，并一直顺著这声音而行。
27As we are on our way toward that wedding feast we must cast off all the natural things, the things of the natural man, the things other than Christ. I have passed through many things. I was born in Christianity and raised in Christianity. As I passed through and considered many things, the resurrection life within me said of them, “This is not and that is not.” One day I touched the right thing and the resurrection life within me said, “This time it is!” Many times, even among us, the life within says, “This is not,” but even more times the resurrection life says, “This is it.” We need to hear the voice of Christ, the resurrection life within us, and to go along with it all the time
（六） 与人成为一－亚当与夏娃成为一体
6) To Be One with Man— Adam and Eve Becoming One Flesh
28在豫表上，亚当与夏娃成为一体。（创二23～24。）在实际上，基督与召会是一灵，因为那与主联合的，便是与主成为一灵。（林前六17。）照寓意说，基督的所有信徒都是『祂身上的肢体，就是祂的骨，祂的肉。』丈夫与妻子婚姻的联合乃『极大的奥秘，…是指著基督与召会说的。』（弗五29～32。）
28In typology, Adam and Eve became one flesh (Gen. 2:23-24). In actuality, Christ and the church are one spirit, because he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17). Figuratively speaking, all the believers of Christ are “members of His Body.” The marriage union between husband and wife is a great mystery “with regard to Christ and the church” (Eph. 5:29-32).
29如果我们在读圣经时有这样的异象，就会明白雅歌：基督是我们的良人，我们是祂的佳偶。我们就会不照天然或知识，乃照生命来领会全本新约。我们也就会知道，我们都已经重生，且藉基督得以再造，现在与主，并与众圣徒成为一灵，今天在地上与我们的丈夫基督同过婚姻生活。我们不是仅仅等候将来，我们今天就在过团体的婚姻生活。在某种意义上，我们已经有婚姻生活，现在正与我们的丈夫同活。但在另一种更完全的意义上，今天我们所享受的不过是一点豫尝，我们仍在等候要来婚娶的完满享受。这婚娶要在启示录十九章举行，接著，召会要完成为新耶路撒冷，就是基督完备的新妇，直到永远。基督与祂完备的妻子要享受婚姻生活，直到永远。这妻子当然不是单独的个人，乃是一个团体、建造的彰显，就是新耶路撒冷。
29If we have such a vision as we read the Bible, we will understand the Song of Songs: Christ is our love and we are His beloved. Also, we will understand the whole New Testament in the way of life, not in a natural way or in the way of knowledge. We will realize that we have all been reborn and re-created with Christ, that we are now one spirit with Him and with one another, and that on earth today we are living a marriage life with our husband, Christ. We are not just waiting for the future; we are living a corporate marriage life today. In one sense we have the marriage life already and we are living with our husband. In another, fuller sense we have only the foretaste today and are awaiting the full taste of the marriage to come. This marriage will be carried out in Revelation 19. Following that, the church will be consummated as the New Jerusalem, which will be the completed bride of Christ for eternity. Christ and the completed wife will enjoy a marriage life for eternity. This wife, of course, will not be an individual person, but will be a corporate, builded expression, the New Jerusalem
30在创世记二章，我们看见人的被造和生命树。生命树是指神作人的生命和生命的供应。当神将祂自己作到人里面，人就开始经历生命的涌流，在这涌流里有宝贵的材料－金子、珍珠和红玛瑙。在创世记二章末了，我们看见女人的建造。在该章早先题到的那些宝贵材料，都是为著建造这女人。我们若只有创世记二章，就无法恰切清楚的领会这事。但在圣经末了我们也看到一个女人，就是新耶路撒冷。这女人是一座由金子、珍珠、宝石所建造的城。在创世记二章，这些材料是在生命的流中，还没有被建造。到圣经末了，这些材料就都建造成了一座城，就是终极并永远的女人。在创世记二章，我们藉著夏娃看到新耶路撒冷的小影;到了启示录二十一章，我们看到夏娃完成于新耶路撒冷，就是羔羊的团体新妇，由那三样宝贵的材料建造而成，因此，我们再次看到，在创世记一、二章，几乎每一件事物都是一粒种子，这粒种子历经全本圣经而逐渐长大，到了启示录就成熟收割。
30In Genesis 2 we see the creation of man and the tree of life which denotes God as man’s life and life supply. As God works Himself into man, man begins to experience the flow of life, and at the flow of life there are the precious materials—gold, pearl, and onyx stone. At the end of Genesis 2 we see the building of a woman. All the precious materials mentioned earlier in this chapter are for the building of this woman. If we only have Genesis 2, we cannot understand this matter adequately and clearly. However, at the end of the Bible we also find a woman, the New Jerusalem. This woman is a city built with gold, pearl, and precious stones. In Genesis 2, these materials were found at the flow of life, but were not yet builded. At the end of the Bible all of these materials have been built up into a city, which is the ultimate and eternal woman. In Genesis 2 we can see the New Jerusalem foreshadowed by Eve and in Revelation 21 we can see Eve consummated in the New Jerusalem, the corporate bride of the Lamb built with the three precious materials. Thus, we see once again that nearly everything found in Genesis 1 and 2 is a seed that grows throughout the Bible and ripens into a harvest in the book of Revelation
31今天我们既不在开端，也不在完成，乃在路上。我甚至不能以在以弗所五章为满足，我要在启示录十九章七至九节，在基督的婚筵上。要到达那里，我们必须脱去一切天然的东西－那些牲畜、乌龟、马等等。也许你的天然个性像一匹强壮的马。我们必须抛弃这天然的生命。赞美主，在我们里面另有一个生命，另有一种元素，就是基督那赐生命的灵。我们必须凭这生命而活，日夜脱去旧人，穿上新人。这样我们就要被变化，模成祂的形像，豫备好在祂回来时，有分于祂的婚筵。至终，我们要成为新耶路撒冷，神永远的目的就完全达成了。
31Today we are neither at the beginning nor at the consummation — we are on the way. I am not even satisfied to be in Ephesians 5. I want to be in Revelation 19:7-9, at the marriage supper of Christ. In order to get there we must put off all the natural things—the cattle, the turtles, the horses, etc. Perhaps your natural disposition is like a strong horse. We must put off this natural life. Praise the Lord that within us we have another life, another element — Christ as the life-giving Spirit. We must live by this life, day and night putting off the old man and putting on the new man. In this way we will be transformed and conformed to His image, prepared for the wedding feast at the time of His return. Eventually, we will be the New Jerusalem, and God’s eternal purpose will be completely fulfilled.
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c. The Result
（一） 得著一个新妇－亚当得著夏娃
1) A Bride Gained—Eve Gained by Adam
32亚当沉睡，肋旁被打开，取出一条肋骨，结果亚当得著夏娃作他的补满与他相配。这象征基督死了，肋旁被扎，释放出祂神圣的生命，结果祂得著召会作祂的补满。从此，神不再独居，基督已经得著一个新妇与祂相配。启示录二十一至二十二章揭示，在永世里，新耶路撒冷这召会的完成，要成为基督的新妇，作神完满的补满，永远与祂相配。
32The result of Adam’ss lee pin which his side was opened to release a rib was that he gained Eve as his complement to match him. This signifies that the result of Christ’s death with His side pierced to release His divine life was that He obtained the church as His complement. Henceforth, God is no longer alone. Christ has gained a bride to match Him. Revelation 21—22 unfolds that in eternity the New Jerusalem as the consummation of the church will be the bride of Christ for God’s full complement to match Him eternally
（二） 与人成为一－亚当与夏娃成为一体
2) One with Man— Adam and Eve Becoming One Flesh
33亚当与夏娃至终成为一体，成为完整的一个。这是神人联合为一的寓意。神的心意是要与人成为一。祂藉著基督的死与复活产生召会，而达到这目的;召会代表正确的人性与祂这位丈夫相配。在这联合里，人性与神性联合为一，直到永远。要来的新耶路撒冷正是神人的联合，活的完整单位，由神性与人性组成。
33Adam and Eve eventually became one flesh, one complete unit. This was a figure of God and man being joined as one. God’s desire is to be one with man. He has reached this goal through Christ’s death and resurrection which produced the church, representing the proper humanity to match Him as the husband. In this union humanity is one with divinity; this union will last for eternity. The coming New Jerusalem will be just the unity of God and man, a living, complete unit composed with divinity and humanity
（三） 与人同活－亚当与夏娃同活
3) Living with Man—Adam Living with Eve
34亚当与夏娃乃是一，生活在一起，这描绘出神这宇宙的丈夫要与重生的人永远一起生活。神与人的宇宙婚姻生活，在启示录二十一章有完满的启示。在永远里，神在基督里是人生活的中心、实际和生命。人藉著神在基督里作生命而活。人要彰显神的荣耀并运用神的权柄，治理新地。神与人，人与神要永远在一起过婚姻的生活。
34Adam and Eve, being one, lived together. This portrayed that God, the universal husband, will live with regenerated humanity forever. The universal marriage life of God and man is fully revealed in Revelation 21. In eternity, God in Christ will be the center, reality, and life of man’s living, and man will live by God in Christ as life. Man will express God’s glory and will exercise God’s authority over the new earth. God and man, man and God will live together in a marriage life forever.
35所以，创世记一章一节至二章三节，是一幅神目的的图画;而二章四节至二十五节，描绘出达成神目的的方法。3这两部分可看作一幅建筑计画的蓝图。创世记三章至启示录二十章可视为建造的过程;启示录二十一及二十二章可视为完成后之建筑物的照片。
35So, Genesis 1:1—2:3 is a picture of God’s purpose, and 2:4-25 is a portrait of the way to fulfill God’s purpose. These two sections may be considered as a blueprint of an architectural plan. Genesis through Revelation 20 may be considered as the building process, and Reve lation 21 and 22 as a photograph of the finished building.