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以弗所书生命读经 · 第47篇

脱去了旧人并穿上了新人

HAVING PUT OFF THE OLD MAN AND HAVING PUT ON THE NEW MAN
1主耶稣在地上的三十三年半中，形成了那些信祂之人要被模成的模子、模型。按照四福音的记载，主耶稣的生活乃是实际的生活。实际（真理）就是光的照耀。光是源头，实际是其彰1:3显。希伯来一章三节说，主耶稣是神荣耀的光辉。这意思是说，祂乃是那是光之神的照耀。因著主在地上生活的每一面都有光的照耀，所以祂的生活乃是实际的生活，就是神自己照耀的生活。这实际的生活就是神的彰显。因这缘故，保罗说，我们是照著那在耶稣身上是实际者，学了基督。换句话说，我们乃是照著耶稣生活的模子学了基督。耶稣生活的模子就是实际。基督设立了这个模子之后，就经过死与复活，并在复活里成了赐生命的灵。祂是这样一位灵，进到我们里面作我们的生命。当我们相信祂并受浸时，神就把我们摆在作模子的基督里面，如同面团被摆在模子里一样。藉著被摆在模子里，我们就学了这模子。这意思是说，藉著被摆在基督里，我们就学了基督。一面，神把我们摆在基督里；另一面，基督进到我们里面作我们的生命。现今，我们能照著神把我们摆入的模子，凭祂而活。
1In His thirty-three and a half years on earth, the Lord Jesus formed the mold, the pattern, to which all those who believe in Him are to be conformed. According to the record of the four Gospels, the life of the Lord Jesus was a life of truth. Truth is the shining of light. Light is the source, and truth is its expression. As Hebrews says, the Lord Jesus is the effulgence of God’s glory. This means that He is the shining of God who is light. Because in every aspect of the Lord’s living on earth there was the shining of light, His life was a life of truth, a life of the shining of God Himself. That life of truth was the very expression of God. For this reason Paul says that we learn Christ as the truth is in Jesus. In other words, we learn Christ according to the mold of the life of Jesus. The mold of the life of Jesus is the truth. After Christ established this mold, He passed through death and resurrection, and in resurrection He became the life-giving Spirit. As such a Spirit, He comes into us to be our life. When we believed in Him and were baptized, God put us into Him as the mold, just as dough is placed into a mold. By being put into the mold we learned the mold. This means that by being put into Christ, we learn Christ. On the one hand, God put us into Christ; on the other hand, Christ has come into us to be our life. Now we may live by Him according to the mold in which we have been placed by God.
2没有多少人知道四福音书对我们的影响。当我们在福音书中读到主耶稣所形成的模子时，那个模子就自然而然的影响我们的生活。当我们爱主，接触祂，向祂祷告，我们就自然而然的照著福音书中所描绘的模子活祂。这样，我们就被形成、被模成这个模子的形像。这就是学基督的意思。这样学基督，与把祂当作客观的榜样，而凭我们天然的生命努力模倣祂，是全然不同的。神已经把我们摆在主耶稣在地上生活所形成的模子里。同时，基督作赐生命的灵已经进入我们里面作生命。我们越爱祂，越接触祂，我们就越照著这模子活祂。结果，我们就自然而然的模成这模子的形像。因此，我们能同保罗说，『在我，活著就是基督。』（腓一21。）我们是照著基督自己生活的模样，就是照著福音书中所记载的模样，而活基督。
2Not many of us may realize the influence the four Gospels have on us. When we read in the Gospels of the mold formed by the Lord Jesus, that mold spontaneously influences our living. As we love the Lord, contact Him, and pray to Him, we automatically live Him according to the mold described in the Gospels. In this way we are shaped, conformed, to the image of this mold. This is what it means to learn Christ. Learning Christ in this way is altogether different from taking Him as an objective example and endeavoring in our natural life to imitate Him. God has put us into them old formed by the life of Jesus on earth. Simultaneously, Christ as the life - giving Spirit has come into our being as life. The more we love Him and contact Him, the more we live Him according to this mold. As a result, we are spontaneously conformed to the image of that mold. Therefore, with Paul we can say, “For to me to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:21). We live Christ in the form of His own life, in the form recorded in the Gospels.
3我们必须区别这种的生活，与摩登派教训我们要效法基督作我们榜样的生活。摩登派错误的教导说，基督不是神，祂只是一个人，设立了最高的标准给我们遵行。这种教训要我们用天然的生命效法基督，并活出祂的标准；这样的教训乃是异端。这绝对与那在耶稣身上是实际者无关。这教训否认真信徒是在基督里，并且有基督在他里面的事实。我们与这异端的摩登派教训相反，我们是照著新约圣经说，当一个罪人悔改，相信基督并受浸归入基督时，神就把他摆在作模子的基督里。同时，基督作赐生命的灵进到他里面作他的生命。此后，这个信徒要照著这模子，凭著基督作他的生命而活。他越凭基督而活，他就越自然而然的模成那模子的模样。这是在基督里的生活，也是在我们里面之基督的生活。我们乃是在作模子的基督里，并且祂在我们里面作我们的生命。这样，我们就照著那在耶稣身上是实际者学了基督。以弗所四章说到与神呼召相配之生活的三个项目：保守一，（1～14，）长到元首里面，（15～16，）以及照著那在耶稣身上是实际者，学了基督。（17～32。）关于照著那在耶稣身上是实际者而学基督，保罗首先劝勉我们并向我们见证，我们不该再像外邦人在他们心思的虚妄里行事为人。（17。）我们反而应当照著那在耶稣身上是实际者的生活，行事为人。外邦人在他们心思的虚妄里行事为人，我们却在福音书中所记载耶稣生活所彰显的实际里行事为人。在祂的生活里，我们看见实际，真理，就是光的照耀，也就是神的彰显。我们既是在基督里的信徒，就要在这样的实际里行事为人。
3We must distinguish this kind of living from that according to the modernistic teaching regarding imitating Christ as our example. The modernists falsely teach that Christ is not God, but a man who established the highest standard for us to follow. This teaching requires that we exercise our natural life to imitate Christ and to live up to His standard. Such a teaching is heretical. It has absolutely nothing to do with the truth as it is in Jesus. It denies the fact that a true believer is in Christ and has Christ in him. In contrast to this heretical, modernistic teaching, we say according to the New Testament that when a sinner repents and believes in Christ and is baptized into Christ, God puts this one into Christ as the mold. At the same time, Christ as the life-giving Spirit comes into him to be his life. Thereafter, this believer is to live by Christ as his life according to the mold. The more he lives by Christ, the more he will be spontaneously shaped into the form of the mold. This is a life in Christ and also a life of Christ in us. We are in Christ as the mold, and He is in us as our life. In this way we learn Christ as the truth is in Jesus. Ephesians 4 covers three items concerning a life worthy of God’scall ing: keeping the oneness (vv. 1-14), growing up into the Head (vv. 15-16), and learning Christ as the truth is in Jesus (vv. 17-32). Concerning the learning of Christ as the truth is in Jesus, Paul firstly exhorts us and testifies to us that we should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind (v. 17). Instead, we should walk in the life that is according to the truth in Jesus. The Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, but we walk in the reality expressed in the life of Jesus recorded in the Gospels. In His life we see reality, truth, the shining of light, the expression of God. As the believers in Christ, we are to walk in such a reality
4二十一节说，我们在基督里面，照著那在耶稣身上是实际者，受过教导。二十二和二十四节给我们看见，我们所受过的教导，就是脱去旧人，并且穿上新人。当我们被摆在模子里，也就是当我们受浸时，我们就受了这样的教导。在受浸时，我们受教导说，我们的旧人已经被钉十字架，并且藉著受浸埋葬了。不仅如此，我们也受教导说，当我们从水里上来，我们就复活进入新人里。所以，藉著受浸，我们受了教导，脱去了旧人，并且穿上了新人。
4Verse 21 says that we have been taught in Christ as the truth is in Jesus. Verses 22 and 24 show us what we have been taught: that we have put off the old man and have put on the new man. We were taught this when we were put into the mold, that is, when we were baptized. In baptism we were taught that our old man has been crucified and that he is to be buried by baptism. Furthermore, we were taught that as we come out of the water, we are resurrected into the new man. Therefore, by baptism we were taught that we have put off the old man and have put on the new man.
5在这点上，我们要来看罗马六章三至五节。三节说，『岂不知我们这浸入基督耶稣的人，是浸入祂的死么？』浸入基督耶稣，意思就是被摆在祂里面。不仅如此，藉著受浸，我们已经被埋葬归入基督的死。在四至五节，我们看见模子。这两节指明，藉著受浸，我们受过教导，脱去了旧人，并且穿上了新人。这是正常基督徒的经历。在一般情形下，当我们传福音给罪人时，我们告诉他们，主耶稣的一生、受死和复活，然后我们鼓励那些愿意相信基督的人，接受祂进到他们里面作生命。下一步是给他们施浸。这指明我们将他们摆在基督这模子里。此后，他们要照这模子凭基督而活。藉著受浸，他们受了教导，脱去了旧人，并穿上了新人。藉著受浸被埋葬，他们就照著那在耶稣身上是实际者学了基督。4:20-我们不该想要用我们天然的心思，来领会四章二十至二十四节这样的话；反而，我们需要在基督徒经历的光中来思想这几节。如果我们这样作，光会逐渐照亮我们，我们就会看见实际。这里的实际乃是，当我们受浸时，我们就受了教导，我们脱去了旧人，并穿上了新人。请注意，保罗不是说，我们已经受过教导要脱去旧人，并且要穿上新人。不，我们已经脱去了旧人，并且穿上了新人。我们的旧人已经在受浸的水里被埋葬；因此，我们脱去了旧人。不仅如此，当我们在复活里从水里起来时，我们就穿上了新人。因此，我们已经在基督里，照著那在耶稣身上是实际者，受过教导，就是我们已经脱去了旧人，并且穿上了新人。
5At this point we need to consider Romans 6:3-5. Verse 3 says, “Are you ignorant that as many as have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?” To be baptized into Christ Jesus means to be put into Him. Furthermore, through baptism we have been buried into Christ’s death. In verses 4 and 5 we see the mold. These verses indicate that through baptism we were taught that we have put off the old man and have put on the new man. This is the normal Christian experience. Normally, as we preach the gospel to sinners, we tell them of the life, death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Then we encourage those who are willing to believe in Christ to receive Him into them as their life. The next step is to baptize them. This indicates that we put them into Christ as the mold. Thereafter, they are to live by Christ according to the mold. By baptism they have been taught that they have put off the old man and have put on the new man. By being buried through baptism, they learned Christ as the truth is in Jesus. We should not try to understand verses such as 24 through the exercise of our natural mind. Rather, we need to consider them in the light of our Christian experience. If we do this, the light will gradually shine upon us, and we shall see the truth. The truth here is that when we were baptized, we were taught that we have put off the old man and that we have put on the new man. Notice that Paul does not say that we have been taught to put off the old man and to put on the new man. No, we have already put off the old man and have put on the new man. Our old man was buried in the waters of baptism. Hence, we have put off the old man. Furthermore, as we rose up from the water in resurrection, we were clothed with the new man. Hence, we have also put on the new man. Therefore, we have been taught in Christ as the truth is in Jesus that we have put off the old man and put on the new man.
壹 学基督的条件
I. A CONDITION OF LEARNING CHRIST
6脱去了旧人，并且穿上了新人，乃是学基督的条件。这与那属鬼魔之摩登派的教训完全不同，他们说基督设立了人性生活的最高标准，我们必须努力效法祂，好达到这个标准。我们若要照著那在耶稣身上是实际者学基督，就必须履行脱去旧人并穿上新人的条件。这不是一个肤浅的真理。
6Having put off the old man and having put on the new man is a condition of learning Christ. This is utterly different from the devilish, modernistic teaching which says that Christ established the highest standard of human living and that we must endeavor to copy Him and to live up to this standard. If we would learn Christ as the truth is in Jesus, we must fulfill the condition of having put off the old man and of having put on the new man. This is not a superficial truth.
贰 脱去了旧人
II. HAVING PUT OFF THE OLD MAN
一 在从前的生活样式上
A. As Regards Our Former Manner of Life
7二十二节说，我们在从前的生活样式上，脱去了旧人。从前的生活样式，就是在心思虚妄里的行事为人。这样的生活样式已经了结并且除去了。
7Verse 22 says that we have put off, as regards the former manner of life, the old man. The former manner of life was a walk in the vanity of the mind. Such a manner of life has been terminated and put away
二 旧人
B. The Old Man
8二十二节也说，这旧人『是照著那迷惑的情欲败坏的』。旧人出于亚当，虽是神造的，却因罪堕落了。原文在『迷惑』之前的『那』是加强语，指明『迷惑』是人位化的辞。因此，『那迷惑』是指那迷惑者撒但；从他出来的，乃是败坏之旧人的情欲。旧人是照著那迷惑者魔鬼的情欲败坏的。就著外面说，旧人的生活样式是在心思虚妄里的行事为人；就著里面说，旧人是照著魔鬼的情欲，就是那迷惑的情欲败坏的。这旧人已经与基督同钉十字架，（罗六，）并且在受浸时已经埋葬了。（4。）阿利路亚，我们受浸时已经脱去了旧人！
8Verse 22 also says that the old man “is being corrupted according to the lusts of the deceit.” The old man is of Adam, created by God, but fallen through sin. The article be fore the word deceit is emphatic and indicates that the word deceit is personified. Hence, deceit here refers to the deceiver, the Devil, from whom are the lusts of the corrupted old man. The old man is corrupted according to the lusts of the Devil, the deceiving one. Outwardly, the manner of life of the old man is a walk in the vanity of the mind. Inwardly, the old man is corrupted according to the lusts of the Devil, the lusts of the deceit. This old man was crucified with Christ (Rom. 6:6) and was buried in baptism (Rom. 6:4). Hallelujah, we have 6 put off the old man in baptism!
参 得以更新
III. BEING RENEWED
9在说到脱去了旧人以及穿上了新人的话之间，保罗插进了在我们心思的灵里得以更新的思想。（弗四23。）基于脱去旧人以及穿上新人这完成的事实，二十三节告诉我们，要在我们心思的灵里得以更新。得以更新，是为著我们变化成基督的形像。（罗十二2，林后三18。）这里的灵是信徒重生的灵，调和了神内住的灵。这样调和的灵扩展到我们的心思，就成了我们心思的灵。我们乃是在这样的灵里得以更新，得以变化。我们天然的心思乃是这样被征服、被降服，且置于灵之下。当然这含示新陈代谢的变化过程。当这过程发生时，调和的灵就进入我们的心思，占有我们的心思，而成了我们心思的灵。
9Between the word regarding the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new man, Paul wedges in the thought of being renewed in the spirit of our mind (v. 23). Based upon the accomplished facts of the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new man, verse 23 tells us to be renewed in the spirit of our mind. To be renewed is for our transformation to the image of Christ (Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18). The spirit here is the regenerated spirit of the believers mingled with the indwelling Spirit of God. Such a mingled spirit spreads into our mind, thus becoming the spirit of our mind. It is in such a spirit that we are renewed for our transformation. In this way our natural mind is conquered, subdued, and put under the spirit. This, of course, implies a process of metabolic transformation. As this process takes place, the mingled spirit enters our mind, takes over our mind, and becomes the spirit of our mind
10我们藉著心思的灵得以更新，好在经历上成就脱去旧人以及穿上新人所完成的。脱去旧人以及穿上新人，乃是已完成的事实。现今我们必须藉著在我们心思的灵里得以更新，来经历并实化这些事实。当这些事实在经历中被实化时，我们就过著与耶稣的生活相符的生活；这就是说，我们过著实际的生活，就是有光照耀且彰显神的生活。当我们在我们心思的灵里得以更新，而施行脱去旧人并穿上新人的事实时，我们所过的生活，就是照著那在耶稣身上是实际者的生活。
10By the spirit of the mind we are renewed to fulfill in experience what was accomplished in the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new man. The putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new man are accomplished facts. Now we must experience and realize these facts by being renewed in the spirit of our mind. As these facts are realized in experience, we live a life that corresponds to the life of Jesus. This means that we live a life of truth, a life in the shining of light and in the expression of God. When we are renewed in the spirit of our mind to execute the fact of having put off the old man and having put on the new man, we live a life according to the truth that is in Jesus.
肆 穿上了新人
IV. HAVING PUT ON THE NEW MAN
一 团体的
A. Corporate
11新人是属于基督的。这新人就是祂的身体，是祂在十字架上在自己里面所创造的。（弗二15～16。）这不是个人的，乃是团体的。（西三10～11。）新人是由两班人创造成的，这事实证明新人是团体的。不仅如此，歌罗西三章十至十一节启示，新人是由许多不同的人组成的。在这团体的新人里，没有希利尼人或犹太人，没有为奴的或自主的，没有化外人或西古提人，惟有基督是一切，又在一切之内。歌罗西三章十一节里的『一切』，是指众人说的。这意思是说，在新人里，基督是众人，也在众人之内。所以，在团体
11The new man is of Christ. It is His Body, created in Him on the cross (2:15-16). It is not individual, but corporate (Col. 3:10-11). The fact that the new man is created of two peoples proves that it is corporate. Furthermore, Colossians 3:10 and 11 reveal that the new man is a composition of many different peoples. In this corporate new man there is no Greek or Jew, no bond or free, no barbarian or Scythian, but Christ is all and in all. In Colossians 3:11 the word “all” refers to people. This means that in the new man Christ is all the people and is in all the people. Therefore, in the corporate new man Christ is all and in all
12的新人里，基督是一切，又在一切之内。
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13以弗所书首先启示召会是基督的身体、（一22～23、）神的国、神的家人，（二19，）也是神的殿、神的居所。（21～22。）这里又进一步启示，召会是新人。这是召会最高的一面。『召会』的希腊字是ekklesia，艾克利西亚，意思是蒙召之人的聚集，因此是一个会集。这是召会初步的一面。使徒由此向前说到神国的国民，以及神家里的亲人。这些比初步的一面高，但比不上召会是基督的身体这一面。然而，新人比基督的身体还要高。因此，召会不只是信徒的聚集、属天国民的国度、神儿女的家庭，甚至也不只是基督的身体；召会最后至高至极的一面乃是新人，以完成神永远的定旨。召会是基督的身体，需要基督作生命；召会是新人，需要基督作人位。这新的团体人该过一种生活，如同耶稣在地上所过的，就是实际的生活，彰显神并叫人认识神是实际。这新人是使徒这段劝勉（四17～32）的中心。
13The book of Ephesians reveals that the church is the Body of Christ (1:22-23), the kingdom of God, the household of God (2:19), and the temple, the dwelling place of God (2:21-22). It reveals further that the church is the new man. This is the highest aspect of the church. The Greek word for church, ekklesia, means those called out for a gathering, hence, an assembly. This is the initial aspect of the church. From this the apostle goes on to the aspects of fellow-citizens of the kingdom of God and members of the household of God. These are higher than the initial aspect, but not as high as the aspect of the church as the Body of Christ. Yet the new man is still higher than the Body of Christ. Thus, the church is not just an assembly of believers, a kingdom of heavenly citizens, a household of God’s children, nor even a Body for Christ. It is in its uttermost aspect a new man to accomplish God’s eternal purpose. As the Body of Christ, the church needs Christ as its life; whereas as the new man, the church needs Christ as its person. This new corporate person should live a life as Jesus lived on earth, that is, a life of truth, expressing God and causing God to be realized as the reality by man. Hence, the new man is the focus of the apostle’s exhortation in this section (vv. 17-32).
二 照著神创造的
B. Created according to God
14二十四节说，新人是照著神创造的。旧人是外面照著神的形像创造的，没有神的生命和性情。（创一26～27。）但新人是里面照著神自己创造的，有神的生命和性情。（西三10。）三在那实际的义和圣中不仅如此，新人是在那实际的义和圣中所创造的。义是照著神公义的法则，与神与人都是对的。圣是在神面前的敬虔、虔诚。（见路一75注1。）义重在对人，圣重在对神。义是指外面的行为，圣是指内里的性情。在外面，与新人有关的一切都是义的；在里面，与新人有关的一切都是圣的。新人的义和圣都是属于实际。二十四节的『那』是加强语。在二十二节，与旧人有关的那迷惑，如何是撒但的人位化；这里与新人有关的那实际，也照样是神的人位化。那实际，如二十一节所说，是展示在耶稣的生活里。在耶稣的生活里，总是显出那实际的义和圣。新人是在那实际的义和圣中所创造的。那实际就是神的实化和彰显。那迷惑是魔鬼；那实际乃是神。旧人是照著魔鬼的情欲，新人却是在神的义和圣中。把原文这里的『实际』一辞繙成形容词，是严重的错误。钦定英文译本犯了这样的错误，采用『真实的圣别』的译法。保罗这里的观念不是真实的圣别，而是实际的圣，这里的圣乃是神圣人位的圣。新人是照著神，在神自己的义和圣中所创造的。
14Verse 24 says that the new man was created according to God. The old man was created according to the image of God outwardly, without God’s life and nature (Gen. 1:26-27). But the new man was created according to God Himself inwardly, with God’s life and nature (Col. 3:10). C. In Righteousness and Holiness of the Truth Furthermore, the new man was created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. Righteousness is being right with God and with man according to God’s righteous way, whereas holiness is being separated unto God from anything common and being saturated with God’sho ly nature. Righteousness refers to the outward acts, whereas holiness refers to the inward nature. Outwardly everything related to the new man is righteous; and inwardly everything related to the new man is holy. The righteousness and holiness of the new man are of the truth. The article before truth in verse 24 is emphatic. As the deceit in verse 22, related to the old man, is the personification of Satan, so truth here, related to the new man, is the personification of God. This truth was exhibited in the life of Jesus, as mentioned in verse 21. In the life of Jesus righteousness and holiness of truth were always being manifested. It was in the righteousness and holiness of this truth, which is God realized and expressed, that the new man was created. Deceit is the Devil, and truth is God. The old man is according to the lusts of the Devil, but the new man is in the righteousness and holiness of God. It is a serious mistake to render the Greek word for truth here as an adjective. The King James Version made such a mistake in adopting the rendering “true holiness.” Here Paul’s concept is not that of true holiness but that of the holiness of the truth. Holiness here is the holiness of the divine Person. The new man was created according to God in the righteousness and holiness of God Himself.
15为要叫我们学基督，保罗在旧人和新人，魔鬼和神之间，并在一面是情欲，一面是义和圣之间，作了鲜明的对比。我们受过教导，已经脱去了旧人，并穿上了新人。这意思是说，我们脱去了魔鬼的情欲和虚谎，并且穿上了神的义和圣。这位神就是实际，这实际显在耶稣地上的生活中。耶稣的人性生活是照著这实际，就是照著神自己，满了义和圣。赞美主，我们照著那在耶稣身上是实际者学了基督！
15In order that we might learn Christ, Paul presents a sharp contrast between the old man and the new man, between the Devil and God, and between lusts, on the one hand, and righteousness and holiness, on the other. We have been taught that we have already put off the old man and have put on the new man. This means we have put off the lusts and the falsehood of the Devil and have put on the righteousness and holiness of God. This God is the truth, and this truth is seen in the living of Jesus on earth. The human living of Jesus was according to the truth, that is, according to God Himself, full of righteousness and holiness. Praise the Lord that we have learned Christ as the truth is in Jesus!
16如果我们藉著脱去旧人并穿上新人学了基督，我们就是在召会生活里，因为新人事实上就是召会。如果我们照著那在耶稣身上是实际者学了基督，我们就有真正、正确、且实际的召会生活。
16If we learn Christ by putting off the old man and by putting on the new man, we shall be in the church life, for the new man actually is the church. If we learn Christ as the truth is in Jesus, then we can have a genuine, proper, and practical church life