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约翰壹书生命读经 · 第27篇

神圣出生的美德以实行神圣的爱（一）

The Virtues of the Divine Birth to Practice the Divine Love (1)
1读经：约翰一书三章十节下至十五节。约翰一书有三个主要的段落：神圣生命的交通、（约壹一1～二11、）神圣膏抹的教导、(约壹二12～27、)和神圣出生的美德。(约壹二28～五21。）第三段的第一部分(约壹二～三10上)论到实行神圣的义。在本篇信息中，我们要来看这一段的第二部分，(约壹三10下～五3，）论到实行神圣的爱。在神圣的出生里有一项美德，使我们能实行神圣的爱。
1Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:10b-15 In 1 John there are three main sections: the fellowship of the divine life (1:1—2:11), the teaching of the divine anointing (2:12-27), and the virtues of the divine birth (2:28 — 5:21). The first portion in the third section (2:28 — 3:10a) is concerned with the practice of the divine righteousness. With this message we come 28 to the second portion of this section (3:10b—5:3), a portion on the practice of the divine love. In the divine birth there is a virtue that enables us to practice the divine love.
藉著神圣的生命（作神圣的种子）与神圣的灵
BY THE DIVINE LIFE (AS THE DIVINE SEED AND THE DIVINE SPIRIT
2我们要实行作为神圣生命之美德的神圣的爱，就需要神圣的生命与神圣的灵。神圣的生命是我们众人在重生的灵里所有的神圣种子。除了作神圣种子种到我们这人里面的神圣生命以外，在我们灵里还有神圣的灵。神圣的生命与神圣的灵是我们里面的『资本，』使我们能实行神圣的爱。神圣的生命是源头，神圣的灵是实际实行爱人这件事的一位。神圣的爱是我们日常的生活，是由神圣的灵所实行之神圣生命的彰显。神圣的生命与神圣的灵是实行神圣之爱的基本因素。我们有神圣的生命，且凭神圣的灵，就能有一种神圣而非仅仅属人的爱。在神的儿女日常生活中这神圣的爱，证明我们有神圣的生命与神圣的灵。
2In order to practice the divine love as a virtue of the divine life, we need the divine life and the divine Spirit. The divine life is the divine seed that we all have within our regenerated spirit. In addition to the divine life that has been sown as the divine seed into our being, we also have the divine Spirit within our spirit. The divine life and the divine Spirit are the “capital” within us that enables us to practice the divine love. The divine life is the source, and the divine Spirit is the One who actually carries out the matter of loving others. The divine love is our daily living as the expression of the divine life carried out by the divine Spirit. The divine life and the divine Spirit are basic factors for the practice of the divine love. With the divine life and by the divine Spirit, we can have a love that is divine and not merely human. This divine love in the daily living of the children of God is an evidence that we have both the divine life and the divine Spirit
不爱他弟兄的就不是出于神
The One Not Loving His Brother Being Not of God
3约翰在约壹三章十节下说，『凡不行义的，就不是出于神；不爱他弟兄的也是如此。』义是神行动的性质，爱是神素质的性质。神的所是就是爱，神的所作乃是义。爱是里面的，义是外面的。因此，爱比义更有力的显明我们是神的儿女。所以从本节至二十四节，使徒在神儿女的显明上，从义说到爱，作为住在主里面之生活进一步的条件。
3In 3:10b John says, “Everyone who does not practice righteousness is not out of God, and he who does not love his brother.” Righteousness is the nature of God’s acts; love is the nature of God’s essence. What God is, is love; what God does is righteousness. Love is inward; righteousness is outward. Hence, love is a stronger manifestation that we are the children of God than righteousness. Therefore, the apostle, from this verse through verse 24, proceeds further, from righteousness to love, in the manifestation of the children of God, as a further condition of the life that abides in the Lord.
4约翰说，凡不爱弟兄的，就不是出于神，这是一件严肃的事。我们神的儿女当然是属神的，甚至是出于神的。因为我们是出于神，我们里面必定有神的生命和神的灵，我们就自然而然的过一种爱弟兄的生活。然而，如果有人没有这样的爱，这就证明他既没有神圣的生命，也没有神圣的灵。因此，有一个严肃的问题：这样的人到底是不是神的儿女，是不是从神生的？爱弟兄有力的证明我们是出于神的，有神的生命，并且享受神的灵。
4It is a serious thing for John to say that everyone who does not love his brother is not out of God. As children of God, we certainly are of God and even out of God. Because we are out of God, we surely have God’s life and God’s Spirit in us. Spontaneously, we live a life of loving the brothers. However, if someone does not have such a love, this is an evidence that he has neither the divine life nor the divine Spirit. Hence, there is a serious question concerning whether such a one is a child of God, born of Him. Loving the brothers is a strong evidence that we are out of God, having God’s life and enjoying God’s Spirit
彼此相爱－从起初所听见的信息
Loving One Another— the Message Heard from the Beginning
5约翰在约壹三章十一节接著说，『我们应当彼此相爱，这就是你们从起初所听见的信息。』从起初所听见的信息，指主在约翰十三章三十四节所赐的诫命，就是信徒所听见，从起初就有的话。十一节『从起初』这辞是用在相对的意义上。这里说到的爱是住在主里面之生活更高的条件。
5In verse 11 John goes on to say, “Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.” The message heard from the beginning was the commandment given by the Lord in John 13:34, which is the word the believers heard and had from the beginning. In verse 11 the phrase “from the beginning” is used in the relative sense. The love spoken of here is a higher condition of the life that abides in the Lord
不要像该隐
Not as Cain
6约翰在三章十二节接著说，『不要像该隐，他是出于那恶者，又杀了他的兄弟。为甚么杀了他？因为自己的行为是恶的，兄弟的行为是义的。』他是出于那恶者，相当于他是魔鬼的儿女；他的兄弟亚伯是出于神的，是神的儿女。（约壹三10。）这里的『恶者，』原文的意思是致命、有害的邪恶，影响别人成为邪恶、恶毒的。这样的恶者就是魔鬼撒但。
6In verse 12 John continues, “Not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.” “Of the evil one” equals a child of the Devil. Cain’s brother Abel was of God, a child of God (v. 10). The Greek word rendered “evil one” here is poneros, which means pernicious, harmfully evil, affecting and influencing others to be evil and vicious. Such an evil one is Satan the Devil
7约翰在十二节用该隐和亚伯这两个肉身的兄弟作例证。这两兄弟虽然是出自相同的父母，但是一个成为神的儿女，另一个却是魔鬼的儿女。我们也许很难相信这事。我们可能不明白，从相同的父母所生的两兄弟，在同样的环境中生活，怎么会有这样的不同，一个是魔鬼的儿女，另一个成为神的儿女。然而这是事实。这里用这个事实作例证，说明怎样的人是魔鬼的儿女，怎样的人是神的儿女。我们要明白这事，就应当看该隐和亚伯的事例。
7In verse 12 John uses two flesh brothers, Cain and Abel, as an illustration. Although these brothers were of the same parents, one of them became a child of God, and the other was a child of the Devil. We may find this difficult to believe. We may wonder how two brothers born of the same parents and living in the same environment could be so different, with one being the Devil’s child and the other becoming God’s child. Nevertheless, this was the fact. Here this fact is used as an illustration of what kind of person is a child of the Devil and what kind is a child of God. In order to know this, we should consider the case of Cain and Abel.
8该隐是魔鬼的儿女，这件事实由他恨他的弟兄，并且杀了他的弟兄得到证明。这指明该隐既没有神的生命，也没有神的灵。该隐为甚么恨他的弟兄？因为他里面有撒但恨人的生命。该隐为甚么杀了亚伯？因为他里面有撒但邪恶的性情。该隐里面所有的是魔鬼的生命、魔鬼的性情和邪灵。然而亚伯完全不一样。今天，从相同的父母所生，在相同的环境里长大的人，也可能变得截然不同。一个可能成为神的儿女，另一个可能是魔鬼的儿女。
8The fact that Cain was a child of the Devil is proved by his hating his brother and slaying him. This indicates that Cain did not have either the life of God or the Spirit of God. Why did Cain hate his brother? He hated him because he had the hating life of Satan in him. Why did Cain kill Abel? He killed him because he had in him the evil nature of Satan. What Cain had in him was the Devil’s life, the Devil’s nature, and an evil spirit. Abel, however, was altogether different. Today also those born of the same parents and raised in the same environment may become absolutely different. One may become a child of God and the other be a child of the Devil
世人若恨我们，不要以为希奇
Not Marveling If the World Hates Us
9约壹三章十三节说，『弟兄们，世人若恨你们，不要以为希奇。』这里的『世人』指世上的人。世上的人像该隐一样，是魔鬼的儿女，（约壹三10，）是撒但宇宙系统（世界－约十二31）的组成分子。世上的人都卧在那恶者魔鬼里面，（约壹五19，）他们恨信徒（神的儿女），乃是自然的，我们用不著希奇。今天在肉身兄弟之间的情形也许和该隐与亚伯一样。如果两个兄弟有一个是撒但的儿女，另一个是神的儿女；是魔鬼儿女的这一个，自然会恨是神儿女的那一个。这事我们用不著希奇。十三节有力的指明世上的人都是魔鬼的儿女，只有比较少数重生的信徒，是神的儿女。我们若凭著神的生命与神的灵生活，世人就会恨我们。因为我们和他们属于两种不同的种类，他们对我们不会高兴的。
9Verse 13 says, “Do not marvel, brothers, if the world hates you.” The “world” here refers to the people of the world. The people of the world, like Cain, are the children of the Devil (v. 10) and the components of Satan’s cosmic system, the world (John 12:31). If the people of the world, which lies in the evil one, the Devil (5:19), hate the believers (the children of God), it is natural for them to do so. The situation among flesh brothers today may be the same as that between Cain and Abel. Suppose one brother is a child of Satan and the other is a child of God. Automatically, the one who is a child of the Devil will hate the one who is a child of God. Regarding this, we do not need to marvel. Verse 13 indicates strongly that all the worldly people are children of the Devil. Only a comparatively small number, the regenerated believers, are God’s children. If we live by God’s life and by God’s Spirit, the world will hate us. Because we and they are in two different categories, they will not be happy with us
晓得我们已经出死入生
Knowing That We Have Passed out of Death into Life
10约翰在约壹三章十四节说，『我们因为爱弟兄，就晓得是已经出死入生了。不爱弟兄的，仍住在死中。』死是出于魔鬼（神的仇敌撒但）的，由带来死的善恶知识树所表征；生命是出于神（生命的源头）的，由发出生命的生命树所表征。（创二9，16～17。）死与生命不仅分别出于撒但和神这两个源头，也是两种素质、两种元素、两个范围。出死入生就是从死的源头、素质、元素和范围出来，进入生命的源头、素质、元素和范围。这是在我们重生时发生在我们身上的。我们晓得这件事，对这有里面的知觉，乃是因为我们爱弟兄。对弟兄的爱（神的爱）是这件事有力的证明。相信主是我们出死入生的路，爱弟兄是我们已经出死入生的证明。信是接受永远的生命，爱是凭著永远的生命而活，并将这生命彰显出来。
10In 3:14 John says, “We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love abides in death.” Death is of the Devil, God’se ne my Satan, signified by the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which brings death. Life is of God, the source of life, signified by the tree of life, which issues in life (Gen. 2:9, 16-17). Death and life are not only of these two sources, Satan and God; they are also two essences, two elements, and two spheres. To pass out of death is to pass out of the source, the essence, the element, and the sphere of death into the source, the essence, the element, and the sphere of life. This took place in us at our regeneration. We know (oida) this, we have the inner consciousness of this, because we love the brothers. Love (agape—the love of God) toward the brothers is a strong evidence of this. Faith in the Lord is the way for us to pass out of death into life; love toward the brothers is the evidence that we have passed out of death into life. To have faith is to receive the eternal life; to love is to live by the eternal life and express it.
11不爱弟兄就证明没有凭著神圣之爱的素质和元素而活，并没有留在牠的范围中；反而是活在撒但死的素质和元素里，并且住在牠的范围中。三章十四节的话很像约翰在他的福音书里所引用，主耶稣所说的话：『我实实在在的告诉你们，那听我话，又信差我来者的，就有永远的生命，不至于受审判，乃是已经出死入生了。』（约五24。）约翰的话把我们带回到伊甸园里的堕落。人受造以后，被摆在两棵树跟前：生命树和善恶知识树。第二棵树与死有关，因为在创世记二章神告诉亚当，他若吃善恶知识树的果子就必定死。因此，善恶知识树与死有关。夏娃和亚当吃了知识树的果子，结果，他们把死接受到他们全人里面。换句话说，他们把自己吃到死里。人类因著堕落，已经被带进死里。因这缘故，凡是生到亚当里的人，都是生到死里；这就是说，凡生到亚当里的人，不是生而活，乃是生而死。小孩子是生而死，因为他是亚当的子孙，是生到死里的。当我们为自己的罪悔改，相信主耶稣的时候，我们就得救了，同时也蒙了重生。重生的意思实际上就是接受生命树。由于亚当的堕落，人类已经与这生命树隔绝了。亚当吃知识树的果子时，将死接受到他里面，并且失去接受生命树的机会。但接受生命树的机会已经藉著基督的救赎得著恢复，在我们悔改并相信主耶稣的时候，那个机会向我们敞开了。我们藉著悔改并相信，自然就将神圣的生命接受到里面，而在那一刻出死入生了。
11Not loving the brothers is evidence of not living by the essence and element of the divine life and not remaining in its sphere. It is living in the essence and element of the satanic death and abiding in its sphere. The word in 3:14 is quite similar to the word spoken by the Lord Jesus quoted by John in his Gospel: “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life, and will not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life” (5:24). John’sword brings us back to the fall in the garden of Eden. After man was created, he was put before two trees: the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The second tree is related to death, for in Genesis 2 Adam was told that if he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he would die. Hence, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is related to death. Eve and Adam ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. As a result, they received death into their being. In other words, they ate themselves into death. Because of the fall, mankind has been brought into death. For this reason, everyone born into Adam is born into death. This means that everyone born into Adam is born not to live, but to die. A child is born to die because, as a descendant of Adam, he is born into death. When we repented of our sins and believed in the Lord Jesus, we were saved. Simultaneously, we were regenerated. To be regenerated actually means to receive the tree of life, from which mankind was cut off through Adam’s fall. When Adam ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, he received death into him and lost the opportunity to receive the tree of life. But the opportunity of receiving the tree of life has been recovered through Christ’s redemption. At the time we repented and believed in the Lord Jesus, that opportunity was opened to us. By repenting and believing, spontaneously we received the divine life into us, and at that very moment we passed out of death into life.
12你若想想自己得救的经历，就知道当你得救重生的时候，就出死入生了。因为当我们相信主耶稣，接受他作我们的救主时，我们都出死入生了，因此接著就有生命的大改变。我们开始过另一种生活，就是义和爱的生活。我们渴望成为义的，并且爱神的儿女。这不是仅仅外面的改变；这乃是出死入生。因此，当我们爱主里的弟兄，这爱就证明我们已经出死入生了。如果有人不爱弟兄，却恨弟兄，这证明这人还留在死里，这死是藉著亚当堕落进到人类里面的。因为死早已进到人类里面，所以我们是生到那个死里面。但是当我们悔改相信的时候，我们就出死进入神圣的生命。我们已经从知识树的死里出来，进入生命树的生命里，我们已经有了改变，并且现今过一种义和爱的生活。每个得救并重生的人都能作见证，他已经出死入生了。你不需要告诉人你得救以前是怎样的人，你只要告诉他们你得救以后成了怎样的人。
12If you consider your salvation experience, you will realize that when you were saved and regenerated, you passed out of death into life. Because we all passed out of death into life when we believed in the Lord Jesus and received Him as our Savior, a great change in life followed. We began to live another life, a life of righteousness and love. It became our desire to be righteous and to love the children of God. This is not merely an outward change; it is the passing out of death into life. Therefore, when we love the brothers in the Lord, this love is an evidence that we have passed out of death into life. If someone does not love the brothers but instead hates them, this is an evidence that this one remains in the death that came into mankind through Adam’s fall. Because death entered into mankind long ago, we were born into that death. But when we repented and believed, we passed out of death into the divine life. Because we have passed out of the death of the tree of knowledge into the life of the tree of life, we have had a change and now live a life of righteousness and love. Everyone who has been saved and regenerated can testify that he has passed out of death into life. There is no need to tell others what you were before you were saved. Simply tell them what you have become since salvation
13因为你已经得救并且重生了，你就渴望过一种与神与人都是对的生活。你盼望与你的丈夫或妻子、父母、孩子、亲戚、邻居以及同事都是对的。你切望过一种与每个人，甚至每件事物都是对的生活。比方，过这样义的生活的人甚至不会虐待动物。我们已经接受神圣生命连同神圣性情（一种义的性情）的人，渴望在每一方面都是对的。这种要与一切事物都是对的渴望，甚至延伸到物质方面。有些人在得救以前一生气就踢椅子或者抛东西。然而这样的人接受了神圣的生命连同神圣的性情，就不愿在任何东西上不义。因著堕落，我们天然的生命是不义的。因这缘故，我们在天然的生命里与人，甚至与事物都是不对的。但是我们接受了主耶稣，就接受了生命树的生命－带著义的性情的生命。因为我们已经接受这生命连同神圣的性情，我们自然渴望与每个人和每件事物都是对的。
13Because you have been saved and regenerated, your desire is to live a life that is right with God and man. You want to be right with your husband or wife, with your parents, with your children, with your relatives, neighbors, and colleagues. Your aspiration is to live a life that is right with everyone and even with everything. For example, a person who lives such a righteous life will not even mistreat an animal. As those who have received the divine life with the divine nature, a nature that is righteous, we have the aspiration to be right in every way. This aspiration to be right with all things even extends to material things. Before they were saved, certain ones may have had the habit of kicking a chair or throwing something when they were angry. But when such a person receives the divine life with the divine nature, he does not want to be unrighteous in any matter. Because of the fall, our natural life is not righteous. For this reason, in the natural life we are not right with others and even with things. But when we received the Lord Jesus, we received the life of the tree of life, a life with a righteous nature. Because we have received this life with the divine nature, automatically we aspire to be right with everyone and everything
14我们得救并重生的人也能作见证，我们渴望爱别人。我们这些从神生的人，想要帮助人并且爱人。我们爱别人，就感到快乐。我们若失去帮助人或向人表示爱的机会，就觉得难过。爱是我们所接受的神圣生命的性情。因为神的素质是爱，神的生命就有爱的性情。爱是神性情的素质，当我们得著祂作我们神圣的生命，我们就有这生命的性情，那就是爱。我们基督徒，神的儿女，有一种生命，渴望过与每个人并每件事物都是对的生活，也渴望爱别人。我们有这样的渴望是因著里面有神圣的性情。我们已经指出，一个人若不是过一种与每个人、每件事物都是对的生活，若不是过一种爱人的生活，我们就要问一个严肃的问题：这个人是否接受了神圣的生命？
14As saved and regenerated ones, we can also testify that we desire to love others. As those born of God, we want to help people and love them. When we love others, we feel happy. But we may feel sad when we miss the opportunity to help someone or to show love to him. Love is the nature of the divine life we have received. Because the essence of God is love, the life of God has the nature of love. Love is the essence of God’s nature. When we have Him as our divine life, we have the nature of this life, which is love. We Christians, the children of God, have a life that aspires to live rightly with everyone and everything and also aspires to love others. We have such an aspiration because of the divine nature within us. As we have pointed out, if someone does not live in a way that is right with everyone, everything, and every matter and does not live a life of loving others, there is a serious question whether this one has received the divine life
不爱弟兄的，仍住在死中
The One Not Loving Abiding in Death
15约翰在约壹三章十四节说，『不爱弟兄的，仍住在死中。』我们若不爱别人，就证明我们还留在死里。换句话说，这是我们还没有出死入生的标记。
15In 3:14 John says, “He who does not love abides in death.” If we do not love others, this is an evidence that we still remain in death. In other words, it is a sign that we have not yet passed out of death into life
凡恨他弟兄的，就是杀人的
Everyone Who Hates His Brother Being a Murderer
16约翰在约壹三章十五节上接著说，『凡恨他弟兄的，就是杀人的。』对于神圣的属性而言，恨与爱相对，死与生命相对，黑暗与光相对，谎言（虚假）与真理相对。这些与神圣美德相对的，都是出于那恶者魔鬼。十五节的杀人，不是指真正的杀人，乃是指在属灵的道德上，恨人就等于杀人。凡像该隐那样真正杀人，（约壹三，）末得救的人，没有一个有永远的生命住在他里面。你们既晓得这事，你们这已经出死入生，且有永远生命住在里面的，就不该恨你们在主里的弟兄，像未得救的杀人者所行的一样。这段是论到住在主里面的生活。有了永远的生命，却没有住在主里面，也不让那位是永远生命的主在他里面居住、作工的信徒，可能恨弟兄，并偶尔犯其他的罪。但这不该是习惯的。
16In verse 15a John goes on to say, “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer.” To the divine attributes, hatred is versus love, death versus life, darkness versus light, and lie (falsehood) versus truth. All the opposites of these divine virtues are of the evil one, the Devil. In verse 15 murderer does not denote an actual murderer, but indicates that in spiritual ethics hating equals murdering. No actual murderer, an unsaved person, as Cain was (v. 12), has eternal life abiding 12 in him. Since we know this, we, who have passed out of death into life and have eternal life abiding in us, should not behave as an unsaved murderer by hating our brothers in the Lord. This section concerns the life that abides in the Lord. A believer who has eternal life, but does not abide in the Lord and let the Lord who is the eternal life abide and work in him, may hate a brother and commit other sins occasionally, but this should not be habitual.
17有的人不是真正杀人的，但在原则上，他也许是杀人的。这就是说，尽管他从来没有杀过人，但在原则上他因著恨人，就仍是杀人的。如果我们恨人，尽管我们没有杀人，但在原则上，我们行事为人就像杀人的。因此，我们必须明白，严格的说，我们基督徒，神的儿女，不应当恨人；相反的，我们必须爱人。圣经甚至告诉我们，要爱我们的仇敌。（太五44。）因为我们所拥有的神圣生命是爱的生命，这生命就是爱。所以我们必须爱那些不可爱的人，甚至爱那些苛待我们的人。我们里面不应当有任何恨的元素。爱是我们的生命和性情，爱应当是我们的素质和生活。因此，我们不可恨任何人。今天有些人也许反对主的恢复，但我们不应当恨他们，反而我们应当爱他们。我们若恨那些反对我们的人，在原则上，我们行事为人就像杀人的。
17Someone may not be an actual murderer, but he may be a murderer in principle. This means that, even though he has never murdered anyone, he may still be a murderer in principle by hating others. If we hate someone, in principle we are behaving as a murderer, even though we have not killed anyone. Therefore, we need to realize that, strictly speaking, we Christians, the children of God, should not hate anyone. On the contrary, we need to love others. The Bible even tells us to love our enemies (Matt 5:44). Because the divine life we possess is a loving life, a life that is love, we must love those who are not lovable and even those who mistreat us. There should not be anything of the element of hate in us. Love is our life and nature, and love should be our essence and living. Therefore, we must not have hatred for anyone. Today some may oppose the Lord’s recovery, but we should not hate them. Instead of hating them, we should love them. If we hate those who oppose us, then in principle we are behaving as a murderer
凡杀人的，没有永远的生命住在他里面
No Murderer Having Eternal Life Abiding in Him
18约翰在约壹三章十五节下接著说，『你们晓得凡杀人的，没有永远的生命住在他里面。』约翰说，凡杀人的，没有永远的生命在他里面，他不是说到得救的人，乃是说到像该隐那样没有得救的人。
18In verse 15b John continues, “And you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” When John says that no murderer has eternal life in him, he is not speaking of saved persons but of unsaved ones, like Cain
19有些人读了十五节，问说信徒若杀了人，是否还能有永远的生命住在他里面。当我年轻服事主的时候，至少有几次被问到这样的问题。有些人问，真信徒是否可能杀人，他若杀了人，是否还有永远的生命住在他里面。对这样的问题，我们很难给人确定的答案。说真信徒绝不可能真正的杀人，并不保险；另一面，说得救的人可能杀人，也不保险。我们最好将这事留给主，不要想去解释。在这样的事上，我们不应当被求知欲3:15搅扰。有人会说，『约壹三章十五节告诉我们，凡杀人的，没有永远的生命住在他里面。我想要知道，如果真信徒杀了人会有怎样的结果，他还有永远的生命么？』这样的问题是魔鬼注射到我们心思里的。如果这样的思想临到你，你应当说，『魔鬼，这事不要问我，我不是回答这问题的人。你若要这问题的答案，去问我的神。我不明白这些事，我也不愿受这些事的搅扰。然而，魔鬼，我的确知道我已经重生，有神圣的生命在我里面。我也知道我正在享受神圣的性情，我有作为神圣之灵的神住在我里面。撒但，我不愿回答你的问题。你离开我罢！』我能作见证，主怜悯我，赐给我智慧以这种方式处理这样的问题。然而有些弟兄自信他们有知识，能回答关于有永远生命的信徒杀人的可能性这样的问题。我们不应当有这样的自信。我们看见我们神的儿女不应当恨人，这就彀了。我们行事为人不应当像是杀人的。
19After reading verse 15, some have questioned whether a believer can murder someone and still have eternal life abiding in him. When I was young in the ministry, I was asked such a question at least a few times. Some have asked if it is possible for a real believer to murder someone and, if he did, would he still have eternal life abiding in him. It is difficult to give a definite answer to such a question. It is not safe to say that it is absolutely impossible for a real believer to actually murder someone. On the other hand, it is not safe to say that it is possible for a saved person to commit murder. It is better for us to leave this matter to the Lord and not try to explain it. In matters like this, we should not be distracted by the lust for knowledge. Someone may say, “First John tells us that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. I would like to know what would happen if a real believer committed murder. Would this one still have eternal life?” This kind of question is injected into our mind by the Devil. If such a thought comes to you, you should say, “Devil, don’task me this. I am not the one to answer this question. If you want an answer to this question, ask my God. I don’t know these things, and I don’t want to be bothered by them. However, I do know, Devil, that I have been regenerated and have the divine life within me. I also know that I am enjoying the divine nature and that I have the very God, as the divine Spirit, living in me. Satan, I do not want to answer your questions. Get away from me!” I can testify that the Lord has been merciful to me and has given me the wisdom to handle such questions in this way. However, some brothers are confident that they are knowledgeable and capable of giving an answer to questions concerning the possibility of a believer who has eternal life committing murder. We should not have such confidence in ourselves. It is sufficient for us to see that as children of God we should not hate others. We should not behave as if we were a murderer.
20我们已经看见，在原则上，恨人就等于杀人。神的儿女可能偶尔会恨人，但没有一个重生的人应当习惯的恨人。你若习惯的恨人，你是否已经接受了神圣的生命就有问题了。这就和犯罪相似。信徒可能偶尔会犯罪，但他不应当习惯的犯罪。你若习惯的犯罪，这也会引出一个问题：你是否已经接受了神圣的生命。约翰的用意是要给我们看见，藉著神圣的出生，神圣的种子已经种到我们这人里面。这种子就是神圣的生命，而神圣的生命有神圣的性情。不仅如此，我们已经领受神圣的灵来实行神圣生命和神圣性情里的一切。我们不要试图回答过于我们所能回答的问题，我们却必须知道我们已经接受了神圣的生命，我们正在享受这生命的神圣性情；而神圣的人位，就是神自己作那灵，在我们里面实行这神圣性情里的一切。因此，我们应当活这生命，住在这一位里面，照著里面的膏油涂抹，维持与祂不间断的交通。这是约翰著作的中心点。
20We have seen that in principle hatred equals murder. It is possible for a child of God to hate someone occasionally, but no regenerated person should do this habitually. If you hate others habitually, there is a question whether you have received the divine life. This is similar to committing sin. A believer may commit sin occasionally, but he should not do this habitually. If you sin habitually, this will also raise a question as to whether you have received the divine life. John’sin tent i on is to show us that, through the divine birth, the divine seed has been sown into our being. This seed is the divine life, and the divine life has the divine nature. Furthermore, we have received the divine Spirit to carry out whatever is in the divine life and the divine nature. Instead of trying to answer questions that are beyond our ability to answer, we need to know that we have received the divine life, that we are enjoying the divine nature of this life, and that the divine Person, God Himself as the Spirit, is within us carrying out whatever is in this divine nature. Therefore, we should live this life, abide in this One, and maintain unbroken fellowship with Him according to the inner anointing. This is the central point of John’s writing