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以弗所书生命读经 · 第92篇

新人的成全

THE PERFECTING OF THE NEW MAN
1读经：以弗所书四章七至十六节。
1Scripture Reading: Scripture Reading: Eph. 4:7-16
2在以弗所二章十五节保罗说到一个新人的创造：『在祂的肉体里，废掉了那规条中诫命的律法，好把两下在祂自己里面，创造成一个新人，成就了和平。』然后他在四章十三节说到达到长成的人，在四章二十四节说到穿上新人。十三节长成的人，就是二十四节的新人。因此，以弗所书三次说到新人。
2In 2:15 Paul speaks of the creation of the one new man: “Having abolished in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, making peace.” Then in 4:13 he speaks of arriving at a full-grown man, and in 4:24, of putting on the new man. The full-grown man in verse 13 is the new man in verse 24. Hence, in Ephesians the new man is referred to three times
3有些版本在繙译四章二十四节时犯了严重的错误。譬如，英译修订标准本说，『穿上新性情。』这是何等拙劣的繙译！这里的希腊字是anthropos，安索洛波斯，与二章十五节的『人』同字。英译新美国标准本也犯了严重的错误，把这节译为『穿上新自己』。很少基督徒著者看见，四章二十四节的新人就是召会。范恩（W.E.Vine）在他的『新约字义解释』（ExpositoryDictionaryofNewTestament
3Some versions make a serious error in rendering 4:24. For example, the Revised Standard Version says “put on the new nature.” What a poor translation! The Greek word here is anthropos, the same word used for man in 2:15. The New American Standard Version also makes a serious mistake by rendering this verse, “put on the new self.” Very few Christian writers have recognized that the new man in 4:24 is the church. In his Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
4）中指出，四章二十四节的新人是召会，也就是基督的身体。他清楚的把四章
4W. E. Vine points out that the new man in 4:24 Words is the church which is Christ’s Body. He clearly
5二十四节和二章十五节联起来。无疑的，四章二十四节的一个新人，也就是二章十五节的新人，因为两处都是用同样的辞。在二章十五节，我们看见新人的创造。我们可以把这个创造视为新人的出生。一个孩子如何藉著长大而被成全，在基督里所创造成的新人，也照样是藉著长大而被成全。这是保罗在二章和四章都说到新人的原因。
5connects 4:24 to 2:15. No doubt the one new man in 4:24 is the new man in 2:15, for the same term is used in each case. In 2:15 we have the creation of the new man. We may regard this creation as the birth of the new man. Just as a child is perfected through growth, so the new man created in Christ is also perfected through growth. This is the reason Paul refers to the new man in chapter four as well as in chapter two
生机上以及功用上的完全
PERFECT ORGANICALLY AND FUNCTIONALLY
6我们可以分辨生机上的完全或完整，与功用上的完全。婴儿一生下来就在生机上是完全的，也就是说，婴儿已经具备了一切必要的器官。然而，一个孩子刚生下来时，在功用上并不完全。就生机上说，母亲帮不了她的孩子，因为她不能给孩子添加甚么器官；但她能在功用上帮助她的孩子，藉著𫗪养他，使他正常的长大。虽然只有造物之神能造一个生机完全的生机体，但是我们作父母的，必须帮助孩子们在功用上成为健全的。我们藉著保养、顾惜孩子们，来履行这个责任。要有正确的发展，正常的功能，每个孩子都需要保养、顾惜。这个原则也能应用到作为新人的召会上。在二章十五节，我们看见新人生机的创造，但在四章十三至十六节，我们看见新人功用的成全。
6We may distinguish between something that is perfect. or complete organically and something that is perfect according to its function. At birth, an infant is perfect organically; that is, the in fant has all the necessary organs. However, a child is not functionally perfect at birth. Organically, a mother cannot help her child, for she cannot add any organs to the child. But she can help him functionally by feeding him so that he will grow normally. Although only God the Creator can produce an organism that is perfect organically, we as parents must help our children become perfect functionally. We fulfill this responsibility by nourishing our children and cherishing them. In order to develop properly and to function normally, every child needs to be nourished and cherished. This principle also applies to the church as the new man. In 2:15 we see the creation of the new man organically, but in 4:13-16 we see the perfecting of the new man in relation to his function.
7就这一面说，四章十六节是极其重要的一节。保罗在这里说，『本于祂，全身藉著每一丰富供应的节，并藉著每一部分依其度量而有的功用，得以联络在一起，并结合在一起，便叫身体渐渐长大，以致在爱里把自己建造起来。』我们在生命里的长大，是长到元首基督里面；但我们在基督身体里的功用，是从元首出来的。『每一部分』这辞，指的是基督身体的每一肢体。基督身体的每一肢体各有其度量，尽功用叫身体长大。基督的身体是藉著供应的节和尽功用的部分，叫自己渐渐长大。基督身体的长大，就是基督在召会里的加增，结果叫基督的身体把自己建造起来。以弗所二章里没有像四章十六节这样的经节。在二章我们有新人的出生，但没有新人的功用。新人出生时，在生机上是完全的；然而，他还不能尽功用。小孩子如何需要藉著保养、顾惜得成全，那在生机上完全的新人，也照样需要藉著生命的长大得成全，使他能正确的尽功用。
7In this respect, 4:16 is an extremely important verse. Here Paul says, “Out from Whom all the Body, fitted and knit together through every joint of the supply, according to the operation in measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.” Our growth in life is to grow into the Head, Christ, but our function in the Body is to function out from Him. The phrase “each one part” refers to every member of the Body. Every member of the Body of Christ has its own measure which works for the growth of the Body. The Body causes the growth of itself through the supplying joints and working parts. The growth of the Body is the increase of Christ in the church, which results in the building up of the Body itself. There is no verse such as 4:16 in Ephesians 2. In chapter two we have the birth of the new man, but not the function of the new man. At birth, the new man is organically perfect; however, he is not yet able to function. Just as a child needs to be perfected through nourishing and cherishing, so the organically perfect new man needs to be perfected through the growth of life in order to function in a proper way
8我们肉身的生命描绘出这事。惟有神能创造一个生机完全的人。然而，孩子生出来以后，神没有来𫗪养或顾惜他。这是父母的责任，尤其是母亲的责任。小孩越得𫗪养、越长大，就越能正常的尽功用。同样的原则，基督所创造的新人必须被成全，才能尽功用。藉著四章所说的长大，新人就能尽功用。藉著每一部分依其度量而有的功用，便叫身体渐渐长大，以致在爱里把自己建造起来。创造新人的责任全在于主，在这事上我们是没有分的。但我们必须履行我们的责任，藉著保养和顾惜来成全新人。新人这样被成全时，他就长大，并在功用上得以完全。
8Our physical life portrays this. Only God can create a being that is organically perfect. However, after a child is born, God does not come in to feed him or cherish him. This is the responsibility of the parents, especially of the mother. The more the child is nourished and grows, the more he will function normally. In the same principle, the new man created by Christ must be perfected in order to function. Through the growth spoken of in chapter four, the new man comes into function. Through the operation in the measure of each part, the Body grows unto the building up of itself in love. The creation of the new man was the responsibility of the Lord alone. We have nothing whatever to do with this. But we must fulfill our responsibility to perfect the new man through nourishing and cherishing. As the new man is perfected in this way, he grows and becomes perfect functionally.
藉著𫗪养而长大
GROWTH THROUGH FEEDING
9我们已经指出，惟有得著正确的滋养，新人才能在功用上得以完全。然而，这不是一件肤浅的事。相反的，这是整卷以弗所书最深奥的观念。今天基督教的牧师、传道人所作的主要是教导人，因此建造起来的是宗教，而不是基督的身体。我们中间有许多人从前是牧师或传教士的，能作这样的见证。由于基督教人士依赖道理，他们主要所建造的不是基督的身体，而是别的东西。基督的身体不是藉著道理的教训，就能在功用上完全。事实上，以弗所四章说到新人乃是藉著生命的长大而得成全；在这一章里，道理是被贬低的。保罗说，当我们不再作小孩子时，就不再被教训之风摇荡。建造基督的身体，以及在功用上成全新人，所需要的乃是生命的长大；这惟有来自𫗪养。
9We have pointed out that the new man can become perfect in relation to his functions only through receiving the proper nourishment. This, however, is not a superficial matter. On the contrary, it is one of the deepest concepts in the whole book of Ephesians. In Christianity today the ministers, pastors, and preachers mainly teach the people and thereby build up a religion instead of the Body. Many of those among us who formerly were ministers or missionaries can testify of this. Because those in Christianity rely on doctrine, they mainly build up something else in place of the Body. The Body does not become functionally perfect through the teaching of doctrine. Actually, in Ephesians 4, a chapter that speaks of the perfecting of the new man through the growth of life, doctrine is depreciated. Paul says that when we are no longer children, we shall no longer be carried about by winds of doctrine. What is needed for the building up of the Body and for perfecting the new man functionally is the growth of life. This comes only through feeding
10恩赐为著成全圣徒四章八节告诉我们，升天的基督将各样的恩赐赐给人。这里的恩赐不是指服事的能力，乃是指十一节各种有恩赐的人─使徒、申言者、传福音者、牧人和教师。基督藉著死与复活，征服了撒但和死，并拯救他们这些人脱离撒但和死之后，就在升天里用祂复活的生命，使这些蒙拯救的罪人成为这样的恩赐，并将他们赐给祂的身体，以建造祂的身体。因此，十一节所说四种有恩赐的人，乃是那些被赋与特别恩赐的人。这些有恩赐的人，赐给了召会，『为要成全圣徒，目的是为著职事的工作，为著建造基督的身体。』（12。）圣徒越被成全，就越长大。藉著长大，他们的功用就显出来，并且他们乃是照著他们的度量有效的工作而尽功用。升天的基督产生恩赐
10GIFTS FOR THE PERFECTING OF THE SAINTS In 4:8 we are told that the ascended Christ gave gifts to men. The gifts here do not refer to abilities for service, but to the gifted persons mentioned in verse 11—apostles, prophets, evangelists, and shepherds and teachers. After conquering them and rescuing them from Satan and death through His death and resurrection, Christ in His ascension makes rescued sinners such gifts with His resurrection life and gives them to His Body for its building up. Hence, the four kinds of gifted persons mentioned in verse 11 are those who have been endued with a special gift. These gifted ones are given “for the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ” (v. 12). The more the saints are perfected, the more they grow. Through growth their function comes forth, and they function according to the effectual working in their measure. THE ASCENDED CHRIST PRODUCING GIFTS
11让我们更仔细的来看，基督如何将恩赐赐给祂的身体。信徒是如何被构成恩赐赐给基督的身体？使徒保罗的例子是个绝佳的说明。保罗不是因著进入神学院而被成全。我们都知道，当他是大数的扫罗时，他是一个非常热中宗教的人。他生在犹太教里且长在其中，他反对基督并且逼迫召会。他甚至得到大祭司授权到大马色去，为要将那些呼求主耶稣之名的人逮捕下监。但是当他行路的时候，主耶稣向他显现。保罗在加拉太一章十三节说，『你们听过我从前在犹太教中所行的事，怎样极力逼迫神的召会，并损毁神的召会。』然后保罗接著说，『然而…神…乐意将祂儿子启示在我里面，叫我把祂当作福音传在外邦人中。』（15～16上。）神把基督作到保罗里面，使他能将基督供应给别人。这样，基督就把保罗当作恩赐赐给祂的身体。藉著这个过程，基督把我们构成赐给祂身体的恩赐。首先基督作到我们里面，成为我们的生命、人位和一切。然后，我们把这位作到我们里面的基督供应给别人。
11Let us consider in more detail how Christ gave the gifts to His Body. How are the believers constituted as gifts and presented to the Body? The case of the Apostle Paul is an excellent example. Paul was not perfected by attending a theological seminary. As we all know, when he was Saul of Tarsus, he was an extremely religious person. Having been born into Judaism and raised in it, he opposed Christ and persecuted the church. He had even been authorized by the high priest to go to Damascus for the purpose of arresting and imprisoning those who called on the name of the Lord Jesus. But when he was on the way, the Lord Jesus appeared to him. In Galatians 1:13 Paul said, “For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it.” Then Paul went on to say that “it pleased God...to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen” (Gal. 1:15a, 16a). God caused Christ to be wrought into Paul so that he could minister Him to others. In this way, Christ presented Paul as a gift to the Body. By this process Christ constitutes us into gifts that are given to the Body. Firstly, Christ is wrought into us to become our life, our person, and our everything. Then we minister to others the very Christ who has been wrought into us.
12惟有升天的基督才能产生恩赐给祂的身体。请注意：以弗所四章八至十一节说到恩赐，是与基督的升天有关。八节说，『祂既升上高处，就掳掠了那些被掳的，将恩赐赐给人。』高处是指基督所升上的第三层天。『那些被掳的』是指被赎的圣徒，他们在还未藉著基督的死与复活得救以前，乃是被撒但所掳的。基督在升天时，掳掠了他们，就是把他们从撒但的掳掠中拯救回来，归给祂自己。祂既拯救我们脱离了撒但，就把我们构成恩赐赐给祂的身体。升天乃是基督工作的高峰与顶点。基督工作的其他基本步骤乃是成为肉体、钉十字架和复活。升天与那灵的来临有关。基督藉著钉十字架完成了救赎，并在复活、升天之后，成了赐生命的灵降下来。藉著基督的钉十字架，所有的仇敌都被征服。因此，十字架乃是基督得胜的中心。不仅如此，基督藉著祂在十字架上的死，解决了宇宙中一切的难处。这就是为甚么在钉十字架之后，祂能安息在坟墓中，享受真安息日。然后在祂的复活里，祂将一切神圣的丰富释放出来。接著祂升到第三层天上，一切神圣的丰满连同所有神所拣选的人，全都托付给祂。大数的扫罗就是在这些蒙拣选、赐给升天基督的人当中。
12Only the ascended Christ can produce gifts for the Body. Notice that in 4:8-11 the gifts are spoken of in relation to Christ’s ascension. Verse 8 says, “Having ascended to the height, He led captive those taken captive and gave gifts to men.” The height refers to the third heaven to which Christ has ascended. “Those taken captive” refers to the redeemed saints who had been taken captive by Satan before they were saved by Christ’s death and resurrection. In His ascension Christ led them captive; that is, He rescued them from Satan’s captivity and took them to Himself. Having rescued us from Satan, He constitutes us into gifts for the Body. The ascension was the peak and the climax of Christ’s work. The other basic steps of Christ’s work are incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection. Ascension is related to the coming of the Spirit. After Christ had accomplished redemption through His crucifixion and after He had resurrected and ascended to the heavens, He came down as the life - giving Spirit. Through the crucifixion of Christ all the enemies were conquered. Hence, the cross is the center of Christ’s victory. Furthermore, by His death on the cross, Christ solved all the problems in the universe. This was the reason that after His crucifixion He could rest in the tomb and thereby enjoy a real Sabbath. Then in His resurrection He released all the divine riches. Following this, He ascended to the third heaven, and all the divine fullness was committed to Him along with all of God’s chosen people. Saul of Tarsus was among these chosen ones given to the ascended Christ.
13我们必须清楚，基督升天之后成了那灵降下，这是极其重要的。我们已经指出，按照以弗所二章，基督甚至来传和平为福音。这指明升天基督的来到。大数的扫罗逼迫召会时，他不知道他所逼迫的乃是联于天的，他不知道在地上的召会是联于升天基督的。主耶稣向大数的扫罗显现，扫罗自然而然的，甚至不知不觉的呼求祂的名说，『主阿，你是谁？』因著扫罗向主敞开自己，并且呼求祂，主带著祂神圣的丰满就得以进到他里面，并且进一步将他构成赐给祂身体的恩赐。一个曾是逼迫召会的人，就这样成为能成全圣徒的人。保罗成为这样的恩赐，不是藉著教育，乃是藉著被神圣的丰满所浸透。所以大数的扫罗至终成了使徒保罗，能𫗪养圣徒、传扬基督那追测不尽的丰富，并将基督供应给同作信徒者，使他们得𫗪养、长大、被成全，并尽他们的功用。基督如何把我们构成恩赐在今天的基督教里，基督身体的肢体没有正确的尽功用。成百上千的信徒聚在一起，但是他们坐在座位上没有尽功用。原因乃在于基督教里没有𫗪养，无法使人真正长大。惟有那些受过适当𫗪养的人，才能尽功用。
13It is important to be clear concerning Christ’s descension as the Spirit after His ascension. As we have pointed out, according to Ephesians 2, Christ even came to preach the gospel of peace. This indicates the coming of the ascended Christ. When Saul of Tarsus was persecuting the churches, he did not realize that what he was persecuting was related to the heavens, that the church on earth was related to the ascended Christ. The Lord Jesus appeared to Saul of Tarsus, and spontaneously, even in his ignorance, Saul called upon His name, saying, “Who art thou, Lord?” Because Saul opened himself to the Lord and called on Him, the Lord with the divine fullness could enter into him and then proceed to constitute him into a gift to the Body. In this way the one who persecuted the churches became one who could perfect the saints. Paul became such a gift not through education, but by being saturated with the divine fullness. There fore, Saul of Tarsus eventually became the Apostle Paul who could feed the saints, preach the unsearchable riches of Christ, and minister Christ to his fellow believers so that they would be nourished, grow, be perfected, and come into their function. HOW CHRIST CONSTITUTES US INTO GIFTS In today’s Christianity there is not the proper function of the members of the Body. Hundreds, even thousands, of believers may meet together, but they sit in their pews without functioning. The reason for this is that in Christianity there is not the feeding that leads to genuine growth. Only those who have been properly nourished will be able to function.
14在主的恢复里，我们需要回到起初。当初，特别是保罗时代，圣徒得著丰富的𫗪养与保养。如果我们要被成全，我们所需要的不是道理，乃是被基督构成。我们都像大数的扫罗一样，曾经是基督的仇敌，也是逼迫召会的人。但是有一天主耶稣临到我们，掳掠了我们。我能见证，在我往我的大马色的路上，主向我显现，打断了我的计画。虽然我有雄心要在世界上有所成就，但是我除了跟从主以外，别无选择。我们许多人也有同样的经历。主耶稣临到我们，我们都被祂抓住了。现在我们需要更多将祂接受进来，直到我们被祂浸透。这样，我们就能成为基督身体上尽功用的肢体，就是由那位钉十字架、复活、并且升天又降下的基督所构成的恩赐。
14In the Lord’s recovery we need to return to what was in the beginning. In the beginning, especially with Paul, the saints were richly fed and nourished. If we would be perfected, what we need is not doctrine. Rather, we need to be constituted with Christ. Like Saul of Tarsus, we all were once enemies of Christ and persecutors of the churches. But one day the Lord Jesus came to us and captured us. I can testify that as I was on the way to my Damascus, the Lord appeared to me and interfered with my plans. Although I was ambitious to become successful in the world, I had no choice except to follow the Lord. Many of us have had the same kind of experience. The Lord Jesus came to us, and we were caught by Him. Now we need to take Him into us more and more until we are saturated with Him. In this way we shall become functioning members of the Body, gifts constituted by the Christ who has been crucified and resurrected and who has ascended and descended
每个肢体都尽功用
EVERY MEMBER FUNCTIONING
15我们已经看见，基督藉著祂的死征服了所有的仇敌，并且解决了所有的难处。我们也看见，藉著祂的复活，祂将一切神圣的丰富释放出来；并且藉著祂的升天，祂得著了神所拣选的人，以及神圣的丰满。基督从升天起就一直作工，要为著祂的身体，将所有被征服的仇敌构成恩赐。首先，祂临到那些被征服的仇敌，并且进到他们里面。然后祂以自己渐渐充满他们，并且浸透他们。至终，那些曾是祂仇敌的人就被变化，并被构成有用的恩赐，可以赐给祂的身体。这些恩赐不是仅仅教训人，乃是把基督灌注到人里面。这样，基督身体的肢体就接受保养并得著顾惜。然后他们就被圣化、洁净、并变化成为有功用的肢体。结果，全身就藉著每一丰富供应的节，并藉著每一部分依其度量而有的功用，得以联络在一起，并结合在一起，便叫身体渐渐长大，以致在爱里把自己建造起来。我相信时候就要来到，那时每一位在地方召会中的人都是尽功用的肢体。你看孩童如何藉著接受滋养而长大；他们越长大，就越尽功用。对我们这些在基督身体上的肢体，我们属灵长大的原则也是一样。我们越因著保养顾惜而长大，就越能在召会生活中正确的尽功用。圣徒若是对主绝对，短时间之内许多人就会显出功用来。我在主里十分确信，主恢复里的光景很快就会是这样。
15We have seen that by His death Christ conquered all the enemies and solved all the problems. We have also seen that through His resurrection He released all the divine riches, and that through His ascension He received God’s chosen people with the divine fullness. From the time of His ascension, Christ has been working to constitute the vanquished foes into gifts for His Body. Firstly, He comes to these vanquished foes and gets into them. Then He gradually fills them and saturates them with Himself. Eventually, those who once were His enemies are transformed and constituted into useful gifts that can be presented to the Body. These gifts will not merely teach others, but will transfuse Christ into them. In this way the members of the Body receive nourishment and are cherished. Then they will be sanctified, purified, and transformed to become functioning members. As a result, the whole Body will be fitly framed together and compacted by every joint of supply, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part. This will make growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love. I believe that the day is coming when everyone in the local churches will be a functioning member. Consider how children grow by receiving nourishment. The more they grow, the more they function. The principle is the same with our spiritual growth as members of the Body. The more we grow by being nourished and cherished, the more we shall function properly in the church life. If the saints are absolute with the Lord, in a relatively short time many will come into function. I have the full assurance in the Lord that soon this will be the situation in the Lord’s recovery