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约翰壹书生命读经 · 第34篇

神圣出生的美德以实行神圣的爱（四）

The Virtues of the Divine Birth to Practice the Divine Love (4)
1读经：约翰一书四章七至十五节。约壹四章一至六节乃是插进的话，警告信徒要辨别诸灵。这就是说，四章七节是直接接著三章二十四节的。四章七至二十一节是二章二十八节至三章二十四节这段的延伸，进一步强调三章十至二十四节所说过的弟兄相爱，这是住在主里面的生活更高的条件。
1Scripture Reading: 1 John 4:7-15 First John 4:1-6 is a parenthetical section in which the believers are warned to discern the spirits. This means that 4:7 is the direct continuation of 3:24. First John 4:7-21 is an extension of the section from 2:28 through 3:24, stressing further the brotherly love, already covered in 3:10-24, as a higher condition of the life that abides in the Lord
神－爱的源头
GOD—THE SOURCE OF LOVE
2约翰在四章七节说，『亲爱的，我们应当彼此相爱，因为爱是出于神的；凡爱弟兄的，都是从神生的，并且认识神。』约翰在这里说，爱是出于神的。这指明当我们爱别人的时候，我们的爱必须是出于神的。我们对弟兄的爱不该出于我们自己，乃该出于神。信徒既是从神生的，并且认识神，就该用那出于神、作神彰显的爱，习惯的彼此相爱。
2In 4:7 John says, “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is out of God, and everyone who loves has been begotten of God and knows God.” Here John says that love is out of God. This indicates that when we love others, our love must be something that comes out of God. Our love for the brothers should not be something out of ourselves; it should be the love that is out of God. The believers, who have been begotten of God and know God, love one another habitually with the love which is out of God as the expression of God
神圣的出生是弟兄相爱的基本因素
The Divine Birth as the Basic Factor of Brotherly Love
3约翰在七节说，凡爱弟兄的，都是从神生的。使徒在这里所强调的仍是神圣的出生，藉这神圣的出生，神圣的生命已经分赐到信徒里面，供给他们生命的能力以认识神。这神圣的出生是弟兄相爱的基本因素，这爱乃是住在主里面的生活更高的条件。我们已经看过，约翰的著作强调神圣的出生，（约壹三9，四7，五1，4，18，约一12～13，）就是我们的重生。(约三3，5。）藉著神圣的出生，我们得著了神圣的生命，就是永远的生命，（约壹一2，）作神圣的种子种到我们里面。（约壹三9。）出于这种子，神圣生命一切的丰富都从我们里面长出来。藉此我们就住在三一神里面，并在我们为人的生活中活出这神圣的生命。所以，神圣的出生乃是我们基督徒生活的根基。
3In verse 7 John says that everyone who loves has been begotten of God. The apostle’s emphasis here is still the divine birth, through which the divine life has been imparted into the believers, the life that affords them the life-ability to know God. This divine birth is the basic factor of brotherly love as a higher condition of the life that abides in the Lord. We have seen that John’s writings emphasize the divine birth (3:9; 4:7; 5:1, 4, 18; John 1:12-13), which is our regeneration (John 3:3, 5). Through the divine birth we have received the divine life, which is the eternal life (1 John 1:2), as the divine seed sown into our being (3:9). Out of this seed all the riches of the divine life grow from within us. It is by this that we abide in the Triune God and live the divine life in our human living. The divine birth, therefore, is the basis of our Christian life
凭神圣的生命认识神
Knowing God by the Divine Life
4照约翰在四章七节的话看，凡爱弟兄的，不仅是从神生的，并且认识神。这认识乃是凭著由神圣出生所得著神圣的生命。（约十七3。）这里『认识』一辞也含示经历与享受。没有经历并享受神，我们就无法认识神。这指明对神的这种认识是经历上的，不是客观的知识。我们认识神，因为我们经历过祂，并且正在享受祂。
4According to John’sword in 4:7, everyone who loves not only has been begotten of God, but also knows God. This knowing is by the divine life (John 17:3) received from the divine birth. The word “knows” here also implies experience and enjoyment. We cannot know God without experiencing and enjoying Him. This indicates that this knowing is an experiential knowing, not an objective knowledge of God. We know God because we have experienced Him and are enjoying Him.
认识神是爱
KNOWING GOD AS LOVE
5约翰在八节接著说，『不爱弟兄的，未曾认识神，因为神就是爱。』不认识神就是没有经历祂或享受祂。你若经历并享受了是爱的神，爱必然从你身上出来。
5In verse 8 John goes on to say, “He who does not love has not known God, because God is love.” Not to know God means not to experience Him or enjoy Him. If you have experienced and enjoyed God, who is love, surely love will come forth from you
6未曾认识神的人，没有那从神圣出生所得神圣生命的认识能力。这样不是从神而生，没有神作生命的人，既不认识是爱的神，就不凭著是爱的神来爱人。约翰在这卷书里两次告诉我们神就是爱。（约壹四8，16。）这封书信首先说神就是光，（约壹一5，）然后说神就是爱。爱是神素质的性质，是恩典的源头；光是神彰显的性质，是真理的源头。神圣的爱向我们显明，就成为恩典；神圣的光照耀在我们身上，就成为真理。二者在约翰福音里，就是这样显明了出来。在那里，我们藉著子的显现得著恩典和真理。（约一14，16～17。）如今在约翰的书信里，我们在子里来到父面前，摸著恩典和真理的源头。这些源头，爱与光，乃是父神自己，藉著我们住在子里面，（约壹二5，27～28，三6，24，）作了我们在子里并在与父神圣生命的交通(约壹一3～7）中，更深、更细的享受。『神就是爱』一辞，就像『神就是光』（约壹一5）和『神是灵，』（约四，）不是隐喻，乃是叙述。在性质上，神是灵，是爱，也是光。灵是指神人位的性质，爱是指神素质的性质，光是指神彰显的性质。爱与光都与神是生命有关，这生命是属于灵的。（罗八2。）神、灵和生命，实际上乃是一。神就是灵，灵就是生命。在这样的生命里，有爱也有光。神圣的爱向我们显明，就成了恩典；神圣的光照在我们身上，就成了真理。约翰的福音书启示主耶稣将恩典和真理带给我们，使我们得著神圣的生命；（约三14～；）约翰的书信揭示神圣生命的交通，把我们带到恩典和真理的源头，就是神圣的爱与神圣的光。在他的福音书里，是神在子里到我们这里来作恩典和真理，使我们成为神的儿女；（约一12～13；）在他的书信里，是我们这些儿女在父生命的交通里，往父那里去，有分于祂的爱与光。这是对神圣生命更往前、更深入的经历。我们在约翰的福音书里，因著信入子，接受了神圣的生命，接著就该在他的书信里，藉著这生命的交通，继续享受这生命。
6He who has not known God does not have the knowing ability of the divine life received from the divine birth. Such a one, who has not been begotten of God and does not have God as his life, does not love with God as his love, since he does not know God as love. In this book John twice tells us that God is love (4:8,16). This Epistle first says that God is light (1:5), and then that God is love. Love as the nature of God’s essence is the source of grace, and light as the nature of God’sex press i on is the source of truth. When the divine love appears to us it becomes grace, and when the divine light shines upon us it becomes truth. Both of these were manifested in this way in John’s Gospel. We received both grace and truth there through the manifestation of the Son (John 1:14, 16-17). Now in his Epistle we come in the Son to the Father and touch the sources of both grace and truth. These sources, love and light, are God the Father Himself for our deeper and finer enjoyment in the fellowship of the divine life with the Father in the Son (1:3-7) by our abiding in Him (2:5, 27-28; 3:6, 24). The expression “God is love,” like “God is light” (1:5) and “God is Spirit” (John 4:24), is used in a predicative sense, not in a metaphoric sense. In His 24 nature God is Spirit, love, and light. Spirit denotes the nature of God’s Person; love, the nature of God’s essence; and light, the nature of God’s express i on. Both love and light are related to God as life, which life is of the Spirit (Rom. 8:2). God, Spirit, and life are actually one. God is Spirit, and Spirit is life. Within this life are love and light. We have seen that when the divine love appears to us, it becomes grace, and when the divine light shines upon us, it becomes truth. The Gospel of John reveals that the Lord Jesus has brought grace and truth to us so that we may have the divine life (John 3:14-16). The Epistle of 1 John 16 reveals that the fellowship of the divine life brings us to the sources of grace and truth, which are the divine love and the divine light. In John’s Gospel it was God in the Son coming to us as grace and truth that we may become His children (John 1:12-13); in his Epistle it is we the children, in the fellowship of the Father’s life, coming to the Father to participate in His love and light. This is further and deeper in the experience of the divine life. After receiving the divine life in John’s Gospel by believing in the Son, we should go on to enjoy this life in his Epistle through the fellowship of this life.
神的爱向我们显明了
THE LOVE OF GOD MANIFESTED TO US
7约翰在四章九节接著说，『神差祂的独生子到世上来，使我们藉著祂得生并活著，在此神的爱就向我们显明了。』我们在这节看见神差子来的心意和目标；神差子来，使我们藉著祂得生并活著。我们若没有藉祂得著生命，就无法藉祂活著。神差祂的儿子来，我们已经接受祂作生命，所以现今我们藉祂活著。约翰在九节说，在此神的爱就向我们显明了。向我们，直译，在我们身上，意即在我们的事上，或，关于我们。神差祂的儿子到世上来，使我们藉著祂得生并活著，在此，神那更卓越、更高尚的爱就向我们显明了。
7In 4:9 John goes on to say, “In this the love of God was manifested to us, that God has sent His Son, the only begotten, into the world that we might live through Him.” In his verse we see God’sin tent i on and goal in sending the Son: God sent the Son so that we might live through Him. Living through the Son implies having the divine life. If we did not have life through Him, we could not live through Him. Therefore, living through the Son implies that we have received Him as our life. God sent His Son, and we have received Him as life. Now we live through Him. In verse 9 John says that in this the love of God was manifested to us. Literally, the Greek words rendered “to us” are “in us,” that is, in our case, or, in regard to us. In that God has sent His Son into the world that we might live through Him, the higher and nobler love of God was manifested to us
神差祂的儿子来，使我们藉著祂得生并活著
GOD SENDING HIS SON that we might live through Him
8约翰在四章九节说，神差祂的独生子到世上来。这里的『世上，』原意『世界，』指堕落的人类所在的地方，与提前一章十五节者同。
8In 4:9 John says that God sent His Son, the only begotten, into the world. As in 1 Timothy 1:15, the “world” here refers to fallen mankind, whom God so loved that, by making them alive through His Son with His own life (John 3:16), they may become His children (John 1:12-13
9我们堕落的人，不仅在性情和行为上是罪恶的，（罗七17～18，一28～32，）并且在我们的灵里也是死的。(弗二1，5，西二13。）
9We have seen that in verse 9 John tells us that God sent His Son into the world that we might live through Him. We, the fallen people, are not only sinful in nature and conduct (Rom. 7:17-18; 1:28-32), but also dead in our spirit (Eph. 2:1, 5; Col. 2:13
10神差祂的儿子到世上来，不仅为我们的罪作了平息的祭物，使我们得著赦免，（约壹四10，）也作了我们的生命，使我们能藉著祂活著。在神的爱里，神的儿子不仅用祂的血救我们脱离罪，(弗一7，启一5，)更用祂的生命救我们脱离死。(约壹三14～15，约五24。）祂不仅是神的羔羊，除去我们的罪，（约一29，）也是神的儿子，赐给我们永远的生命。（约三36。）祂为我们的罪死了，（林前十五3，）使我们在祂里面得著永远的生命，(约三14～16，）并且因祂活著。（约六57，十四19。）在此，神的爱，就是祂的素质，便显明出来了。
10God sent His Son into the world not only to be a propitiation concerning our sins that we might be forgiven (1 John 4:10), but also to be life to us that we may live through Him. In the love of God, the Son of God saves us not only from our sins by His blood (Eph. 1:7; Rev. 1:5), but also from our death by His life (1 John 3:14-15; John 5:24). He is not only the Lamb of God who takes away our sins (John 1:29); He is also the Son of God who gives us eternal life (John 3:36). He died for our sins (1 Cor. 15:3) that we might have eternal life in Him (John 3:14-16) and live through Him (John 6:57; 14:19). In this the love of God, which is His essence, has been manifested.
11为我们的罪作了平息的祭物约翰在四章十节说，『不是我们爱神，乃是神爱我们，差祂的儿子，为我们的罪作了平息的祭物，在此就是爱了。』『此』是指上述的事实：不是我们爱神，乃是神爱我们，差祂的儿子，为我们的罪作了平息的祭物。在这事实里，有神更卓越、更高尚的爱。
11A PROPITIATION CONCERNING OUR SINS In 4:10 John says, “In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son a propitiation concerning our sins.” The word “this” refers to the following fact: not that we have loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son a propitiation concerning our sins. In this fact is the higher and nobler love of God
12平息的祭物，是指主耶稣基督为我们的罪，将自己当作祭物献给神，(来九28，）不仅为著救赎我们，更为著满足神的要求，平息我们与神之间的关系。因此，祂是我们在神面前平息的祭物。我们在四章九节看见，神差祂的儿子，使我们藉著祂得生并活著。我们在四章十节看见，神差祂的儿子，为我们的罪作了平息的祭物。我们将这两节摆在一起思想，就看见神差祂的儿子，为我们的罪作平息的祭物，并不是目标，而是达到目标的手续。目标乃是叫我们得著生命，并藉著祂儿子活著。神差祂儿子，为我们作平息的祭物，用意乃是要我们藉著祂儿子得著生命并活著。
12The word “propitiation” indicates that the Lord Jesus Christ offered Himself to God as a sacrifice for our sins (Heb. 9:28), not only for our redemption but also for God’s satisfaction. Through His vicarious death and in Him as our Substitute, God is satisfied and appeased. Hence, He is the propitiation between God and us. In 4:9 we see that God sent His Son in order that we might live through Him. In 4:10 we see that God sent His Son a propitiation concerning our sins. If we consider these verses together, we shall see that God’ss ending His Son a propitiation concerning our sins is not the goal. Rather, this is a procedure for arriving at the goal, and the goal is that we may have life and live through the Son. Therefore, God sent His Son a propitiation for us with the intention that through His Son we may have life and live
彼此相爱并彰显神
LOVING ONE ANOTHER AND MANIFESTING GOD
13约翰在四章十一节接著说，『亲爱的，神既是这样爱我们，我们也当彼此相爱。』这是用神的爱爱人，如同神爱
13In 4:11 John continues, “Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” This is to love with the love of God as He loved us
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15四章十二节说，『从来没有人见过神；我们若彼此相爱，神就住在我们里面，祂的爱也在我们里面得了成全。』『见过神』这辞指明，我们若用神的爱彼此相爱，如同神爱我们一样，我们就在祂的素质上彰显祂，别人就能在我们身上看见祂素质的所是。
15First John 4:12 says, “No one has ever beheld God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.” The word “beheld” indicates that if we love one another with the love of God as He loved us, we express Him in His essence, so that others may behold Him in us in what He essentially is.
16从来没有人见过神，但我们若用神这爱来彼此相爱，我们就将神显明出来了。因为神在我们的彼此相爱中显明出来，别人就能在这爱中看见神。约翰在十二节说，我们若彼此相爱，神就住在我们里面。彼此相爱是我们住在神里面的条件，（约壹四13，）我们住在神里面又是祂住在我们里面的条件。（约十五4。）因此，我们彼此相爱，神就住在我们里面，祂的爱也在我们里面得以成全而显明出来。二章五节里神的爱，乃是神的爱在我们里面成为我们向著祂的爱，我们乃是用这爱爱祂。在四章十二节祂的爱，乃是神的爱在我们里面成为我们向著彼此的爱，我们乃是用这爱彼此相爱。这指明我们该接受神的爱作我们的
16No one has ever beheld God, that is, seen God. But if we love one another with God as love, we shall manifest God. Because God is manifested in our love for one another, others will be able to see God in this love. In verse 12 John says that if we love one another, God abides in us. To love one another is a condition of our abiding in God (4:13), and our abiding in God is a condition of His abiding in us (John 15:4). Hence, when we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfectly manifested in us. “The love of God” in 2:5 is God’s love within us toward Him, with which we love Him. “His love” in 4:12 is God’s love within us toward one another, with which we love one another. This indicates that we should take God’s love as our love to love Him and to love one another
17爱，用以爱神并彼此相爱。
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神的爱在我们里面得了成全
GOD’S LOVE PERFECTED IN US
18约翰在四章十二节也说到神的爱在我们里面得了成全。神的爱在神自己里面已经得了成全，但现在这爱需要在我们里面得著成全，这需要神的爱成为我们的经历。神的爱若留在神里面，这爱要在神自己里面得著成全。但是当这爱成为我们的经历和享受，这爱就要在我们里面得著成全。那已经在神里面得了成全的爱，需要藉著我们对这爱的享受，在我们里面得著成全。
18In verse 12 John also speaks of God’s love being perfected in us. The love of God is perfected already in God Himself, but now this love needs to be perfected in us. This requires that the love of God become our experience. If the love of God remains in God, it will be perfected in God Himself. But when this love becomes our experience and enjoyment, it will be perfected in us. The love that is already perfected in God needs to be perfected in us through our enjoyment of this love
19四章十二节的『成全』一辞，原文意完整，成就，完成。神的爱在神自己里面是完全且完整的。然而，神的爱在我们里面必须在祂的彰显上得著成全、得著完成。神差祂的儿子来作我们平息的祭物和生命，在此神的爱就向我们显明了。（约壹四9～10。）然而，我们若没有用向我们显明的这爱彼此相爱，就是说，我们若没有用神爱我们的爱彼此相爱以彰显这爱，这爱就没有完全且完整的彰显出来。我们在生活中习惯的用神的爱彼此相爱以彰显这爱，这爱就要在牠的彰显上得著成全、得著完成。我们在神的爱里彼此相爱的生活，乃是这爱在我们里面在牠的彰显上的成全与完成。这样，别人就能在我们那在神爱里的生活中，看见神在祂爱的素质里彰显出来。
19The Greek word translated “perfected” in 4:12 is teleioo, which means to complete, to accomplish, to finish. The love of God is perfect and complete in Him. However, in us it needs to be perfected and completed in its manifestation. It has been manifested to us in God’ss ending His Son to be both a propitiation and life to us (4:9-10). Yet, if we do not love one another with this love as it was manifested to us, that is, if we do not express it by loving one another with it as God did to us, it is not perfectly and completely manifested. The love of God is perfected and completed in its manifestation when we express it in our living by habitually loving one another with it. Our living in the love of God toward one another is its perfection and completion in its manifestation in us. Thus, others can behold God manifested in His love-essence in our living in His love
知道我们住在祂里面，祂也住在我们里面
KNOWING THAT WE ABIDE IN HIM AND HE IN US
20约翰在四章十三节说，『神已将祂的灵赐给我们，在此就知道我们住在祂里面，祂也住在我们里面。』『在此』二字的意思是，神已将祂的灵赐给我们，我们从这事实就知道我们住在祂里面，祂也住在我们里面。神所赐住在我们里面的那灵，(雅四5，罗八9，11，）乃是我们灵中的见证人，(罗八16，）见证我们住在神里面，神也住在我们里面。这居住的灵，就是内住的灵，乃是我们与神互相居住、互相内住的元素和范围。他使我们确信，我们与神是一，彼此居住，且互相内住。这由我们的生活，就是习惯的彰显神爱的生活，得著证明。约翰在十三节指明，我们可以知道我们住在神里面。住在神里面就是居住在祂里面，留在我们与祂的交通里，使我们经历并享受祂住在我们里面。这就是凭实行神的义和神的爱的生活，照著神圣的膏油涂抹，(约壹二27，）实行与神是一。这完全是藉著包罗万有、复合之灵的运行，这灵居住在我们的灵里，又是神圣膏油涂抹的基本元素。
20In 4:13 John says, “In this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, that He has given us of His Spirit.” The words “in this” mean in the fact that God has given us of His Spirit we know that we abide in Him and He in us. The Spirit whom God has given to dwell in us (James 4:5; Rom. 8:9, 11) is the witness in our spirit (Rom. 8:16) that we dwell in God and He in us. The abiding Spirit, that is, the indwelling Spirit, is the element and sphere of the mutual abiding, the mutual indwelling, of us and God. By Him we are assured that we and God are one, abiding in one another, indwelling each other mutually. This is evidenced by our living, a living that habitually expresses His love. In verse 13 John indicates that we may know that we abide in God. To abide in God is to dwell in Him, remaining in our fellowship with Him, that we may experience and enjoy His abiding in us. This is to practice our oneness with God according to the divine anointing (2:27) by a living that practices His righteousness and His love. It is all by the operation of the all-inclusive compound Spirit, who dwells in our spirit and who is the basic element of the divine anointing
神将祂的灵赐给我们
GOD GIVING US OF HIS SPIRIT
21约翰在十三节还说，『神已将祂的灵赐给我们。』『将祂的灵，』直译，将出于祂的灵的。神已将出于祂的灵的赐给我们。这很像，也是重复三章二十四节的话，那里证明这话的意思不是说，1神已将祂灵里的一些东西赐给我们，就如林前十二章四节所说不同的恩赐；乃是说神将祂的灵本身，就是那包罗万有的恩赐（徒二38）赐给我们。出于祂的灵的，这说法含示神所赐给我们的灵，乃是全备供应、没有限量的。（腓一19，约三34。）藉著这全备供应、没有限量的灵，我们就有充分的确据，知道我们与神是一，并且我们住在祂里
21In verse 13 John also says that God “has given us of His Spirit.” In Greek of literally means “out of.” God has given us out of His Spirit. This closely resembles and repeats the word in 3:24, which proves that this does not mean that God has given us something, such as the various gifts in Corinthians 12:4, of His Spirit, but that His Spirit Himself is the all-inclusive gift (Acts 2:38). “Out of His Spirit” is an expression which implies that the Spirit of God, whom He has given to us, is bountiful and without measure (Phil. 1:19; John 3:34). By such a bountiful immeasurable Spirit we know with full assurance that we are one with God and that we abide in Him and He in us.
22面，祂也住在我们里面。
22GOD’S LOVE BECOMING OUR CONSTITUTION
神的爱成为我们的构成
23我们思想四章十一至十三节的时候，就看见我们绝不该教导圣徒用他们自己天然的爱，用神自己以外的爱来爱人。相反的，我们都需要看见神住在我们里面，我们也住在祂里面。这是一件互相内在、调和、生机联结的事。神不仅在我们里面，祂更住在我们里面，居住在我们里面。藉著这种调和，这种生机的联结，祂就成为我们，我们也成为祂。所以，神既是爱，这爱就成为我们的构成。因为我们成为祂所是的，我们对人的爱实际上就是神自己，我们乃是用神这爱来爱人。因为神住在我们里面，我们也住在祂里面，所以我们用神自己这爱来爱人。
23As we consider 4:11-13, we see that we should never teach the saints to love with their own natural love, with the love that is something apart from God Himself. On the contrary, we all need to see that God abides in us, and we abide in Him. This is a matter of coinherence, of mingling, of organic union. God is not only in us; He abides in us, dwells in us. Through this mingling, this organic union, He becomes us, and we become Him. Therefore, since God is love, this love becomes our constitution. Because we become what He is, our love for others will actually be God Himself. We love others with God as love. Because God abides in us and we abide in Him, we love with God Himself as love.
神差祂儿子
GOD SENDING HIS SON
作世人的救主
AS THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD
24约翰在四章十四节接著说，『父差子作世人的救主，这是我们所看见，现在又作见证的。』这里的世人，指堕落的人类，与约翰三章十六节者同。父差子作我们的救主是外在的行动，使祂能藉著我们承认子而住在我们里面，我们也住在祂里面。（约壹四15。）使徒看见这事，并且作见证；这是外在的见证。此外，神向著我们内在的行动，乃是差祂的灵居住在我们里面，作我们住在祂里面，祂也住在我们里面的内在证据。（约壹四13。）使徒约翰在四章九、十、十四节三次说到神差祂的儿子。神差祂的儿子，使我们藉著祂得生并活著；神差祂的儿子，为我们的罪作了平息的祭物；神也差子作世人的救主。
24In 4:14 John continues, “And we have beheld and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.” As in 4:9 and John 3:16, “world” here denotes fallen mankind. The Father’ss ending of the Son to be our Savior is an external act, that through our confessing of the Son He may abide in us and we in Him (4:15). The apostles have beheld and testify this. This is the outward testimony. In addition to this, God’s internal act toward us is the sending of His Spirit to dwell in us as inward evidence that we abide in Him and He in us (4:13). In 4:9, 10, and 14 the apostle John says three times that God has sent His Son. God sent the Son that we might live through Him; He sent the Son a propitiation concerning our sins; and He sent the Son as Savior of the world
承认耶稣是神的儿子
CONFESSING THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD
25约翰在四章十五节说，『凡承认耶稣是神儿子的，神就住在他里面，他也住在神里面。』父神差遣祂的儿子作世人的救主，目的在使人承认耶稣是神的儿子而相信祂，这样神就能住在他们里面，他们也能住在神里面。但异端的塞林则派不承认这事；因此，他们没有神住在他们里面，他们也没有住在神里面。凡承认这事的，神就住在他里面，他也住在神里面，他就在神圣的生命与性情里与神成为一。
25In 4:15 John says, “Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.” God the Father sent His Son to be the Savior of the world with the purpose that men may believe in Him by confessing that Jesus is the Son of God, so that God may abide in them and they in God. But the heretical Corinthians did not confess this. Hence, they did not have God abiding in them, nor did they abide in God. But whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God. He becomes one with God in the divine life and nature
26我们也许以为约翰会说，凡承认耶稣是神儿子的，罪就得著赦免，或有永远的生命。然而，约翰在这里说，凡承认耶稣是神儿子的，神就住在他里面，他也住在神里面。我们传福音的时候，该用这一节。我们该告诉人，他们若相信主，承认耶稣是神的儿子，他们的罪就要得著赦免，并且他们要得救。我们也该告诉人，他们若承认耶稣是神的儿子，神就要来到他们里面，并住在他们里面，他们也能住在神里面。这是最高的福音传讲。你曾这样传过福音么？我们传福音的时候，要告诉人，他们若相信主耶稣，承认祂是神的儿子，神要来到他们里面，住在他们里面，他们也要住在神里面。
26We may have expected John to say that whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God has the forgiveness of sins, or has eternal life. However, here John says that whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God. We should use this verse in preaching the gospel. We should tell people that if they believe in the Lord and confess that Jesus is the Son of God, they will be forgiven of their sins and will be saved. We should also tell them that if they confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God will come into them and abide in them, and they will be able to abide in God. This is the highest preaching of the gospel. Have you ever preached the gospel in this way? In our preaching of the gospel let us tell people that if they believe in the Lord Jesus, confessing that He is the Son of God, God will come into them to abide in them, and they will abide in God.