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箴言生命读经 · 第1篇

介言

An Introductory Word
1读经：箴言一章一至六节。箴言、传道书、和雅歌是三本特别的书。我们从本篇信息开始有箴言
1Scripture Reading: Prov. 1:1-6 Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs are particular books. With this message we begin the life
壹 书名
I. THE TITLE
2『箴言』的希伯来文为mishle，米效，意思是『类似语，格言，比喻』，
2Proverbs in Hebrew is mishle, meaning "similitudes, proverbs, parables," to represent general truths
3用以陈述一般的真理。
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贰 著者
II. THE WRITERS
4箴言是智慧人之言语的汇集，主要的著者和汇编者是所罗门（他写了箴言三千句－王上四32，参传十二）和希西家（他在二十五至二十九章，加上一些祖先的箴言）。
4Proverbs is a collection of the words of the wise. The main writers and collectors are Solomon, who wrote three thousand proverbs (1 Kings 4:32; cf. Eccl. 12:9), and Hezekiah, who added some proverbs of the9 forefathers in chapters twenty-five through twenty-nine.
参 时间
III. THE TIME
51000本书写作的时间，约在主前一千年。所罗门的部分约写于主前一千年，而希西家的部分约写于三百年后。
5The time of the writing of this book was about B. C. Whereas Solomon ' sport i on was written about 1000 B.C., Hezekiah'sport i on was written about three hundred years later.
肆 地点
IV. THE PLACE
6箴言可能是在耶路撒冷写的。
6Proverbs probably was written in Jerusalem
伍 主题
V. THE THEME
7箴言的主题是：本书由智慧的话组成，教导人在生活中如何行事为人，并如何建立他们的性格。按人说，这是很大的题目。所有的宗教和哲学，都是论到这事。自从人类存在以来，行事为人和建立性格这两件事一直是教导的题目。
7The theme of Proverbs is that this book consists of words of wisdom teaching people how to behave and how to build up their character in the human life. Humanly speaking, this is the great subject, and all religions and philosophies are concerned with it. The matters of behavior and the building up of character have been the subjects of teaching ever since humankind came into being
陆 箴言在圣经
VI. THE POSITION OF PROVERBS
神圣启示中的地位
IN THE DIVINE REVELATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
8现在我们需要来看箴言在圣经神圣启示中的地位。
8Now we need to consider the position of Proverbs in the divine revelation of the Holy Scriptures
一 神圣的启示是渐进的
A. The Divine Revelation Being Progressive
9圣经中的神圣启示是渐进的，从创世记一章神照著祂的形像造人，经过旧约和新约中许多的过程，达到启示录末了两章新耶路撒冷的终极完成。圣经讲了千万件事；第一件事是神创造天地，末一件事是新耶路撒冷。在这两端之间，神圣的启示是随著人类历史的轨迹前进的。
9The divine revelation in the Holy Scriptures is progressive, from the creation of man in God'sim age in the first chapter of Genesis, through many processes in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, to the consummation of the New Jerusalem in the last two chapters of Revelation. Thousands of things are covered in the Bible. The first thing is God's creation of the heavens and the earth, and the last thing is the New Jerusalem. Between these two ends, the divine revelation goes along with the course of human history.
二 很难定位
B. Difficult to Locate
10因为箴言这卷书是许多世纪以来（到主前第七世纪希西家为止），智慧之人言语的汇集，所以很难指出其在圣经神圣启示里的地位。
10As Proverbs is a collection of the words of the wise of many centuries up to Hezekiah in the seventh century before Christ, it is difficult to locate it in the divine revelation of the Holy Scriptures
三 律法的辅助
C. A Subsidiary to the Law
11因为箴言主要的是由律法时代里两位犹大王所收集，所以箴言可以视为律法的辅助。律法是神的描绘，要求神的百姓遵守，使他们能成为神的复本，好叫神得著彰显和荣耀。箴言是律法的辅助，帮助神的百姓遵守律法。因为律法是照著神的所是写的，所以律法告诉人该如何行事为人，并如何照著神的属性建立自己。神是爱，是光，神也是圣的、义的。这些是神的一些属性。神照著祂自己的形像造人，意思是神照著祂的所是，即照著祂的属性造人。照著神的属性所写的律法，要求人照著神行事为人并建立自己。关于这点，箴言是律法的辅助，指导人如何照著神的所是行事为人并建立自己。这帮助我们看见，箴言在圣经神圣启示中可能有的地位。
11Since the proverbs were collected mainly by two kings of Judah in the age of the law, the book of Proverbs may be considered a subsidiary to the law. The law is the portrait of God, demanding God'sp eople to keep it that they might be made copies of God for His expression and glorification. Proverbs as a subsidiary to the law helps God'sp eople to keep the law. Because the law was written according to what God is, the law tells man how to behave and how to build up himself according to God's attributes. God is love and light, and God is holy and righteous. These are some of God's attributes. For God to create man in His own image means that God created man according to what He is, that is, according to His attributes. The law, which was written according to God's attributes, demands that man behave and build himself up according to God. Regarding this, Proverbs is a subsidiary part of the law, instructing people how to behave and how to build themselves up according to what God is. This helps us to see what the position of Proverbs probably is in the divine revelation in the Scriptures
四五 卷诗歌书的顺序
D. The Sequence of the Five Books of Poetry
12五卷诗歌书－约伯记、诗篇、箴言、传道书和雅歌－的顺序，在其属灵的意义上是超绝而甘甜的。
12The sequence of the five books of poetry—Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs—in their spiritual significances is excellent and sweet
１ 约伯记
1. Job
13约伯记强调神要人单单的寻求而得著神，没有任何别的祝福与亨通；也强调神要人寻求祂作人的完全，而不是寻求人自己的纯正。由此我们看见，神要人寻求那是神自己的完全，而不是基于人自己的正直和纯正的完全。
13Job stresses that God wants man to seek and gain God solely without any other blessings and prosperity, and that God wants man to seek Him for his perfection and not for his integrity. From this we see that God wants man to seek the kind of perfection that is God Himself, not a perfection based on human uprightness and integrity.
２ 诗篇
2. Psalms
14诗篇强调人藉著赞美、祷告、及欢腾的歌唱，寻求并接触神。寻求并接触神的路就是赞美祂、向祂祷告、并欢腾的歌唱。
14Psalms stresses man'ss eeking and contacting of God through his praises, prayers, and singing with exultation. The way to seek and contact God is to praise Him, to pray to Him, and to sing with exultation
３ 箴言
3. Proverbs
15箴言强调人藉著接触神，从神得著智慧，并强调智慧教导人如何在生活里行事为人。
15Proverbs stresses wisdom that man receives of God through his contacting of God and that teaches man how to behave in his human life
４ 传道书
4. Ecclesiastes
16传道书强调人藉著从神所得的智慧，看见在日光之下凡事都是虚空的虚空。日光之下的事是虚空，但天上的事是实际。你若接触神，并从神得著智慧，就会看见在日光之下，凡事都是虚空，都是捕风。
16Ecclesiastes stresses the vanity of vanities of all the things under the sun, which is realized by man through the wisdom received from God. The things under the sun are vanity, but the things in the heavens are reality. If you have contacted God and have received wisdom of God, you will see that everything under the sun is a vanity, a chasing of the wind
５ 雅歌
5. Song of Songs
17雅歌强调基督是人生的歌中之歌，满足中的满足，这与日光之下凡事都是虚空的虚空相对。惟有基督是我们的满足；祂既使我们得著满足，祂就成了我们向祂唱的歌。一个爱基督的人，应当是受祂的爱并祂的甜美所吸引，追求祂以得完全满足的人。箴言是圣经各卷书中特别的一卷。此书独有的特点，是向我们陈明古时智慧人许多智慧的话，这些话所有读此书的人一致认为是好的；但这是否真的好，乃在于你是那一种读者。你若是一个讲求伦理道德的人，有刚强的心思，并且渴慕像一个真正有道德的人那样完全，箴言必然会帮助你在追求完全的事上成功。但这本书是帮助你修养自己，就是培养属人的『明德』，这明德是神照著祂的属性，就是照著祂的所是，为人所创造的。然而，此书并不能帮助你成为一个照著神那住在你里面的灵而活在灵中的人，以完成神永远的经纶，就是产生并建造基督的身体，终极完成那作神心头愿望和最终目标的新耶路撒冷。在旧约里，约伯正是这样一个人。他满足于自己的纯正，满足于自己属人完全的追求。但这不是神在他身上所要的，反而顶替了神在他身上所要的；这就成了神的仇敌，使他这个神所创造的人受拦阻，不能完成神的定旨。神创造人的定旨，是要人被祂充满，好彰显祂，而不是彰显属人的完全。所以神来拆毁约伯在属人完全上的成功。神这样的拆毁，也把约伯这人拆毁了。约伯感到困惑，不知如何是好。于是神进来向约伯启示祂自己，指明祂自己才是约伯所该追求、得著并彰显的。于是约伯有了极大的转变，从追求属人的完全转到追求神自己。
17Song of Songs stresses that Christ is the song of songs, the satisfaction of satisfactions to human life that is versus the vanity of vanities of all the things under the sun. Only Christ is the satisfaction, becoming our song which we sing to Him because we are satisfied. A lover of Christ should be one who is attracted by His love and drawn by Him in His sweetness to pursue after Him for full satisfaction. The book of Proverbs is a particular book among the books of the Bible. It has a particular character; that is, it presents to us the words of wisdom by many ancient wise men, which is unanimously considered good by all the people who read it. But whether it is really good or not depends upon what kind of reader you are. If you are an ethical person with a strong mind and have a desire to be perfect as a genuine moral person, surely this book would help you to make a success in your pursuit of perfection. But it helps you to cultivate yourself, that is, to cultivate the human "bright virtue" created for man by God according to His attributes, that is, according to what He is. However, it does not help you to be a person who lives in his spirit according to the Spirit of God who dwells in you for the accomplishment of God's eternal economy, that is, to produce and build up the Body of Christ which consummates the New Jerusalem as God ' she art's desire and ultimate goal. In the Old Testament Job was exactly such a person. He was satisfied with his integrity, with his pursuit of human perfection. But that was not what God wanted of him; rather it replaced what God wanted of him and then it became an enemy of God frustrating him, a man created by God to fulfill God's purpose. God's purpose in creating man is to have man be filled with Him to be His expression, not an expression of human perfection. So the success of Job in human perfection was torn down by God. In this tearing down by God, God tore down Job also. Job was perplexed, not knowing what to do. Then God came in to reveal Himself to Job, indicating that He Himself is what Job should pursue, gain, and express. Then Job had a big turn from pursuing human perfection to pursue God Himself.
18你若是一个守律法的人，必定会珍赏此书中一切的箴言，就是智慧人的话，认为这些话能帮助你作一个好的、或者更好的守律法者。若是这样，你就不过是把这一切箴言当成许许多多的律法，像许多犹太人一样，落在守律法的网罗里；他们不认识神在律法时代的目的，乃是要暴露堕落之人的软弱。你若爱主并追求基督，而不追求自己的完全，并且爱主在整本圣经中的话，用祷告的灵读这些话，不为追求字句的道理，乃为追求生命的灵和生命的话，不为得著自我修养上的帮助，乃为滋养你的灵，好使你过一种基督徒生活，不是在属人美德上完全，乃是在神圣美德上完全，这神圣美德乃是神圣属性的彰显；你若是这样一个人，此书对你就会成为金块和珠宝，加强你追求基督的生活，以产生并建造基督的身体，完成神的经纶。
18If you are a person who is a law-keeper, surely you will appreciate all the proverbs in this book as words of wise men, thinking that they could help you to be a good or even better law-keeper. If so, you just make all the proverbs many, many laws and fall into the snare of keeping the law as many Jews do, who do not know God's purpose in the dispensation of His law, that is, to expose fallen man's weakness. If you are a person who loves the Lord and pursues Christ, not self-perfection, and who loves the Lord'sword in the entire Bible and reads it with a praying spirit, not for the seeking of the doctrine of letters but for seeking the Spirit and word of life, not to get any help for self-cultivation but for the nourishment of your spirit that you may live a Christian life which is perfect not in human virtues but in the divine virtues which are the expressions of the divine attributes, then this book will render you nuggets and gems to strengthen your life of pursuing Christ for the fulfillment of God'secon o my in producing and building up the Body of Christ
19再者，神不是要我们只在字句上寻求知识、道理、真理、神学和所谓的启示；神乃是要我们寻求祂，使我们得著祂，并被祂自己所充满，作祂的彰显。祂是那灵，我们是在我们的灵里敬拜并接触祂。字句杀死人，惟有那灵赐人生命。主对我们所说的话，对我们该成为灵和生命。（约六63。）我们若凭字句而不凭那灵和生命研读圣经，不管是读那一部分，都会使圣经成为一本字句的书。今天多数的基督徒，将那属于灵和生命的新约，当作属于字句的旧约。对使徒保罗而言，甚至旧约也像新约一样，是属于灵和生命。太多的基督徒将新约当作字句的箴言、教训、劝勉和教导。我们的生命读经已使全部旧约神的话，成为灵与生命的书。藉此我们必须领悟，箴言对我们是怎样的一卷书，乃在于我们是那一种人，并用甚么方式取用这书。柒新约信徒对箴言
19Furthermore, God does not want us just to seek the knowledge, doctrine, truth, theology, and so - called revelation in letters. God wants us to seek after Him that we may gain Him and that He may fill us up with Himself for His expression. He is the Spirit and we worship Him and contact Him in our spirit. The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. The word spoken to us by the Lord should become the Spirit and the life to us (John 6:63). If we study the Bible by the way of letters, not by the way of the Spirit and of life, we make the Bible, regardless of what part, a book of letters. Most Christians today have made the New Testament of the Spirit and of life the Old Testament of letters. To Paul the apostle even the Old Testament was like the New Testament, of the Spirit and of life. Too many Christians have made the New Testament proverbs, precepts, exhortations, and instructions of letters. Our life-studies have made all of the Old Testament as the Word of God books of the Spirit and of life. By this we have to realize that what the book of Proverbs would be to us depends upon what kind of persons we are and by what way we take it. VII. THE SOUND ATTITUDE THE NEW TESTAMENT
该有的正确态度
BELIEVERS SHOULD HAVE TOWARD PROVERBS
20我们需要看见的下一件事，是新约信徒对箴言该有的正确态度。
20The next matter that we need to see is the sound attitude the New Testament believers should have toward Proverbs
一 相信箴言是圣言的一部分
A. Believing That It Is a Part of the Holy Word
21我们新约信徒该相信，箴言是神的圣经中圣言的一部分。
21As New Testament believers, we should believe that Proverbs is a part of the holy word in God'sho ly Scriptures
二 认识箴言是神的呼出
B. Realizing That It Is the Breath of God
22我们该认识箴言是神的呼出，给我们吸入，好叫我们能从神得著生命的供应。（提后三16。）
22We should realize that Proverbs is the breath of God for us to breathe in that we may receive the life supply from God (2 Tim. 3:16
三 读箴言
C. Reading It
23其次，我们读箴言，应当在我们灵里被神的丰满所充满，（弗五18～19，）在新约的生命之灵里，（罗八2，）用我们重生的灵，并藉著祷读，将箴言与灵和生命调在一起。（参约六63。）
23Next, we should read Proverbs by being filled with the fullness of God in our spirit (Eph. 5:18-19), in the New Testament Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2), with our regenerated spirit, and by pray-reading to mingle it with spirit and life (cf. John 6:63
捌 分段
VIII. THE SECTIONS
24箴言有四段：所罗门的汇集，（一～二四章，）希西家的汇集，（二五～二九章，）亚古珥的言语，（三十章，）和利慕伊勒王的言语。（三一章。）
24Proverbs has four sections: the collection of Solomon (chs. 1—24), the collection of Hezekiah (chs. 25—29), the word of Agur (ch. 30), and the word of King Lemuel (ch. 31