11按照一章二十八至三十节,天使告诉马利亚,她是蒙大恩的女子,有恩典赋予她,她在神面前已经蒙恩了。然后在三十一节,天使加百列接著说,『看哪,你将怀孕生子,要给祂起名叫耶稣。『耶稣』是希腊文,等于希伯来文的约书亚,(民十三,)意即耶和华救主,或耶和华救恩。耶稣不仅是人,更是耶和华;并且不仅是耶和华,也是耶和华成了我们的救恩。因此,祂是我们的救主,也是我们的约书亚,带我们进入安息,(来四8,太十一28-29,)这安息就是祂自己作了我们的美地。在路加一章三十五节,我们清楚看见人救主由圣灵成孕:『圣灵要临到你身上,至高者的能力要覆庇你,因此所要生的圣者,必称为神的儿子。』至高者的能力要覆庇马利亚,如同云彩遮盖变化山(太十七5)和会幕。(出四十34,38。)按本节看,圣灵似乎只是临到马利亚身上的能力,使她怀了圣婴。然而马太一章十八、二十节告诉我们,马利亚『被看出怀了孕,就是她从圣灵所怀的,』『那生在她里面的,乃是出于圣灵。』这指明在马利亚生下婴孩耶稣以前,出自圣灵的神圣素质已经生在她的腹中了。圣灵在童女里面这样的成孕,由神圣和属人的素质所成就,构成了神性与人性的调和,产生出一位神人,是完整的神,又是完全的人,独特的兼有神性与人性,并没有产生第三性。这就是耶稣,耶和华救主,最美妙、最超绝的身位。
11According to 1:28-30, the angel told Mary that she was a favored one, one endued with grace, and that she had found favor, grace, with God. Then in verse 31 the angel Gabriel went on to say, “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus.” “Jesus” is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word Joshua (Num. 13:16), which means Jehovah the 16 Savior, or, the salvation of Jehovah. Hence, Jesus is not only a Man but Jehovah, and not only Jehovah, but Jehovah becoming our salvation. Thus, He is our Savior. He is our Joshua bringing us into rest (Heb. 4:8; Matt. 11:28-29), which is Himself as the good land to us. In Luke 1:35 we see clearly that the Man - Savior was conceived of the Holy Spirit: “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; wherefore also the holy thing which is born will be called, Son of God.” As the cloud overshadowed the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt. 17:5) and the tabernacle (Exo. 40:34, 38), the power of the most High would overshadow Mary. It seems that, according to this verse, the Holy Spirit would be only upon Mary as the power for her to conceive the Holy Child. However, Matthew 1:18 and 20 tell us that Mary “was found having in womb out of the Holy Spirit” (lit.), and “the thing begotten (generated) in her is out of the Holy Spirit” (lit.). This indicates that the divine essence out of the Holy Spirit had been generated in Mary’s womb before she delivered the Child Jesus. Such a conception of the Holy Spirit in the human virgin, accomplished with both the divine and the human essences, constitutes a mingling of the divine nature with the human nature, producing a God-man, one who is both the complete God and perfect Man, possessing the divine nature and the human nature distinctively, without a third nature being produced. This is the most wonderful and most excellent Person of Jesus— Jehovah the Savior.