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约翰贰书生命读经 · 第1篇

在真理与爱中的行事

The Walk in Truth and Love
1读经：约翰二书一至六节。
1Scripture Reading: 2 John 1-6
本书信的主题
THE SUBJECT OF THE EPISTLE
2这卷书的主题是禁止有分于异端。约翰在七节说到异端：『因为有许多迷惑人的已经出来，进到世界里，他们不承认耶稣基督是在肉体里来的。这就是那迷惑人的和敌基督的。』有些异端者否认耶稣是基督，(约壹二22，）还有些否认子，不承认耶稣是神的儿子。(约壹二23。）否认耶稣是基督的塞林则，是个异端者。多西特派和智慧派也教导关于基督身位的异端。约翰二书禁止我们有分于任何关于基督身位的异端教训。使徒约翰在十节说，『若有人到你们那里，不是传讲这教训，不要接他到家里，也不要对他说，愿你喜乐。』这里的『教训』和九节的一样，是关于基督的神格，尤其是关于祂藉著神圣的成孕成为肉体的教训。约翰在这封书信里警告我们，不要接待任何否认关于基督神格与成为肉体之真理的人。
2The subject of this book is the prohibition of participation in heresy. John speaks of heresy in verse 7: “Because many deceivers went out into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.” Certain heretics denied that Jesus is the Christ (1 John 2:22), and others denied the Son, not confessing that Jesus is the Son of God (1 John 2:23). Cerinthus, who denied that Jesus is the Christ, was a heretic. The Docetists and the Gnostics also taught heresy concerning the Person of Christ. The Epistle of 2 John prohibits us from participating in any heretical teaching concerning Christ’s Person. In verse 10 the apostle John says, “If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not say to him, Rejoice!” As in verse 9, the “teaching” here is the teaching concerning the deity of Christ, especially regarding His incarnation by divine conception. In this Epistle John warns us not to receive anyone who denies the truth concerning Christ’s deity and incarnation
引言在真实中为著真理而爱
INTRODUCTION Loving in Truth for the Truth
3约翰在一节说，『作长老的写信给蒙拣选的夫人和她的儿女，就是我真实所爱的；不单我爱，也是一切认识真理之人所爱的。』使徒约翰和彼得一样，也是主后七十年耶路撒冷被毁以前，当地召会的长老。（加二9，彼前五1。）根据历史，约翰自放逐回来以后，就留在以弗所照顾亚西亚的众召会。因此他也可能是以弗所召会的长老，本书信就是他在以弗所写的。约翰这封书信是写给『蒙拣选的夫人和她的儿女。』『夫人』的希腊文，可利亚，是Kurios，可利欧斯（主，主人）的阴性形式。这字在此有不同的解释，最可取的如下：指召会中一位相当特出的基督徒姊妹，就如彼前五章十三节『同蒙拣选的』所指的。Kuria，可利亚，也许是她的名字，因为当时这是一个普通的名字。有些人说历史告诉我们，她住在以弗所附近，她的姊妹（约贰13）住在以弗所，那里的召会就是由约翰照顾的。
3In verse 1 John says, “The elder to the chosen lady and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth.” The apostle John, like Peter, was also an elder in the church in Jerusalem before its destruction in A. D. 70 (Gal. 2:9; 1 Pet. 5:1). According to history, after returning from exile, John stayed in Ephesus to care for the churches in Asia. Thus he was probably also an elder in the church at Ephesus, where he wrote this Epistle. John addresses this Epistle to the “chosen lady and to her children.” The Greek word rendered “lady” is kuria, the feminine form of kurios, lord, master. There Kuria are different interpretations of the word here. The most preferable is that it refers to a Christian sister of some prominence in the church, as “co - chosen” in 1 Peter 5:13 does. Kuria may have been her name, since it was a common name at that time. According to some accounts, she lived near Ephesus, and her sister (in v. 13) lived in Ephesus, where the church was under John’s care. There was a church in her locality meeting in her home.
4在她的所在地，有召会在她家里聚会。
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5约翰在一节说到在真实中的爱。真实原文与真理同字。照约翰对这辞的用法，特别照他在福音书里的用法，本辞在此是指启示出来的神圣实际－三一神在子耶稣基督里分赐到人里面－成为人的真实与真诚，使人过一种与神圣之光相符的生活，（约三19～21，）并且按著神的所是，照神所寻找的敬拜神。（约四23～24。）这就是神的美德，（罗三7，十五8）成了我们的美德，藉此我们能爱众信徒。这就是真实、可信、真诚、诚实、可靠、信实；就著神说，是神圣的美德，（罗三7，十五8，）就著人说，是人性的美德，（可十二14，林后十一，腓一18，约壹三18，）并且是神圣实际的流出。(约参1。）活在三一神圣实际里的使徒约翰，就是在这样的真实中，爱他的受信者。这是在本节里，真理头一个用法的含意。1简单的说，一节里真理的头一个用法，指明真诚，而约翰是说到在真诚中爱人。然而，这里真诚的意义不是简单的。我们说到真诚，通常仅仅领会成人性的美德。但在这里真诚不仅是人性的美德。使徒约翰在其中爱本书受信者的人性美德，乃是他所享受之神圣实际的结果。约翰所享受的神圣实际是甚么？这实际就是三一神。本书信的作者享受在子里的三一神作他神圣的实际。出于这在基督里之三一神的实际的享受，产生了真诚。这真诚，或信实，实际上乃是神的美德。我们享受神作我们的实际，祂神圣的美德就成了我们人性的美德，这美德就是真诚，信实。
5In verse 1 John speaks of loving in truth. According to John’susa ge of the word truth, especially in his Gospel, the first instance of “truth” in this verse denotes the revealed divine reality — the Triune God dispensed into man in the Son Jesus Christ — becoming man’s genuineness and sincerity, to live a life that corresponds to the divine light (John 3:19-21) and to worship God, as God seeks, according to what He is (John 4:23-24). This is the virtue of God (Rom. 3:7; 15:8) becoming our virtue, by which we love the believers. This is the genuineness, truthfulness, sincerity, honesty, trustworthiness, and faithfulness of God as a divine virtue and of man as a human virtue (Mark 12:14; 2 Cor. 11:10; Phil. 1:18; 1 John 3:18), and as an issue of the divine reality (3 John 10 1). In such truth, the apostle John, who lived in the divine reality of the Trinity, loved the one to whom he wrote. This is the denotation of the first usage of “truth” in this verse. Simply speaking, the first usage of truth in verse denotes sincerity, and John is speaking of loving in sincerity. However, the meaning of sincerity here is not simple. Usually, when we speak of sincerity, we understand sincerity to be merely a human virtue. But here sincerity is more than a human virtue. The human virtue in which the apostle John loved the one who received this Epistle was the issue of the divine reality that he enjoyed. What is the divine reality enjoyed by John? This reality is the Triune God. The writer of this Epistle enjoyed the Triune God in the Son as his divine reality. Out of the enjoyment of this reality, which is the Triune God in Christ, issued sincerity. This sincerity, or faithfulness, actually is a virtue of God. When we enjoy God as our reality, His divine virtue becomes our human virtue, and this human virtue is sincerity, faithfulness.
6对在真实中爱人的这种领会，是基于约翰一书所启示的。约翰在那封书信里指明，我们该以神自已作爱来彼此相爱。神就是爱。（约壹四8，16。）当我们享受神作爱，从这爱就产生我们用以爱别人的爱。我们以从我们享受神作爱所产生的爱来爱别人，我们的爱就会在真诚里。这真诚不是我们人性的美德；乃是我们享受神圣实际的结果。
6This understanding of loving in truth is based upon what is revealed in John’s first Epistle. In that Epistle John indicates that we should love one another by God Himself as love. God is love (1 John 4:8, 16). As we enjoy God as love, out of this love issues a love with which we love others. When we love others with the love that issues from our enjoyment of God as love, our love will be in sincerity. This sincerity is not our human virtue; rather, it is the issue of our enjoyment of the divine reality.
7当我们思考约翰在一节所说在真实中爱人的意义时，我们受到题醒：认识圣经不是一件肤浅的事。肤浅的认识约翰的书信尤其是不彀的。只有当我们进入这些书信的深处，我们才能了解作者的意思。约翰在一节说到『一切认识真理之人。』约翰在这里是指那些不仅因信基督是神而人者接受祂，且认识关于基督身位之真理的人。约翰在一节末了再次用真理这辞。这里真理指福音的神圣实际，（见约壹一6注6，）特别是约翰1福音和约翰一书所启示关于基督的身位，就是基督是神而人者，兼有神格和人格，有神圣的性情和人的性情，为要在为人生活中彰显神，并在人的肉体里，用神圣的能力，为堕落的人类完成救赎，使祂可以将神圣的生命分赐到他们里面，且把他们带进与神生机的联结里。约翰二书与三书都强调这真理。二书警告忠信的信徒，不要接待那些不留于这真理（关于基督之教训）中的人。三书鼓励信徒要接待并帮助那些为这真理作工的人。
7As we consider what John means in verse 1 by loving in truth, we are reminded that it is not a superficial matter to know the Bible. In particular, it is not sufficient to know the Epistles of John in a superficial way. Only when we get into the depths of these Epistles can we know the meaning of the writer. In verse 1 John speaks of “all those who have known the truth.” Here John refers to those who not only have received Christ by believing that He is both God and man, but who also have fully known the truth concerning the Person of Christ. At the end of verse 1 John again uses the word truth. Here truth denotes the divine reality of the gospel, especially concerning the Person of Christ as revealed in John’s Gospel and first Epistle. (See note 66 in John 1.) The divine reality of the gospel here especially includes the fact that Christ is both God and man, having deity and humanity, possessing both the divine nature and the human nature, to express God in human life and to accomplish redemption with divine power in human flesh for fallen human beings, so that He may impart the divine life into them and bring them into an organic union with God. The second and third Epistles of John stress this truth. The second warns the faithful believers against receiving those who do not abide in this truth—in the teaching concerning Christ. The third encourages the believers to receive and help those who work for this truth.
8约翰在二节继续说，『爱你们是因真理的缘故，这真理存在我们里面，也必永远与我们同在。』使徒约翰在福章书和第一封书信里，用他关于基督身位之启示的修补职事，使信徒豫防关于基督神性与人性的异端。因著这种豫防的真理，他和一切认识这真理的人，都爱那些对这真理忠信的人。约翰在二节说，这真理存在我们里面，也必永远与我们同在。他在一节告诉我们，他和一切认识真理之人，在真实中爱这封书信的受信者。约翰在二节用真理这辞，与一节里的第二个用法同义，就是指福音的神圣实际，特别是关于基督的身位。这神圣的实际，实际上就是三一神，现今住在我们里面，也必永远与我们同在。
8In verse 2 John goes on to say, “Because of the truth which abides in us and shall be with us forever.” The apostle John, in his Gospel and first Epistle, inoculated the believers with his mending ministry concerning the revelation of the Person of Christ against the heresies regarding Christ’s deity and humanity. Because of such an inoculating truth, he and all those who had known this truth loved those who were faithful to this truth. In verse 2 John says that the truth abides in us and will be with us forever. In verse 1 he tells us that he and all those who have known the truth love in truth the one to whom this Epistle was written. In verse 2 John uses the word truth with the same meaning as that of the second usage in verse 1, that is, to denote the divine reality of the gospel, especially concerning the Person of Christ. This divine reality, which actually is the Triune God, abides in us now and will be with us for eternity.
在真理与爱中的恩典、怜悯与平安
Grace, Mercy, and Peace in Truth and Love
9约翰在三节说，『恩典、怜悯、平安从父神，并从父的儿子耶稣基督，在真理和爱中，乃与我们同在。』这里的真理是指福音的神圣实际，特别是关于这位彰显神，并完成神定旨之基督的身位；爱是指信徒藉著接受并认识真理，在彼此相爱里的彰显。这两件事是本书信的基本结构。在真理和爱中，恩典、怜悯、平安必与我们同在。
9In verse 3 John says, “Grace, mercy, peace shall be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.” Truth here refers to the divine reality of the gospel, especially concerning the Person of Christ, who expressed God and accomplished His purpose. Love refers to the expression of the believers in loving one another through receiving and knowing the truth. These two matters are the basic structure of this Epistle. In love and truth, grace, mercy, and peace will be with us
10使徒基于信徒中间存有真理和爱这两件要紧的事，便用恩典、怜悯、平安问候并祝福他们。我们在真理中行事为人，（约贰4，）并且彼此相爱，（约贰5，）就必享受神圣的恩典、怜悯与平安。真理和爱若不存在信徒中间，他们就无法享受从父神并从耶稣基督来的恩典、怜悯与平安。恩典、怜悯与平安，只有在真理和爱这基本要素存在时，才能归与我们。因此这封书信强调真理和爱。我们都需要过真理和爱的生活。
10The apostle greets and blesses the believers with grace, mercy, and peace based upon the existence among them of the two crucial matters of truth and love. When we walk in the truth (v. 4) and love one another (v. 5), we enjoy the divine grace, mercy, and peace. If truth and love do not exist among the believers, there is no way for them to enjoy grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ. Grace, mercy, and peace can be unto us only when the basic factors of truth and love are present. Therefore, this Epistle emphasizes truth and love. All of us need to live a life of truth and love
在真理中
In Truth
11约翰在四至六节中说到在真理与爱中的行事。四节说，『我看到你的儿女，有照著我们从父所受的诫命，在真理中行事为人的，就大大欢乐。』关于基督身位的真理，乃是约翰修补职事基本且中心的元素。他看到忠信信徒的儿女在真理中行事为人，就大大欢乐。（约参3～4。）约翰在四节用『行事为人』这辞。正如约翰在约壹一章七节说到在光中行，『行』字的意思是生活、举止和为人。关于基督身位的真理，不应当仅仅是我们的信仰，也应当是我们的生活。这里的真理再一次指神圣的实际，特别是关于基督的身位。父命令我们要在这实际中，就是在对耶稣基督是神的儿子，（参太十七5，）这神圣事实的体认中行事为人，使我们照著父所愿望的尊敬子。(约五23。）
11In verses 4 through 6 John speaks concerning the walk in truth and love. Verse 4 says, “I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.” The truth concerning the Person of Christ is the basic and central element of John’s mending ministry. When he found the children of the faithful believer walking in truth, he rejoiced greatly (3 John 3-4). In verse 4 John uses the word “walking.” As in 1 John 1:7, where John speaks of walking in the light, the word “walk” means to live, behave, and have our being. The truth concerning the Person of Christ should not only be our belief; it should also be our living. Once again, truth here denotes the divine reality, especially concerning the Person of Christ. The Father commands us to walk in this reality, that is, in the realization of the divine fact that Jesus Christ is the Son of God (see Matt. 17:5), that we may honor the Son as the Father desires (John 5:23).
12父命令我们在真理中，在实际中行事为人。祂命令我们在对耶稣基督是神的儿子，这神圣事实的体认中行事为人。我们若在这实际中行事为人，就会照著父所愿望的尊敬子。
12The Father commands us to walk in the truth, in the reality. He commands us to walk in the realization of the divine fact that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. If we walk in this reality, we shall honor the Son according to the Father’s desire
在爱中
In Love
13约翰在五、六节继续说，『夫人阿，我现在请求你，我们要彼此相爱；我写给你的并不是一条新诫命，乃是我们从起初就有的诫命。我们要照祂的诫命行，这就是爱；你们要行在爱中，这就是诫命，正如你们从起初所听见的。』『从起初』这辞在约翰的著作中出现多次。有一些是用在绝对的意义上；（约壹一1，5三8；）但在五、六节这里，和别处（约十五27，约壹二7）一样，是用在相对的意义上。五、六节所题到的诫命，指子所赐的诫命，要我们彼此相爱。(约十三34。）父命令我们要在真理中行事为人，以尊敬子；子命令我们要彼此相爱，以彰显祂。
13In verses 5 and 6 John goes on to say, “And now I ask you, lady, not as writing a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another. And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.” The phrase “from the beginning” is found a number of times in John’s writings. In some instances this phrase is used in the absolute sense (1 John 1:1; 3:8), but here in verses and 6, as elsewhere (John 15:27; 1 John 2:7), it is used in the relative sense. The commandment referred to in verses 5 and 6 is the commandment given by the Son that we should love one another (John 13:34). The Father commands us to walk in the truth to honor the Son, and the Son commands us to love one another to express Him.