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哥林多后书生命读经 · 第53篇

保罗为他使徒权柄的表白（四）

Paul’s Vindication of His Apostolic Authority (4)
1读经：哥林多后书十一章一至十五节。保罗在林后十一章三节说，『我只怕你们的心思或被败坏，失去那向著基督的单纯和纯洁，就像蛇用诡诈诱骗了夏娃一样。』使徒保罗在这里指明，热中犹太教者的教训好比创世记三章蛇向夏娃所说诱骗的话。换句话说，保罗把热中犹太教者的活动，比作蛇在夏娃身上所作的。我们读创世记三章，就知道蛇打岔夏娃，使她偏离了对生命树的享受。蛇将夏娃指向另一棵树，就是带进死亡的善恶知识树，藉此就使她偏离了对生命树的享受。
1Scripture Reading: 2 Cor. 11:1-15 In 11:3 Paul says, “But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your thoughts should be corrupted from the singleness and the purity which is toward Christ.” Here the Apostle Paul indicates that the teachings of the Judaizers can be compared to the deceitful word spoken by the serpent to Eve in Genesis 3. In other words, Paul likens the activities of the Judaizers to the serpent’s work on Eve. From reading Genesis 3 we know that the serpent distracted Eve from the enjoyment of the tree of life. The way he turned her away from the enjoyment of the tree of life was to point her to another tree, to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which issues in death
2两棵树我们曾多次指出，生命树是很简单的。这棵树只有一种元素，就是生命。生命树的结果乃是生命。相反的，善恶知识树却是错综复杂的。与这棵树有关的，乃是善、恶、知识和死亡。
2TWO TREES We have pointed out a number of times that the tree of life is simple. With this tree, there is just one element, and that element is life. The tree of life issues in life. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, on the contrary, is complicated and also complicating. With this tree, we have good, evil, knowledge, and death
3整本圣经就是这两棵树的发展。生命树表征神在基督里成了那灵，作我们的生命。善恶知识树表征撒但，就是死亡。撒但乃是死亡的权势。表征撒但（就是死亡）的善恶知识树，包含知识、善与恶。蛇藉著善恶知识树，以及这棵树的错综复杂，打岔了夏娃，使她偏离生命树。夏娃受了打岔、中了计，就失去她向著神的单纯和纯洁。结果夏娃堕落了，死亡也藉著堕落进来了。这就是蛇打岔夏娃，使她偏离神经纶的故事。
3The Bible as a whole is a development of these two trees. The tree of life signifies God in Christ as the Spirit to be life to us. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil signifies Satan as death. Satan is the power of death. The tree of knowledge of good and evil signifying Satan as death includes knowledge, good, and evil. The serpent distracted Eve from the tree of life by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with its complications. Because Eve was distracted and caught, she lost her singleness and purity toward God. The result was that Eve fell, and death came in through the fall. This is the story of how the serpent distracted Eve from God’secon o my
4撒但与热中犹太教者保罗在林后十一章把蛇在夏娃身上所作的，应用到热中犹太教的人和在哥林多的召会。我相信保罗在灵的深处，知道这二者其实是一件事；发生在哥林多的事，乃是重演伊甸园中所发生的事。夏娃是妻子，而在哥林多的召会是许配给基督这独一丈夫的贞洁童女。因此，保罗在十一章二节说，『我以神的妒忌，妒忌你们，因为我曾把你们许配一个丈夫，要将一个贞洁的童女献给基督。』不仅如此，在伊甸园的妻子受了狡猾的蛇打岔；在哥林多的童女也因著热中犹太教的人而受到撒但打岔。保罗在这一章的另一处，把热中犹太教的人与撒但相题并论：『那等人是假使徒，是诡诈的工人，装作基督的使徒。这并不希奇，因为撒但自己也装作光的使者。』（13～
4SATAN AND THE JUDAIZERS In 2 Corinthians 11 Paul applies to the Judaizers and the church in Corinth what the serpent did to Eve. I believe that, deep in his spirit, Paul realized that these two matters were actually one and that what was happening in Corinth was a repetition of what took place in the garden of Eden. Eve was a wife, and the church in Corinth was a pure virgin, betrothed to one husband, Christ. For this reason, in 11:2 Paul says, “For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband, to present a pure virgin to Christ.” Furthermore, the wife in the garden of Eden was distracted by the subtle serpent. In Corinth the virgin was being distracted by Satan through the Judaizers. Elsewhere in this chapter, Paul associates the Judaizers with Satan. “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transfiguring themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself transfigures himself into an angel of light”
514。）保罗在这里指明，热中犹太教的人是假使徒，是撒但的差役。十五节说，『所以他的差役若也装作义的差役，并不算大事，他们的结局，必然照著他们所作的。』热中犹太教的人是撒但的差役，意思是说，他们并没有把基督供应给人，他们所供应的其实乃是撒但。
5vv. 13-14). Here Paul indicates that the Judaizers, the false apostles, are ministers of Satan. Verse 15 says, “Therefore it is no great thing if also his ministers transfigure themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.” For the Judaizers to be ministers of Satan means that they do not minister Christ to others. Instead, what they minister is actually Satan
6保罗能辨识热中犹太教的人有另一位耶稣、不同的灵、和不同的福音。保罗在四节告诉哥林多人：『假若有人来，传另一位耶稣，不是我们所传过的，或者你们接受了一个不同的灵，不是你们所接受过的，或者接受了一个不同的福音，不是你们所接受过的，你们还好好的容忍他！』热中犹太教的人自称传讲耶稣。但保罗却辨识他们是传讲另一位耶稣，不是保罗所传的主耶稣。再者，他们自称有一个灵。他们可能称这个灵是圣灵。保罗又辨识他们的灵不是圣灵；热中犹太教的人有一个不同的灵。不仅如此，热中犹太教的人自称他们所传的是福音。但保罗宣告他们的福音是另一个福音。蛇来到夏娃跟前，并没有公然否认神的话，牠乃是向女人说，『神岂是真说，不许你们吃园中所有树上的果子么？』（创三1。）我们在这里看见蛇发问：『神岂是真说？』这种发问一面似乎承认神所说的，另一面却暗中破坏神的话。蛇发出这个问题，就把毒素注入夏娃里面，要暗中破坏神所说的话。
6Paul could discern that the Judaizers had another Jesus, a different spirit, and a different gospel. In verse 4 Paul says to the Corinthians, “For if indeed he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different gospel, which you did not accept, you bear well with him.” The Judaizers claimed to preach concerning Jesus. However, Paul discerned that they preached another Jesus, not the Lord Jesus preached by Paul. Moreover, they claimed that they had a spirit. Maybe they claimed that this spirit was the Holy Spirit. Paul also discerned that their spirit was not the Holy Spirit; the Judaizers had a different spirit. Furthermore, the Judaizers claimed that what they preached was the gospel. But Paul declared that their gospel was another gospel. When the serpent came to Eve, he did not openly deny God’sword. Rather, the serpent said to the woman, “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” (Gen. 3:1). Here we see that the serpent asked, “Hath God said?” This kind of question seems, on the one hand, to recognize what God has said. On the other hand, it undermines God’sword. By asking this question, the serpent injected poison into Eve to undermine God’s speaking
7要哥林多信徒辨识保罗所传的耶稣与热中犹太教者所传的耶稣不同，是很难的事。名字是相同的，但需要辨识。对于福音也是一样。保罗带著福音到哥林多人那里。热中犹太教的人也自称是传福音的。但保罗能辨识热中犹太教者所传的福音与使徒们所传的不同。他们所传的并不是保罗所传的福音。原则上，我们今天的处境与哥林多人的处境相同。各种东西的名词、定义和称呼可能都一样；但我们如果有适当的辨识，就会晓得牠们实际上并不一样。离开了对神的享受
7It was difficult for the Corinthian believers to discern the difference between the Jesus preached by Paul and the one preached by the Judaizers. The name was the same. But there was still the need of discernment. The same was true concerning the gospel. Paul came to the Corinthians with the gospel. The Judaizers also claimed to preach the gospel. But Paul could discern that the gospel preached by the Judaizers was different from that preached by the apostles. It was not the same gospel preached by Paul. In principle, our situation today is the same as that of the Corinthians. The terminology, the definitions, and the titles of various matters may be the same. But if we exercise the proper discernment, we shall realize that actually they are not the same. SEPARATED FROM THE ENJOYMENT OF GOD
8我愿意指出一些重要的事，是与真正的福音、纯诚的灵、以及真实的耶稣有关的。每当有人用纯诚的灵传讲真正的福音和真实的耶稣，就会将主耶稣供应给人，使人珍赏祂、宝爱祂、跟随祂、以祂为一切。历世纪以来，许多人按著圣经传讲并教导人，但他们的传讲与教导却打岔信徒，使他们偏离了主耶稣基督这宝贵的人位。原则上，这等人打岔信徒，正与蛇在创世记三章所作的一样。神的目标是生命。这个由生命树所表征的生命，乃是神自己在基督里成了那灵。仇敌撒但（蛇）是要打岔人，使人离开这生命。他企图把人转向知识、善与恶，其结果乃是死亡。死亡就是离开了对神的享受。死亡的正确意义是指离开了对神的享受。这就是说，我们若不享受神，我们就是在死亡之中。照样，我们若离开了对神的享受，我们就会死。这在罗马八章中完全启示出来。六节说，『因为心思置于肉体，就是死；心思置于灵，乃是生命平安。』在这一节，死就是与享受神隔绝。生命却相反，因为生命乃是对神的享受。当我们享受神，我们与神就不再隔绝，我们乃是在生命里，生命也在我们里面运行。
8I would like to point out something important related to the genuine gospel, the sincere spirit, and the real Jesus. Whenever there is the preaching of the genuine gospel and the real Jesus with a sincere spirit, the Lord Jesus will be ministered to others so that they may appreciate Him, love Him, follow Him, and take Him as everything. Throughout the centuries, many have preached from the Bible and taught the Bible, but their preaching and teaching nevertheless distracted the believers from the precious Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. In principle, such ones distract the believers in the same way as that taken by the serpent in Genesis 3. God’s goal is life. This life, signified by the tree of life, is God Himself in Christ as the Spirit. The way of the enemy, Satan, the serpent, is to distract people from this life. He seeks to turn them to knowledge, good, and evil, the issue of which is death. Death is separation from the enjoyment of God. The proper understanding of death is that it denotes separation from the enjoyment of God. This means that if we do not have the enjoyment of God, we are in death. Likewise, if we are separated from the enjoyment of God, we shall die. This is revealed in a full way in Romans 8. Romans 8:6 says, “For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.” In this verse death is separation from the enjoyment of God. Life is the opposite, for it is the enjoyment of God. When we have the enjoyment of God, there is no separation between us and God, we are in life, and life operates in us
9撒但打岔信徒，使他们离开生命树，他乃是想要使我们离开享受神作我们的生命。历世纪以来，狡猾的蛇一直用各种教训使神的选民无法享受神作他们的生命。这些教训多半与知识、善、恶有关，但这些教训的结果，却叫人与神隔绝。
9In distracting the believers from the tree of life, Satan seeks to separate us from the enjoyment of God as our life. For centuries the subtle serpent has been using teachings to keep God’s chosen people from enjoying Him as their life. For the most part, these teachings are related to knowledge, good, and evil. But such teachings result in separation from God.
10从使徒时代直到今天，有许多与道理、神学、宗教、作法、仪式、以及敬拜神有关的教训。这类教训都是在知识树的线上，并没有把我们带进对神的享受里，却使我们与这享受隔绝。古时热中犹太教的人来到众召会中，假冒真诚。他们能说他们是希伯来人，是以色列人，是亚伯拉罕的后裔。他们也自称是传基督的，是基督的执事。不仅如此，他们还有一个灵，又说他们所传的乃是福音。当时热中犹太教的人在哥林多，如果你也在那里，你能否分辨真实的耶稣、纯净的灵、以及真正的福音与假冒的有何不同？你如果也是当时哥林多的一位信徒，你在那里可能会受诱骗。你不该有把握，能辨识保罗所辨识的。保罗在林后十一章既刚强又放胆；他说，热中犹太教的人是假使徒，是诡诈的工人，是撒但的差役。因著他们不是真正的使徒，保罗就称他们为超级的使徒，意思是指一班越过自己的度量而把自己摆在超等水平的人。
10From the time of the apostles until today, there have been many teachings related to doctrine, theology, religion, practices, rituals, and the worship of God. Teachings like this are all on the line of the tree of knowledge. They do not bring us into the enjoyment of God. Instead, they separate us from this enjoyment. When the Judaizers came to the churches in ancient times, these Judaizers made a pretense of being genuine. They could say that they were Hebrews, Israelites, the seed of Abraham. They also claimed to preach Christ and to be ministers of Christ. Furthermore, they had a spirit and said that what they preached was the gospel. If you had been in Corinth when the Judaizers were there, could you have differentiated the genuine Jesus, the pure spirit, and the true gospel from the false ones? If you had been there, as one of the Corinthian believers, you may have been deceived. You should not have the confidence that you can discern what Paul could discern. In chapter eleven of 2 Corinthians, Paul was strong and bold, saying that the Judaizers were false apostles, deceitful workers, ministers of Satan. Because they were not genuine apostles, Paul called them super - apostles, those that went beyond their measure and placed themselves on a superior level.
11今天，我们靠著主的怜悯，能认识保罗确实是最前面的使徒，有最高水平的职事。然而热中犹太教的人自称他们超过保罗。他们的态度认为，保罗无法与他们相比，保罗比他们缺少知识。哥林多后书有些话暗示出，热中犹太教的人自以为比保罗懂得更多。难怪保罗称他们为超级的使徒。当然，这是讽刺的说法。保罗这么说，并没有正面的意义。事实上，热中犹太教的人并不是超级的使徒，因为他们根本不是真正的使徒。你知道我们今天的处境，在原则上正与保罗、热中犹太教的人、以及哥林多人的处境相同么？我们的处境既是一样，要辨识真假就非常重要。
11Today, by the Lord’s mercy, we can realize that Paul certainly was the foremost apostle and was on the highest level of ministry. Nevertheless, the Judaizers claimed that they were superior to Paul. Their attitude was that Paul was nothing compared to them, that he was far less knowledgeable than they were. There is the suggestion, the hint, in 2 Corinthians that the Judaizers thought that they knew more than Paul. No wonder Paul called them super-apostles. This is, of course, an ironic term. Paul does not use this expression in a positive way. Actually, the Judaizers were not super-apostles, for they were not genuine apostles at all. Do you not realize that our situation today is the same in principle as that in which Paul, the Judaizers, and the Corinthians were involved? Since our situation is the same, it is important to discern the genuine from the false
辨识的秘诀
THE SECRET OF DISCERNMENT
12辨识一件事最好的办法，乃是按著生命或死亡来辨识。我们需要问这样的问题：这种教训到底是帮助我更多享受主，把我带进生命，还是把死亡的毒素注射到我里面？你可能发现，你若将某种教训或传讲接受到你里面，你里面对主的享受就立即中断了；有些东西如同绝缘体一样，使神圣的电流中断。因此，我们该学习以生命与死亡来辨识、分辨事物。
12The best way to discern a matter is to discern according to life or death. We need to ask questions like this: Does this teaching help me to enjoy the Lord more and bring me into life, or does it cause the poison of death to be injected into me? You may find that if you accept a certain kind of teaching or preaching, taking it into you, immediately your inward enjoyment of the Lord is cut off. Some things function like insulation that stops the flowing of the divine electricity. Therefore, we must learn to discern, to differentiate, matters by life and death.
13假如今天热中犹太教的人来到你们中间，传讲另一位耶稣，你们有没有把握，能辨识他们的耶稣，与保罗所传真正的耶稣，二者的不同之处？我没有把握你们会有正确的辨识力。但为著真正辨识的秘诀，我们要感谢主。这个秘诀，乃是要辨识人所传讲或教训的，是否帮助我们享受主，并得著更多生命的供应。任何人的传讲若切断我们对主的享受，那种传讲就必定是出于蛇，出于撒但。但一个人的传讲若帮助我们享受主，那种传讲就是出于神的。因此，照罗马八章所启示的方法，我们必须根据死亡或生命来辨识。许多离开主恢复的人，既没有生命的供应，也没有享受，这指明他们接受了不是出于主的东西。辨识的秘诀就是按著生命或死亡来辨识。任何教训无论看来多好，若使你停止对主的享受，就是出于死亡。只要某人的教训或传讲剥夺我们对主作我们生命供应的享受，那种教训就是出于蛇的。然而，主真正的职事总是加强我们享受祂作我们生命的供应。我们不该盼望热中犹太教的者数目会减少。相反的，他们的数目可能会加增。每当你听他们讲话或读他们的书，要记住这个按生命与死亡辨识的原则。凡是使你对主的享受中断的东西，都是出于蛇的；凡增加你对主的享受的，就是出于那灵，出于新约的职事。
13Suppose today’s Judaizers come to you preaching another Jesus. Do you have the assurance that you can discern between their Jesus and the real Jesus, the Jesus preached by Paul? I do not have the assurance that you would have the proper discernment. But thank the Lord for the secret of real discernment. This secret is to discern a preaching or teaching by whether or not it helps us to enjoy the Lord and gain more life supply. If anyone’sp reaching cuts us off from the enjoyment of the Lord, that preaching must be of the serpent, of Satan. But if someone’sp reaching helps us to enjoy the Lord, that preaching is of God. Therefore, according to the way revealed in Romans 8, we need to discern according to death or life. Many of those who have left the Lord’s recovery have neither the life supply nor the enjoyment. This is an indication that they have taken in something that is not of the Lord. The secret of discernment is to discern according to life or death. Any kind of teaching that causes your enjoyment of the Lord to cease is something of death, no matter how good that teaching seems to be. As long as someone’ste aching or preaching deprives us of the enjoyment of the Lord as our life supply, that teaching is of the serpent. However, the genuine ministry of the Lord always strengthens us in the enjoyment of Him as our life supply. We should not expect the number of Judaizers to be reduced. On the contrary, their number will probably increase. Whenever you hear them speak or read their books, keep in mind this principle of discerning according to life and death. Anything that cuts you off from the enjoyment of the Lord is of the serpent. But anything that causes your enjoyment of the Lord to increase is of the Spirit and of the New Testament ministry
14撒但的战略林后十一章二至三节极为重要。这两节指明保罗对撒但的战略非常清楚。他知道撒但的战略是布下道理的陷阱，使圣徒陷入圈套。因此保罗就回避这个圈套。不仅如此，他竭力使圣徒避开这圈套，题醒他们，他以神的妒忌，妒忌他们，并题醒他们，他曾把他们许配一个丈夫，要将他们如同贞洁的童女献给基督。他告诉圣徒们，主不要他们爱任何顶替祂的人事物，祂乃是要他们独一、单纯、完全的爱祂。在
14SATAN’S STRATEGY Verses 2 and 3 of 2 Corinthians 11 are extremely important. These verses indicate that Paul was clear concerning Satan’s strategy. He realized that Satan’s strategy is to spread a snare of doctrine in order to trap the saints. Paul, therefore, stayed away from this snare. Furthermore, he endeavored to keep the saints away from it by reminding them that he was jealous over them with the jealousy of God, and that he had betrothed them to one Husband to present them a pure virgin to Christ. He told the saints that the Lord does not want them to love anything or anyone in place of Him, but that He wants them to love Him
15三节，保罗流露出他的关切，他怕哥林多信徒被诱骗，失去他们向著主的单纯和纯洁。我们从这节经文
15uniquely, singly, wholly. In verse 3 Paul reveals his concern lest the Corinthian believers be deceived and lose their singleness and purity toward the Lord
16看见，我们必须是单纯、纯洁的。不要让许多教训和主义使你的心思、领悟变得复杂，反而要保守自己单纯、纯洁，享受主作你生命的供应。
16From this verse we see that we need to be single and pure. Do not be complicated in your mind, in your understanding, by so many teachings and isms. Instead, keep yourself single and pure to enjoy the Lord as your life supply
17保罗在林后十一章题到另一位耶稣、一个不同的灵、一个不同的福音、假使徒、诡诈的工人、撒但装作光的使者、以及撒但的差役装作义的差役。我们若祷读这些经节，并就著这些经节有交通，就会得著更多的亮光和生命的供应。
17In 2 Corinthians 11 Paul speaks of another Jesus, a different spirit, a different gospel, false apostles, deceitful workers, Satan transfiguring himself into an angel of light, and Satan’s ministers transfiguring themselves into ministers of righteousness. If we pray-read all these verses and have fellowship concerning them, we shall receive more light and gain more life supply