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约翰福音生命读经 · 第45篇

生命经过死而复活的过程－为著繁增（四）

Life Processed for Multiplication (4
1本篇信息是上篇信息的续篇。
1This message is the continuation of the last one
四 为寻求者所发现
D. Discovered by the Seeking Ones
2主的复活已经成就了，但门徒还需要去寻找，才能发现。主耶稣的复活是爱祂的寻求者所发现的。约翰二十章给我们看见，怎样的人会领悟主的复活，以及主会向怎样的人揭示祂复活的景象。我们怎样才能得到主复活的启示?主的复活在这宇宙中成就了，这是何等奇妙且奥秘！但我们如何才能明白这事？我们如何才能得著这事的启示?只有藉著爱主并且寻求主。主复活的事实已经成就了，但必须被发现，被看见。在抹大拉的马利亚来到坟墓以前，生命里的复活在事实上已经成就了；但马利亚必须藉著爱主并寻求主才能发现。这立下一个原则。今天基督复活是已成就的事实，但许多人还没有看见这事。他们从未到达发现这事的地步。你已经发现基督复活的事实么?你已经得到启示或异象，看见主已经复活了么?我知道你有主复活的知识、道理和故事，但你曾否在灵里发现复活的事实?我们若要有这样的发现，首先必须爱主并寻求主。当你来到聚会中，为何没有甚么可供应或见证?只因为你没有发现，缺少启示。看看马利亚，她发现之后怎么作?她跑到门徒那里，告诉他们新事。我确信，你若早晨遇见主，对祂有新发现，你必会来到睌上的聚会中，向我们倾吐。属灵的发现，属灵的启示和属灵的异象，十分有赖于寻求主。你若不寻求主，就很难分享祂。抹大拉的马利亚没有知识。她绝对在生命中，全然不在知识树里。她甚么都不知道。依人看来，她来到坟墓那里，特别是一大清早就来了，真是太傻了。然而，她是最先发现主复活这事实的人。
2Although the Lord’s resurrection had been accomplished, the discovery of it required the seeking of His disciples. The discovery of His resurrection was made by the loving seekers of the Lord Jesus. John chapter twenty shows the kind of person who will realize the Lord’s resurrection, the kind of person to whom the vision of His resurrection can be disclosed. How can we have the revelation of the Lord’s resurrection? There is such a wonderful and mysterious fact as the Lord’s resurrection accomplished in this universe. But how can we know it? How can it be revealed to us? How can we have this vision? Only by loving the Lord and seeking Him. The fact of the Lord’s resurrection has been accomplished, but it must be discovered and seen. Before Mary the Magdalene came to the tomb, the resurrection in life had in fact been accomplished. But Mary had to discover it by loving and seeking the Lord. This lays down a principle. Today the resurrection of Christ is an accomplished fact, yet so many people have not seen it. They have never come to the point where they have discovered it. Have you discovered the fact of Christ’s resurrection? Have you received the revelation or vision that the Lord has been resurrected? I know you have the knowledge, the doctrine, and the story of His resurrection, but have you discovered the fact of it in the spirit? If we would make such a discovery, we must first love the Lord and seek Him. Why is it that when you come to a meeting you have nothing to minister or to testify about? It is simply because you have not made the discovery and lack the revelation. Look at Mary. What did she do after she made this discovery? She ran to the disciples to tell them something new. I am sure that when you meet the Lord in the morning and make a new discovery about Him, you will surely come to the evening meeting and burst out with something to tell us. The spiritual discovery, the spiritual revelation, the spiritual vision, depends very much upon seeking the Lord. If you do not seek Him, it will be rather difficult for you to share anything of the Lord. Mary the Magdalene had no knowledge. She was absolutely in life and was altogether not in the tree of knowledge. She did not know anything. In a human sense, it was foolish for her to come to the tomb and especially to come early in the morning. Nevertheless, she was the first to discover the fact of the Lord’s resurrection.
3姊妹们，你们可能很爱主，并且可能最先看见主复活的事实；但你们像马利亚一样，仍然需要弟兄们帮助。马利亚立刻跑到两位带头的弟兄（彼得和约翰）那里，将她的发现告诉他们。这是很有趣的，当马利亚到门徒那里，只有两个有反应，跑到坟墓那里。其余的人为甚么没有去?可能一面因为他们没有寻求，另一面因为他们懒惰。他们也许太贪睡了。只有彼得和约翰跑到坟墓那里，去看马利亚所发现的。约翰或许比彼得年轻，跑得比彼得快，先到达坟墓；但不知甚么缘故，他没有进去。彼得经验比较丰富，第一个进入坟墓。当这两位弟兄看见细麻布和卷得整整齐齐的裹头巾，留在坟墓里，他们就清楚主必已从死人中复活。马利亚先前对他们说，『有人把主从坟墓里取了去，我们不知道他们把祂放在那里。』（约二十2。）这两位弟兄比这位傻姊妹清楚多了。彼得可能说，『我同情我的姊妹，不责怪她。我现在知道主不是被取去的。且看那些裹尸布。祂必定从坟墓走出去了。』这给我们看见一幅如何寻求主的图画。首先去看坟墓的人是马利亚，首先进入坟墓的人是彼得。弟兄们到底是弟兄们，他们心思比较清晰，比姊妹们容易相信事实。那两位弟兄看见了空墓、细麻布和裹头巾，就很清楚主必定复活了。他们虽然看见了事实，领悟且客观的相信了，但他们没有主观的经历。在他们满意于客观的事实后，便离开了坟墓，但那姊妹马利亚仍然逗留著，因为她还在等候、观看并盼望。她额外的寻找，使她得著了对主复活的经历。主既向她启示了自己，她就不仅得著了事实，也得著了经历。她是第一个经历复活之主的人。我们在这里看到一幅图画，揭示与主有关的两面－事实和经历。你可能相信事实，却没有经历。彼得和约翰领悟并相信事实，但是缺乏对主复活的经历。马利亚既有事实，又有经历。譬如，你也许知道主钉十字架的事实，却没有经历十字架。同样的原则，你也许有主复活的事实，却没有经历复活的主。我们需要事实，也需要经历。马利亚首先看见事实的启示，但光有事实她不满意。她进一步得著了对复活之主的经历。
3Sisters, you may love the Lord very much and might be the first to see the fact of His resurrection, but, like Mary, you still need the brothers to help you. Mary immediately ran to the two leading brothers, Peter and John, and told them of her discovery. It is interesting to note that when Mary went to the disciples, only two responded and went to the tomb. Why did the others not go? Possibly because, on the one hand, they were not seeking, and, on the other hand, they were lazy. They probably loved their bed. Only Peter and John ran to the tomb to see what Mary had discovered. John, who might have been younger than Peter, outran Peter and arrived at the tomb first, but, for some reason, he did not go in. Peter, who had more experience, was the first to enter into the tomb. When the two brothers saw the linen cloths and the napkin folded and left in a good order in the tomb, they were clear that the Lord must have resurrected from the dead. They were much clearer than their foolish sister who had said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him” (20:2). Peter might have said, “I sympathize with my foolish sister and do not blame her. But now I realize that the Lord was not taken away. Look at the wrappings. He has certainly walked out of the tomb.” This shows us a picture of how to seek the Lord. The first one who saw the tomb was Mary, and the first person who entered into the tomb was Peter. Here the brothers are really the brothers because they are clearer in the mind and find it easier to believe the fact than the sisters do. The two brothers saw the empty tomb, the linen cloths, and the napkin, and were very clear that the Lord must have been resurrected. Although they saw the fact, realized it, and believed in it objectively, they did not have the experience subjectively. After being satisfied with the objective fact, they left the tomb. However, Mary, the sister, lingered, for she was still waiting, looking, and expecting. It was her additional seeking that gained the experience of the Lord’s resurrection. Since the Lord revealed Himself to her, she not only received the fact but also the experience. She was the first to experience the resurrected Lord. Here we see a picture disclosing the two sides related to the Lord — the fact and the experience. You may believe in the fact but not have the experience. Peter and John realized and believed in the fact, but they lacked the experience of the Lord’s resurrection. Mary had both the fact and the experience. For example, you may have the fact of the Lord’s crucifixion but fail to experience the cross. In the same principle, you may have the fact of the Lord’s resurrection but fail to experience the resurrected Lord. We need both the fact and the experience. Mary firstly saw the revelation of the fact, but she was not satisfied merely with the fact. She went further and received the experience of the resurrected Lord.
4通常弟兄们都很客观，姊妹们都很主观。按照圣经的原则，男人总是代表客观的真理，而女人总是代表主观的经历。举例说：亚伯拉罕代表信的道理或信的真理，而撒拉代表顺从的经历。信与真理有关，是客观的；顺从与经历有关，是主观的。照样，彼得和约翰客观的相信了主复活的事实，马利亚却主观的经历了这事实。今天许多基督徒从未看见主复活的事实。有些人确实有主复活的启示，但他们只有启示，没有经历。在召会生活中，弟兄们总是比姊妹们清楚。他们在真理和事实上相当清楚，但他们不很在意经历。彼得或许对约翰说，『主无疑已经从死人中复活了。我们不要在这里浪费时间。我们回去罢！』这两位带头的弟兄虽然回去了，马利亚那傻姊妹却仍在那里哭泣。马利亚也许说，『谁把主取去了?我要知道祂如今在那里！』但那两位弟兄不能帮助她。在召会生活中，弟兄们往往无法帮助姊妹。他们认为她们很傻，就把她们留在原处，自己回家去休息了。他们对罗马六章很清楚，看见且相信了事实。为甚么姊妹们必须流泪祷告浪费时间?这是每个地方召会的真实光景。所有带头的弟兄都是清楚的人，所有的姊妹却都是哭泣的人。但最终，得著经历的却是傻的、哭泣的人。她们不在意真理、事实、甚至信心；她们只在意真正摸著活的主，单单宣告说，『我不在意裹尸布，我只在意主。我要和祂在一起，我要摸著祂。你们告诉我，你们将祂放在那里?』在祷告聚会中，姊妹们常常这样祷告。在过去的四十年中，这些又傻又哭的祷告多次惹烦了我。但我们弟兄们必须学习不要责怪或责备姊妹们，我们必须欣赏这事实，我们有这么多傻的、哭的、寻求的姊妹，因为她们是首先对主复活有真正经历的人。
4As a rule, the brothers are usually very objective and the sisters very subjective. According to the Scriptural principle, the man always represents the objective truth while the woman always represents the subjective experience. As an illustration, Abraham represents the doctrine of faith or the truth of faith, but Sarah represents the experience of obedience. Faith is related to truth and is objective; obedience is related to experience and is subjective. Likewise, Peter and John believed in the fact of the Lord’s resurrection objectively, but Mary experienced it subjectively. Many Christians today have never seen the fact of the Lord’s resurrection. While a few definitely have the revelation of the Lord’s resurrection, they only have the revelation, not the experience. In the church life the brothers are always more clear than the sisters. They are clear in the truth and in the fact, but they do not care much for experience. Perhaps Peter said to John, “Undoubtedly the Lord has resurrected from the dead. Let’s not waste time staying here. Let’s go back.” Although the two leading brothers went back, Mary, the foolish sister, remained, weeping. Mary might have said, “Who took the Lord away? I want to know where He is now.” But the two brothers could not help her. Many times in the church life the brothers cannot help the sisters. Thinking them to be foolish, we leave them where they are and go back home to rest. We are clear about Romans 6, having seen and believed the fact. Why must the sisters pray with tears and waste time? This is the real situation in every local church. All the leading brothers are the clear ones, and all the sisters are the weeping ones. Eventually, however, it is the foolish, weeping ones who have the experience. They do not care for the truth, the facts, or even for the faith. They only care for a real touch with the living Lord, declaring, “I don’t care about the wrapping. I only care for Him. I want to be with Him and touch Him. Tell me where you have put Him.” The sisters often pray this way in the prayer meeting. During the past forty years, I have been offended many times by these foolish, weeping prayers. But we brothers must learn not to blame or rebuke the sisters. We must appreciate the fact that we have so many foolish, weeping, seeking sisters, for they are the first to have the real experience of the Lord’s resurrection.
5主耶稣自己可能无意要遇见祂的门徒。祂是复活的初熟果子，该趁著新鲜的时候将自己献给父。祂不该在父以外先遇见任何人。但由于那姊妹的恳切和寻求的心，主耶稣不能避开不见她。于是，祂向她显现。当她想要摸祂时，主似乎说，『不行。你只能看我，不要摸我。我在复活里的新鲜必须是为著父的。我将复活的新鲜献给父以后，就要回到你们这里。那就是你们享受我复活的时候。』我们弟兄必须从姊妹学功课。在许多事例中，我们弟兄只凭信心持守事实，我们不像姊妹那样得著经历。我们若要更多看见主，就必须更多和祂交通。马利亚看见主，是最好的晨更。在这次晨更里，她遇见了主，主也遇见了她；她向主祷告，主也对她说话；她与主交通，主也将祂的话和启示赐给她。我们将看见，主向她启示：从那时起，门徒就成了祂的弟兄。祂还告诉她：祂要到父那里去，并且父不仅是祂的父和祂的神，也是他们的父和他们的神。这启示是由马利亚带给弟兄们的。在那天早上，马利亚看见了坟墓、两位天使和主。她起初没有认出主来，但最终主叫她的名字，她就认出祂来了。主何时来到马利亚跟前?坟墓既是空的，主就不在那里；祂既未升到天上，祂也就不在天上。因此，主在离开坟墓以后，升到天上之前，到那里去了?我相信主就在坟墓附近，但不在坟墓里面。祂虽在坟墓附近，彼得、约翰和马利亚起初却没有看见祂。至终，主将自己启示给马利亚；但即使在祂这样作以前，祂已经在那里了。主一直在那里，马利亚却不知道，以为祂被人取去了。我相信甚至当彼得和约翰在那里时，主也在那里。他们没有认出祂来，祂也没有将自己向他们启示。你们有没有想到，主此刻就在我们这里?只是我们不晓得，主也没有向我们启示。
5Possibly the Lord Jesus Himself did not intend to meet any of His disciples. Being the firstfruit of resurrection, He should be presented to the Father in His newness and freshness. He should not firstly have been met by anyone other than the Father. But due to the earnestness and to the seeking heart of this sister, the Lord Jesus could not stay away from her. Thus, He appeared to her. When she tried her best to touch Him, the Lord seemed to say, “No, I am just for you to look at. Do not touch Me. My freshness in resurrection must be for the Father. After I present the freshness of My resurrection to My Father, I’ll come back to you. That will be the time for you to enjoy My resurrection.” We brothers must learn the lesson of the sisters. In many instances, we brothers just hold the facts with faith, but we do not have the experiences like the sisters do. If we want to see something more of the Lord, we must have more fellowship with Him. Mary’s seeing the Lord was the best morning watch. In this morning watch, she met the Lord and the Lord met her; she prayed to the Lord and the Lord spoke to her; she fellowshipped with the Lord and the Lord gave His word and His revelation to her. As we shall see, the Lord revealed to her that, from then on, the disciples were His brothers. He also told her that He was going to the Father and that the Father was not only His Father and His God but also their Father and their God. This revelation was brought by Mary to the brothers. On that morning, Mary saw the tomb, the two angels, and the Lord. At first, she did not recognize the Lord, but eventually, after the Lord had called her by name, she did recognize Him. When did the Lord come to Mary? Since the tomb was empty, the Lord was not there. Since He had not yet ascended into heaven, He was not there either. Therefore, after He left the tomb and before He went to heaven, where was the Lord? I believe that the Lord was near the tomb but not in it. Although He was near the tomb, Peter, John, and Mary did not see Him at first. Eventually, the Lord revealed Himself to Mary, but even before He did so, He was already there. The Lord was present the whole time, but Mary did not know it. She thought that He had been taken away by someone. Even when Peter and John were there, I believe that the Lord was also there. They simply did not recognize Him, and the Lord did not reveal Himself to them. Do you realize that at this very moment the Lord is here, but we do not realize it and it has not been revealed?
6在这章里，相当明显的，门徒有三类。马利亚代表第一类，彼得和约翰代表第二类，懒惰的人代表第三类。懒惰的门徒没有主复活的启示，也没有发现主的复活。彼得和约翰有发现和启示，却没有经历。马利亚有发现，有启示，还有经历。今天基督徒的情形和这段记载所显示的一样。这段记载启示基督复活这已成就的事实，但要发现祂的复活，仍需我们的寻求；要经历祂的复活，还要进一步的寻求。换句话说，启示在于我们的寻求，经历在于我们进一步的寻求。我们必须先寻求主，才能发现祂的复活；必须更多寻求主，才能经历祂的复活。
6In this chapter it is quite evident that there are three kinds of disciples. The first kind is represented by Mary, the second by Peter and John, and the third by the lazy ones. The lazy disciples had no revelation or discovery of the Lord’s resurrection. Peter and John had the discovery and the revelation but not the experience. Mary had the discovery, the revelation, and the experience. What is shown in this record is also true of Christians today. This record reveals the accomplished fact of Christ’s resurrection, but the discovery of His resurrection still requires our seeking, and the experience of His resurrection demands even further seeking. In other words, the revelation depends upon our seeking, and the experience depends upon our further seeking. We must first seek the Lord before we can discover His resurrection, and we must seek the Lord even more before we can experience His resurrection
五 为神差来的天使所见证
E. Testified to by the Angels Sent by God
7基督的复活不只为寻求的人发现，且为神差来的天使所见证。（约二十11～13。）当马利亚往坟墓里看时，『就见两个天使，身穿白衣，在安放耶稣身体的地方坐著，一个在头，一个在脚。』（约二十12。）这两个天使就像遮罪盖上的基路伯，注视观看著荣耀的复活之主，如何完成脱离死之威胁的奇妙工作。这两个观看的天使，成了主耶稣复活最有力的见证人。细麻布和裹头巾是来自人一面的见证，天使是来自神一面的见证。这些都被一个寻求主的姊妹所看见。
7The resurrection of Christ was not only discovered by the seeking ones but also testified to by the angels sent from God (20:11-13). When Mary looked into the tomb, she saw “two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain” (20:12). These two angels were like the cherubim on the propitiation cover, watching and observing how the glorious Lord, who is the resurrection, carried out the wonderful task of walking away from the threatening of death. These two observing angels became the strongest witness that the Lord Jesus had resurrected. As the linen cloths and the napkin were the testimony from man’ss i de, the angels were the testimony from God’ss i de. All these were seen only by a sister who sought the Lord
六 产生许多弟兄
F. Bringing Forth Many “Brothers
8在二十章十七节，主耶稣对马利亚说，『不要摸我，因我还没有升到父那里；你往我弟兄那里去，告诉他们说，我要升到我的父，也是你们的父那里，到我的神，也是你们的神那里。』在这节里，主说到祂要升到父那里去。主在复活那天，升到父那里去。这是隐密的升天，是十六章七节主要去的豫言终极的应验，比祂在门徒跟前公开的升天（徒一9～11）早四十天。在复活那天清晨，祂升到天上去满足父，晚上又回到门徒那里。（约二十19。）祂复活的新鲜必须先给父享受，正如在豫表上，初熟的庄稼要先献给神。
8In 20:17 the Lord Jesus said to Mary, “Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.” In this verse the Lord refers to His ascending to the Father. On the day of His resurrection, the Lord ascended to the Father. This was a secret ascension, the ultimate fulfillment of the going predicted in 16:7, forty days prior to His public ascension before the eyes of His disciples (Acts 1:9-11). On the day of resurrection, early in the morning, He ascended to satisfy the Father, and late in the evening He returned to the disciples (20:19). The freshness of His resurrection must first be for the Father’s enjoyment, as the firstfruit of the harvest was, in type, brought first to God
9马利亚在她的经历里，几乎经历了父神在不久后所经历到的。主耶稣甚至在升天显给父看以前，就向马利亚显现了。马利亚比父神更早看见复活的主。那时候，马利亚想要摸主，但主不让她摸。她见到主已经彀了。我们看见，主不让她摸，因为祂还未升到父那里。祂必须先将自己献给父，先接触父。当天晚上祂来到门徒那里，就叫他们摸祂。（路二四39。）藉著这些事件我们知道，马利亚是最先看见复活之主的人。主耶稣也对马利亚说，『你往我弟兄那里去。』这里我们来到约翰福音里最重要的一点，没有很多基督徒清楚看见这点。在主复活以前，主从未称祂的门徒为『弟兄。』已往祂所用最亲密的称呼是『朋友。』在十五章十四、十五节祂说，『你们若遵行我所吩咐你们的，就是我的朋友了。以后我不再称你们为奴仆，因为奴仆不知道主人所作的事；我乃称你们为朋友，因我从我父所听见的，都已经告诉你们了。』但如今在祂复活以后，祂的『朋友』成了祂的『弟兄。』藉著祂的复活，祂的门徒就因神的生命得了重生，（彼前一3，）这生命是藉祂分赐生命的死释放出来，如十二章二十四节所指明的。在祂的复活里，祂所有的门徒都得了重生。彼前一章三节说，藉耶稣基督从死人中复活，重生了我们。主藉著复活，将成为灵的自己分赐到祂所有的门徒里面。他们因著接受了祂的生命，就都重生成了祂的弟兄。要记得主在十字架上要祂的母亲以祂的门徒约翰为自己的儿子，又吩咐祂的门徒以她为自己的母亲。（约十九26～27。）在主复活那天，主在十字架上的话应验了。从那时起，约翰成了主的弟兄，因此，主的母亲就成了约翰的母亲。
9In her experience, Mary nearly experienced what God the Father experienced shortly thereafter. The Lord Jesus revealed Himself to Mary even earlier than He did to the Father when He ascended into heaven. Mary saw the resurrected Lord earlier than God the Father did. At that time, Mary was trying to touch the Lord, but He forbade her. It was sufficient for her to see Him. As we have seen, the Lord prevented her from touching Him because He had not yet ascended to the Father. He had to present Himself to the Father and contact Him first. When He came to the disciples in the evening of the same day, He asked them to touch Him (Luke 24:39). By these incidents we can realize that Mary was the first one to see the resurrected Lord. The Lord Jesus also told Mary, “Go to My brothers.” Here we come to one of the greatest points in the Gospel of John, a point which not many Christians have seen clearly. Prior to His resurrection, the Lord never called His disciples “brothers.” The most intimate term He used before that time was “friends.” In 15:14 and 15 He said, “You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his lord is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” But now, after His resurrection, His “friends” have become His “brothers.” Through His resurrection, His disciples have been regenerated (1 Pet. 1:3) with the divine life released by His life-imparting death, as indicated in 12:24. All His disciples were regenerated in His resurrection. First Peter 1:3 says that we were regenerated through Christ’s resurrection. It was through His resurrection that the Lord imparted Himself as the Spirit into all His disciples. By receiving His life, they were all reborn, regenerated, and became His brothers. Remember that on the cross the Lord told His mother to take His disciple John as her son, and that He told His disciple to take her as his mother (19:26-27). On the day of His resurrection, the Lord’sword on the cross was fulfilled. At that time, John became a brother to the Lord; hence, the Lord’s mother became his mother
10藉著基督的复活，门徒成了主的弟兄，因为他们现在与主同有一样的生命。主藉著祂的复活使门徒得著重生，因此他们不再仅仅是门徒和朋友，也是祂的弟兄。主是那一粒麦子落在地里死了，又在复活里长出来，结出许多子粒，好产生一个饼，就是祂的身体。（林前十17。）在主死以前，祂是惟一、独一的子粒；但在主复活以后，这惟一、独一的子粒就成了许多子粒。这就是生命藉著基督的死与复活而繁增。
10By the resurrection of Christ, the disciples became the brothers of the Lord because they now had the same life as the Lord. The Lord regenerated them by His resurrection, and thus they were no longer merely disciples and friends but also His brothers. The Lord was the one grain of wheat that fell into the ground and died and grew up in resurrection to bring forth many grains for the producing of the loaf which is His Body (1 Cor. 10:17). Before His death, He was only one, unique grain. But after His resurrection that one, unique grain became the many grains. This is the multiplication of life through the death and resurrection of Christ.
11神的独生子在祂的复活里，成了许多弟兄中的长子。（罗八29。）这『许多弟兄』就是藉祂的复活，因神的生命得了重生的人，这生命是藉祂分赐生命的死所释放出来的。藉著祂的复活，父神圣的生命分赐到我们里面。因此，我们都成了神的儿子。藉此，神独一的儿子使成了许多弟兄中的长子。所以主没有对马利亚说，『你往我朋友那里去，』乃是说，『你往我弟兄那里去。』基督是父的独生子，在祂复活以前，是父个人的彰显。现今藉著祂的死与复活，父个人的彰显已成为父神在子里团体的彰显。基督的许多弟兄，就是父的许多儿子，乃是召会，（来二10～12，）在子里作父神团体的彰显。这是神终极的心意。所以那许多弟兄是父生命的繁殖，也是子在神圣生命里的扩增。因此，在主的复活里，神永远的定旨得以完成。
11In His resurrection, the only begotten Son became “the Firstborn among many brothers” (Rom. 8:29). The “many brothers” are those who have been regenerated through His resurrection with the divine life released by His life-imparting death. Through His resurrection, the divine life of the Father has been imparted into us. Thus, we all have become sons of God. In this way the unique Son of God has become the “Firstborn among many brothers.” Therefore, the Lord did not tell Mary, “Go to My friends”; He said, “Go to My brothers.” Before His resurrection, Christ, as the Father’son ly begotten Son, was the Father’sin dividual expression. Now, through His death and resurrection, the individual expression of the Father has become the corporate expression of God the Father in the Son. Christ’s many brothers as the “many sons” of the Father are the “church” (Heb. 2:10-12) to be a corporate expression of God the Father in the Son. This is God’s ultimate intention. Therefore, the many brothers are the propagation of the Father’s life and the multiplication of the Son in the divine life. Hence, in the Lord’s resurrection, God’s eternal purpose is fulfilled
12让我们更详细的看看希伯来二章十至十二节。十节说，『原来万有因祂而有，藉祂而造的那位，为著要领许多的儿子进荣耀里去，就藉著苦难成全他们救恩的创始者，这对祂本是合宜的。』那万有因祂而有，藉祂而造的就是父，而救恩的创始者乃是子。父正领著众子进荣耀里去。十一节说，『因那圣别人的，和那些被圣别的，都是出于一；因这缘故，祂称他们为弟兄，并不以为耻。』在这节里，『那圣别人的』就是圣别人的子，『那些被圣别的』就是被圣别的许多儿子。这里的『一』是指父。因此，那圣别人的子，和我们被圣别的人，都是出于一位父。所以祂称我们为弟兄，并不以为耻。祂甚么时候开始称我们为弟兄?在约翰二十章十七节的时候，祂对马利亚说，『你往我弟兄那里去。』为甚么祂不以称呼我们弟兄为耻?因为我们都接受了祂父的生命。在祂复活以后，祂所有的门徒都接受了父的生命。现今，因为祂和我们出于同样的源头，有同样的生命，带著同样的性情，所以祂称我们为弟兄，并不以为耻。
12Let us consider Hebrews 2:10-12 in more detail. Verse 10 says, “For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in leading many sons into glory, to make the Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” The One “for whom are all things and through whom are all things” is the Father, and the Author of salvation is the Son. The Father is bringing many sons into glory. Verse 11 says, “For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers.” In this verse, “He who sanctifies” is the sanctifying Son, and “those who are being sanctified” are the sanctified sons. The “One” here refers to the Father. Thus, the Son, who is the Sanctifier, and we, who are the sanctified, are all of one Father. Therefore, “He is not ashamed to call them brothers.” When did He first call us “brothers”? In John 20:17, when He told Mary, “Go to My brothers.” Why is He not ashamed to call us brothers? Because we all have received His Father’s life. After His resurrection, all His disciples received the Father’s life. Now, because both He and we are of the same source and have the same life with the same nature, He is not ashamed to call us brothers.
13十二节继续说，『我要向我的弟兄宣告你的名，在召会中我要歌颂你。』这里我们看见，子向祂的众弟兄宣告父的『名，』也就是说，使他们认识父是生命的源头，是生育的神。这节也告诉我们，子在召会中歌颂父。我们藉此看见众弟兄就是召会。我花了很多时间，要找出另一节说到主耶稣歌颂父的经文，至终，因为找不到，我就明白，每逢祂的弟兄们歌颂父，祂就在他们的歌颂里歌颂。我们歌唱，祂就在我们的歌唱里歌唱。
13Verse 12 continues, “Saying, ‘I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the church I will sing hymns of praise to You.’” Here we see the Son declaring the Father’s “name” to His brothers, that is, making the Father known as the source of life and as the begetting God. This verse also tells us that the Son sings hymns of praise to the Father in the midst of the church. By this we see that the brothers are the church. I have spent much time to find another verse which says that the Lord Jesus sings praises to the Father. Eventually, being unable to find one, I realized that whenever His brothers sing praises to the Father, He sings in their singing. While we are singing, He sings in our singing
七 使祂的父与神成为他们的
G. Making His Father and God Theirs
14在二十章十七节，主耶稣也对马利亚说，『我要升到我的父，也是你们的父那里，到我的神，也是你们的神那里。』主藉著祂分赐生命的死与复活，已使门徒与祂成为一。所以，祂的父也是祂门徒的父，祂的神也是门徒的神。藉著祂的复活，门徒已经接受了父的生命和神的性情。祂使门徒成为祂的弟兄，藉此将父的生命和神的性情分赐到他们里面。祂使祂的父成为他们的父，使祂的神成为他们的神，藉此将他们带到祂在父神面前的地位，就是子的地位上，使他们在复活里一同有分于祂的父与神。因此，无论在内里的生命和性情上，还是在外面的地位上，他们都与所联结的主一样。在内里我们有实际，在外面我们有地位。父不只是主自己的父，也是门徒的父。从此以后，所有的门徒都是神的儿子。我们和长子，长子和我们，都是一样的。这就是在祂复活里的召会。赞美祂！
14In 20:17 the Lord Jesus also said to Mary, “I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.” Through His life-imparting death and resurrection, the Lord has made His disciples one with Him. Therefore, His Father is also His disciples’ Father, and His God is also their God. Through His resurrection, they have received both the Father’s life and God’s divine nature. By making them His brothers, He has imparted the Father’s life and God’s divine nature into them. By making His Father and His God theirs, He has brought them into His position— the Son’s position—before the Father and God that they might participate in His Father and God in resurrection. Thus, in life and nature inwardly and in position outwardly, His brothers are the same as He is. Inwardly we have the reality, and outwardly we have the position. The Father is not only the Father of the Lord Himself; He is also the Father of the disciples. Henceforth, all the disciples are sons of God. We are the same as the Firstborn, and He is the same as we are. This is the church in His resurrection. Praise Him
15主为甚么告诉马利亚，祂要到父与神那里?一面，主是神的儿子，所以祂要以神子的身分见父。另一面，祂仍是人的儿子，所以祂要以人子的身分见神。我们也一面是人，另一面是神的众子。我们既是人，神对我们就是神；我们既是神的众子，神对我们也就是父。就在此刻，因著我们既是人又是神的众子，我们就有神也有父。所有的门徒都是人，都成了主的众弟兄和父的众子，因为他们已经接受了与主同样的生命。这就是马利亚带给主众弟兄的启示。
15Why did the Lord tell Mary that He was ascending to the Father and to God? On the one hand, the Lord is the Son of God; therefore, He will see the Father in the person of the Son. On the other hand, He is still the Son of Man; therefore, He will see God in the person of man. We also are men on one hand and sons of God on the other. Since we are men, God is God to us; since we are the sons of God, God is also the Father to us. At this very moment, because we are both men and sons of God, we have both God and the Father. All the disciples, as human beings, have become brothers to the Lord and sons to the Father because they have received the same life as the Lord. This is the revelation which Mary brought to the Lord’s brothers.