2保罗说过新约职事的得胜与功效以后，继续论到这职事的功用与资格。其功用是要写基督的活信，而其资格乃是神自己。写这些活信的，实际上不是保罗，乃是那构成到保罗里面的神。因此，神不仅是书写者，也是书写的『墨』，也就是书写的本质或元素。这意思是说，神正在把祂自己书写到祂所拣选的人里面。这样书写的结果，乃是三一神构成到祂的子民里面。因此，书写者是神，书写的本质是神，结局、结果也是神。我们可用原子笔写字，来说明神如何把祂自己写到我们里面。首先笔装满了墨，然后用笔在纸上写字。实际上不是笔在写，乃是那装满在笔里面的墨这个本质在写。写在纸上的，没有属于笔的东西。写在纸上的，乃是墨的本质。最终，写在纸上的就是墨的组合、墨的构成。同样的原则，经过种种过程的三一神这位包罗万有的赐生命之灵，乃是书写者，也是书写的本质。在写基督之活信的时候，那写到我们里面的本质，乃是那灵。在本篇信息中，我们来到新约职事的荣光。书写的本质是里面的，而荣光是外面的。书写的元素是隐藏的，而荣光是显出的。事实上，荣光乃是隐藏的本质照耀了出来。我们可以再用电作例证。电的元素流进灯泡里。这个元素就是光的本质，从灯泡里面照耀出来。但光的照耀乃是电的荣耀。因此，电有素质，就是元素，也有照耀，就是荣耀。
2After speaking of the triumph and effect of the ministry of the new covenant, Paul goes on to speak of the function and competency of that ministry. The function is to inscribe living letters of Christ, and the competency, the qualification, is God Himself. The writer of these living letters is actually not Paul; the writer is the very God who has been constituted into Paul’s being. Therefore, God is not only the writer; He is also the “ink,” the substance or element, of what is written. This means that God is writing Himself into His chosen people. The result of this writing is a constitution of the Triune God into His people. Thus, the writer is God, the writing substance is God, and the issue, the result, is also God. We may take writing with a ballpoint pen as an illustration of how God writes Himself into us. First a pen is filled with ink. Then it is used for writing certain words on paper. It is not the pen that actually does the writing; it is the ink, the substance which fills the pen, that does this. Nothing of the pen is put on paper. Rather, it is the substance of the ink that is inscribed on the paper. Eventually, the writing on the paper is a composition, a constitution, of the ink. In the same principle, the processed Triune God as the all-inclusive life - giving Spirit is both the writer and the writing substance. In the writing of living letters of Christ, the Spirit is the substance that is inscribed into us. In this message we come to the glory of the new covenant ministry. The writing substance is inward, but the glory is outward. The writing element is hidden, but the glory is expressed. Actually, the glory is the shining out of the hidden substance. Once again, we may use electricity as an illustration. The element of electricity flows into a light bulb. This element is the substance of the light that shines from within the bulb. But the shining of the light is the glory of the electricity. Hence, with electricity there is both the essence, the element, and the shining out, the glory.