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约翰福音生命读经 · 第28篇

生命在爱中维持交通的洗涤（二）

Life’s Washing in Love to Maintain Fellowship (2)
贰 信徒彼此的洗涤
II. WASHING BY ONE ANOTHER
AMONG THE BELIEVERS
1我们已经看过主自己为门徒洗脚。现在我要说到信徒彼此洗脚的事。（约十三12～17。）我们不只需要主自己直接的洗脚，也需要彼此洗脚。主告诉我们要彼此洗脚。正如我已经说过的，有时我们必须照字面遵守主的话，但我们更要按灵意遵守祂的话。我们必须藉著将圣灵的工作供应人，将神话语的光照供应人，并藉著将内在生命的运行供应人，来彼此洗脚。藉此，我帮助你，你帮助我，我们帮助彼此在圣灵的工作、神话语的亮光、或内在生命的运行上得著洗净。每当我们弟兄们聚在一起交通祷告时，需要以属灵的洗脚彼此服事。以属灵的洗脚彼此服事，保守我们脱离属地接触的污染。亲爱的弟兄们，你曾想过你多么需要这种相互的洗脚么?当你在这地上行动工作的时候，你不只需要主在你灵中直接给你洗脚的服事，也需要从弟兄姊妹们得到洗脚的服事。
1We have seen the foot-washing by the Lord Himself. Now I want to share something about the foot-washing by the believers among one another (vv. 12-17). We need not only the foot-washing that is exercised directly by the Lord Himself but also the mutual foot-washing of one another. The Lord told us to wash one another’s feet. As I have mentioned already, sometimes we must keep the Lord’sword literally, but to an even greater degree we must keep His word spiritually. We must wash one another’s feet by ministering the work of the Holy Spirit, by ministering the enlightenment of the Word, and by ministering the operation of the inner life. In this way, I help you, you help me, and we help one another to be washed in the work of the Holy Spirit, in the light of the Word, or in the operation of the inner life. Whenever we brothers come together for fellowship and prayer, we need to minister the spiritual foot-washing to one another. It is the spiritual foot-washing ministered to one another that keeps us clean from the earthly touch. Dear brothers, have you considered how much you need this kind of mutual foot-washing? While you are walking and working on this earth, you need not only the Lord’s foot-washing ministered directly within your spirit but also the foot-washing from the brothers and sisters
一 跟随主的榜样
A. Following the Example of the Lord
2当主为门徒洗脚时，祂脱了外衣。我们已经看见，外衣象征主彰显出来的美德和属性，脱了外衣，表征脱去祂彰显出来的所是。主若维持祂美德和属性的彰显，就不能洗门徒的脚了。照样，每当你要洗别人的脚时，你需要放下你的成就、美德和属性。这是真正的谦卑，真正的降卑自己。我们需要降卑自己到这样的程度，使我们能洗别人的脚。在圣经中，外衣象征我们的所作，以及我们如何行动。无论我们作甚么，如何行动，都成为我们的外衣。你若有好行为，就有一件好外衣，是美丽荣耀的。然而，你若要以属灵的洗脚服事人，就必须脱下你所成就的，你所作的，和你一向的为人。每次当你与弟兄们聚在一起，要给他们属灵洗脚的服事，你就必须脱下你一向为人的方式。这就是说，你必须降卑自己。不要以为你的为人彀好了。你的行为和品性也许十分美好荣耀，因此你就骄傲起来。你以你的外衣为傲，以你向来所作的为傲。另一面，我或许心里想自己这么谦卑，而你太骄傲了。有这样的态度和动机，就绝不能给人洗脚的服事。我需要脱下我所有的好行为，忘记我所有的美德。这个脱下外衣是非常实际的。每逢你骄傲的时候，你就绝不能给任何人属灵洗脚的服事。你必须谦卑，脱下你的外衣。脱下你的外衣，意思就是降卑你自己，倒空你自己，从你身上拿去一些东西，剥去一些东西。容我说句直话。在我基督徒的生活中，当我旅行各地时，遇见过许多弟兄姊妹。好些人很属灵，但是也很骄傲。他们以自己的属灵为傲。他们穿了属灵的外衣。当他们聚在一起的时候，他们轻看别人，认为别人从未见过属天的异象，或从未认识甚么属灵的事。这是甚么？这是他们的骄傲。他们以属灵为傲。我们若有这样的态度，就不可能为别人洗脚。相反的，每逢我们与圣徒同聚，我们必须脱下我们的外衣，忘记我们的成就。我们必须留心注意这件事。我们都曾在这种态度上犯了错。我们常常会有这种思想：『哦，他们不认识召会生活，他们不知道如何行在灵中，他们从来没有学过内里生命的功课。』这是骄傲。我们若有这种骄傲的态度，就绝不能帮助别人，我们必须脱下我们的外衣，我们的成就，我们的属灵。我们必须脱下所有属灵的学位，成为简单，平常的人，对自己说，『我甚么也不是，我里面也没有甚么特别的。我只有一条手巾，一块布来束腰。』我们彼此间不该穿著警察制服见面，不然我们就变得可怕，将对方吓跑了。有时人大张威势而来，态度有如穿著制服的警察。有人穿著属灵的制服，有人穿著更深生命的制服，还有人穿著所谓恩赐的制服。在他们给别人任何洗脚的服事之前，必须脱下他们的制服。我们不该对别人说这话，我们必须对自己说这话。
2When the Lord washed the disciples’ feet, He laid aside His garments. We have seen that, in figure, garments here signify the Lord’s virtues and attributes in His expression and that the laying aside of His garments signifies the putting off of what He is in His expression. If the Lord had maintained the expression of His virtues and attributes, He would have been unable to wash the feet of the disciples. Likewise, whenever you are about to wash others’ feet, you need to lay aside your attainments, virtues, and attributes. This is real humility, the genuine humbling of yourself. We need to humble ourselves to such a degree that we can wash others’ feet. In the Scriptures a garment signifies what we do and how we act. Whatever we do and however we act become our garment. If you have good behavior, you have an excellent garment, something that is beautiful and glorious. However, if you want to minister spiritual foot - washing to others, you must lay aside what you have attained, what you have been doing, and how you have been behaving. Every time you come together with the brothers to minister some spiritual foot-washing to them, you must lay aside the way you have conducted yourself. This means that you must humble yourself. Do not think that your conduct is good enough. Your deeds and behavior may have been very beautiful and glorious, so you became proud. You are proud of your garments, proud of what you have been doing. On the other hand, I may think in my heart that I am so humble and that you are too proud. With this kind of attitude and motive, we can never minister any foot-washing to others. I need to lay aside all of my good deeds and forget all of my virtues. This laying aside of the garments is very practical. Whenever you are proud, you can never minister spiritual foot-washing to anyone. You must be humble and lay aside your garments. To lay aside your garments means to humble yourself, to empty yourself, to take something off of you and to strip something from you. Allow me to speak very frankly. During my Christian life I have met a good number of brothers and sisters in my travels to various places. Many are so spiritual, but they are also proud. They are proud of their spirituality. They wear a garment of spirituality. When they come together, they look down on others, thinking that the others have never seen a heavenly vision or known anything spiritual. What is this? This is their pride. They are proud of being spiritual. If we take this attitude, it will be impossible for us to minister foot-washing to others. Whenever we come together with the saints, on the contrary, we must take off our garments and forget our attainments. We must be carefully aware of this matter. We all have been guilty of this attitude. How often we have had the thought, “Oh, they do not know the church life; they do not know how to walk in the spirit; they have never learned the lessons of the inner life.” This is pride. If we take this proud attitude, we can never help others. We must lay aside our garments, our attainments, our spirituality. We must lay aside all degrees of spirituality and become simple and general, saying to ourselves, “I am nothing, and nothing within me is special. I have only a towel, a piece of cloth, to gird me.” We should not come to each other in the uniform of a policeman; otherwise, we shall be fearful and scared of one another. Sometimes people come threateningly with the attitude of a policeman wearing a uniform. Some come wearing a uniform of spirituality, while others wear the uniform of the deeper life, and still others are clad with the uniform of the so - called gifts. They all must lay aside their uniforms before they can minister any kind of foot- washing to others. We should not say this to others; we must say it to ourselves.
3要脱下我们的外衣，降卑自己好为人洗脚，不是容易的事。假定一位弟兄无意中得罪了我。虽然他不知道得罪了我，我却觉得。那么我该怎么办?我必须仰望主给我恩典不定罪我的弟兄，而去洗他的脚。我若想去洗他的脚却没有恩典，结果将是一场大风暴。为甚么？因为他得罪了我，我就很容易责怪他，即或我无意这样作。我需要脱下我的外衣，降到他的水平上。每当我们觉得有人得罪了我们，我们总认为自己比那人高，认为他比较低，他亏欠了我们甚么，我们有权向他要求。在这里就有难处。你需要脱下你的外衣，降低你的标准，从你的宝座下来。就一面说，脱下你的外衣就是你自己下宝座。不要坐在宝座上审判你的弟兄说，『你得罪我了，你得罪我了。』只要你有这种态度，狐狸尾巴就会露出来。至终，你会责备那得罪你的弟兄，结果将是争吵，因为他会否认作了甚么得罪你。整个情形立刻就成为有罪的。我们不只需要脱下我们成就的外衣，还需要用手巾束腰。这就是说，我们必须受约束，我们必须失去我们的自由。要用水洗脚，也要用主束腰用的手巾擦干。换句话说，我们越甘心为别人受约束，我们就越能服事别人并擦干他们的脚。不然，我们越自由，我们就越会损害别人。弟兄们，我们聚在一起的时候，不仅必须放下我们的成就，也必须受约束，甘心失去我们的自由。我们放弃我们的自由，为著对我们亲爱的弟兄姊妹有所服事。我们必须甘心束上腰，受约束，好服事弟兄姊妹。
3It is not an easy thing to lay aside our garments and humble ourselves in order to wash others’ feet. Suppose a certain brother offends me unconsciously. Although he is unaware that he has offended me, I am conscious of the offense. What should I do? I must look to the Lord for His grace not to condemn my brother, but to wash his feet. If I try to wash him without the grace, the result will be a big blow up. Why? Because he offended me, it will be so easy for me to rebuke him, even without having the intention of doing so. I need to lay aside my garments and come down to his level. Whenever we have the sensation that someone has offended us, we always consider ourselves higher than that person, thinking that he is lower, that he owes us something, and that we have a claim upon him. Herein lies the difficulty. You need to put aside your garments, lower your standard, and come down from your throne. In a sense, laying aside your garments means to dethrone yourself. Do not sit on the throne judging your brother, saying, “You offended me, you offended me.” As long as you have this attitude, the tail of the fox will come out. Eventually, you will rebuke the offending brother, and the result will be a quarrel, for he will deny that he did anything to offend you. Immediately, the entire situation becomes a sinful one. Not only do we need to lay aside the garments of our attainments, but we also need to be girded with a towel. This means that we must be bound, that we must lose our liberty. The feet were washed with water and also wiped with the towel with which the Lord was girded. In other words, the more we are willing to be bound for the sake of others, the more we shall be able to minister to others and wipe their feet. Otherwise, the more we are free, the more we shall damage others. Brothers, when we come together, we must not only lay aside our attainments, but we must also be bound and be willing to lose our liberty. We simply give up our liberty for the purpose of ministering something to our dear brothers and sisters. We must be willing to be girded and bound in order to minister something that wipes the brothers and sisters
4不但弟兄们需要洗脚，姊妹们也需要。原谅我说，姊妹们很容易受伤。然而，在召会生活中，我们不能彼此分开。在家庭生活中，作事最多的人就最脏；召会生活也是这样。你负的责任越多，你就沾来越多污秽，因为你必须与更多人接触。你越与人接触，你就变得越脏。保持清洁最好的方法，就是绝不接触人，就像保持你的手清洁最好的方法，就是不要摸甚么东西一样。有些人可能盼望在召会生活中成为带头的。按人说，你若是智慧的，就绝不要陷在带头的职任里，因为这非常困难，会叫你很容易变脏。你若是带头的，在召会生活中当长老的，你就难免要去摸某些情形，对某些人说话。人会不断来找你。我保证，来找你的人，没有一个是干净的。干净的人绝不会来，因为他们没有难处。无论谁来找你，总是有难处的。有时一位姊妹来了，不肯离开，直到她惹你生气了。有些姊妹一再带著难处来找你，不肯离开，直到你向她们生气为止。她们一离开，你就发觉你完全肮脏了。在你与她之间需要大洗一次脚。没有这样的洗脚，你们之间愉快的交通绝不能恢复。这就是为何一个地方召会，起初可能很快乐，但一段时期以后，有些人就变脏了。虽然他们仍旧来聚会，但是来得并不快乐，没有愉快的灵。也许他们会回想，某些弟兄或姊妹如何得罪了他们。也许他们想要强作欢颜，装作喜欢别人，但他们能有怎样的交通?他们需要洗脚，他们需要生命的服事。在彼此洗脚的事上，我们不需要说，『弟兄，我爱你。我要来替你洗脚。』洗脚需要大量的生命。我们需要生命，才能洗别人的脚。洗脚需要大量的生命来供应人，这是相当困难的事。请记得，洗脚是用水，不是用血。我们需要许多水，水就是那灵、活话、和内在的生命。我们需要满了生命的水。我们若满了生命的水，我们只要和他们在一起，不必想去洗他们的脚，结果就彼此洗脚了。当我们与别人在一起的时候，水就不知不觉的涌流了。当我们与别的圣徒在一起时，这水要一再的流过他，他的脚就被洗净了；在我们之间的污秽以及讨厌的气味就没有了，我们就会被带进愉快的交通中。我们何等需要这个！
4As the brothers need the foot-washing, so do the sisters. Sorry to say, the sisters are easily offended. Nevertheless, in the church life we cannot stay away from one another. In the family life the person who works the most gets the dirtiest. The same is true in the church life. The more responsibility you bear, the more dirt you collect, for the more people you must contact. The more you contact people, the more you will become dirty. The best way to keep yourself clean is never to contact anyone, just as the best way to keep your hands clean is not to touch anything with them. Some of you perhaps are expecting to become leaders in the church life. Humanly speaking, if you are wise, you will never be involved with the leadership, for that is a very difficult job and causes you to become dirty easily. As a leading one, an elder in the church life, you cannot avoid touching certain situations and speaking to certain people. People will come to you continually. Be assured that no one who comes to you is clean, for the clean ones will never come, because they do not have problems. Whoever comes to you is a person with a problem. Sometimes a sister will not leave you until she has caused you to be angry with her. Some sisters with problems will come to you again and again, not leaving you until they have caused you to be angry with them. Once they have left you, you find that you are completely dirty. Between you and her there is the need of a big foot - washing. Without such a foot - washing the pleasant fellowship between the two of you could never be restored. This is the reason why a local church may be very happy at the beginning, but after a period of time some in it may have become dirtied. Although they still come to the meetings, they do not come pleasantly, with a pleasant spirit. Perhaps they will recall how certain brothers or sisters have offended them. They may attempt to smile and pretend to like others, but what kind of fellowship could they have? They need the foot-washing. They need the ministry of life. In washing one another’s feet, we do not need to say, “Brother, I love you. I am going to wash your feet.” Foot-washing needs a great deal of life. We need life in order to wash others’ feet. Foot-washing requires much life to be ministered to others. This is quite difficult. Remember, foot-washing is by water, not by blood. We need much water. Water is the Spirit, the living Word, and the inner life. We need to be full of the life-water. If we are full of the life-water, we shall wash one another’s feet simply by being with them, without having any intention of washing their feet. When we are with others, the water just flows. It even flows unconsciously. As we are with another saint, the water will flow over him again and again, and his feet will be washed. The dirt and the unpleasant smell between us will be gone. We shall be brought into pleasant fellowship. How we need this!
5我再说，每当我们聚在一起，我们需要脱下我们的外衣。不要保留你的标准，你的地位，不要认为你比别人水平高。这种想法必须摆在一边。要运用活水，使活水涌流，别人的脚就要被洗净了。我们曾看过，约翰福音完全是一卷生命的书，其中每件事都与生命有关。洗脚是一件生命的事。这不仅是外在的实行，如一些基督教团体，在每次的『神圣交通礼拜』中所实行的。不过，主若有这样的带领，有时我们也许会实在的彼此洗脚。一九五二年在台北，四位长老一个晚上洗了至少五百位弟兄的脚。那实在摸著了弟兄们的心和弟兄们的灵。这是真实的帮助。然而，我们不需要当作律法或形式来作。这卷福音的每件事都是生命的事。我们必须实行生命到一个地步，在我们中间满了生命的水来彼此洗脚。有些圣徒满有活水，当你来与他们坐上半小时，你的脚就被洗净了。他们也许并未谈到你的脏脚，甚至也没有摸洗脚的事，但你若留在他们面前半小时，你的脚就被洗净了。半小时后，你就觉得与主十分接近，你与主的交通就会亲密且愉快。你与别人的交通也会很甜美。在我们中间，需要许多人都满有生命的水，能洗别人的脚。
5I say again that whenever we come together we need to lay aside our garments. Do not keep your standard, your position. Do not consider yourself on a higher level than others. This consideration must be laid aside. Exercise the living water and cause it to flow, and others’ feet will be washed. We have seen that the Gospel of John is altogether a book of life and that everything in it is related to life. foot-washing is a matter of life. It is not merely a physical practice that is carried out, as in some Christian groups, at every Holy Communion service. However, if the Lord so leads we may occasionally wash one another’s feet physically. In 1952 in Taipei the four elders one night washed the feet of at least five hundred brothers. That really touched their heart and their spirit. It was a real help. Nevertheless, we need not do this in a legal, formal way. Everything in this Gospel is a matter of life, and we must practice life to such an extent that among us we have an abundance of the water of life to wash one another’s feet. Some saints are full of the living water. When you come and sit with them for half an hour, your feet are washed. They may not talk to you about your dirty feet or even touch the matter of foot-washing, but if you stay in their presence for half an hour, your feet are washed. After that half-hour you will be so close to the Lord. Your fellowship with Him will be intimate and pleasant. Also, your fellowship with others will be sweet. Among us we need many that are full of the water of life who can wash the feet of others
二 藉著彼此相爱
B. By Loving One Another
6我们每个人都必须学习如何爱弟兄姊妹，给他们属灵洗脚的服事。有时我来看你，你可以表示对我的爱，藉此给我某种的洗脚。我也必须向你表示同样的爱，也给你一些洗脚的服事，洗净你属地接触的污秽。我们必须这样作，不然我们之间的交通就不可能维持。只有在爱中这样给人洗脚的时候，彼此之间的交通才可能维持。许多时候，我从好些弟兄姊妹身上享受到属灵的洗脚。我无法告诉你，我经历了多少次这样的洗脚。二十五年多以前，我与倪柝声弟兄以及别的带头同工一同作工，我从他们接受了极多这种洗脚的帮助。每次与他们接触的时候，我就觉得某种的洗脚，洗净我属地接触的污秽。他们爱我，也藉著给我属灵的洗脚，向我表示他们对我的爱，洗净我属地接触的污秽。
6Each of us must learn how to love the brothers and sisters by ministering the spiritual foot-washing to them. Sometimes when I come to visit you, you can minister some sort of foot-washing to me by showing your love toward me, and I have to show the same love toward you so that some foot-washing will be ministered to you to cleanse you from the earthly touch. We must do this, otherwise the fellowship between us could not be maintained. Fellowship can be maintained between one another only when love ministers such a foot-washing. Many times I have enjoyed the spiritual foot-washing from quite a number of brothers and sisters. It is impossible to tell you how many times I have experienced this kind of foot-washing. More than twenty-five years ago when I was working with the leading co-workers such as Brother Watchman Nee and others, I received much help by this kind of foot- washing from them. Every time I contacted them, I sensed some sort of foot-washing to keep me clean from the earthly touch. They loved me and showed their love to me by ministering the spiritual foot-washing to cleanse me from the earthly touch
7我们若实行这些原则，就会看见这些原则是何等实在。你可以从此刻起，就将这些原则应用在你的家庭生活和召会生活中。立刻你能对弟兄姊妹有某种洗脚和擦拭的服事。这是我们所需要的。这是真正的爱，使我们中间的交通得以维持。藉著这种洗脚和擦拭，属灵的交通就能维持召会的生活。缺了这个，召会生活就不能维持，因为交通会被属地的接触所破坏。我们需要属灵的洗脚，好洗净我们属地接触的污秽，并且保守我们属灵的交通在美好的情况中。这样才可能实现召会生活。召会生活若要保持新鲜、愉快、活泼，我们就不断需要这种洗脚。每个地方召会都需要这个。主一直非常恩待美国西岸的众召会。虽然我们没有采用『洗脚』的说法，但主藉著生命活水的洗脚，一直保守这里的召会生活新鲜。我们没有说到这事，也没有使用这辞，却一直有生命水中洗脚的实际。所以我们能夸耀祂的恩典说，这里的众召会常是新的、新鲜的、活泼的。在圣徒中间的交通没有阻挠。每个召会都需要为这事祷告，然后召会就会蒙保守在新样和新鲜里。主来将神带进我们里面，主去将我们带进神里面；如今神圣的灵与我们人的灵有了真正的相调。人性与神性相调，神性与人性相调，这就是召会，就是基督的身体。在基督徒的灵里，他们是属天、永远、属灵的；但在他们物质的身体里，他们仍在这地上，也仍在旧造里。因此他们要洗净一切属地的接触，好叫身体的交通以及与主的交通能以维持。这个交通是藉著洗脚维持的。这极其重要，因为缺了这个，与主的交通以及圣徒彼此的交通绝不能维持。缺了这个，召会生活也无法实现。事实上，召会生活的实际也没有了。因此，一面的确需要主自己天天洗脚，另一面也需要众圣徒彼此洗脚。这样，我们就能维持美好的交通，藉此我们就有真正的召会生活。
7By putting these principles into practice, we shall see how real they are. You can simply apply them in your home life and in your church life from this very hour. Immediately, you will then minister some sort of foot- washing and wiping to your brothers and sisters. This is what we need. This is the real love that maintains the fellowship among us. It is by this kind of foot-washing and wiping that the spiritual fellowship can maintain the church life. Without it, the church life cannot be maintained, because the fellowship will have been damaged by the earthly touch. We need the spiritual foot-washing to cleanse us from the earthly touch and to keep our spiritual fellowship in a good condition. Then it is possible to realize the church life. If the church life is to be kept fresh, new, pleasant, and living, we continually need this foot-washing. Every local church needs this. In the churches on the West Coast, the Lord has been very gracious to us. Although we have not used the term foot-washing, the Lord has continually kept the church life here fresh and new by the foot-washing with the living water of life. We do not talk about it and we do not use this term, but there has been the reality of foot-washing in the water of life constantly. So, we can boast of His grace that the churches here are ever new, ever fresh, and ever living. In the matter of fellowship, there is no frustration among the saints. Every church needs to pray for this. Then the church will be preserved in newness and freshness. The Lord came to bring God into us and He went to bring us into God. Now there is the real mingling of the divine Spirit with our human spirit. Humanity is mingled with divinity, and divinity is mingled with humanity. This is the church, the Body of Christ. In their spirit the Christians are heavenly, eternal, and spiritual, but in their physical body they are still on this earth and in the old creation. Hence, there is the need for them to be kept clean from all the earthly touch in order that the fellowship of the Body and the fellowship with the Lord might be maintained. This fellowship is maintained by foot-washing. Foot- washing is very, very important because the fellowship with the Lord and with one another can never be maintained without it. Without it, the church life cannot be realized. In fact, the reality of the church life would be gone. Therefore, the daily foot-washing definitely needs to be exercised by the Lord Himself on the one hand and by all the saints on the other. Then we shall be able to maintain an excellent fellowship with which we shall have the real church life.
8参被洗涤，却不在交通里虽然洗脚是为著生命里的交通，在犹大身上却不是这样。他被洗了，但是18-他从未在交通中，因为他是假冒的。（约十三18～31上。）在主洗门徒的脚之先，魔鬼已将出卖主的意思放在犹大心里，（约十三2，）等到主洗过他们的脚以后，撒但甚至进入他里面。（约十三27。）以后犹大就离开了，那时候是夜间了。（约十三30。）他必定已进入了他永世的黑夜。从起初他就不在与主的交通里；不管他被洗了多少次，也绝不能在这交通里。（约十三10～11。）这警告我们，真正的洗脚只为著一班真正与主交通的人。
8III. WASHED BUT NOT IN THE FELLOWSHIP Though the foot-washing is for fellowship in life, it was not so with Judas. He was washed, but he was never in the fellowship, because he was a false one (vv. 31a). Before the Lord washed the disciples’ feet, the devil had already put into Judas’she art that he should betray the Lord (v. 2). After the Lord’s washing, Satan even entered into him (v. 27). After that, Judas left, and it was night (v. 30). He surely had entered into the dark night for his eternity. From the very beginning, he was not in the fellowship with the Lord and he could never have been in it regardless of how much he was washed (vv. 10-11). This warns us that the real foot-washing is only for the people who are genuinely in the fellowship with the Lord.
肆 被洗涤，且愿留在
IV. WASHED AND WILLING TO REMAIN
交通里，郤失败了
IN THE FELLOWSHIP, BUT FAILING
一 人子得了荣耀
A. The Son of Man Being Glorified
9洗脚之后，主就要受死了。因此祂说，『如今人子得了荣耀。』（约十三。）对祂而言，得荣耀就是藉著死与复活，叫祂神圣的元素从祂的人性里得著释放。祂的死裂开了祂人性的体壳，并且释放了祂神圣的生命。这就是祂得了荣耀的意思。
9After the foot-washing, the Lord was about to die. So He said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified” (v. 31). For Him to be glorified was to have His divine element 31 released from within His humanity through death and resurrection. His death broke the shell of His humanity and released His divine life. This is what it meant for Him to be glorified.
二 神在子身上得了荣耀
B. God Being Glorified in the Son
10这里主也说，『神在人子身上也得了荣耀。』（约十三31。）这就是说，父神在子的得荣里得了荣耀，也就是说，父神圣的元素在子里得了释放。主在祂的死与复活里所释放的，乃是父神神圣生命的元素。父神这样在子身上得了荣耀，祂也要在祂自己身上荣耀子，并且要快快的荣耀子。（约十三32。）
10Here the Lord also said, “God is glorified in Him” (v. 31). This means that God the Father was to be glorified in the Son’s glorification, that is, He had His divine element released in the Son. What the Lord released in His death and resurrection was the divine life-element of God the Father. God the Father was to be glorified in the Son in this way, and He would also glorify the Son in Himself and He would do it immediately (v. 32
三 那时彼得不能在主的苦难中跟从主
C. Peter Being Unable to Follow the Lord in His Suffering at That Time
11那时，主豫备好要去十字架受死，但祂的门徒尚未装备好，在祂的苦难中跟从祂。因此主告诉彼得说，那时他不能跟从祂，（约十三36～37，）因为彼得还未接受祂这复活的生命。但主藉著复活，将祂自己这复活的生命分赐到彼得里面以后，彼得就要跟从祂。（约十三36，二一18～19。）
11At that time, the Lord was ready to suffer the death of the cross, but His disciples were not yet equipped to follow Him in His suffering. So the Lord told Peter that he could not follow Him then (vv. 36-37), because Peter had not yet received Him as the resurrection life. But Peter would follow Him (v. 36; 21:18-19) after He imparted Himself into him as resurrection life through His resurrection.
四 彼得将要失败
D. Peter Being about to Fail
12彼得真正在与主的交通里，主的洗涤也的确保守他在这交通里。他愿意留在这与主的交通里，但主受审时，他三次否认主而失败了。彼得渴望留在交通里，但他没有力量这样作，因为在主复活以前，祂复活的生命还未分赐到他里面。要留在主的交通里，并且藉洗脚得维持，就需要复活生命的力量。我们绝不能凭天然的人作到。
12Peter was in the genuine fellowship with the Lord, and the Lord’s washing did keep him in this fellowship. He was willing to remain in this fellowship with the Lord, but he failed by denying the Lord three times when the Lord was being tried. Peter had the desire to remain in the fellowship, but he did not have the strength to do it, because, before the Lord’s resurrection, His resurrection life had not been imparted into him. To remain in the fellowship of the Lord maintained by the foot-washing requires the strength of resurrection life. We can never do it by our natural man