8读圣经的原则也是一样。不要以为圣经不可能定罪你或杀死你。如果你的心刚硬，你读圣经的时候，圣经对你就是一本定罪和属死的书。不要固守迷信的观念，认为人读圣经总是得著祝福。其实这不是事实。圣经是生命的职事或是属死的职事，是称义的职事或是定罪的职事，全在乎我们的心。我们的心若是柔软的，圣经就是祝福。但我们的心若是刚硬的，圣经就是一本定罪和属死的书。甚至像摩西那样的职事，对以色列人也成了定罪和属死的职事。在前一篇信息中，我们指出律法是杀死人的字句这一方面。在本篇信息中，我们是论到定罪和属死职事的荣光上面的帕子。关于律法『黑夜』的方面，主要有两件事：杀死人和遮蔽人。字句杀死人，而帕子遮蔽人。律法颁赐下来了，但上面有一层帕子。照样，在我们的经历中，对圣经也可能有一层帕子。摩西下山的时候，他不知道他的面皮发了光。以色列人看见『摩西的面皮发光。』最终，摩西本人才晓得这事。我们得知，他后来用帕子蒙上脸。然而，希奇的事是，摩西与百姓说完了话以后，才用这帕子蒙上脸。（33。）在摩西下山对百姓说话以前，并没有蒙上帕子。他甚至不知道他的面皮发了光。但他对百姓说完了话以后，就用帕子蒙上脸。三十四节说：『但摩西进到耶和华面前与他说话，就揭去帕子；及至出来的时候…。』然后我们读到，摩西对以色列人说话的时候，『又用帕子蒙上脸，等到他进去与耶和华说话，就揭去帕子。』（35。）因此，摩西与百姓说话，就蒙上帕子。但他与神说话，就揭去帕子。
8The principle is the same in reading the Bible. Do not think that it is impossible for the Bible to condemn you or kill you. If your heart is hard as you read the Bible, the Bible will become to you a book of condemnation and death. Do not hold the superstitious concept that people always receive blessing in reading the Bible. This simply is not true. Whether the Bible is a ministry of life or of death, of righteousness or of condemnation, depends on our heart. If our heart is soft, the Bible will be a blessing. But if our heart is hard, the Bible will be a book of condemnation and death, even as the ministry of Moses became a ministry of condemnation and death to the children of Israel. In the foregoing message we pointed out the aspect of the law as killing letters. In this message we are concerned with the matter of the veil over the glory of the ministry of condemnation and death. Concerning the “night” aspect of the law, the two main things are the killing and the veiling. The letters kill, and the veil covers. The law was given, but there was a veil over it. In like manner, in our experience there may also be a veil over the Bible. When Moses came down from the mountain, he did not know that the skin of his face shone. It was the people who saw that “the skin of Moses’ face shone.” Eventually, Moses himself came to realize this. We are told that he later put a veil on his face. However, the strange thing is that Moses did not put this veil on until after he had finished speaking with the people (v. 33, lit.). Before he came down from the mountain to speak with the people, Moses did not have a veil on. He did not even know that his face shone. Only after he had spoken to the people did he put a veil on his face. Verse 34 says, “But when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out” (lit.). Then we read that when Moses spoke to the children of Israel, he “put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him” (v. 35). Thus, when Moses spoke with the people, he put on the veil. But when he spoke with God, he removed it.