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路加福音生命读经 · 第65篇

禧年（二）

Jubilee (2)
1读经：利未记25:8-13，23-24，28，39-41。在前篇信息中，我们开始看禧年的定义。禧年这辞原文意吹角，特别是指银号的信号；因此，这辞意指乐器本身，以及所引进的节期。在本篇信息中，我们要进一步来看禧年的定义。
1Scripture Reading: Lev. 25:8-13, 23-24, 28, 39-41 In the foregoing message we began to consider the definition of the jubilee. We saw that the word “jubilee” is an anglicized form of the Hebrew word yobel. This Hebrew word signifies the blast of a horn, specifically the signal of a silver trumpet; hence, it came to signify the instrument itself and the festival thus introduced. In this message we shall consider further the definition of the jubilee
THE SOUNDING OF THE TRUMPET
在遮罪日吹号
ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT
2我们要明瞭禧年，需要仔细读利未记二十五章八至十节。吹号是为宣扬禧年。但禧年的号声是在那一年、那一天发生的？有些人会回答说，『禧年既是第五十年，禧年的号声必是在第五十年的第一天发出的。』这答案也许很合理，却是照著天然的观念。我们读经不该带进天然的思想。如果我们仔细读利未记，会看见每逢第七年是安息年。安息年不可耕种，不可收割；人不可工作，地不可耕作。人和地都要享受安息。这安息是每七年一次。论到安息，利未记二十五章八节说，『你要算计七个安息年，就是七七年；这便为你成了七个安息年，共是四十九年。』利未记二十五章九节说，『当年七月十日，你要大发号声；在遮罪日，你要在遍地发出号声。』（另译。）注意这节开始的辞是『当年，』我们很难解释这『当年』指的是甚么时候。『当年』是甚么时候？第四十九年或第五十年？
2In understanding the jubilee, we need to carefully read Leviticus 25:8-10. The blast of the trumpet proclaimed the jubilee. But in what year and on what day of the year was the trumpet of the jubilee sounded? Some may answer this question by saying, “Since the jubilee was the fiftieth year, the trumpet of the jubilee must have been sounded on the first day of the fiftieth year.” This answer may be reasonable, but it is according to the natural concept. We should not bring our natural thought into our reading of the Bible. If we read the book of Leviticus carefully, we shall see that every seventh year was to be a sabbatical year. In a sabbatical year there was to be no sowing, reaping, or harvesting. The people were not allowed to work, and neither was the land allowed to work. Both the people and the land were to enjoy rest. This rest, this sabbath, was to be every seven years. Concerning the sabbaths Leviticus 25:8 says, “And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.” Leviticus 25:9 says, “Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.” Notice that this verse begins with the word “then.” It is difficult to explain the time indicated by this “then.” When was “then”? Was it in the forty-ninth year or in the fiftieth year
3按照利未记二十五章九节，禧年要在遮罪日，就是七月十日，大发号声。禧年的号声必须在遮罪日吹向，因为禧年是基于救赎。没有救赎就不可能有禧年。因此，宣扬禧年必须从救赎的时候开始。在豫表上，救赎的日子或时间是由七月十日的赎罪日所表征。七月是后半年的第一个月。我们需要问，吹禧年的号角，是在第四十九年的七月呢，还是在第五十年的七月？
3According to Leviticus 25:9, the jubilee was sounded on the day of atonement, which was on the tenth day of the seventh month. It was necessary for the trumpet of the jubilee to be sounded on the day of atonement because the jubilee is based on redemption. Without redemption there cannot be the jubilee. Therefore, the proclamation of the jubilee must be from the time of redemption. In typology, the day, or time, of redemption was signified by the day of atonement on the tenth day of the seventh month. The seventh month was the first month of the second half of the year. Concerning the sounding of the trumpet of jubilee, we need to ask if this was the seventh month of the forty-ninth year or of the fiftieth year.
4利未记二十五章十节告诉我们：『第五十年你们要当作圣年，在遍地给一切的居民宣告自由；这年必为你们的禧年，各人要归自己的产业，各归本家。』把第五十年当作圣年，就是把那一年分别为圣；在遍地宣告自由，就是宣告释放。在这里我们看见，这自由，这释放，关系到各人归回自己的产业，各归本家。这一节不是说产业归回原主，乃是说人归回自己的产业。我们既读过这些重要的经节，现在就要研究七月十日吹号宣告禧年，与将第五十年圣别为禧年，二者的关系。利未记二十五章九节指明，第四十九年分成两段，每段六个月。在第四十九年中间，禧年的号声是在遮罪日吹响。第五十年开始于六个月以后。如果禧年的号声是在第五十年，不是在第四十九年吹响，那禧年就要在第五十年的第七个月才开始。但情形不是那样。禧年的吹号不是在第五十年的正月一日，而是在第四十九年的七月十日。这与我们天然的观念相反。八节说到四十九年，九节说到七月十日吹号，十节说到将第五十年当作圣年。从这里我们看见，吹号是在第四十九年，但圣化，圣别却不是从第四十九年的七月，乃是从第五十年初开始。这就是说，吹号是禧年的豫备，初步。我们已经指出，遮罪日豫表救赎的时候。在遮罪日吹禧年的号角，把第五十年当作圣年，并在遍地宣告自由，这事实指明，首先需要基督受死，然后需要宣告人得释放。换句话说，首先是基督受死，然后有真正的传福音。基督若还没有受死，福音就不能彀传扬。因此，福音的宣扬，传扬，是基于基督的死。福音的宣扬乃是倚赖基督的救赎。如果没有基督的救赎，禧年的宣扬就没有根据。
4Leviticus 25:10 tells us, “And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.” To hallow the fiftieth year is to sanctify that year, and to proclaim liberty throughout the land is to proclaim release. Here we see that this liberty, this release, involves the returning of every man to his possession and of every man to his family. This verse does not speak of the return of a man’s possession, but of the return of a man to his possession. Now that we have read these important verses, let us study the relationship between the sounding of the trumpet of the jubilee on the tenth day of the seventh month and the sanctifying of the fiftieth year as the year of jubilee. Leviticus 25:9 indicates that the forty-ninth year is divided into two sections of six months each. In the middle of the forty-ninth year the trumpet of the jubilee was sounded on the day of atonement. The fiftieth year began six months later. If the trumpet of the jubilee was sounded in the fiftieth year and not in the forty-ninth year, then the jubilee would have begun six months after the start of the fiftieth year. That, however, was not the situation. Contrary to our natural concept, the trumpet of the jubilee was not sounded on the first day of the first month of the fiftieth year. Rather, it was sounded on the tenth day of the seventh month of the forty-ninth year. Verse 8 speaks of the forty-nine years; verse 9, of the sounding of the trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; and verse 10, of the hallowing of the fiftieth year. From this we see that the sounding was in the forty-ninth year, and the sanctifying, the hallowing, was not from the seventh month of the forty-ninth year, but from the beginning of the fiftieth year. This means that the sounding of the trumpet was a preparation, a preliminary step, for the jubilee. We have pointed out that the day of atonement typifies the time of redemption. The fact that the trumpet of the jubilee was sounded on the day of atonement and that the fiftieth year was sanctified and liberty was proclaimed throughout the land indicates that it was necessary first for Christ to die and then for there to be the proclamation of the release of the people. In other words, first Christ died, and then there was the genuine preaching of the gospel. The gospel could not be preached unless Christ had already died. Therefore, the proclamation, the preaching, of the gospel is based on the death of Christ. The sounding out of the gospel depends on Christ’s redemption. Without the redemption of Christ, there would be no basis for the proclamation of the jubilee.
5按照利未记二十五章，禧年的吹号是在禧年真正开始之前六个月。禧年是从第五十年正月开始，但是禧年的吹号是在六个月之前，第四十九年的中间。把这点应用到我们属灵的经历上，指明传福音在先，禧年在后。我们许多人能彀作见证，在我们得救的经历中，我们是早在得救以前，就听到福音的传扬了。我们听到传福音，相当一段时间之后，才进入禧年。我们仔细读利未记二十五章八至十节，会看见吹号总是在禧年之前。这就是说，第四十九年七月的宣扬禧年，乃是第二年初开始之禧年的豫备。从正月开始，要把第五十年当作圣年，分别为圣，作为禧年。我能作见证，我在听到福音以后，至少再过八年才进入禧年。在我作孩子的时候，就听人传福音，然而直到十九岁才经历禧年。
5According to Leviticus 25, the sounding of the trumpet of the jubilee took place six months before the actual beginning of the year of jubilee. The jubilee began from the first month of the fiftieth year, but the sounding of the trumpet of the jubilee was in the middle of the forty-ninth year, six months earlier. When applied to our spiritual experience, this indicates that the preaching of the gospel comes first and the jubilee follows. Many of us can testify that in our experience of salvation we heard the preaching of the gospel long before we were saved. The preaching of the gospel came to us a considerable time before we entered into the jubilee. If we read carefully Leviticus 25:8-10, we shall see that the sounding of the trumpet always took place before the year of jubilee. This means that the sounding of the jubilee took place in the seventh month of the forty-ninth year as a preparation for the jubilee, which began at the start of the next year. Beginning with the first month of the year, the fiftieth year was hallowed, sanctified, as the year of jubilee. I can testify that in my case the sounding of the gospel came to me at least eight years before I entered into the jubilee. When I was a child, I heard the preaching of the gospel. But I did not experience the jubilee until I was nineteen
6我们许多人都经过一段豫备得救的时间，然后才实际的接受救恩。你在进入对救恩的享受，就是进入禧年以前，经过这样一段豫备的时间么？虽然如此，有些圣徒的事例很特殊，他们头一次听到福音，知道了主耶稣，就进入禧年。但是这样的例子不多。大多数基督徒先有一段豫备时间，他们在头一次听到福音以后，再过一些时候才经历禧年。我们大多数人先听到宣扬禧年的福音，然后在一个圣别的时刻接受神的救恩，进入了禧年。当我们进入禧年时，就归回我们的产业，归回我们的家；我们归回作我们产业的神，归回神的家。
6Many of us passed through a period of preparation for salvation before we actually received salvation. Did you go through such a period of preparation before you entered into the enjoyment of salvation, that is, before you entered into the jubilee? Some cases, however, are extraordinary. These are cases of saints who entered into the jubilee at the time they first heard the gospel and learned of the Lord Jesus. But there are not many cases like this. Most Christians had a time of preparation first and experienced the jubilee sometime after they first heard the gospel. Most of us first heard the gospel sounding of the jubilee. Then some time later we received God’ss alvation at a time that was hallowed, sanctified, and we entered into the jubilee. When we entered into the jubilee, we returned to our possession and to our family; we returned to God as our possession and to the family, the house, of God
宣告释放出卖的地得释放归回原主
PROCLAIMING RELEASE The Release of the Sold Land to Its Own Owner
7如果我们要明瞭禧年的定义，就需要看见禧年的意思是宣告释放与自由。首先，禧年是宣告出卖的地得释放归回原主。关于这一点，利未记二十五章十三节说，『这禧年，你们各人要归自己的地业。』我们在这一节看见，实际上不是地得著释放归回原主，而是原主归回自己的地。按照主的命定，地不可永卖，地是可以赎回的：『地不可永卖，因为地是我的，你们在我面前是客旅，是寄居的。在你们所得为业的全地，也要准人将地赎回。』（利二五23～24。）关于出卖的地得释放，利未记二十五章二十八节接著说，『倘若不能为自己得回所卖的，仍要存在买主的手里，直到禧年；到了禧年，地业要出买主的手，自己便归回自己的地业。』
7If we would understand the definition of the jubilee, we need to see that the jubilee means the proclaiming of release and freedom. First, the jubilee was the proclamation of the release of sold land to its owner. Concerning this, Leviticus 25:13 says, “In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.” In this verse we see that actually the release is not that of the land to its owner, but of the owner to his land. According to the Lord’so rd i nation, land was not to be sold forever but could be redeemed: “The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land” (Lev. 25:23-24). Concerning the release of sold land, Leviticus 25:28 goes on to say, “But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.”
卖身的奴仆得自由脱离奴役
The Freedom of the Sold Slave from His Slavery
8禧年不仅宣告出卖的地得释放，也宣告卖身为奴的人得自由。利未记二十五章三十九至四十一节说到这点：『你的弟兄若在你那里渐渐穷乏，将自己卖给你，不可叫他像奴仆服事你。他要在你那里像雇工人，和寄居的一样，要服事你直到禧年。到了禧年，他和他儿女要离开你，一同出去归回本家，到他祖宗的地业那里去。』
8The year of jubilee was a proclamation not only of the release of sold land, but also of the freedom of one who had sold himself into slavery. Leviticus 25:39-41 speaks about this: “And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: but as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee: and then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return
在第五十年在七个安息年之后
ON THE FIFTIETH YEAR After Seven Sabbaths of Years
9禧年当然是在第五十年，『第五十年要作为你们的禧年。』（利二五11上）第五十年是在七个安息年之后，就是七七之后。在豫表上，七个安息年表征七乘七的安息。禧年是新的七年的头一年，或说第八年。五旬节是在第五十天，七周之后的第一天。照样，禧年是在第五十年，七七年或七个安息年之后的第一年。在圣经里，第八天表征复活。主耶稣是在第八天，七日的第一日复活。禧年是在第五十年，这事实指明安息加上安息，而终结于复活，现今在新约的禧年里，我们已经进入安息加上安息而终结于复活。
9The jubilee was, of course, on the fiftieth year. “A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you” (Lev. 25:11a). The fiftieth year was after seven sabbaths of years, that is, after seven times seven years. In typology the sabbath refers to rest. Hence, seven sabbaths of years signify seven times seven rests. The year of jubilee was to be on the first of a new period of seven years, or on an eighth year. Just as the day of Pentecost was on the fiftieth day, the first day after seven weeks, so the jubilee was on the fiftieth year, the first year after seven weeks, or sabbaths, of years. In the Scriptures the eighth day signifies resurrection. The Lord Jesus was resurrected on the eighth day, which was the first day of the week. The fact that the jubilee took place on the fiftieth year indicates rest upon rest ending in resurrection. Now in the New Testament jubilee we have entered into rest upon rest ending in resurrection.
10有些人也许宣称是在禧年里，然而他们没有多少安息，也不在复活里。他们不在复活里，而在天然生命里。只要我们还活在天然生命里，我们就不在禧年里。禧年是在七个安息年之后，在第五十年来到；这就是说，禧年是在安息之后来到，并且是在复活里。我们要享受禧年，就需要在第五十年里。我们必须将我们人生一切的事，例如我们的教育，看作已过七个安息年的项日。然后，当我们到了第五十年，我们就要在禧年里。在禧年之前的四十九年里，一些以色列人卖了自己的土地，也卖了自己。同样的，在我们的经历中，在已过七个安息年里，我们卖了自己的产业，甚至卖了自己。然而第五十年来到时，就不再有这样出卖的事，一切都在复活里。旧事已过，一切都变成新的了。保罗说，『若有人在基督里，他就是新造；旧事已过，看哪，都变成新的了。』（林后五17。）
10Some may claim to be in the jubilee, but they do not have much rest, and they are not in resurrection. Instead of being in resurrection, they are in the natural life. As long as we still live in the natural life, we are not in the jubilee. The jubilee comes after seven sabbaths of years and in the fiftieth year. This means that the jubilee comes after rest and is in resurrection. If we would enjoy the jubilee, we need to be in the fiftieth year. This requires that all the things of our human life, for example, our education, need to be regarded as items of the past seven sabbaths of years. Then when we are in the fiftieth year, we shall be in the jubilee. In the forty-nine years before the jubilee, certain Israelites sold their land and sold themselves. In a similar way, in our experience during the past seven sabbaths of years, we sold our possessions and even ourselves. But when the fiftieth year comes, there is no longer any such selling; rather, everything is in resurrection. The old things are past, and everything is new. In Paul’swords “If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, they have become new” (2 Cor. 5:17
在七月十日
on the tenth day of the seventh month
11我们已经看见，按照利未记二十五章九节，宣告禧年是在七月十日，遮罪日。这指明禧年是基于神在基督里完全的救赎。
11We have seen that, according to Leviticus 25:9, the proclamation of the jubilee was on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the day of atonement. This indicates that the jubilee is based on God’s full redemption in Christ
不可耕种、收割或摘取，乃要吃地中自出的土产
No Sowing, Reaping, or Gathering, But Eating of the Increase of the Land
12关于禧年，利未记二十五章十一节下半至十二节说，『这年不可耕种，地中自长的，不可收割；没有修理葡萄树，也不可摘取葡萄。因为这是禧年；你们要当作圣年；吃地中自出的土产。』这里有相当不平常的要求，在禧年人不可耕种、收割或摘取，乃要吃地中自出的土产。这不是说，我们应当不工作而享受基督的丰富，这样的领会是按照天然的思想。这里所说的不可耕种、收割或摘取，表征我们不该天然的，或凭天然的力量经营基督。
12Concerning the year of jubilee, Leviticus 25:11b-12 says, “Ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.” Here we have the rather unusual requirement that in the year of jubilee the people were not to sow, reap, or gather, but eat the increase of the land. This does not mean that we should enjoy the riches of Christ without working at a job. Such an understanding is according to the natural thought. Here the word about not sowing, reaping, or gathering signifies that we should not labor on Christ in a natural way or by our natural strength
13每一种宗教都鼓励人努力作人，改良自己，并且行善。这就是『耕种、』『收割、』和『摘取。』然而按照神的命定，在新约的禧年里，我们要享受基督，就得停止自己的努力，不信靠自己的努力。我们不要天然的凭自己的耕种、收割、摘取而劳苦，我们只该享受基督的丰富。
13In any religion people are encouraged to exercise their effort to behave themselves, to improve, and to do good. This is to “sow,” to “reap,” and to “gather.” But according to God’so rd i nation, in the New Testament jubilee we are to cease from our labor and not trust in it with respect to the enjoyment of Christ. Instead of laboring in a natural way by our own sowing, reaping, and gathering, we should simply enjoy the riches of Christ
禧年
the year of jubilee
14利未记二十五章十节说到将第五十年当作圣年。在这里我们看见，禧年是圣年，是圣别给神也给我们的一年。别处圣经将禧年称作主的悦纳年。按照路加四章十八和十九节，主耶稣在会堂里读以赛亚六十一章一至二节：『主的灵在我身上，因为祂膏了我，叫我传福音给贫穷的人，差遣我去宣扬被掳的得释放，瞎眼的得复明，叫那受压制的得自由，宣扬主悦纳人的禧年。』在悦纳年时，主悦纳那些失丧又归回祂的百姓。因此，在主那一面，禧年乃是悦纳年。
14Leviticus 25:10 speaks of hallowing the fiftieth year. Here we see that the jubilee was a holy year, a year hallowed to God and also to us. Elsewhere, the year of jubilee is called the acceptable year of the Lord. According to Luke 4:18 and 19, the Lord Jesus in the synagogue read from Isaiah 61:1-2: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away in release those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” The acceptable year was the year in which the Lord accepted His people who were lost and who came back to Him. Therefore, on the Lord’ss i de the year of jubilee was the year of acceptance
15禧年是圣年，也是悦纳年。这是向众人宣告自由的一年，也是自由、安息、享受和满足的时候。我们已经在这本生命读经的其他信息中指出，主耶稣在路加四章对禧年的宣告，支配整卷路加福音。实际上，整个新约时代乃是禧年。新约时代乃是宣告一切失去产业和卖身为奴的人得释放的时候。今天宣扬福音，乃是将这些人带回他们的产业和他们的家，就是归回神和神的家。在本篇信息和前篇信息里，我们已经给禧年下了定义。这定义是基于利未记二十五章的描述。在以后的信息里，我们要来看这禧年在新约里的应用。
15The year of jubilee was a holy year and also an acceptable year. It was a year of proclaiming freedom to all people, and it was a time of freedom, rest, enjoyment, and satisfaction. We have pointed out in other messages in this Life-study that the proclamation of the jubilee by the Lord Jesus in Luke 4 governs the whole Gospel of Luke. Actually the entire New Testament age is the jubilee. The New Testament age is a time of proclaiming release to all those who have lost their possessions and who have sold themselves into slavery. Today the proclaiming of the gospel is to bring these people back to their possession and to their family— back to God and to the family, the house, of God. In this message and in the foregoing message we have given a definition of the jubilee. The definition is based on the description given in Leviticus 25. In forthcoming messages we shall see the application of this jubilee in the New Testament