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哥林多后书生命读经 · 第23篇

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Being transformed into the image of the
1返照主的荣光，渐渐变化成为与主同样的形像，从荣耀到荣耀，乃是从主灵变化成的(一）读经：哥林多后书三章十六至十八节。
1Lord from glory to glory as from the Lord Spirit by beholding and reflectinghis glory with unveiled face (1) Scripture Reading: 2 Cor. 3:16-18
榜样的各方面
ASPECTS OF THE PATTERN
2我们在已过几篇信息里指出，保罗是2为著召会活基督的榜样。哥林多后书里启示出这个榜样的好几方面。我们已经交通了四方面。第一，一个为著召会活基督的人不信靠自己，只信靠那叫死人复活的神。保罗在一章九节题到这一面：『自己里面也断定是必死的，叫我们不信靠自己，只信靠那叫死人复活的神。』与这一面有关的事包括：行事为人不靠属肉体的智慧，乃靠神的恩典；以及与信实之神那不变的基督是一。保罗在十二节说，『我们所夸的，是我们的良心见证我们凭著神的单纯和纯诚，在世为人，不靠属肉体的智慧，乃靠神的恩典，对你们更是这样。』保罗在十八节宣告，神是信实的；在十九节说，在基督只有一是；在二十节说，『神的应许，不论有多少，在基督里都是是的。』所以，我们说这是信实之神那不变的基督。第二方面是说到联结、受膏、受印、被掳获、被征服、被帅领，好撒播基督的香。保罗在一章二十一至二十二节，二章十四至十六节说到这些。
2In the foregoing messages we have pointed out that Paul is a pattern of living Christ for the church. In Corinthians this pattern is revealed in a number of aspects. We have already covered four of these aspects. First, a person who lives Christ for the church does not trust in himself, but trusts in God who raises the dead. Paul refers to this aspect in 1:9: “But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have confidence in ourselves, but in God, Who raises the dead.” Related to this aspect are the matters of conducting ourselves not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God and of being one with the unchanging Christ of the faithful God. In 1:12 Paul says, “For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.” In 1:18 Paul declares that God is faithful; in verse 19, that in Christ is yes; and in verse 20, that “whatever promises of God there are, in Him is the Yes.” Therefore, we speak of the unchanging Christ of the faithful God. The second aspect involves being attached, anointed, sealed, captured, subdued, and led to scatter the incense of Christ. Paul speaks concerning these matters in 1:21 and 22 and 2:14-16.
3保罗在三章三至六节说到，为著召会活基督之榜样的第三方面。这方面是说，我们彀资格以基督为属灵的字母，用活神赐生命的灵书写活信。这个榜样的第四方面，是照耀出新约的荣光。（7～11。）我们在本篇信息和下一篇信息里，要来看第五方面，就是以没有帕子遮蔽的脸，观看并返照主的荣光，就渐渐变化成为与主同样的形像，从荣耀到荣耀，乃是从主灵变化成的。
3In 3:3-6 Paul comes to the third aspect of the pattern of living Christ for the church. This aspect is that we are competent of Christ as the spiritual alphabet to write living letters with the life-giving Spirit of the living God. The fourth aspect of this pattern is that of shining the glory of the new covenant (3:7-11), and the fifth aspect, which we shall consider in this message and in the message following, is that of being transformed into the image of the Lord from glory to glory as from the Lord Spirit by beholding and reflecting His glory with unveiled face
4我珍赏保罗这位为著召会活基督之榜样的各方面。保罗和别的使徒，过著不信靠自己，而完全信靠复活之神的生活。他们行事为人不靠属肉体的智慧，乃靠神的恩典。他们也与信实之神那不变的基督是一；也就是说，他们与那只有一是的基督是一。不仅如此，他们也联于神的受膏者，为神所膏，也为神所印。他们这些联于受膏者的人，也被神掳获、征服、帅领，以庆祝基督的得胜。他们这些在基督凯旋行列中前进的俘虏，无论到那里都撒播基督的香。事实上，使徒尽职的行程并不是一般的行程，乃是庆祝基督在宇宙中得胜的凯旋行列。
4I appreciate all these aspects of Paul as a pattern of living Christ for the church. Paul and the other apostles lived a life in which they had no confidence in themselves. Rather, their confidence was altogether in the God of resurrection. They did not conduct themselves in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God. They were also one with the unchanging Christ of the faithful God; that is, they were one with the Christ who is the Yes. Furthermore, they were attached to God’san o in ted One, and they were anointed by God and sealed. As those attached to the anointed One, they were also captured, subdued, and led by God to celebrate Christ’s victory. As captives marching in Christ’s triumphal procession, they scattered the incense of Christ wherever they went. Actually the apostles’ journey of ministry was not an ordinary journey; it was a triumphal procession celebrating Christ’s victory in the universe.
5保罗和他的同工也彀资格以基督为属天的字母，用基督自己并为著基督来书写基督的活信。用来写这些信的『墨』，乃是活神赐生命的灵。使徒们把基督写到圣徒里面；这样，就以那灵为墨书写活信。结果，圣徒成了基督的活信，为众人所诵读。不仅如此，保罗和他的同工们也照耀出得荣、复活的基督。众人在他们的生活中，能看见开花的基督，就是在复活里的基督。他们照耀出那是赐生命之灵的基督。在他们身上，有这样的照耀，这样的荣光。
5Paul and his co-workers were also competent of Christ as the heavenly alphabet to write living letters of Christ, with Christ, and for Christ. The “ink” used in writing these letters was the life-giving Spirit of the living God. The apostles inscribed Christ into the saints and in this way wrote living letters with the Spirit as the ink. As a result, the saints became living letters of Christ for others to read. Furthermore, Paul and his co-workers were shining forth the glorified, resurrected Christ. In their lives the blossoming Christ, the Christ in resurrection, could be seen. They were shining forth the Christ who is the life-giving Spirit. With them there was such a shining, such a glory
日日的变化
DAILY TRANSFORMATION
6他们也日日，甚至时时，在不断变化的过程中，变化成为与得著荣耀之基督同样的形像。『我们众人既然以没有帕子遮蔽的脸，好像镜子观看并返照主的荣光，就渐渐变化成为与祂同样的形像，从荣耀到荣耀，乃是从主灵变化成的。』（三18。）变化不是一次而永远的，乃是逐渐发展的。使徒们从一种程度的荣耀，变化到另一种程度的荣耀。他们渐渐变化，从荣耀到荣耀，乃是从主灵变化成的。十八节里的『乃是』指明，使徒们渐渐变化，从荣耀到荣耀，就是从主灵变化成的。他们乃是从主灵渐渐变化成为与主同样的形像。照哥林多后书来看，为著召会活基督的榜样包含了日日的变化这一方面。凡是为著召会活基督的人，必须是个天天变化的人。如果我们不在变化的过程中，我们基督徒生活里一定是出了毛病。一天过一天，我们必须被变化。
6Daily and even hourly, they were also in the process of being transformed into the same image, the image of the glorified Christ. “And we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit” (3:18). This transformation did not happen once for all; it was a gradual matter. The apostles were transformed from one degree of glory to another. They were transformed from glory to glory, as from the Lord Spirit. It is possible to understand the word rendered “even as” in 3:18 to mean “that is.” Hence, the apostles were being transformed from glory to glory, that is, from the Lord Spirit. They were being transformed into the image of the Lord from the Lord Spirit. According to the book of 2 Corinthians, the pattern of living Christ for the church includes the aspect of daily transformation. Anyone who lives Christ for the church must be one who is daily being transformed. If we are not in the process of transformation, then something is wrong with us in our Christian life. Day by day we need to be transformed.
7新陈代谢的过程『变化』一辞很好，但『变化』还不能完全表达原文的意思。有些圣经译本不用『变化』，而用『改变』；这个辞很不充分，与原文极不相称。钦定英文译本把罗马十二章二节的这个希腊字繙成『变化』，但在林后三章
7A METABOLIC PROCESS The word transformed is a good word; however, it does not convey the full meaning of the Greek word. Instead of transformed, some versions of the Bible use the word “changed.” This word is very inadequate; it is a poor equivalent of the Greek word. The King James Version renders this Greek word transformed in Romans 12:2
8十八节却繙成『改变』。
8but translates it as changed in 2 Corinthians 3:18
9我们需要知道改变与变化的不同。变化包含新陈代谢的过程。但是一个东西也许有了改变，却没有受到新陈代谢的影响。许多东西可以有外面的改变，却没有任何里面新陈代谢的变化。在新陈代谢的过程中，新的元素要供应到生机体里面。这新的元素顶替并排除旧的元素。因此，当新陈代谢的过程在生机体里面进行时，生机体里就造出新的元素，以顶替被排除的旧元素。所以新陈代谢包含三件事：第一，供应新的元素；第二，这新的元素顶替了旧的元素；第三，排除或挪去旧的元素，好产生新的东西。我们消化、吸收食物，与新陈代谢有关。首先，我们把食物吃进胃里，然后食物就新陈代谢的消化，使我们全人得著供应，新的元素就能加进来顶替旧的元素，并且新的细胞就产生了。我们乃是藉著这新陈代谢的过程而长大并得加强。藉著合式的新陈代谢，我们的疾病也会得著医治。我们物质的身体常常藉著新陈代谢的过程，不断的得著医治。这种医治不是因著医生所给的药物而有的，乃是身体本身合式的尽功用而引起的。
9We need to know the difference between change and transformation. Transformation involves the process of metabolism. However, something may change without being affected metabolically. Many things may change in an outward way without any inward metabolic transformation. In the process of metabolism a new element is supplied to an organism. This new element replaces the old element and causes it to be discharged. Therefore, as the process of metabolism takes place within a living organism, something new is created within it to replace the old element, which is carried away. Metabolism, therefore, includes three matters: first, the supplying of a new element; second, the replacing of the old element with this new element; and third, the discharge or the removal of the old element so that something new may be produced. The digestion and assimilation of the food we eat involves metabolism. First we take the food into our stomach. Then the food is digested metabolically to supply our being so that new elements may be added to replace the old and that new cells may be brought into being. Through this process of metabolism we grow and are strengthened. Also through proper metabolism we may be healed of certain illnesses. Constantly a healing is taking place in our physical bodies through the process of metabolism. This healing is not caused by medicine given by a physician; it is the healing that is caused by the proper functioning of the body itself. Daily by the process of metabolism we can experience healing
10我们可以天天藉著新陈代谢的过程，而经历医治。我要强调一个事实：变化是新陈代谢的过程，新陈代谢的改变。我们可以把变化说明为属灵的新陈代谢。在这事上，我很珍赏保罗用字的审慎态度。保罗是个了不起的著者，他用字总是非常的准确。他在三章十八节特意选了一个希腊字，这个字最好繙作变化。
10I wish to emphasize the fact that transformation is a metabolic process, a metabolic change. We may define transformation as spiritual metabolism. Concerning this, I appreciate Paul’s care in choosing words. Paul, a marvelous writer, is always precise in his choice of words. In 3:18 he deliberately chose a Greek word which is best translated by the English word transformed.
主的荣光我们已经指出，变化与新陈代谢有
THE GLORY OF THE LORD We have pointed out that transformation involves
11关，而新陈代谢包含了供应新的元素，以顶替旧的元素。现在我们必须问，在保罗的观念中，当我们经历变化的时候，供应给我们的新元素是甚么？照保罗所领会的，这个新的元素就是主的荣光。主的荣光实际上就是复活的基督。我们已经看见，在三章十八节里，主的荣光就是复活并升天之主耶稣的荣光；祂是神又是人，经过了成为肉体、人性生活、钉十字架和复活，成了包罗万有赐生命的灵，住在我们灵里。这位复活的基督，是何等的丰富！这位复活的基督连同祂一切的丰富，乃是加到我们里面来变化我们的新元素。这个元素─复活的基督连同祂的丰富，就是主的荣光。这不仅是神话语中的肉，更是肉的上好部分。
11metabolism and that metabolism includes the supplying of new elements to replace what is old. Now we must ask what in Paul’s concept is the new element supplied to us as we undergo transformation. According to Paul’s understanding, this new element is the glory of the Lord. The glory of the Lord is actually the resurrected Christ. We have seen that the glory of the Lord in 3:18 is the glory of the Lord Jesus as the resurrected and ascended One, the One who is both God and man and who has passed through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection to become the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit dwelling in our spirit. How rich is this resurrected Christ! The resurrected Christ with all His riches is the new element added to us for our transformation. This element, the resurrected Christ with His riches, is the glory of the Lord. This is not simply the meat of the Word; it is a choice portion of the meat
12变化含示基督那追测不尽之丰富的供应。我们领受这供应，这供应就顶替并排除我们里面老旧的元素。结果就有新东西在我们里面产生，就像新的细胞和组织藉著新陈代谢的过程在我们身体里产生一样。这就是保罗在十八节中变化的观念。否则保罗就不会说，我们渐渐变化成为与祂同样的形像，从荣耀到荣耀，乃是从主灵变化成的。我们渐渐变化，是从荣耀到荣耀，也就是从一种程度的荣耀到另一种程度的荣耀。
12The word transformed implies the unsearchably rich supply of Christ. As we receive this supply, it replaces the old element within us and causes it to be discharged and carried away. The result is that something new will be brought forth in us, just as new cells and tissues are produced in our body through the process of metabolism. This is Paul’s concept of transformation in 3:18. Otherwise, Paul would not have said that we are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit. We are being transformed from glory to glory, that is, from one degree of glory to another
13从主灵到主灵多年来，我一直想要了解十八节『从荣耀到荣耀』的意义。我查考许多书籍，但是找不到满意的解释。我们不该把这句话看作理所当然的，以为我们已经懂了。这里的荣耀是甚么？『从荣耀到荣耀』到底是甚么意思？从荣耀到荣耀的意思是，从主灵到主灵；有了主灵再加上主灵。这意思是说，主灵作为丰富的供应，一直不断的加到我们里面。
13FROM THE LORD SPIRIT TO THE LORD SPIRIT For many years I have been trying to understand the phrase “from glory to glory” used in 3:18. I consulted a number of books, but I failed to find a satisfactory explanation. We should not take this matter for granted or assume that we understand it. What is the glory here, and what is the meaning of “from glory to glory”? From glory to glory means from the Lord Spirit to the Lord Spirit. The Lord Spirit is upon the Lord Spirit. This means that the Lord Spirit as the rich supply is continually added into our being.
14我们可以用吃东西的例证，来领会主灵怎样不断的加到我们里面。倘若你应邀与经常吃鸡的家庭同住，他们每天给你摆上的都有鸡。你所吃的就是鸡肉再加上鸡肉。吃了这么多的鸡，末了你就由鸡的元素所构成。这元素要渗透你的组织和细胞。就某种意义说，你物质的身体里面渐渐变化成为鸡肉。基督这属天的鸡肉，天天、时时加到我们里面，我们就渐渐变化成为祂的形像。这变化乃是从荣耀到荣耀，从主灵到主灵。
14We may use an illustration from our eating to understand the continual addition of the Lord Spirit into us. Suppose you are invited to stay with a family that eats a great deal of chicken. Day after day they serve you a meal containing chicken. In your eating you go from chicken to chicken. Eventually, by eating so much chicken, you will become constituted of the element of chicken. This element will permeate your tissues and cells. In a sense, your physical body will be transformed inwardly into chicken. Day by day and hour by hour Christ, the heavenly chicken, is being added to us, and we are being transformed into His image. This transformation is from glory to glory, from the Lord Spirit to the Lord Spirit.
变化的见证
A TESTIMONY OF TRANSFORMATION
15我在前面有一篇信息里指出，召会中青年人的父母能读出那已经写到青年人里面的基督。那篇信息释放了以后，许多人见证，每当他们去看父母亲时，父母就读他们，注意他们身上的改变，因为基督已经写到他们里面。我信至终有些父母会作类似这样的见证，说，『我们的女儿进入召会生活时，我们最初很反对她。可是她回家来看我们的时候，我们发现她不一样了。每一次她来看我们的时候，我们都注意到她生命里的改变越来越大。在我们看来，她的改变太奇妙了。她来看过我们几次之后，我们再也不能抗拒她身上所发生的事。我们被征服了，现在我们在聚会中作见证，我们读到那写在我们女儿里面的基督。』如果这位年轻人的父母领会得正确，他们就不仅说改变，更是说变化。他们会说，『我们渐渐发现这些年来，我们的女儿一直经历变化。她一直在变化，从荣耀到荣耀，从主灵到主灵。』我们在前面一篇信息里说过，十八节的荣光（荣耀）就是基督在复活里的开花。我们以康乃馨开花来说明这个荣耀。基督的复活就是基督的开花。这位开花的基督，复活的基督，就是荣耀。我们现今乃是在这渐渐变化的过程中，从这荣耀到这荣耀。一天过一天，这荣耀是我们的供应。所以我们说，渐渐变化，从荣耀到荣耀，远超过照著宗教或道德教训而有仅仅外在行为的改良。
15In a previous message I pointed out that it is possible for the parents of young people in the church to read the Christ who has been inscribed into them. After that message was given, many testified that whenever they visit their parents, their parents read them, paying attention to the change in them because they have had Christ inscribed into them. I believe that eventually some of the parents will give a testimony in which they say something like this: “When our daughter came into the church life, we opposed her at first. But when she came home to visit us, we realized that something about her was different. Each time she came to see us, we noticed that the change in life had become greater and greater. To us the change was marvelous. Finally, after she paid us several more visits, we could no longer resist what was happening in her. We were subdued, and now we are here in the meeting testifying that we have read the Christ who has been written in our daughter.” If the parents of this young person had the adequate understanding, they would speak not merely of change, but of transformation. They would say, “We have realized that over the years our daughter has been experiencing transformation. She is being transformed from glory to glory, from the Lord Spirit to the Lord Spirit.” In one of the foregoing messages we said that the glory in 3:18 is Christ blossoming in resurrection. We illustrated this glory by referring to the blossoming of a carnation flower. Christ’s resurrection was His blossoming. This blossoming Christ, the resurrected Christ, is glory. Now we are in the process of being transformed from this glory to this glory. This glory is our supply day by day. This is the reason that to be transformed from glory to glory far surpasses a mere outward improvement of behavior according to religious or ethical teaching
16铜或金孔子说了许多伦常的教训。孔子的伦常教训可以比作铜，而圣经论到基督徒生活的启示，可以比作金。有时候人可以使铜的外表看来像金一样。所以有人用铜搀杂在金里，就像把水搀在酒里一样。有些到中国来的传教士，不能分辨孔子的伦常教训与圣经上基督徒生活的教训有甚么不同。我听过一些传教士说，圣经所教导的与孔子的教训完全一样。若真是如此，中国人既有了孔子的教训，为甚么还需要圣经？又为甚么需要传教士到中国来教导道德伦常？保罗在以弗所五章说到妻子要服从自己的丈夫。但孔子教训妇女要有三重的服从，就是未嫁从父、既嫁从夫、夫死从子。孔子所教导的服从，似乎比圣经有过之而无不及。但是，我不管有多少论到服从的话，我在意的是服从的性质是甚么？是『铜』的服从，还是『金』的服从？保罗在以弗所五章所教导的服从是金的，但孔子教导的三从却是铜的。你要金的服从，还是铜的服从？我们当然都喜欢金。如果我们没有圣经，我必然会宝贝孔子的著作。但是赞美主，我们有圣经，圣经里面满了金！我读主话的时候，想要得著多而又多的金，而不去管那些铜─改良行为的伦常教训。在主的恢复里，我们不是教导人只在外面改良自
16COPPER OR GOLD Confucius had much to say concerning ethics. The ethical teachings of Confucius may be compared to copper, but what the Bible reveals regarding the Christian life may be compared to gold. Sometimes in appearance copper can be made to look like gold. This is the reason people may adulterate gold by using copper, just as they adulterate wine with water. Some missionaries to China could not discern the difference between the ethical teachings of Confucius and the teachings of the Bible concerning the Christian life. I heard certain missionaries say that what the Bible teaches is exactly the same as what is written in Confucius’ books. If this were true, then why did the Chinese need the Bible, since they already had the writings of Confucius? What was the need, then, for missionaries to come to China to teach ethics? In Ephesians 5 Paul talks about a wife submitting to her husband. But Confucius instructed a woman to have a threefold submission: first to her father, then to her husband, and then, in the case of her husband’s death, to her son. It seems that Confucius teaches more regarding submission than the Bible does. However, I do not care for how much is said concerning submission; I care for the nature of that submission. Is it a “copper” submission or a “golden” submission? The submission taught by Paul in Ephesians 5 is golden, but the threefold submission taught by Confucius is copper. Do you want a golden submission or a copper one? Certainly, we all would prefer gold. If we did not have the Bible, I would surely treasure the writing of Confucius. But praise the Lord that we have the Bible and that it is filled with gold! As I read the Word, I want to gain more and more gold and forget about the copper of ethical teachings concerning improving our behavior. In the Lord’s recovery we are not teaching others merely to improve their behavior
17己 的行为。那种教训只能帮助圣徒擦亮自己的铜，叫他们的铜更放明照耀。我们在这里不是为著那种宗教或道德的教训。在主的恢复里，我们的铜要逐渐被金所顶替。我们越接受主的供应，我们的铜就越被金顶替。今天我们多半是铜与金的混合。有的人也许是百分之二十五的金，百分之七十五的铜。但是不论目前铜与金的百分比是多少，铜的百分比会逐渐减少，而金的百分比会逐渐增加。金会逐渐加到我们里面，顶替并排除铜。
17in an outward way. That kind of teaching would do nothing more than help the saints to polish their copper and cause it to shine more brightly. We are not here for that kind of religious or ethical teaching. In the recovery we are having our copper replaced with gold. The more we receive the Lord’s supply, the more our copper is replaced with gold. Today most of us are a mixture of copper and gold. Some may be twenty-five percent gold and seventy- five percent copper. But no matter what the percentage of copper and gold may be at present, gradually the percentage of copper is being reduced and the percentage of gold is increasing. The gold is being added into us to replace the copper and to discharge it.
18我们举例来看，一个在召会生活中的青年人对父母又服从又顺服，是个循规蹈矩的好儿女。但是我们要问他一个重要的问题：这样的服从和顺服是铜，还是金？是出于仅仅想作一个循规蹈矩的人，还是出于操练重生的灵，而活内住的那灵？他的好行为、他的服从和顺服，也许都是出于他自己。若是这样，他就是一个『铜』孩子。他的服从和顺服，甚至他的爱，全数是铜。这种铜并不荣耀，因为不是复活的基督。他的行为也许非常好，但没有荣耀。
18Let us take as an example a young person in the church life who is submissive to his parents and obedient to them. He behaves himself and is a good boy. Nevertheless, we need to ask him an important question: Is this submission and obedience copper or gold? Does it come from merely trying to behave properly as a human being, or does it come from exercising the regenerated spirit to live the indwelling Spirit? It may be that his good behavior, his submission and obedience, is all derived from himself. If this is the situation, then he is a “copper” boy. His submission, his obedience, and even his love—all are copper. This copper is not glorious, for it is not the resurrected Christ. His behavior may be very good, but it is not glory
经历变化
experiencing transformation
19当我们知道自己的行为是铜而不是金的时候，我们该怎么办？我们应当迫切的到主面前，对祂说，『主阿，现在我得了启示。我看见了你的所是和我的所是。我顶多不过是光明、照耀的铜。但是主阿，你乃是金。当我自己与你这金一相比，我就厌恶我属铜的行为。我恨恶我自己的服从、顺服和天然的爱。主阿，我需要你作我的服从。主，我要经历你作我的顺服，作我的爱。主，如果你在我里面不爱，我也不爱。主，没有你，我甚么也不要作。主，你活在我里面。求你进来以你的金顶替我的铜。哦，主耶稣，顶替我！』然后我们整天都该不断的呼求主、接触主，并且让祂以祂自己顶替我们。这样，我们就会渐渐经历主活在我们里面。我们会晓得，我们的行为不是由我们自己发起的，乃是复活的基督自己。这就是荣耀。我们若天天这样实行，我们就要变化，从荣耀到荣耀。不仅如此，别人会注意到我们的不同。他们会看见我们的服从、顺服和爱是不一样的。不错，我们仍是服从的，但这种服从的性质不同了。从前我们的行为是铜，现在却是金。因为是金，所以比从前明亮多了。这样的行为甚至是荣耀的。
19What should we do when we realize that our behavior is copper and not gold? We should go to the Lord desperately and say to Him, “Lord, now I have the revelation. I see what is You and what is me. The best I can be is bright, shining copper. But, Lord, You are gold. When I compare myself to You as the gold, I begin to loathe my copper behavior. I hate my own submission, obedience, and love. Lord, I need You to be my submission. Lord, I want to experience You as my obedience and love. Lord, if You don’t love in me, I won’t love either. Lord, I don’t want to do anything without You. Lord, You live in me. Come in to replace my copper with Your gold. O Lord Jesus, replace me!” Then, throughout the day we should contact the Lord by calling on Him and allow Him to replace us with Himself. Gradually, we shall experience the Lord’s living in us. We shall realize that our behavior does not originate with ourselves. Rather, it is the resurrected Christ Himself. This is glory. If we practice this day by day, we shall be transformed from glory to glory. Furthermore, others will notice the difference in us. They will see a difference in our submission, obedience, and love. Yes, we are still submissive, but this submission is different in nature. Formerly, our behavior was copper; now it is gold. Because it is gold, it is much brighter than before. It is even glorious
20我盼望我们都看见铜与金的不同。从前我们是铜上加铜，但如今我们渐渐变化，从金到金，从荣耀到荣耀。这多年来，我常对自己说，『你仍然是铜与金的混合。』然而，我能见证，铜一直在减少，金一直在增加。
20I hope we shall all see the difference between the copper and the gold. Once we were going from copper to copper, but now we are being transformed from gold to gold, from glory to glory. Over the years I have often said to myself, “You are still a mixture of copper and gold.” However, I can testify that the copper has been decreasing and that the gold has been increasing.
21变化的意义我们都需要对变化的意义有深刻的印象。变化乃是基督加到我们全人里面，顶替我们的所是，好叫基督加增，我们天然的生命减少。变化的过程在我们里面发生时，就排除我们天然人老旧的元素，而那荣耀，就是开花的基督，复活的基督作为赐生命之灵，就加到我们里面，顶替天然的元素。今日与昨日不同，明日又会与今日不同，因为我们天然的成分日日减少，基督日日加多。这就是渐渐变化，从荣耀到荣耀的意义。
21WHAT IT MEANS TO BE TRANSFORMED We all need to be impressed with what it means to be transformed. To be transformed is to have Christ added into our being to replace what we are so that Christ may increase and our natural life may decrease. As the process of transformation takes place within us, the old element of our natural being is carried away, and the glory, the blossoming Christ, the resurrected Christ as the life-giving Spirit, is added into us to replace the natural element. Today is different from yesterday, and tomorrow will be different from today, for each day we have less of the natural element and more of Christ. This is what it means to be transformed from glory to glory
22我对变化这样的领会，不是仅仅从看书得来的。我所读的书，没有一本帮助我对『从荣耀到荣耀』有透彻的领会。多年来，我从自己的经历和我在召会生活中的观察，学知『渐渐变化，从荣耀到荣耀』的意义。二十多年前，我还不能释放这样的一篇信息。那时，我还不清楚保罗所说『从荣耀到荣耀』的意义。现在我看见，这里的荣耀乃是开花的基督，也就是在复活里的基督。不仅如此，这位是荣耀的基督乃是赐生命的灵。因此，我从经历和观察能作见证，三章十八节的荣耀实际上就是那赐生命的灵。我们越在这赐生命的灵里生活行动，荣耀就越多加到我们全人里面。因此，我们的生活乃是从荣耀到荣耀。我们渐渐变化成为与主同样的形像，从荣耀到荣耀，也就是从主灵到主灵。这是每一个为著召会活基督之人的经历。保罗是这种生活的榜样，这乃是他的经历。
22I did not acquire this understanding of transformation merely from reading books. None of the books I have read helped me to have a thorough understanding of “from glory to glory.” Throughout the years, I have learned from my own experience and from my observations in the church life what it means to be transformed from glory to glory. More than twenty years ago I could not have given such a message as this. At that time I still did not have a clear understanding concerning Paul’sex press i on “from glory to glory.” Now I see that the glory here is the blossoming Christ, Christ in resurrection. Furthermore, this Christ as the glory is the life-giving Spirit. Therefore, both from my experience and observation I can testify that the glory in 3:18 is actually the life-giving Spirit. The more we live and walk in this life-giving Spirit, the more glory is added into our being. Therefore, we live glory to glory. We are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, that is, from the Lord Spirit to the Lord Spirit. This is the experience of everyone who lives Christ for the church. Paul was a pattern of this kind of life, and this was his experience