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雅歌生命读经 · 第9篇

盼望被提

Hoping to be Raptured
1读经：雅歌八章一至十四节。雅歌八章启示佳偶盼望被提。书拉密女成熟到一个地步，除了仍有肉体的事实以外，她在每一方面，从每一观点看，都成了所罗门。
1Scripture Reading: S. S. 8:1-14 Song of Songs 8 reveals the lover’sho peto be raptured. The Shulammite was matured in life to the extent that she became Solomon in every aspect and from every view, except for the fact that she still had the flesh
壹 为她的肉体叹息
I. GROANING FOR HER FLESH
2『哦，巴不得你像我的兄弟，像吃我母亲奶的兄弟！我在外头遇见你，就与你亲嘴，谁也不轻看我。』（八1。）她晓得一切从她肉体而来的难处，她就盼望主能在肉体上作她的兄弟，与她一样由恩典所生；她也盼望能与那和她在肉体里一样的主亲嘴，谁也不会轻看她。这指明她为她的肉体叹息。这个短缺，这个问题，只能由被提解决。
2O that you were like a brother to me, / Who nursed at my mother’s breasts! / If I found you outside, I would kiss you, / And none would despise me” (8:1). Realizing all the troubles from her flesh, she wishes that the Lord could be her brother in the flesh who was born of grace, the same as she is, and that she could kiss Him as one who is the same as she is in the flesh and no one would despise her. This indicates her groaning for her flesh. This shortage, this problem, could be settled only by rapture
贰 盼望蒙拯救，
II. HOPING TO BE SAVED
脱离为肉体的叹息
FROM HER GROANING FOR THE FLESH
3在二至四节我们看见，她盼望蒙拯救，脱离为肉体的叹息。（罗八～25。）这指明她盼望藉著身体蒙神救赎而被提。（罗八23下，弗四30下。）
3In verses 2 through 4 we see that she is hoping to be saved from her groaning for the flesh (Rom. 8:19-25). This indicates that she hopes to be raptured through 19 God’s redemption of her body (Rom. 8:23b; Eph. 4:30b).
一 她盼望能和她的良人在天上的耶路撒冷相遇
A. Hoping That She and Her Beloved Could Meet in the Heavenly Jerusalem
4『我必引导你，领你进我母亲的家，她曾训诲我；我要给你喝石榴汁酿的香酒。他的左手必在我头下，他的右手必将我抱住。』（歌八2～。）这里她盼望能和她的良人在天上的耶路撒冷相遇，在那里她要藉恩典得成全；她也盼望能给她的良人一条路，享受她对神圣生命经历的丰富，好在祂的怀抱中作祂的满足，正如主在她被提前向她所作的一样。（二6。）
4“I would lead you and bring you / Into my mother’sho use, / Who has instructed me; / I would make you drink spiced wine / From the juice of my pomegranate. / His left hand would be under my head, / And his right hand would embrace me” (S. S. 8:2-3). Here3 she hopes that she and her Beloved could meet in the heavenly Jerusalem, where she is perfected by grace, and that she could afford her Beloved a way to enjoy the riches of her experience of the divine life for His satisfaction in His embracing, as what He did to her before rapture (2:6).
二 她的良人嘱咐好管闲事的信徒，不要从她对被提的正当盼望中叫醒她
B. Her Beloved Charging the Meddling Believers Not to Awaken Her from Her Proper Hope of Rapture
5『耶路撒冷的众女儿阿，我嘱咐你们，不要惊动，不要叫醒我的佳偶，等她自己情愿。』（八4。）她的良人嘱咐好管闲事的信徒，不要从她对被提的正当盼望中叫醒她，直等她醒在祂面前的时候，就是她在
5“I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, / Do not rouse up or awaken my love / Until she pleases” (v. 4). Her Beloved charges the meddling believers not to awaken her from her proper hope of rapture until she wakes up in the countenance of His face, that is, until she meets Him face to face in rapture.
6被提时面对面遇见祂的时候。
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参 被提之前
III. BEFORE THE RAPTURE
7五至十四节与被提之前的事有关。
7Verses 5 through 14 are concerned with matters before the rapture
一 那灵藉著第三者说话
A. The Spirit Speaking through a Third Person
8『那从旷野上来，靠著她良人的是谁呢？』（5上。）那灵藉著第三者问说，这位曾经独自从属灵旷野上来，（三6，）而如今靠著她良人从肉体的旷野上来的基督佳偶是谁呢？
8Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, / Leaning on her beloved?” (v. 5a). The Spirit, speaking through a third person, asks who this lover of Christ is who came up once from the spiritual wilderness by herself (3:6) and now comes up from the fleshly wilderness by her Beloved
二 基督回答说，她是悔改的罪人，凭恩典而得救
B. Christ Answering That She Is a Sinner Who Has Repented and Has Been Saved by Grace
9『我在苹果树下叫醒你：你母亲在那里为你劬劳，生养你的在那里为你劬劳。』（八5下。）这里基督回答说，她是悔改的罪人，在主这位生命的供应者（二3）里面，藉著重生，凭恩典而得救。
9I awakened you under the apple tree: / There your mother was in labor with you; / There she was in labor and brought you forth” (8:5b). Here Christ answers that she is a sinner who has repented and has been saved by grace through regeneration in Him as the Provider of life (2:3
三 佳偶承认，直到她被提的时候，凭她自己是不能在她良人里面站立并活著的
C. The Lover Admitting That by Herself She Is Not Able to Stand and Live in Her Beloved until Her Rapture
10『求你将我放在心上如印记，带在你臂上如戳记；因为爱如死之坚强，嫉妒如阴间之残忍；牠的火光，是火焰的火光，是耶和华的烈焰。这爱，众水不能熄灭，大水也不能淹没。若有人拿家中所有的财宝要换这爱，就全被藐视。』（八6～7。）这里我们看见，佳偶听见她良人在第五节所说的话，她就承认，直到她被提的时候，凭她自己是不能在她良人里面站立并活著的。她求她的良人，用祂的爱和祂的力量保守她，因为祂的爱如不能摇动的死一样坚强，祂的嫉妒如不可征服的阴间一样残忍，这阴间如同妒忌的耶和华，（出二十5，林后十一2，）祂乃是烈火，（来十二29，）将一切能焚烧的消极事物都烧尽。祂的爱，试炼不能熄灭，逼迫不能淹没，任何财宝也不能换取。若有人要换取，他就全被藐视。
10Set me as a seal on your heart, / As a seal on your arm; / For love is as strong as death, / Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; / Its flashes are the flashes of fire, / A flame of Jehovah. / Many waters cannot quench love, / Nor do floods drown it. / If a man gave all the substance of his house for love, / It would be utterly despised” (8:6- 7). Here we see that when the lover hears what her Beloved spoke in verse 5, she admits that by herself she is not able to stand and live in her Beloved until her rapture. She asks her Beloved to keep her by His love and His strength, for His love is as strong as the unshakable death and His jealousy is as cruel as the unconquerable Sheol, which is like the jealous Jehovah (Exo. 20:5; 2 Cor. 11:2), who is a consuming fire (Heb. 12:29) that burns up all the negative things that can be burned. His love cannot be quenched by trials nor drowned by persecutions nor replaced by any wealth. If one would replace it, he would be utterly despised
四 关心爱基督的年幼者
D. Being Concerned for the Younger Lovers of Christ
11『我们有一小妹，她的两乳尚未长成：当我们的妹子被题亲的日子，我们当为她怎样办理？』（歌八8。）因为佳偶在追求基督并在她对经历基督的终极完成上，已经在生命上成熟，她在被提前就与基督一同关心爱基督的年幼者。她关心如何成全她们，使她们在生命上成熟，以建造基督的身体，并爱基督，直等他们在爱里许配给基督，以构成基督的新妇。（歌八8，林后十一2。）
11“We have a little sister, / And she has no breasts: / What shall we do for our sister / On the day when she is spoken for?” (S. S. 8:8). Since the lover has matured in life in pursuing Christ and in her ultimate consummation of her experience of Christ, before her rapture she with Christ is concerned for the younger lovers of Christ. She is concerned about how to perfect them to mature in life for the building up of the Body of Christ and to love Christ until they are betrothed to Him in love for the constituting of the bride of Christ (v. 8; 2 Cor. 11:2).
五 她和她的良人成全那是墙、是门的人
E. She with Her Beloved Perfecting One Who Is a Wall and One Who Is a Door
12『她若是墙，我们要在其上建造银塔；她若是门，我们要用香柏木板围护她。』（歌八9。）倘若一个人是墙，有了圣别的分别，她同她的良人就要根据基督的救赎，（罗三24，）在这人之上建造城塔来成全这人；倘若一个人是门，作为入口让人进入基督，她同她的良人就要用基督属天和得荣的人性，（太二六64，徒三13，）并祂属天的人性生命，（腓二7～8，）在这人四围建造护卫来成全这人。
12If she is a wall, / We will build on her a battlement of silver; / And if she is a door, / We will enclose her with boards of cedar” (S. S. 8:9). If one is a wall for the separation of sanctification, she with her Beloved will perfect her by building upon her a battlement based upon the redemption of Christ (Rom. 3:24). If one is a door as an entry for people to enter into Christ, she with her Beloved will perfect her by building an enclosure around her with Christ’she aven ly and glorified humanity (Matt. 26:64; Acts 3:13) and His heavenly human life (Phil. 2:7-8
六 她见证她是分别的墙，其上有信和爱的两座塔
F. Testifying That She Is a Separating Wall with Two Towers of Faith and Love
13『我是墙，我两乳像其上的塔；那时我在他眼中，像寻得平安的人。』（歌八10。）这里她见证她是分别的墙，其上有已经得了发展之信和爱的两座塔，（提前一14，）所以她在她良人眼中，乃是如同根据圣别而得著平安的人。
13I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; / Then I was in his eyes like one who has found peace” (S. S. 8:10). Here she testifies that she is a separating wall with two towers of her faith and love (1 Tim. 1:14), which have been developed, so she is in the eyes of her Beloved as a person who has obtained peace based upon sanctification
七 在基督的工作中，祂是一切工作的主，基督的佳偶有分于这工作的一部分
G. In the Work of Christ He Being the Lord of All the Works, and the Lover of Christ Participating in One Part of the Work
14『所罗门在巴力哈们有一葡萄园：他将这葡萄园交给看守的人，每人要为其中的果子，交一千舍客勒银子。我自己的葡萄园在我面前。所罗门哪，一千舍客勒归你，二百舍客勒归看守果子的人。』（歌八11～12。）在基督的工作中，祂是一切工作的主（巴力哈们和葡萄园）。祂的佳偶有分于这工作的一部分（一个葡萄园），并将主所要求的（一千舍客勒）给主，并且她这与良人联结的人，给她自己这看守果子（不是看守葡萄园）的人，二百舍客勒作赏赐。这指明我们的良人基督，乃是万人的主，拥有一切，（徒十36，）我们这些爱祂的人，因著基督的恩典，（罗三24，）就是神爱的流出，（林后十三14，）白白的分享祂一切所有的。（林前三21～。）但我们这些爱祂的人，仍然应当将我们该给的给祂－我们的良人，不是尽本分，乃是爱的事。（参加五13。）那作我们的良人，与我们联结为一的基督，仍然喜欢将公义的赏赐，（提后四8，）赐给我们这些爱祂并与祂联结为一的人。这含示我们的良人基督，为著我们剩余的劳苦给我们赏赐，鼓励我们在爱里为祂忠信的劳苦；（参太二五20～23；）因此，这乃是公义的赏赐。
14“Solomon had a vineyard at Baal - hamon: / He let out the vineyard to keepers; / Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit. / My vineyard, which is mine, is before me. / You will have the thousand, O Solomon; / And those who keep its fruit, two hundred” (S. S. 8:11-12). In the work of Christ He is the Lord of all the works (Baal - hamon and vineyard). The lover of Him participates in one part of the work (one vineyard) and gives to Him what He requires (a thousand shekels), and she as one joined to her Beloved gives to herself as a keeper of the fruit (not of the vineyard) two hundred shekels as a reward. This indicates that Christ as our Beloved is the Lord of all, possessing all things (Acts 10:36), and we as His lovers share in all His possessions (1 Cor. 3:21-22) freely in the grace of Christ (Rom. 3:24) which is the issue of the love of God (2 Cor. 13:14). Yet, we as His lovers still should give Him as our 22 Beloved what we should give, not as a duty but as a matter of love (cf. Gal. 5:13). Christ as our Beloved, joining Himself to us as one, still likes to give us, as His lovers joined to Him as one, a reward of righteousness (2 Tim. 4:8). This implies that Christ as our Beloved gives us a reward for the residue of our labor as an incentive to our faithfulness in our labor for Him in love (cf. Matt. 25:20-23); hence, it is a reward of righteousness.
15所罗门是伟大的主，有许多葡萄园，将葡萄园出租，好得著出产。看守葡萄园的人，要付给所罗门一千舍客勒。每个看守葡萄园的人，都有助手看守果子。每个看守葡萄园的人，必须付给看守果子的人二百舍客勒。我们也领受了一部分主的工作。照著主的要求，我们该付给祂一千舍客勒，就是将祂所要求的付给祂。因为我们没有助手，我们这些看守葡萄园的人就能自己看守果子。因此，我们不是将二百舍客勒给别人，乃是给我们自己。这与主将二百舍客勒给我们作赏赐一样。今天，我们与主同工，祂要求我们付给祂一些东西。我们若忠信，就付出主所要求的。但我们仍有剩余，这就成为我们的赏赐。要满足主在我们与祂同工上的要求，我们必须有些剩余。主回来时，要根据这剩余赏赐我们。照著马太二十五章，主要求我们不但将祂所交付我们的给祂，也将祂所给我们的附上利息给祂。（26～27。）这利息就是剩余。在这比喻里，主对忠信的人说，『好，良善又忠信的奴仆，你在不多的事上既是忠信的，我要把许多事派你管理；进来享受你主人的快乐。』（21，23。）这是享受千年国作为主的赏赐。然而，在这比喻里，没有任何剩余或利息的懒惰奴仆，要受管教和惩罚。（28～30。）
15Solomon as a great lord, possessing many vineyards, rented the vineyards to gain produce. The vine yard keepers would pay Solomon one thousand shekels. Each vineyard keeper had helpers to keep the fruit. Each vineyard keeper had to pay those who kept the fruit two hundred shekels. We also have received a part of the Lord’s work. According to the Lord’s requirement, we should pay Him the one thousand shekels, that is, pay Him what He requires. Because we do not have helpers, we as the vineyard keepers are able to keep the fruit ourselves. Thus, instead of giving the two hundred shekels to others, we give it to ourselves. This is the same as the Lord giving us two hundred shekels as a reward. Today, we work with the Lord, and He requires that we pay Him something. If we are faithful, we pay what the Lord requires. Yet we still have a residue, which becomes our reward. To fulfill the Lord’s requirements in our working with Him, we must have some residue. With this residue as the basis, the Lord will reward us when He comes back. According to Matthew 25 the Lord requires not only what He has delivered to us but what He has given to us with interest (vv. 26-27). This interest is the residue. In this parable the Lord says to the faithful one, “Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful over a few things; I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master” (vv. 21, 23). This is to enjoy the millennial kingdom as the Lord’s reward. However, in this parable the slothful slave, who did not have any interest or residue was disciplined and punished (vv. 28-30).
16雅歌八章十一至十二节给我们看见，我们与主同工，必须超过祂所要求的。然后我们就会有剩余，这将成为祂要给我们的公义赏赐。在提后四章七至八节保罗说，『那美好的仗我已经打过了，当跑的赛程我已经跑尽了，当守的信仰我已经守住了；从此以后，有公义的冠冕为我存留，就是主，那公义的审判者，在那日要赏赐我的。』这里我们看见，赏赐不是照著主的恩典，乃是照著祂的公义。
16Song of Songs 8:11-12 shows us that our work with the Lord must exceed what He requires. Then we will have a residue, and this will be the reward which He will give to us righteously. In 2 Timothy 4:7-8 Paul said, “I have fought the good fight; I have finished the course; I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, with which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will recompense me in that day.” Here we see that the reward is not according to the Lord’s grace but according to His righteousness
八 佳偶求良人使她也得听见祂的声音
H. The Lover of Her Beloved Asking Him to Let Her Hear His Voice
17雅歌八章十三节说，『你这住在园中的阿，我的同伴都听你的声音；求你使我也得听见。』良人的佳偶求祂这住在作祂园子之信徒里面的一位，使她同伴听见祂声音时，她也得听见。这指明我们这些爱基督，在外面彰显祂作我们生活的人，为那住在我们里面，在内里作我们生命的良人所作的工作中，该在祂的说话中与祂交通。我们与祂同工时，需要维持我们与祂的交通，一直听祂。
17Song of Songs 8:13 says, “O you who dwell in the gardens, / My companions listen for your voice; / Let me hear it.” The lover of her Beloved asks Him who dwells in the believers as His gardens to let her hear His voice as her companions listen for His voice. This indicates that in the work, which we as the lovers of Christ who express Him as our living outwardly do for Him as our Beloved who indwells us as our life inwardly, we should fellowship with Him in His speaking. As we are working with Him, we need to maintain our fellowship with Him, always listening to Him
九 佳偶祈求祂在复活的大能里快快回来，设立祂甘甜美丽的国
I. The Lover of Her Beloved Praying That He Would Make Haste to Come Back in the Power of His Resurrection to Set Up His Sweet and Beautiful Kingdom
18『我的良人哪，求你快来，如羚羊或小牡鹿在香草山上。』（14。）她良人的佳偶祈求祂在复活的大能里快快回来，设立那要充满全地，祂甘甜美丽的国。（启十一15，但二35。）这里我们该留意，这位佳偶的祷告，是这卷诗意之书的结语，描绘出新郎基督和祂的佳偶新妇之间，在新婚之爱里的联结与交通；这正如约翰这位爱基督者的祷告，乃是整本圣经（启示神关于祂神圣之爱里基督与召会的永远经纶）的结语（启二二20）一样。
18Make haste, my beloved, / And be like a gazelle or a young hart / Upon the mountains of spices” (v. 14). The lover of her Beloved prays that He would make haste to come back in the power of His resurrection to set up His sweet and beautiful kingdom which will fill the whole earth (Rev. 11:15; Dan. 2:35). Here we should note that the prayer of this lover of her Beloved is the concluding word of this poetic book, portraying the union and communion between Christ as the Bridegroom and His lovers as the bride in their bridal love, as the prayer of John, a lover of Christ, is the concluding word of the Holy Scripture, revealing God’s eternal economy concerning Christ and the church in His divine love (Rev. 22:20
结语
A CONCLUDING WORD
19这卷诗意的书乃是一位君王和一个乡村女子之间爱的故事，这首诗（作为豫表）乃是一幅奇妙而生动的图画（作为应验），描绘新郎基督和祂的佳偶新妇，在祂神圣属性与祂佳偶人性美德之调和中，相互享受的新婚之爱。这首诗及其所描绘的这两面，在其各阶段进展的互相对应，乃是无所不能、无所不知、无所不在之神的圣言内在的启示。这进展开始于第一阶段，就是基督的佳偶受吸引追求祂，要得著满足，接著经过以下的阶段：（一）蒙呼召藉著与十字架的合一脱离己；（二）蒙呼召在升天里生活作复活里的新造；（三）蒙更厉害的呼召藉著复活后的十字架在幔内过生活；
19The poem, as a type, in this poetic book as the story of the love between a king and a country girl is a marvelous and vivid portrait, as the fulfillment, of the bridal love between Christ as the Bridegroom and His lovers as His bride in their mutual enjoyment in the mingling of His divine attributes with the human virtues of His lovers. The correspondence of the progression with its stages on these two sides of the poem and its portrait is the intrinsic revelation of the Holy Word of the omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent God. The progress begins with the first stage of Christ’s lovers’ being drawn to pursue Him for satisfaction, continues through the following stages of (1) their being called to be delivered from the self through the oneness with the cross, (2) their being called to live in ascension as the new creation in resurrection, (3) their being called more strongly to live within the veil through the cross after
20（四） 分担主的工作；而结束于最后一个阶段，就是盼望被提。
20resurrection, and (4) their sharing in the work of the Lord, and ends with the last stage of their hoping to
21但愿这样的进展及其阶段，在我们追求基督，使祂和我们都得著满足的过程中，作我们的界碑！
21be raptured. May such a progress with its stages be a landmark to us in the course of our pursuing of Christ for His and our mutual satisfaction