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加拉太书生命读经 · 第23篇

基督需要成形在承受应许者的里面

The Need For Christ To Be Formed In The Heirs Of Promise
1读经：加拉太书四章八至二十节。在本篇信息中，我们要来看四章八至二十节。这几节经文指明使徒保罗因著加拉太信徒而处在一个为难的景况里。加拉太的信徒是因著保罗传福音而归向主的，保罗由衷的关心他们。保罗的负担不是要推行某种基督教的工作，而是要把基督服事给信徒，他劳苦是为了叫基督成形在他们里面。（19。)人很可能为主作工，又帮助圣徒，却没有负担把基督服事给他们。我们可能热心的为基督作工，却没有一点负担要看见基督成形在圣徒里面。因此，重要的是我们需要看见，这几节经文说出保罗的负担，和大多数基督教工人的负担截然不同。我们可能对兴起地方召会以及加强众召会满了负担，却没有负担把基督供应到圣徒里面。传福音、兴起召会是一回事，接受负担将基督供应到圣徒里面，又是另一回事。保罗的负担不是工作，而是把基督供应到信徒里面。这就是4:8-保罗在四章八至二十节用了一些亲密辞句的原因；这些辞句显示保罗和加拉太信徒的亲密关系，以及他对他们的情爱。现在让我们逐节来看四章八至二十节。
1Scripture Reading: Gal. 4:8-20 In this message we shall consider 4:8-2 0. These verses indicate that the Apostle Paul was in a difficult situation with respect to the believers in Galatia. They had been brought to the Lord through Paul’s preaching of the gospel, and he had a heart to care for them. Paul’s burden was not to carry on a Christian work, but was to minister Christ to the believers, to labor that Christ might be formed in them (v. 19). It is possible to work for the Lord and to help the saints, without having the burden to minister Christ to them. We may earnestly work for Christ without having any burden to see Christ formed in the saints. Hence, it is important for us to see that Paul’s burden as expressed in these verses was altogether different from that of most Christian workers. We may be burdened for the raising up of local churches and for the strengthening of the churches. However, we may not have the burden to minister Christ into the saints. To preach the gospel and raise up churches is one thing; to bear the burden to minister Christ into the saints is another. Paul’s burden was not for a work; it was for ministering Christ into the believers. This is the reason that in 20 Paul uses certain intimate expressions, expressions which show the closeness of his relationship to the Galatian believers and his affection for them. Let us now consider 4:8-20 verse by verse.
受奴役、被欺骗
ENSLAVED AND DECEIVED
2八节说，『但从前你们不认识神的时候，是给那些本性上不是神的作奴仆。』假神，偶像，没有神圣的性情；迷信的敬拜者认为偶像是神，但在本性上牠们并不是神。保罗在九节说，『现在你们既然认识神，更可说是神所认识的，怎么还要转向那软弱乏用的蒙学，情愿重新再给牠们作奴仆？』这里的『蒙学』乃是律法初步的原理，指律法初级的教训。保罗在这里点出，加拉太的信徒再次转向那软弱乏用的律法蒙学，因此再作了奴仆。保罗用『作奴仆』一辞，指明犹太教徒在加拉太信徒身上所作的是何等严重。犹太教徒迷惑、欺骗他们到一个地步，使他们作奴仆。对犹太教徒而言，律法是生死攸关的事。因此，他们拚命要把加拉太人引到错误的路上。保罗知道加拉太信徒一旦被欺骗，就会作奴仆。说加拉太人作奴仆，就是说他们受欺骗到了极点。
2Verse 8 says, “But then indeed, not knowing God, you were slaves to the gods which by nature do not exist.” The gods, or the idols, do not have the divine nature. They were considered gods by their superstitious worshippers, but by nature they do not exist as gods. In verse 9 Paul says, “But now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and poor elements, to which you desire to be again enslaved?” The “elements” here are not substances. They are the elementary principles of the law, its rudimentary teachings. Here Paul points out that by turning again to the weak and poor elements of the law, the Galatian believers would once again become enslaved. Paul’su se of the word enslaved indicates how serious the Judaizers were in working on the Galatian believers. The Judaizers bewitched them, deceived them, to such a degree that they were brought into slavery. To the Judaizers, the law was a matter of life and death. Therefore, they were desperate in their attempt to mislead the Galatians. Paul realized that once the Galatian believers had been deceived, they would be enslaved. To say that the Galatians were enslaved means that they had been deceived to the uttermost.
宗教的规条
RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES
3保罗在十节接著说，『你们谨守日子、月分、节期、年分』这里的谨守是指守犹太教的规条。这里所说的日子是指安息日、月朔等。（赛六六23。)月分是指圣月，如第一月，亚笔─穗月；（出十三4；)第二月，西弗─花月；（王上六1，37；)第七月，以他念─涌流河月；（王上八2；)第八月，布勒─雨月。（王上六38。)节期是指欢筵的节期，如逾越节、五旬节和住棚节。（代下八13。)年分可能指安息年。（利二五4。)保罗在十一节告诉加拉太人：『我为你们害怕，惟恐我在你们身上是徒然劳苦。』保罗在加拉太人身上劳苦，要把他们在恩典下带进基督里。他们转去谨守犹太宗教的规条，就使保罗在他们身上的劳苦徒然了。保罗似乎是在告诉加拉太信徒：『我在你们身上劳苦，将基督服事到你们里面。你们接受我服事给你们的，为甚么还回头去谨守律法的规条？』保罗实在不明白，他简直无法相信那些已经接受他传讲的人，竟会受迷惑到一个地步，又退回去谨守律法的规条，作牠们的奴仆。
3In verse 10 Paul continues, “You observe days and months and seasons and years.” The observances here were Jewish religious observances. The days mentioned were the Sabbaths and new moons (Isa. 66:23). The months were the sacred months like the first, Abib, the ear-month (Exo. 13:4); the second, Zif, the flower-month (1 Kings 6:1, 37); the seventh, Ethanim, the month of streaming rivers (1 Kings 8:2); and the eighth, Bul, the month of rain (1 Kings 6:38). The seasons were festal seasons such as the Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles (2 Chron. 8:13). The years perhaps denoted sabbatical years (Lev. 25:4). In verse 11 Paul tells the Galatians, “I fear for you, lest I have labored upon you in vain.” Paul labored upon the Galatians to bring them into Christ under grace. Their turning to the Jewish religious observances might cause Paul’s labor upon them to be in vain. It seems Paul was telling the believers in Galatia, “I labored on you and ministered Christ into you. Why, after receiving what I ministered to you, would you go back to the ordinances of the law?” Paul was puzzled. He simply could not believe that those who had received his preaching could be bewitched to such a degree that they would return to the observances of the law and become enslaved to them
要像保罗一样
BECOMING AS PAUL WAS
4十二节说，『弟兄们，我求你们要像我一样，因为我也像你们一样；你们一点没有亏负我。』保罗已经从犹太规条的辖制下得了释放。他劝加拉太人也要像他一样，就像他为福音的真理，就变成像外邦人一样。保罗已经尽力要像加拉太人一样，因此他现今劝他们也要像他一样。他的意思是说，『我爱你们，所以就变得像你们一样。现在我请求你们要像我一样。我已经不再为著日子、月分、节期、年分，我乃是为著基督的。我请求你们要像我一样。』
4Verse 12 says, “Become as I am, because I also am as you, brothers, I beseech you. You did not injure me at all.” Paul was free from the bondage of Jewish observances. He besought the Galatians to become as he was, even as he had become as a Gentile for the truth of the gospel. Having done his best to become the same as the Galatians, he now besought them to become as he is. He seemed to be saying, “I love you and became like you. Now I ask you to become as I am. I am not for days, months, seasons, and years. I am for Christ. I beg you, become as I am
5保罗在十二节告诉加拉太人说，他们一点没有亏负他。加拉太人从前没有亏负保罗，保罗盼望他们现今也不要亏负他。
5In verse 12 Paul tells the Galatians that they did not injure him at all. The Galatians had not injured Paul in the past. Paul expects that neither would they injure him now.
服事基督的机会
AN OPPORTUNITY TO MINISTER CHRIST
6十三节接著说，你们知道我初次传福音给你们，是因为肉身有疾病。』保罗在第一次尽职的行程中，因著肉身有疾病留在加拉太，就在那时传福音给他们。他的疾病给他一个好机会，把基督服事给他们。十四节说，『那在我肉身上成为你们试炼的，你们并没有轻看，也没有厌弃；反倒接待我，如同神的使者，如同基督耶稣。』这里保罗诉之于他们的爱，题醒他们从前怎样接待他如同神的使者（天使)一样，并且没有轻看他的疾病。
6Verse 13 continues, “And you know that on account of weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel to you formerly.” In his first journey, Paul was detained in Galatia because of physical weakness. While there, he preached the gospel to the Galatians. His illness afforded him a good opportunity to minister Christ to them. Verse 14 says, “ And that which was a trial to you in my flesh you did not despise nor loathe, but you received me as a messenger of God, as Christ Jesus.” Here Paul appeals to their love by reminding them that they had received him as a messenger of God, an angel, and had not despised his sickness
他们的福气
THEIR BLESSEDNESS
7保罗在十五节接著说，『这样，你们当日所庆幸的福气在那里？我能给你们作见证，若是可能，那时你们已把自己的眼睛剜出来给我了。』『你们的福气』，原文也可译作『你们的幸福、快乐』。加拉太人从前认为保罗能留在他们那里，传福音给他们，是他们的祝福。他们为此快乐，也以此夸口，这成了他们的福气。然而，他们现在转离了保罗所传的福音，使徒就问，他们当日所庆幸的福气、快乐、幸福在那里？当保罗在加拉太人中间的时候，加拉太人彼此欢乐庆贺，彼此祝贺有机会得著这样一位基督的执事与他们同在。当保罗在加拉太传福音，将基督服事给人的时候，他们非常喜乐，认为保罗的同在是一大祝福。这里的原文含示快乐、祝福、幸福的意思。
7In verse 15 Paul goes on to say, “Where then is your blessedness? For I testify to you that if possible you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.” The Greek words rendered “your blessedness” also mean your felicitation, your happiness. The Galatians formerly considered Paul’s being retained in their place and preaching the gospel to them a blessing. They were happy about it and boasted of it. That became their felicitation. However, now that they had departed from Paul’sp reaching of the gospel, the apostle questions them, “Where then is your blessedness, your happiness, your felicitation?” When Paul was among them, the Galatians celebrated their happiness with one another and congratulated one another for the opportunity to have such a minister of Christ with them. When Paul was in Galatia preaching the gospel, ministering Christ to the people, they were happy and regarded Paul’s presence as a great blessing. This happiness, blessedness, felicitation, is what is implied by the Greek term used here
8加拉太人珍赏保罗所传讲的，他们爱保罗到一个地步，甚至就如他所说，若是可能，愿意把自己的眼睛剜出来给他。这可能指明保罗肉身的疾病（13)是眼疾。他信上的字写得很大，（六11，)可能证实这点。这也可能是他肉身上的刺，某种肉身的疾病，他曾求主将其除去。（林后十二7～9。)
8The Galatians appreciated Paul’sp reaching and loved him to such an extent that, as he says, if possible, they would have torn out their eyes and given them to him. This may indicate that Paul’s physical weakness (v. 13) was in his eyes. This may be confirmed by the large letters he used in writing to them (6:11). It may also be the thorn in his flesh, some physical weakness, which he prayed might be removed from him (2 Cor. 12:7-9
9诉诸信徒的情爱保罗在十六节问：『现在我将真理告诉你们，就成了你们的仇敌么？』这话指明有些受骗的人已经把保罗当作仇敌了。假设有些弟兄到一个地方去看望圣徒，那里的圣徒欢喜的接待他们。但以后圣徒们受到一些教训或作法的打岔，转而反对他们曾经欢喜接待并极为宝爱的弟兄们。在这种情况下，这些弟兄们很可能会受试诱放弃那地区的圣徒。但保罗的态度肯定不是这样；他反倒有负担写信给他们，用满了爱的态度向他们诉求。我们都应当学习保罗，对那些从我们当中离开的信徒有负担。也许我们应当写信给他们说，『你们难道不记得你们是怎样在爱里服事我们么？今天你们的爱在那里？现在你们似乎把我们当作仇敌了。这实在是不合理的。难道因为我们将真理告诉你们，就成了你们的仇敌么？』保罗写三章的口气就像一位律师；但他写四章的时候，又像一位慈爱的父亲。四章乃是保罗照著他个人对加拉太人亲密的爱而写成的。他没有像一位律师循法律的途径来辩论，他乃是诉诸信徒的情爱。我们若要成为把基督服事给人的人，就必须学习这样来对他们说话。我们不该单单照著道理的真理来说话，我们应当用一种亲密又慈爱的态度来恳求人。
9AN APPEAL TO THE BELIEVERS’ AFFECTION In verse 16 Paul asks, “So have I become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?” This word indicates that certain of the deceived ones had come to regard Paul as an enemy. Suppose some brothers visit the saints in a certain region, and the saints there receive them gladly. However, later the saints are distracted by some teaching or practice and turn against the very brothers whom they once gladly received and appreciated highly. In such a case, these brothers may be tempted to give up on the saints in that region. But this definitely was not Paul’s attitude. On the contrary, he was burdened to write them and to appeal to them in a loving manner. We should learn of Paul to take up the burden for those believers who have turned away from us. Perhaps we should write them and say, “Do you not remember how you served us in love? Where is your love today? It seems that now you consider us your enemies. To be sure, this is not reasonable. Are we enemies simply because we speak the truth to you?” In writing Galatians 3, Paul spoke like an attorney. But in composing chapter four, he wrote like a loving father. Chapter four was written according to Paul’s personal and intimate love for the Galatians. Instead of arguing in a legal way like a lawyer, Paul appealed to the believers’ affection. If we would be those who minister Christ to others, we must learn to speak to them in such a way. We should not simply speak according to doctrinal truth, but should appeal to others in a personal, loving manner.
犹太教徒的目的
THE AIM OF THE JUDAIZERS
10十七节说，『那些人热心待你们，不是好意，乃是要离间你们，叫你们热心待他们。』这节里的『热心』原文意热切的讨好人。犹太教徒热切的讨好加拉太人，是盼望加拉太人也热切的讨好他们作为回报。讨好一个人乃是在爱里追求那个人，以博得他的爱为目的。犹太教徒这样追求加拉太信徒，实际上就是在讨好加拉太信徒。这指明犹太教徒是多么认真、多么热心。但正如保罗所说的，犹太教徒热切的讨好加拉太人，并不是好意，不过是要离间加拉太人。他们讨好加拉太人，不是用光荣、值得称赞的作法。他们的目的是要将加拉太人排除在所传正确的福音，恩典的福音之外。他们想要将加拉太人排除在神新约的经纶、对基督的享受、以及包罗万有赐生命的灵之外。今天那些有异议的人在原则上也是一样。他们的目标是要将召会的人排除在对基督的享受之外，使那些受他们欺骗的人热心的跟随他们。
10Verse 17 says, “They are zealous of you, not rightly, but they desire to shut you out, that you may be zealous of them.” The Greek word rendered zealous in this verse means to be jealously courting someone. The Judaizers were jealously courting the Galatians so that the Galatians might jealously court them in return. To court a person is to pursue that person in love with the aim of gaining his love. The Judaizers pursued the Galatian believers in this way, actually courting them. This indicates how serious, how zealous, the Judaizers were. However, as Paul says, the Judaizers jealously courted them, not rightly, but with the desire to shut them out. They did not pursue them in an honorable, commendable way. Their aim was to exclude them from the proper preaching of the gospel of grace. They wanted to exclude them from God’s New Testament economy, from the enjoyment of Christ, and from the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit. The principle is the same with dissenting ones today. Their goal is to shut out the church people from the enjoyment of Christ and to cause the ones they have deceived to zealously follow them.
11在十八节保罗接著说，『在善事上，常常热心待人，原是好的，却不单我与你们同在的时候才这样。』在善事或正确的传福音上，热切的待人原是好的，却不该只有保罗在的时候才这样。保罗这话指明他并不狭窄，不排除别人向加拉太人传福音；他反倒为此欢喜。（腓一18。)保罗喜欢人传福音传得合式，却不喜欢那一种热切讨好信徒的传法。
11In verse 18 Paul continues, “But it is good always to be zealous in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.” It is good to jealously court someone in a good thing, in the proper preaching of the gospel. This should be the case not only when Paul is present. By this word Paul indicates that he is not narrow, keeping other preachers of the gospel away from the Galatians. Rather, he rejoices in the preaching of others (Phil. 1:18). Paul was in favor of the proper preaching of others, but he was not in favor of that kind of jealous courting of the believers
保罗的生产之苦
PAUL’S TRAVAIL
12十九节说，『我的孩子们，我为你们再受生产之苦，直等到基督成形在你们里面。』保罗在此认为自己是生身的父亲，加拉太信徒是他在基督里所生的孩子。（参林前四15，门10。)这也是诉诸他们的情爱。
12Verse 19 says, “My children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you.” Here Paul considers himself the begetting father, and the Galatian believers his children begotten of him in Christ (see 1 Cor. 4:15; Philem. 10). This also was an appeal to their affection
13保罗告诉加拉太信徒，他为他们再受生产之苦。生产之苦是指生产时疼痛的劬劳。在这隐喻里，保罗把自己比作生孩子的母亲。他初次传福音给加拉太人时，曾这样劳苦的重生他们。因著他们偏离他所传的福音，他就再受生产之苦，直等到基督成形在他们里面。在这节里，保罗把自己比作生身的父亲，以及受生产之苦的母亲。那么他到底是父亲，还是母亲？他两者都是，要视情况而定。有时候，他是生身的父亲；有时候，他又是受生产之苦的母亲。保罗受生产之苦，好叫基督成形在加拉太人里面。基督这活的人位，乃是保罗福音的中心。他的传扬是把基督，活神的儿子，生在信徒里面，这与凭字句教导律法极为不同。因此，加拉太书是著重的以基督为中心。祂钉十字架，（三1，)赎出我们脱离律法的咒诅，（13，)并把我们从世界这邪恶的宗教系救出来；（一4；)祂且从死人中复活，（1，)使祂能活在我们里面。（28。)我们是浸入祂，与祂联合为一，也穿上了祂，披戴了祂。（三27。)因此，我们是在祂里面，（28，)成了属于祂的。（三29，五24。)另一面，祂已经启示在我们里面，（一16，)现今活在我们里面，（二20，)还要成形在我们里面。（四19。)律法已经带我们归于祂，（三，)在祂里面我们都是神的儿子。（26。)乃是在祂里面，我们承受神所应许的福，享受包罗万有的那灵；（14；)也是在祂里面，我们众人都是一了。（28。)我们不该丧失从祂来的这一切好处，而与祂隔绝。（五4。)我们需要祂在我们的灵里，用恩典供应我们，（六18，)使我们能活祂。
13Paul told the Galatian believers that he was again travailing on their behalf. Travail refers to painful labor in childbirth. In this metaphor Paul likens himself to a mother who gives birth to a child. He labored in this way for the regeneration of the Galatians when he first preached the gospel to them. Because they had deviated from the gospel he preached to them, he labors again in travail until Christ is formed in them. In this verse Paul likens himself both to a begetting father and a travailing mother. Was he, then, a father or a mother? He was both, depending on the situation. On one occasion he was a begetting father; on another, a travailing mother. Paul was in travail that Christ might be formed in the Galatians. Christ, a living Person, is the focus of Paul’s gospel. His preaching is to bring forth Christ, the Son of the living God, in the believers. This differs greatly from the teaching of the law in letters. Hence, the book of Galatians is emphatically Christ-centered. Christ was crucified (3:1) to redeem us out of the curse of the law (3:13) and rescue us out of the evil religious course of the world (1:4); and He was resurrected from among the dead (1:1) that He might live in us (2:20). We were baptized into Him, identified with Him, and have put on Him, have clothed ourselves with Him (3:27). Thus, we are in Him (3:28) and have become His (3:29; 5:24). On the other hand, He has been revealed in us (1:16), He is now living in us (2:20), and He will be formed in us (4:19). It is to Him the law has conducted us (3:24), and in Him we are all sons of God (3:26). It is in Him that 24 we inherit God’s promised blessing and enjoy the all- inclusive Spirit (3:14). It is also in Him that we are all one (3:28). We should not be deprived of all profit from Him and so be severed from Him (5:4). We need Him to supply us with His grace in our spirit (6:18) that we may live Him.
14当保罗初次向加拉太人传福音，使他们得著重生时，基督已经生在他们里面，但还没有成形在他们里面。现今使徒为他们再受生产之苦，使基督能成形在他们里面。使基督成形在我们里面，就是使基督在我们里面完全长大。基督先是在我们悔改信主时，生在我们里面；然后是在我们基督徒的生活中，活在我们里面；（三；)还要在我们成熟时，成形在我们里面。我们要成为成年的儿子，成为承受神应许之福的后嗣，并在神圣的儿子名分上
14Christ was born into the Galatian believers, but not formed in them, when they were regenerated through Paul’sp reaching the gospel to them the first time. Now the apostle travails again that Christ might be formed in them. To have Christ formed in us is to have Christ grown in us in full. First Christ was born into us at our conversion, then He lives in us in our Christian life (2:20), and He will be formed in us at our maturity. This is needed that we may be sons of full age, heirs 20 to inherit God’s promised blessing, and mature in the divine sonship.
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16成熟，就需要让基督成形在我们里面。供应基督
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17我们已经指明，十九节说出保罗的负担不是要推行某种基督教的工作，乃是要使基督成形在信徒里面。藉著保罗的传讲，基督已经进到加拉太人里面。但由于他们受欺骗，基督还没有在他们里面长大，没有在他们里面成形。因此保罗再度劳苦，像一个母亲受生产之苦，好使基督成形在信徒里面。保罗满带负担写这封信，为要将基督供应到圣徒里面。他有负担让基督在他们里面得著建立、建造。加拉太书告诉我们，基督已经启示在我们里面，并且在我们里面活著。现在我们看见，基督还必须成形在我们里面。
17As we have indicated, verse 19 points out that Paul’s burden was not to carry on a Christian work, but was to have Christ formed in the believers. Through Paul’sp reaching, Christ had entered into the Galatians. But because they had been deceived, Christ had not yet grown in them and had not been formed in them. Therefore, Paul labored again, like a mother laboring in giving birth, that Christ would be formed in the believers. Paul wrote out of the burden to minister Christ into the saints. He was burdened that Christ would be established, built up, in them. Galatians tells us that Christ is revealed in us and that He lives in us. Now we see that Christ must also be formed in us
18供应基督给人不是一件容易完成的事，通常都需要受苦和挣扎。供应基督比推行一般基督教工作难多了。你若愿意接受负担，诚心诚意要将基督供应给人，你就会发现，这需要许多的劳苦和受苦。你需要像一个生产孩子的母亲，劳苦努力。我们在召会中或在职事里服事的目标，必须是将基督供应到人里面。光说传福音是不彀的，因为我们很可能传了福音，却没有将基督供应给人。我们的负担必须是供应基督。我再说，这需要劳苦和受苦。这要求我们祷告、忍耐并爱人。按照我们的经历，这样的服事是一种争战、摔跤。那狡猾者，神的仇敌，很活跃的拦阻我们，或打岔我们。我们不知道他下一步会从甚么方向来攻击我们。因此，我们必须向保罗学习，有负担来供应基督，并诉诸圣徒的情爱，叫他们的心被摸著。
18Ministering Christ to others is not accomplished easily. It often requires suffering and struggle. Ministering Christ is much more difficult than carrying on an ordinary Christian work. If you would bear the burden, with a sincere heart, to minister Christ to others, you will discover what labor and suffering it requires. You will need to labor like a mother giving birth to a child. The goal of our service in the church or in the ministry must be to minister Christ into others. It is not adequate simply to say that we preach the gospel, for it is possible to preach the gospel without ministering Christ to others. Our burden must be the ministering of Christ. Once again I say that this requires labor and suffering. It demands prayer, patience, and love. According to our experience, such a ministry is a battle, a wrestling. The subtle one, the enemy of God, is active to bring in frustration or distraction. We do not know from what direction he will attack next. Hence, we must learn from Paul to be burdened to minister Christ and also to appeal to the saints’ affection that their hearts may be touched.
保罗心里作难
PAUL’S PERPLEXITY
19保罗在二十节说，『我巴不得现在与你们同在，改变我的口气，因我为你们心里作难。』使徒盼望把他严厉的口气改变为亲切的口气，如同母亲慈爱的对孩子说话。保罗不知道怎样对待加拉太人。他在寻找最好的方法，使他们从对基督的偏离恢复过来。二十节指明，保罗感觉写给加拉太信徒的话还不彀。他想去看看他们，并与他们在一起，因为他知道他的同在会比他的书信作得更多。保罗为著加拉太人心里作难，他不知道应当怎样对待他们，怎样应付他们的情形。他一方面称他们为『无知的加拉太人』，另一面又称他们为『亲爱的弟兄们』。这就看出保罗是何等的作难。
19In verse 20 Paul says, “ And I wished to be present with you now and to change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.” The apostle wanted to change his tone from severity to affection, as a mother speaking lovingly to her children. Paul was puzzled in dealing with the Galatians. He was searching for the best way to recover them from their deviation from Christ. Verse 20 indicates that Paul felt that what he had written to the Galatian believers was not adequate. He wanted to visit them and stay with them because he knew that his presence would accomplish more than his writing. Paul was perplexed about the Galatians; he did not know how to deal with them, how to handle their case. On the one hand, he addressed them as “foolish Galatians”; on the other hand, he appealed to them as “beloved brothers.” This indicates that Paul was perplexed
需要动机纯洁
THE NEED TO BE PURE IN MOTIVE
20保罗写四章的时候，满了真挚的情感，并且诉诸加拉太信徒的情爱。要合式的诉诸别人亲切的情爱，是非常困难的。我们要这样作，动机必须是单纯的。我们的动机若不单纯，我们在对圣徒的情爱上就当小心。我们接触圣徒，非常需要情爱，也需要诉诸别人的情爱。但我们必须知道，这种诉求是很困难的，因为我们很容易把天然的爱─蜜─带进来。要像保罗在四章那样纯洁是很不容易的。保罗是『被盐腌过』的人，这是他能彀这样单纯诉诸加拉太人亲切情爱的原因。他甚至可以用纯洁的动机责备他们，并定罪犹太教徒。但我们若想这样作，就会发现实在不容易。我们责备人的时候，动机需要纯洁。我们诉诸别人亲切情爱的时候，我们的动机还要更纯洁。在许多情形里，我们若不能诉诸人的情爱，就无法把基督服事给他们，也不能受生产之苦，好叫基督成形在他们里面。
20In writing chapter four Paul was very affectionate and appealed to the affection of the Galatian believers. It is very difficult to appeal to others’ personal affection in a proper way. To do this requires that our motive be pure. If we are not pure in our motive, we should be careful of our affection for the saints. There is a great need of affectionate contact with the saints; there is also the need to appeal to the affection of others. However, we must recognize that such an appeal is difficult, for it is easy for the natural love, the “honey,” to be present. It is not easy to be pure as Paul was in Galatians 4. Paul was a person who had been “salted.” This was the reason that he could appeal to the Galatians’ personal affection in such a pure way. He could even rebuke them and condemn the Judaizers with a pure intent. If we try to practice this, we shall discover how difficult it is. In rebuking others we need a pure motive. In appealing to others’ personal affection, we need to be even more pure in our motive. In many situations we shall not be able to minister Christ to others, to travail to have Christ formed in them, if we are not able to appeal to their affection.
21我们看过这么多点之后，就知道四章和三章一样重要。我感谢主，保罗写了这一章圣经。不然，我们会留下一个印象，就是保罗写信给加拉太人时只是按照法理，却没有亲切的情爱。在四章里，保罗有真挚的情感，并且恳求得著圣徒的爱，为要将基督供应给他们。
21As we consider all these points, we see that chapter four is as important as chapter three. I thank the Lord that Paul wrote this chapter. Otherwise, we might have the impression that in writing to the Galatians he was legal, but not personal or affectionate. In chapter four Paul could be affectionate and appeal to the love of the saints for the purpose of ministering Christ to them.