2这些成分包括成为肉体、人性生活、钉死、复活、升天和降下。神在永远里就有神性的成分,但没有人性和人性生活的成分。藉著成为肉体,就有人性的成分加在祂里面。随后有基督的人性生活,以及祂在十字架上包罗万有之死的重要成分。接著又有复活的成分;复活乃是经过死,却不被死抓住。藉著复活,基督生为神的长子;(罗八29;)藉著复活,祂也成为赐生命的灵;(林前十五45下;)不仅如此,在基督的复活里,一切神所拣选的人,都重生为神的众子。(彼前一3。)在祂另一个成分-升天里,基督是超越的。祂超乎万有,万有现今都服在祂的脚下。(弗一19~23。)末了的成分,乃是基督降下成为包罗万有的灵,以产生召会,就是祂的身体。我们思想这些成分,就能看见,经过过程并终极完成的三一神,远比『生的』神丰富。当然,尚未经过过程的神有神圣的属性,也可视为一项成分,但如今祂增加了成为肉体、人性生活、包罗万有的死、分赐生命并产生生命的复活、升天、降下,结果便产生了身体。今天我们的神是何等的丰富!祂的丰富是充盈的、洋溢的。祂成了那灵,就是三一神的终极完成;祂对我们乃是一切。
2These ingredients include incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and descension. In eternity God had the ingredient of divinity but not the ingredients of humanity and human living. Through incarnation the ingredient of humanity was added to Him. This was followed by Christ's human living and the crucial ingredient of His all - inclusive death on the cross. Next came the ingredient of resurrection, which is a matter of passing through death without being held by death. Through resurrection Christ was begotten to be the firstborn Son of God (Rom. 8:29), and through resurrection He also became the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b). Furthermore, in the resurrection of Christ all God's chosen ones were regenerated to be the sons of God (1 Pet. 1:3). In His ascension, another ingredient, Christ is transcendent. He is the One who is above all, and everything is now under His feet (Eph. 1:19-23). Finally, we have the ingredient of Christ's descension as the all-inclusive Spirit to produce the church, His Body. As we consider all these ingredients, we can see that the processed and consummated Triune God is much richer than the "raw" God. Of course, the unprocessed God had the divine attributes, which may be regarded as ingredients, but now He also has the ingredients of incarnation, human living, the all-inclusive death, the life - imparting and life - producing resurrection, ascension, and descension, which issue in the Body. How rich our God is today! He is abundantly rich, aboundingly rich. He is everything to us as the Spirit, who is the consummation of the Triune God.