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Symeon the New Theologian

Catecheses 1 part 21/23

Greek original · 179 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss · long chapter, split into parts; this part covers 1:2918–1:3096 (3280 verses in all)

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1:2918
Καί ὅτι ἀδύνατον ἄλλως βεβαιωθῆναι τά ἔργα τῆς ἀρετῆς, εἰ μή δι ἐπιδημίας τοῦ Πνεύματος, οὗ χωρίς οὐδείς πρός ἀρετήν κατευθύνεται, οὐδέ ἄλλους ὠφελεῖν δύναταιἤ ἀλλοτρίους δέχεσθαι λογισμούς
And that it is impossible for the works of virtue to be confirmed in any other way than through the sojourning of the Spirit, without whom no one is directed toward virtue, nor is able to benefit others or to receive the thoughts of others.
又論到德行的工作若非藉著聖靈的內住,斷不能以別的方法得以堅立;沒有聖靈,無人能被引向德行,也不能造就別人,或領受別人的思念。
1:2919
() Ἀδελφοί καί πατέρες, πῦρ ἐστιν Θεός καί τοῦτο παρά πάσης θεοπνεύστου Γραφῆς ὀνομάζεται, δέ ψυχή ἑκάστου ἡμῶν λυχνία
Brethren and fathers, God is fire, and this he is named by all God-inspired Scripture; and the soul of each of us is a lamp.
弟兄們、父老們,神是火,全部受神默示的聖經都這樣稱呼祂;而我們各人的魂乃是燈。
1:2920
Ὥσπερ οὖν λυχνία, κἄν ἐλαίου πεπλήρωται κἄν στυππείου κἄν ἄλλην ὕλην ἔχῃ εὐάναπτον, πρό τοῦ μετασχεῖν τοῦ πυρός καί ἀναφθῆναι ὅλη ἐσκοτισμένη ἐστίν, οὕτω καί ψυχή, κἄν πάσαις τό δοκεῖν κοσμῆται ταῖς ἀρεταῖς, τοῦ δέ πυρός οὐ μετέσχεν, εἴτ οὖν οὐσίας θείας καί φωτός οὐ μετέλαβεν, ἔστιν ἔτι ἐσβεσμένη καί ἐσκοτισμένη καί τά ἔργα αὐτῆς ἀβέβαια
Just as a lamp, then—even though it be filled with oil, or with tow, or hold some other easily kindled material—before it partakes of fire and is kindled, is wholly in darkness, so also the soul, even though in appearance it be adorned with all the virtues, yet if it has not partaken of the fire—that is, if it has not received a share of the divine essence and light—is still quenched and darkened, and its works are unsure.
正如一盞燈,縱使盛滿了油、或滿是麻絮、或裝有別的易燃之物,在它分享火、被點燃之前,仍全然在黑暗中;照樣,魂也是如此,縱使表面上以一切德行為妝飾,若尚未分享那火——就是尚未領受屬神的本質與光——它仍是熄滅的、黑暗的,它的工作也無把握。
1:2921
Πάντα γάρ ὑπό τοῦ φωτός ἐλεγχθῆναι δεῖ καί φανερωθεῖναι
For all things must be reproved and made manifest by the light.
因為凡事都必藉著光被責備、被顯明。
1:2922
() οὖν οὕτως ἔχων ἔτι τήν λυχνίαν τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ ἀμέτοχον δηλονότι τοῦ θείου πυρός , ὁδηγοῦ δέεται μᾶλλον καί λύχνου φαίνοντος ἅμα καί διακρίνοντος τάς πράξεις αὐτοῦ καί τά δι ἐξαγορεύσεως συμπαθοῦντος αὐτῷ σφάλματα καί τά στρεβλῶς ὑπ αὐτοῦ καθ ὥραν διαπραττόμενα ἐπανορθοῦντος
He, therefore, who still has the lamp of his soul in such a state—plainly without partaking of the divine fire—has all the more need of a guide, and of a lamp that both shines and discerns his actions, and, through confession, sympathizes with him in his faults, and sets right the things done crookedly by him at every hour.
所以,那魂的燈仍處於這種光景的人——顯然是未曾分享那屬神之火的——就更需要一位嚮導,並需要一盞既發光又能分辨他行為的燈,這燈藉著認罪同情他的過失,並隨時糾正他所行歪曲的事。
1:2923
Ὡς γάρ οὐκ ἐνδέχεται μή προσκόπτειν τόν περιπατοῦντα νυκτός, οὕτως οὐκ ἐνδέχεται μή πταίειν τόν μήπω καθορῶντα τό θεῖον φῶς, καθώς φησιν Χριστός·
For just as it is not possible for one who walks by night not to stumble, so it is not possible for one who does not yet behold the divine light not to fall, as Christ says:
因為正如夜間行走的人不可能不絆跌,照樣,那尚未看見屬神之光的人也不可能不跌倒,正如基督所說:
1:2924
Ἐάν τις περιπατῇ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ, οὐ προσκόπτει, ὅτι τό φῶς τοῦτο βλέπει
If anyone walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees this light;
人若在白晝行走,就不至跌倒,因為他看見這世界的光;
1:2925
ἐν τῇ νυκτί, προσκόπτει, ὅτι τό φῶς οὐκ ἔχει ἐν ἑαυτῷ
but if he walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
但他若在黑夜行走,就必跌倒,因為光不在他裡面。
1:2926
Ἐν ἑαυτῷ δέ εἰπών, τό θεῖον ἐδήλωσε καί ἄϋλον φῶς·
And in saying 'in him,' he made plain the divine and immaterial light;
祂說「在他裡面」,就表明那屬神的、非物質的光;
1:2927
ἐν ἑαυτῷ γάρ τό αἰσθητόν οὐδείς δύναται κτήσασθαι
for no one can possess the perceptible light within himself.
因為沒有人能把那可感知的光存在自己裡面。
1:2928
Ὥσπερ οὖν οὐδέν ὠφελεῖται ἐν σκότει περιπατῶν, ἐάν λαμπάδας κατέχῃ ἐσβεσμένας πολλάς καί περικαλλεῖςοὔτε γάρ ἑαυτόν οὔτε ἕτερόν τινα ὡς ἐκ τούτων ὁρᾷ , οὕτως οὐδέ τάς ἀρετάς πάσας, εἰ οἷόν τε, δοκῶν ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἔχειν, μή ἔχων τό φῶς ἐν ἑαυτῷ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος, οὐδέ τάς αὐτοῦ πράξεις καλῶς ἰδεῖν, οὐδέ εἰ πρός ἀρέσκειαν Θεοῦ εἰσι, τελείως πεπληροφόρηται
Just as, then, one who walks in darkness is in no way helped even if he holds many beautiful but extinguished torches—for he sees neither himself nor anyone else by means of these—so neither is the one who seems, if it be possible, to have all the virtues within himself, yet does not have within himself the light of the Holy Spirit, able to see his own actions well, nor is he fully assured whether they are unto the good pleasure of God.
所以,正如在黑暗中行走的人,縱使拿著許多美麗卻已熄滅的火把,也毫無幫助——因為他既看不見自己,也看不見別人——照樣,那即或看似在自己裡面擁有一切德行、卻在自己裡面沒有聖靈之光的人,也不能好好看見自己的行為,也不能完全確信這些行為是否蒙神的喜悅。
1:2929
Ἀλλ οὐδέ ἄλλους ὁδηγῆσαιἤ τό θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ διδάξαι δύναται, οὐδέ λογισμούς ἀλλοτρίους ἐστίν ἀναδέχεσθαι ἄξιος, εἰ καί πατριάρχης ἐξ ἀνθρώπων γενήσεται, ἕως ἄν τό φῶς ἐν ἑαυτῷ φαῖνον κτήσηται
But neither is he able to guide others or to teach the will of God, nor is he worthy to receive the thoughts of others, even if he should become a patriarch among men, until he acquires the light shining within himself.
而且他也不能引導別人或教導神的旨意,也不配領受別人的思念,縱使他在人中作了宗主教,直到他獲得那在自己裡面發光的光為止。
1:2930
Περιπατεῖτε ἕως τό φῶς ἔχετε, ἵνα μή σκοτία ὑμᾶς καταλάβῃ, καί περιπατῶν ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ οὐκ οἶδε ποῦ ὑπάγει Εἰ οὖν ἐκεῖνος οἶδε ποῦ ὑπάγει, () πῶς τήν ὁδόν ἄλλοις ὑποδείξει;
Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; and he who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. If, then, that man does not know where he is going, how shall he show the way to others?
你們應當趁著有光行走,免得黑暗臨到你們;在黑暗裡行走的,不知道往何處去。那麼,那人若不知道往何處去,怎能把道路指示給別人呢?
1:2931
Τί οὖν ὄφελος, ἐάν λύχνον ἐσβεσμένον ἐπί ἑτέρᾳ λυχνίᾳ τις ἐπιθείη, πυρός καιομένου ἐστερημένῃ καί φαίνοντος
What benefit is there, then, if someone should set an extinguished lamp upon another lampstand, when it is deprived of burning fire and of shining?
那麼,若有人把一盞熄滅的燈放在別的燈臺上,這燈既缺了燃燒的火,又不發光,那有什麼益處呢?
1:2932
Ὡς αὐτός ἐπί πάντων Θεός διωρίσατο, φησί γάρ·
As God who is over all things determined, for he says:
正如那在萬有之上的神所定規的,因為祂說:
1:2933
Οὐδείς λύχνον ἅψας εἰς κρύπτην τίθησιν, οὐδέ ὑπό τόν μόδιον, ἀλλ ἐπί τήν λυχνίαν, ἵνα οἱ εἰσπορευόμενοι τό φέγγος βλέπωσι
No one, having lit a lamp, puts it in a hidden place, nor under the bushel, but upon the lampstand, that those who enter may see the light.
沒有人點燈放在隱密處,或斗底下,乃是放在燈臺上,使進來的人看見亮光。
1:2934
Τοῦτο οὖν εἰπών προστίθησι καί τά γνωρίσματα τοῦ ὁδηγουμένου λύχνου καί ἔχοντος μεθ ἑαυτοῦ τό φῶς, οὕτω λέγων·
Having said this, then, he adds also the marks of the guiding lamp that has the light with itself, speaking thus:
祂說了這話,就又加上那作嚮導、隨身帶著光之燈的記號,這樣說:
1:2935
λύχνος τοῦ σώματός ἐστι ὀφθαλμός
The lamp of the body is the eye.
身上的燈就是眼睛。
1:2936
Τίνα τοίνυν λέγει διά τούτου τόν ὀφθαλμόνἤ πάντως τόν νοῦν, ὅς οὐδέποτε ἄν γένηται ἁπλοῦς, εἰ μή ὅτε τό ἁπλοῦν θεάσηται φῶς;
What, then, does he mean by this 'eye'? Surely the mind, which can never become single unless it beholds the single light.
那麼,祂藉這「眼睛」是指什麼呢?無疑是指心思;除非它看見那單一的光,它斷不能成為單一的。
1:2937
γοῦν ἀεί ἔχων τό φῶς αὐτοῦ λάμπον ἐν διανοίᾳ, νοῦν Χριστοῦ ἔχειν λέγεται
He, then, who ever has his light shining in his understanding is said to have the mind of Christ.
所以,那心思裡常有他的光照耀的人,被稱為有基督的心思。
1:2938
Ὅταν οὖν ὀφθαλμός σου οὕτως ἁπλοῦς , καί ὅλον τό ἀσώματον σῶμά σου τῆς ψυχῆς φωτεινόν ἔσται·
When, therefore, your eye is thus single, then the whole incorporeal body of your soul shall be full of light;
所以,你的眼睛既是這樣單一,你魂那非物質的全身就都明亮了;
1:2939
ἐπάν δέ πονηρόςᾖ νοῦς, τουτέστιν ἐσκοτισμένος καί ἐσβεσμένος, καί τό σῶμά σου τοῦτο σκοτεινόν ἔσται
but when the mind is evil—that is, darkened and extinguished—then this body of yours also shall be dark.
但你的心思若是邪惡的——就是昏暗、熄滅的——你這身子也就黑暗了。
1:2940
Σκόπει οὖν μή τό φῶς τό ἐν σοί σκότος ἐστί·
Take heed, therefore, lest the light that is in you be darkness.
所以你要謹慎,恐怕你裡頭的光竟成了黑暗。
1:2941
Βλέπε, φησί, μή δοκεῖς ἔχειν ὅπερ οὐ κέκτησαι
'Take heed,' he says, 'lest you suppose that you possess what you have not acquired.'
他說:「你要謹慎,免得你以為自己擁有那本未曾得著的。」
1:2942
Ὁρᾶτε πῶς καί αὐτός Δεσπότης ἴσως ἡμῖν τοῖς αὐτοῦ δούλοις πρός ὑμᾶς διαλέγεται, Σκόπει λέγων, μή λάθῃς σεαυτόν καί ἐν σοί φῶς εἶναι οἰομένου σου, αὐτό οὐκ ἔστι φῶς ἀλλά σκότος
See how the Master Himself likewise speaks to us, His servants, concerning you, saying: 'Look, lest you deceive yourself; and while you imagine that there is light in you, it is not light but darkness.'
你們看,主自己也照樣藉著我們這些作祂僕人的,對你們說話。祂說:「你要察看,免得欺哄了自己;當你以為裡面有光的時候,那並不是光,乃是黑暗。」
1:2943
Ὁρᾶτε ὅτι τά αὐτά καί ἡμεῖς τῷ Δεσπότῃ πρός τούς ὁμοδούλους ὑμᾶς φθεγγόμεθα καί οὐδέν διεστραμμένονἤ φαῦλον λέγομεν
See that we too speak the very same things as the Master to you, our fellow-servants, and we say nothing perverse or base.
你們看,我們也照樣如主一般,向你們這些作我們同伴僕人的說話,並沒有說甚麼乖謬或卑劣的話。
1:2944
βλέπετε, ἀδελφοί, μήποτε δοκοῦντες εἶναι ἐν τῷ Θεῷ καί κοινωνίαν ἔχειν οἰόμενοι μετ αὐτοῦ, ἔξω εὑρεθείητε τούτου καί κεχωρισμένοι διά τό μή θεωρεῖν ὑμᾶς ἤδη τό φῶς αὐτοῦ
Take heed, brethren, lest, thinking that you are in God and imagining that you have fellowship with Him, you be found outside of Him and separated from Him, because you do not yet behold His light.
弟兄們,你們要謹慎,免得你們自以為在神裡面、又以為與祂有交通,卻因你們尚未見到祂的光,而被發現是在祂之外、與祂隔絕的。
1:2945
Εἰ γάρ ἥψατο τῶν λαμπάδων ὑμῶν ἤγουν τῶν ψυχῶν , ἔλαμψεν ἄν τρανῶς ἐν ὑμῖν, καθώς αὐτός Θεός καί Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός ἔφη·
For if it had touched your lamps—that is, your souls—it would have shone forth clearly within you, even as God Himself and our Lord Jesus Christ said:
因為那光若曾點著你們的燈,就是你們的魂,它必已在你們裡面清楚地照耀,正如我們的神並主耶穌基督自己所說的:
1:2946
Εἰ οὖν τό σῶμά σου ὅλον φωτεινόν, μέρος τι μή ἔχον σκοτεινόν, ἔσται φωτεινόν ὅλον, ὡς ὅταν λύχνος τῇ ἀστραπῇ φωτίζει σε
'If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it shall be wholly bright, as when the lamp enlightens you with its lightning-flash.'
「所以你全身若滿了光,沒有一部分是黑暗的,就必全然明亮,如同燈以其閃耀的光照亮你一樣。」
1:2947
εἰ δέ τῷ Δεσπότῃ διαπιστήσεις, πῶς, εἰπέ μοι, τῷ συνδούλῳ πιστεύσεις;
But if you distrust the Master, tell me, how then will you trust the fellow-servant?
但你若不信任那位主人,請告訴我,你又怎能信任那作同伴的僕人呢?
1:2948
Ἀλλά τί εἴπω πρός τούς ἀγαπῶντας ὀνομαστούς εἶναι καί ἱερεῖς καί ἀρχιερεῖς καί ἡγουμένους καθίστασθαι, καί λογισμούς ἀλλοτρίους ἀναδέχεσθαι θέλοντας, καί ἑαυτούς εἶναι λέγοντας ἀξίους τῆς τοῦ δεσμεῖν καί λύειν ἐγχειρήσεως;
But what shall I say to those who love to be renowned, and to be set up as priests and high priests and abbots, and who wish to take upon themselves the thoughts of others, and who claim to be worthy of undertaking the office of binding and loosing?
但對於那些愛慕出名、渴望被立為祭司、大祭司和院長的人,那些願意擔負別人心思重擔、又自稱配得擔任捆綁與釋放之職分的人,我還能說甚麼呢?
1:2949
Ὄταν μηδέν τῶν ἀναγκαίων καί θείων πραγμάτων αὐτούς ἐπισταμένους ὁρῶ, μήτε ταῦτα ἑτέρους διδάσκονταςἤ εἰς φῶς ἐνάγοντας γνώσεως, τί ἕτερονἤ φησι Χριστός τοῖς φαρισαίοις καί νομικοῖς·
When I see that they understand none of the necessary and divine matters, and neither teach these things to others nor lead them into the light of knowledge, what else is it than what Christ says to the Pharisees and the lawyers:
當我看見他們對於那些必需的、神聖的事一無所知,既不將這些事教導別人,也不引人進入知識的光中,這豈不正是基督對法利賽人和律法師所說的話麼:
1:2950
Οὐαί ὑμῖν τοῖς νομικοῖς, ὅτι ἤρατε τήν κλεῖδα τῆς γνώσεως
'Woe to you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge.
「你們律法師有禍了!因為你們把知識的鑰匙奪了去。
1:2951
Αὐτοί οὐκ εἰσήλθετε καί τούς εἰσελθεῖν βουλομένους ἐκωλύσατε
You yourselves did not enter in, and those who wished to enter you hindered.'
你們自己不進去,正要進去的人你們也阻擋了。」
1:2952
πολλῶν παραβολῶν καί αἰνιγμάτων, () ἔτι δέ καί φανερῶν ἀποδείξεων, εἶπον ὑμῖν καί πάλιν ἐρῶ·
By means of many parables and enigmas, and moreover by plain demonstrations as well, I have spoken to you, and I will say it again:
我曾藉著許多比喻和隱謎,並且也藉著明顯的證明,向你們說過,如今我還要再說:
1:2953
θύρα ΥἱόςἘγώ εἰμι, φησίν, θύρα, κλείς δέ τῆς θύρας τό Πνεῦμα τό Ἅγιόν ἐστιΛάβετε, φησί, Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον·
The door is the Son—'I am,' He says, 'the door'—and the key of the door is the Holy Spirit—'Receive,' He says, 'the Holy Spirit.'
那門就是子——祂說:「我就是門」——而那門的鑰匙就是聖靈——祂說:「你們受聖靈吧。」
1:2954
ἄν τινων ἀφῆτε τάς ἁμαρτίας, ἀφίενται αὐτοῖς·
'Whosoever's sins you forgive, they are forgiven them;'
「你們赦免誰的罪,誰的罪就赦免了;
1:2955
ἄν τινων κρατῆτε, κεκράτηνται, οἰκία δέ ΠατήρἘν γάρ τῇ οἰκίᾳ τοῦ Πατρός μου πολλαί μοναί εἰσι
'whosoever's you retain, they are retained.' And the house is the Father—'For in My Father's house are many mansions.'
你們留下誰的罪,誰的罪就留下了。」而那房子就是父——「因為在我父的家裡有許多住處。」
1:2956
Πρόσεχε οὖν ἀκριβῶς τῇ θεωρίᾳ τοῦ λόγου
Attend therefore carefully to the contemplation of this word.
所以你們要仔細留意這話的默觀之義。
1:2957
Εἰ μή οὖν κλείς ἀνοίξειΤούτῳ γάρ, φησίν, θυρωρός ἀνοίγει , θύρα οὐκ ἀνοίγεται·
If therefore the key does not open—'For to Him,' it says, 'the doorkeeper opens'—the door is not opened;
所以那鑰匙若不開啟——經上說:「看門的就給祂開門」——那門就不得開啟;
1:2958
ἄν δέ μή θύρα διανοιχθῇ, οὐδείς εἰς τήν οἰκίαν εἰσέρχεται τοῦ Πατρός, καθώς φησιν Χριστός·
and if the door is not opened, no one enters into the house of the Father, even as Christ says:
而那門若不開啟,就沒有人能進入父的家,正如基督所說的:
1:2959
Οὐδείς ἔρχεται πρός τόν Πατέρα, εἰ μή δι ἐμοῦ
'No one comes to the Father except through Me.'
「若不藉著我,沒有人能到父那裡去。」
1:2960
Ὅτι δέ τό Πνεῦμα τό Ἅγιον πρότερον διανοίγει τόν νοῦν ἡμῶν καί διδάσκει ἡμᾶς τά περί τοῦ Πατρός καί τοῦ Υἱοῦ, αὐτός πάλιν ἔφη·
And that the Holy Spirit first opens our mind and teaches us the things concerning the Father and the Son, He again said:
至於聖靈首先開啟我們的心思,將那有關父與子的事教導我們,祂又說:
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Ὅταν δέ ἔλθῃ ἐκεῖνος, τό Πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας, παρά τοῦ Πατρός ἐκπορεύεται, ἐκεῖνος μαρτυρήσει περί ἐμοῦ καί ὁδηγήσει ὑμᾶς εἰς πᾶσαν τήν ἀλήθειαν, ὁρᾷς πῶς διά τοῦ Πνεύματος, μᾶλλον δέ ἐν τῷ Πνεύματι, Πατήρ καί Υἱός ἀχωρίστως ἐπιγινώσκονται;
'But when He comes, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He shall bear witness of Me, and shall guide you into all the truth.' Do you see how through the Spirit—or rather, in the Spirit—the Father and the Son are known inseparably?
「只是那真理的靈,就是從父出來的,當祂來的時候,祂要為我作見證,並要引導你們進入一切的真理。」你看見沒有?父與子乃是藉著那靈——更確切地說,是在那靈裡面——不可分離地被認識的。
1:2962
Ἐάν γάρ ἐγώ μή ἀπέλθω, Παράκλητος, φησίν, οὐκ ἐλεύσεται πρός ὑμᾶς
'For if I do not go away,' He says, 'the Comforter will not come to you.'
祂說:「因為我若不去,那保惠師就不到你們這裡來。」
1:2963
Ὅταν δέ ἔλθῃ ἐκεῖνος, ἀναμνήσει ὑμᾶς πάντα καί πάλιν·
'But when He comes, He shall bring all things to your remembrance.' And again:
「只是祂來的時候,要叫你們想起一切所說的。」又說:
1:2964
Ἐάν ἀγαπᾶτέ με, τάς ἐντολάς τάς ἐμάς τηρήσετε, καί ἐγώ ἐρωτήσω τόν Πατέρα καί ἄλλον Παράκλητον δώσει ὑμῖν, ἵνα μένῃ μεθ ὑμῶν εἰς τόν αἰῶνα, τό Πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας καί μετ ὀλίγον·
'If you love Me, you will keep My commandments, and I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever, the Spirit of truth.' And a little later:
「你們若愛我,就必遵守我的誡命;我要求父,父就另外賜給你們一位保惠師,叫祂永遠與你們同在,就是那真理的靈。」過了不久又說:
1:2965
Ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὅτε δηλονότι τό Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα ἐλεύσεται πρός () ὑμᾶςγνώσεσθε ὑμεῖς ὅτι ἐγώ ἐν τῷ Πατρί μου καί ὑμεῖς ἐν ἐμοί κἀγώ ἐν ὑμῖν καί πάλιν·
'In that day'—that is to say, when the Holy Spirit shall come to you—'you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.' And again:
「到那日」——顯然就是聖靈要來到你們這裡的那日——「你們就知道我在我父裡面,你們在我裡面,我也在你們裡面。」又說:
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Ἰωάννης μέν ἐβάπτισεν ὕδατι, ὑμεῖς δέ βαπτισθήσεσθε ἐν Πνεύματι Ἁγίῳ, καί εἰκότως·
'John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit'—and rightly so;
「約翰是用水施浸,但你們要在聖靈裡受浸。」這話說得正是:
1:2967
εἰ μή γάρ ἐν Ἁγίῳ βαπτισθῇ τις Πνεύματι, οὔτε υἱός Θεοῦ οὔτε συγκληρονόμος Χριστοῦ γίνεται
for unless one be baptized in the Holy Spirit, he becomes neither a son of God nor a fellow-heir of Christ.
因為人若不在聖靈裡受浸,就既不能成為神的兒子,也不能成為與基督同作後嗣的。
1:2968
Σοί δώσω τάς κλείς τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν, οὐ κλεῖς πάντως χαλκᾶςἤ σιδηρᾶς, ἀλλά κλεῖς ἀξίας τῆς οἰκίας ἐκείνης
'To you I will give the keys of the kingdom of the heavens'—by no means keys of bronze or of iron, but keys worthy of that house.
「我要把諸天之國的鑰匙給你」——這絕不是銅的或鐵的鑰匙,乃是與那房子相稱的鑰匙。
1:2969
Ποταπή δέ ἐστιν οἰκία ἐκείνη, ἄκουε Παύλου λέγοντος ἐν τῇ πρός Τιμόθεον ἐπιστολῇ·
And of what sort is that house, hear Paul saying in his epistle to Timothy:
至於那房子是何等的,且聽保羅在給提摩太的書信中所說的:
1:2970
Παραγγέλλω σοι ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, τοῦ ζωοποιοῦντος τά πάντα, καί Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ, καί μετ ὀλίγα·
'I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and Christ Jesus'—and a little after:
「我在那賜生命給萬物的神,並基督耶穌面前囑咐你。」過了一點又說:
1:2971
μακάριος καί μόνος δυνάστης, βασιλεύς τῶν βασιλευόντων καί Κύριος τῶν κυριευόντων, μόνος ἔχων ἀθανασίαν, φῶς οἰκῶν ἀπρόσιτον
'the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of those who reign and Lord of those who rule, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light.'
「那可稱頌、獨有權能的,萬王之王、萬主之主,就是那獨一不死、住在人不能靠近的光中者。」
1:2972
Εἰ γάρ οἶκος, φησίν, ἐστίν ἀπρόσιτος, δηλονότι καί τοῦ οἴκου θύρα φῶς καί αὕτη καί ἀπρόσιτός ἐστιν
For if the house, he says, is unapproachable, plainly the door of the house also is itself light and unapproachable.
他說,因為那房子若是人不能靠近的,那麼那房子的門顯然也是光,也同樣是人不能靠近的。
1:2973
Εἰ δέ τό μέν προσιτόν εἴπῃς, τό δέ ἀπρόσιτον, τό προσιτόν ὑπό τοῦ ἀπροσίτου ἀναλωθήσεται καί οὐκ ἄν ποτε κλείς ἀνοῖξαι ἰσχύσει, εἰ μή καί αὐτή ἀπρόσιτοςᾖ καί τῆς αὐτῆς φύσεως, ἀλλ ὑπό τῆς θύρας κατακαήσεταιἤ καί θύρα ὑπό τοῦ οἴκου, καί ἴσως τοῖς πᾶσι γενήσεται ἄβατος
But if you should say that the one is approachable and the other unapproachable, the approachable will be consumed by the unapproachable, and the key could never have strength to open, unless it too be unapproachable and of the same nature; rather it will be burnt up by the door, or the door by the house, and perhaps it will become impassable to all.
但你若說一個是人可靠近的、另一個是人不能靠近的,那麼那可靠近的必被那不能靠近的所吞滅,而那鑰匙也永不能有力量開啟,除非它自己也是人不能靠近的、並且與其同一性質;否則它就要被那門所焚燒,或者那門被那房子所焚燒,如此一來,或許對眾人都成了不能通行的了。
1:2974
Μᾶλλον δέ καί πίστις ἡμῶν καταλυθήσεται, τῆς Ἁγίας Τριάδος διαιρουμένης εἰς προσιτόν καί ἀπρόσιτον καί μεῖζον καί ἔλασσον
Rather, our very faith will be destroyed, if the Holy Trinity be divided into approachable and unapproachable, into greater and lesser.
不但如此,我們的信仰本身也要被拆毀,倘若那聖別的三一被分為可靠近的與不能靠近的、較大的與較小的。
1:2975
Ὁρᾶτε δέ μή ταῦτα ὑμεῖς ἀκούοντες, ἀπό τῶν αἰσθητῶν οἰκιῶν ὁμοῦ καί θυρῶν τάς εἰκόνας λαμβάνοντες, σωματικόν τι σχῆμα τῷ νοΐ ὑμῶν προεντυπωθῇ, καί εἰς ἀμφιβολίαν καί βλασφημίαν περιπέσῃ ὑμῶν ψυχή
But take heed, lest, hearing these things, and taking the images from perceptible houses and doors together, some bodily form be stamped beforehand upon your mind, and your soul fall into doubt and blasphemy.
但你們要謹慎,免得聽了這些話,就從有形可見的房子和門那裡取來形像,以致有某種屬肉身的形狀預先烙印在你們的心思上,使你們的魂陷入疑惑與褻瀆。
1:2976
Ἀλλά θεοπρεπῶς ἅπαντα καί καλῶς, () εἴγε δύνασθε, κατά τόν τῆς θεωρίας λόγον καί νόμον ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἀναλογιζόμενοι, εὑρήσετε ὀρθῶς ἅπαντα διερμηνευόμενα
But if, in a manner befitting God and rightly, insofar as you are able, you reason within yourselves according to the word and law of contemplation, you will find all things interpreted correctly.
但你們若照著默觀的言語與法則,盡你們所能,在自己裡面以合乎神、且正當的方式來思量這一切,就必發現凡事都得著正確的解釋。
1:2977
Εἰ δέ μή δύνασθε ταῦτα θεοπρεπῶς οὕτω νοεῖν, πίστει ταῦτα δέχεσθε μόνῃ καί μή πολυπραγμονεῖν ὅλως θελήσητε
But if you are not able so to understand these things in a manner befitting God, receive them by faith alone, and do not wish to inquire curiously into them at all.
但你們若不能如此以合乎神的方式明白這些事,就單憑信心接受它們,切不可存心去多方細究。
1:2978
Κλείς μέν γάρ τό Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα λέγεται, ὅτι δι αὐτοῦ καί ἐν αὐτῷ πρῶτον τόν νοῦν ἐλλαμπόμεθα καί καθαιρόμενοι φωτιζόμεθα φῶς γνώσεως, βαπτιζόμεθά τε ἄνωθεν καί ἀναγεννώμεθα καί τέκνα Θεοῦ χρηματίζομεν, καθώς Παῦλός φησιν·
For the Holy Spirit is called a key, because through Him and in Him our mind is first illumined, and, being purified, we are enlightened with the light of knowledge, and are baptized from above and regenerated, and are named children of God, even as Paul says:
聖靈之所以被稱為鑰匙,是因為藉著祂並在祂裡面,我們的心思首先得著光照,又得潔淨、以知識的光被開啟,並且從上頭受浸而重生,得稱為神的兒女,正如保羅所說的:
1:2979
Αὐτό τό Πνεῦμα ἐντυγχάνει ὑπέρ ἡμῶν στεναγμοῖς ἀλαλήτοις, καί πάλιν·
'The Spirit itself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.' And again:
「那靈親自用說不出來的歎息,為我們代求。」又說:
1:2980
Ἔδωκεν Θεός τό Πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν κρᾶζον·
'God has given His Spirit in our hearts, crying out:'
「神已將祂的靈賜在我們心裡,呼叫著:」
1:2981
Τοῦτο τοιγαροῦν δεικνύει τήν θύραν ἡμῖν ὅτι ἐστί φῶς, δέ θύρα διδάσκει ἡμᾶς ὅτι ἐνοικῶν τῇ οἰκίᾳ καί αὐτός φῶς ἀπρόσιτον ἐστιν
This, then, shows us that the door is light; and the door teaches us that He who dwells in the house is Himself also unapproachable light.
所以這就向我們顯明,那門乃是光;而那門又教導我們,那住在房子裡面的,祂自己也是人不能靠近的光。
1:2982
ἕτερον φῶς οἰκία αὐτοῦ, ὥσπερ οὐδέ ἄλλο φῶς τό τῆς Θεότητος καί ἄλλο Θεός
His house is not another light, just as neither is the light of the Godhead one thing and God another.
祂的房子並非另一種光,正如神性的光與神也並非兩回事。
1:2983
Ἀλλ αὐτός εἷς ἐστιν, οἰκία καί ἔνοικος, καθώς καί φῶς ἐστιν αὐτός καί Θεός
But He is one and the same, both house and indweller, even as He is one and the same light and God.
祂乃是同一位,既是房子又是那居住其中者,正如祂也是同一位,既是光又是神。
1:2984
Θεολογικῶς δέ οἰκία καί Υἱός καλεῖται, ὥσπερ καί Πατήρφησί γάρ·
And theologically the Son also is called a house, just as the Father is—for He says:
而按神學說來,子也被稱為房子,正如父也是如此——因為祂說:
1:2985
Σύ, Πάτερ, ἐν ἐμοί κἀγώ ἐν αὐτοῖς καί αὐτοί ἐν ἐμοί κἀγώ, Πάτερ ἐν σοί, ἵνα ἕν ὦμεν, καί τό Πνεῦμα ὡσαύτως·
'Thou, Father, in Me and I in them, and they in Me and I, Father, in Thee, that we may be one.' And the Spirit likewise:
「父啊,你在我裡面,我在他們裡面,他們在我裡面,我也在你裡面,使我們成為一。」那靈也是照樣:
1:2986
Ἐνοικήσω, φησίν, ἐν αὐτοῖς καί ἐμπεριπατήσω
'I will dwell in them,' He says, 'and walk about among them.'
祂說:「我要住在他們裡面,並在他們中間往來行走。」
1:2987
Ἐγώ καί Πατήρ ἐλευσόμεθα καί μονήν παρ αὐτῷ ποιήσομεν, διά τοῦ Πνεύματος δηλονότι, ὡς Παῦλος φησι·
'I and the Father will come and make our abode with him'—plainly through the Spirit, as Paul says:
「我與父要來,並要在他那裡安排住處」——顯然是藉著那靈,正如保羅所說的:
1:2988
Τό γάρ Πνεῦμα Κύριος ἐστιν
'For the Lord is the Spirit.'
「因為那主就是那靈。」
1:2989
Εἰ οὖν Κύριος τό Πνεῦμα ἐστι καί Πατήρ ἐν αὐτῷ καί αὐτό ἐν ἡμῖν, ὡσαύτως δέ πάλιν ἡμεῖς ἐν αὐτῷ, καί αὐτό μετά Θεοῦ καί Πατρός καί Θεός ἐν αὐτῷ
If therefore the Lord is the Spirit, and the Father is in Him and He is in us, and likewise again we are in Him, and He is with God the Father, and God is in Him—
所以,那主若就是那靈,而父在祂裡面、祂在我們裡面,同樣地我們也在祂裡面,而祂與神並父同在、神也在祂裡面——
1:2990
() Καί εἰ χρή ἀκριβέστερόν τι εἰπεῖν, ὅπερ τό ἕν ἐστι, τοῦτο καί τά δύο
And if one must speak somewhat more precisely, that which is the One is also the Two.
而若要說得更確切一些,那作為一的,也就是那兩者。
1:2991
Τά τρία γάρ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ εἰσι καί εἰς μίαν νοοῦνται οὐσίαν καί φύσιν καί βασιλείαν
For the Three are in the Same, and are conceived as into one essence and nature and kingdom.
因為那三者乃是在同一位裡面,並且被認為歸於一個本質、一個性情、一個國度。
1:2992
Εἴ τι οὖν τό ἕν ὀνομάζεται, τοῦτο κατά φύσιν καί εἰς τά λοιπά θεωρεῖται, χωρίς τοῦ Πατήρ δηλαδή καί Υἱός καί Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, ἤτοι τοῦ γεννᾶν ἐκτός καί γεννᾶσθαι καί ἐκπορεύεσθαι·
If therefore anything is named of the One, this is by nature also contemplated in the rest—apart, that is, from Father and Son and Holy Spirit, that is to say, apart from begetting and being begotten and proceeding;
所以,凡是就這一者所題名的,這事按性情也在其餘各者中被默觀到——只是除了父、子、聖靈這些稱謂之外,也就是說,除了生、被生與發出之外;
1:2993
μόνα γάρ ταῦτα τῇ Ἁγίᾳ Τριάδι φυσικῶς τε καί κατ ἰδιότητα ἀναντιρρήτως παρέπεται
for these alone belong to the Holy Trinity naturally and according to distinctive property, incontestably.
因為惟有這幾樣,才是按性情、按各別的特性,無可爭辯地屬於那聖別的三一的。
1:2994
Ἀλλοίωσιν δέἤ ἀναποδισμόνἤ τήν τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐναλλαγήν ἐν τούτοις οὐκ ἔστιν ἐννοῆσαι ἡμᾶςἤ εἰπεῖν
But alteration, or reversal, or the interchange of the names in these matters, it is not possible for us to conceive or to speak.
但關於這些事,我們既不能設想,也不能說出有何改變、逆轉、或名稱的互換。
1:2995
Διά τούτων γάρ τά τρία πρόσωπα γνώριμα καθεστήκασι καί οὐδέ τόν Υἱόν ἐν τούτῳ προτάξαι τοῦ Πατρός ἐστι δυνατόν, οὐδέ τοῦ Υἱοῦ τό Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, ἀλλά ἅμα οὕτως εἰπεῖν·
For through these the three Persons are made known, and in this it is not possible to set the Son before the Father, nor the Holy Spirit before the Son, but rather to say them thus together:
因為那三位乃是藉著這些而顯為可知的,在這事上既不能將子排在父之先,也不能將聖靈排在子之先,乃要如此一同題說:
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Πατήρ, Υἱός καί Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, μή διακοπῆς τινος ἐν τούτοις ἀπό χρόνουἤ στιγμῆς τό λεπτότατον γινομένης, ἀλλά σύν τῷ Πατρί ἅμα καί Υἱός ἐστι γεγεννημένος καί τό Πνεῦμα ἐκπορευόμενον·
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, no interruption of even the most minute interval of time or moment occurring among them, but together with the Father the Son also is begotten and the Spirit proceeds;
父、子、聖靈;在祂們之間,連最微小的一點時間或片刻的間斷都沒有,乃是與父同時,子也被生,靈也發出;
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ἐν δέ τοῖς ἄλλοις πᾶσι τό ἕν ὄνομαἤ παράδειγμα καί καθ ἕν ἀναθεωρεῖται καί ἐν τρισίν·
but in all other cases the one name or example is contemplated both singly and in the three;
但在所有其他的事上,那一個名稱或例證,既可個別地、也可在三者裡面被察看到;
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οἷον φῶς ἐάν εἴπῃς, καί καθ ἕκαστον τούτων φῶς καί τά τρία ἕν φῶς ἐστι·
for instance, if you say 'light,' each of these is light, and the three are one light;
例如你若說「光」,這三者中的每一位都是光,而這三者又是一個光;
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ζωή αἰώνιος, καί καθ ἕν ὡσαύτως τούτων Υἱός ἐστι καί τό Πνεῦμα καί Πατήρ καί τό Πνεῦμα καί Πατήρ, τά τρία μία ζωή
'eternal life'—and likewise, singly, the Son is this, and the Spirit, and the Father; and the Spirit and the Father; the three are one life.
「永遠的生命」——照樣,個別地說,子是這生命,靈也是,父也是;靈與父也是;這三者乃是一個生命。
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Πνεῦμα οὖν Θεός καί Πατήρ καί τό Πνεῦμα Κύριος ἐστι καί Θεός τό Πνεῦμα τό Ἅγιον·
God, then, is the Spirit, and the Father, and the Spirit is the Lord, and God is the Holy Spirit;
所以神就是那靈,父也是;而那靈就是主,聖靈也就是神;
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Θεός ταῦτα καθ ἕν καί ἅμα τά τρία Θεός·
God are these singly, and together the three are God;
個別地說,這幾位都是神,而這三者一同也是神;
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εἷς ἐπί πάντων Θεός, Κτίστης τῶν ἁπάντων, καθ ἕν, καί εἷς ταῦτα Δημιουργός τῶν ὅλων Θεός
one is the God over all, the Creator of all things, singly; and one are these three, the Maker of the universe, God.
個別地說,那超乎萬有之上、創造萬物的神,乃是一位;而這三者一同,那創造萬有的神,也是一位。
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() Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐποίησε Θεός τόν οὐρανόν καί τήν γῆν, καί εἶπεν Θεός·
'In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth, and God said:'
「起初神創造諸天與地,神說:」
1:3004
Γενηθήτω φῶς καί ἐγένετο φῶς, τοῦτο περί τοῦ Πατρός λόγος ἐννοεῖν δίδωσι, καί Δαυίδ·
'Let there be light, and there was light'—this the word gives us to understand concerning the Father; and David:
「要有光,就有了光」——這話給我們領會有關父的事;而大衛也說:
1:3005
Τῷ Λόγῳ Κυρίου οἱ οὐρανοί ἐστερεώθησαν, τοῦτο περί τοῦ Υἱοῦ δηλούμενον ἔγνωμεν, καί τῷ Πνεύματι τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ πᾶσα δύναμις αὐτῶν, περί τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος καί τοῦτο ὑπολαμβανόμενον
'By the Word of the Lord the heavens were established'—this we know to be declared concerning the Son; 'and by the Spirit of His mouth all their power'—this too we take to concern the Holy Spirit.
「諸天藉耶和華的話而堅立」——我們知道這是指明有關子的事;「祂們一切的萬象藉祂口中的氣而成」——這也被領會為有關聖靈的事。
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Ἀλλά καί Ἰωάννης, υἱός τῆς βροντῆς, ἐν Εὐαγγελίοις φησίν·
But John also, the son of thunder, says in the Gospels:
而那雷子約翰,也在福音書中說:
1:3007
Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν Λόγος, καί Λόγος ἦν πρός τόν Θεόν τόν Πατέρα δηλαδή, καί Θεός ἦν Λόγος Υἱός δηλονότι
'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God'—that is, the Father—'and the Word was God'—that is, the Son.
「太初有話,話與神同在」——就是與父同在——「話就是神」——顯然就是那位子。
1:3008
Πάντα δι αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καί χωρίς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδέν γέγονεν
'All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not one thing came into being that has come into being.'
「萬物是藉著祂而有的;凡已有的,沒有一樣不是藉著祂而有的。」
1:3009
Μάθετε οὖν ταῦτα, οἱ τέκνα ἐπονομαζόμενοι τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀξιῶ, καί οἱ δοκοῦντες εἶναι χριστιανοί, οἱ διδάσκοντες ἄλλους διακενῆς λόγους καί οἱ ἄρχειν οἰόμενοιπλήν ψευδῶς ἱερεῖς καί μονάζοντες!
Learn these things, then, I beg you, you who are surnamed children of God, and you who seem to be Christians, you who teach others words in vain, and you who imagine that you rule—yet who are falsely priests and monks!
所以,我懇求你們,你們這些被稱為神兒女的、你們這些看似是基督徒的、你們這些徒然以言語教導別人的、你們這些自以為在治理的——其實卻是假冒的祭司和修士的——要學習這些事!
1:3010
Ἐρωτήσατε τούς πρεσβυτέρους καί ἀρχιερεῖς ὑμῶν, συναθροίσθητε ἅμα ἐν ἀγάπῃ Θεοῦ·
Ask your presbyters and your high priests, gather together in the love of God:
去問你們的長老和大祭司,在神的愛中一同聚集吧:
1:3011
καί πρῶτον ζητήσατε ἔργῳ ταῦτα μαθεῖν καί παθεῖν, ἔτι δέ καί ἰδεῖν ποτε βουλήθητε καί τῇ πείρᾳ θεοειδεῖς γενέσθαι
And first of all seek to learn these things by deed and by suffering; and further, desire also at some time to behold them, and through experience to become godlike.
首先,你們要藉著行為與受苦來學習這些事;更進一步,也要渴望有一天親眼看見它們,並藉著親身的經歷成為與神相似的人。
1:3012
Ἀλλά μή τῇ σκηνῇ μόνῃ καί τῇ περιβολῇ προθυμήθητε καί τηνικαῦτα τῶν ἀποστολικῶν ἀξιωμάτων ἐπιβῆτε, ἵνα μή ἀκούσητε, οἱ πρό τῆς γνώσεως τῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ μυστηρίων ἀτελῶς ἐπιτρέχοντες ταῖς τῶν ἄλλων ἀρχαῖς·
But be not eager only for the outward garb and the appearance, and thereupon lay claim to the apostolic dignities, lest you hear this rebuke—you who, before the knowledge of the mysteries of God, imperfectly rush to govern others.
但不要只熱衷於外表的裝束與衣袍,就此僭取使徒的尊位,免得你們聽見這樣的責備——你們這些在尚未認識神的奧祕之前,就不完全地急於管轄別人的人。
1:3013
Οὐαί οἱ φρόνιμοι παρ ἑαυτοῖς καί ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν ἐπιστήμονες!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight!
禍哉,那些自以為有智慧、自視為通達的人!
1:3014
Οὐαί οἱ τιθέντες τό φῶς σκότος καί τό σκότος φῶς
Woe to those who put light for darkness and darkness for light!
禍哉,那些稱光為暗、稱暗為光的人!
1:3015
Παρακαλῶ οὖν πάντας ὑμᾶς, ἐν Χριστῷ ἀδελφοί, θεῖναι πρῶτον θεμέλιον ἐν τῇ οἰκοδομῇ τῶν ἀρετῶν ἀγαθόν ταπεινώσεως·
I therefore exhort you all, brothers in Christ, first to lay a good foundation of humility in the building of the virtues;
所以我勸勉你們眾人,在基督裡的弟兄們,在建造眾德行的工程中,首先要立下謙卑的美好根基;
1:3016
τόν οἶκον τῆς γνώσεως τῶν μυστηρίων τοῦ Θεοῦ καί ὑπό τοῦ θείου καταλαμφθῆναι φωτός καί ἰδεῖν ὄμματι καρδίας κεκαθαρμένῳ Θεόν, ὡς δυνατόν ἡμῖν ἀνθρώποις οὖσι, κἀκεῖθεν μυσταγωγηθῆναι τά τελεώτερα τῶν μυστηρίων τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν καί οὕτως ἀπό τῆς γνώσεως ταύτης, τῆς ἄνωθεν διδομένης παρά τοῦ Πατρός τῶν φώτων, ἐπί τόν λόγον τῆς διδασκαλίας ἐλθεῖν καί διδάξαι τούς πλησίον ἡμῶν, τί τό θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ τό ἀγαθόν καί τέλειον καί εὐάρεστον, καί διά τῆς διδασκαλίας ἡμῶν προσάξαι τῷ Θεῷ λαόν περιούσιον, τῷ διά τοῦ Πνεύματος αὐτοῦ τοῦ Ἁγίου εἰς διδασκάλους προχειρισαμένῳ ἡμᾶς τῆς ἐκκλησίας αὐτοῦ, ἵνα μή ὡς καταφρονηταί καί γυμνοί τοῦ ἐνδύματος τοῦ γάμου ἔξω ῥιφῶμεν τοῦ νυμφῶνος Χριστοῦ, ἀλλ ὡς φρόνιμοι μᾶλλον οἰκονόμοι, καλῶς τά τοῦ λόγου τῆς διδασκαλίας οἰκονομήσαντες ἐν τοῖς συνδούλοις ἡμῶν καί πρό γε τούτου τά τοῦ βίου ἡμῶν, εἰσέλθωμεν εἰς αὐτόν ἀκωλύτως ἐν λαμπρότητι βίου καί γνώσεως οὐρανίου, φωτοειδεῖς καί Πνεύματος Ἁγίου πεπληρωμένοι, καί συμβασιλεύσωμεν Χριστῷ, τά τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ Θεοῦ καί Πατρός συγκληρονομοῦντες αὐτῷ ἐν Ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι, τῇ ἀειζώῳ καί ἀθανάτῳ πηγῇ καί ζωῇ, πρέπει πᾶσα δόξα τιμή καί προσκύνησις νῦν καί ἀεί καί εἰς τούς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων
and to build the house of the knowledge of the mysteries of God, and to be illumined by the divine light, and to see God with a cleansed eye of the heart, insofar as this is possible for us who are but men; and thence to be initiated into the more perfect mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; and thus, from this knowledge which is given from above by the Father of lights, to come to the word of teaching and to teach our neighbors what is the good and perfect and well-pleasing will of God; and through our teaching to present to God a peculiar people—to Him who through His Holy Spirit has appointed us teachers of His Church—that we may not be cast out of the bridal chamber of Christ like despisers stripped of the wedding garment, but rather, like prudent stewards who have well administered the matters of the word of teaching among our fellow servants, and before that the matters of our own life, may enter into it unhindered, in the splendor of a holy life and heavenly knowledge, filled with light and with the Holy Spirit, and may reign together with Christ, inheriting with Him the things of the kingdom of God the Father in the Holy Spirit—the ever-living and immortal fountain and life—to whom belongs all glory, honor, and worship, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
並要建造認識神奧祕之知識的房屋,被神聖之光光照,用潔淨了的心眼看見神——就我們身為人所能及的程度而言;並由此被引入天國那更完全的奧祕;如此,從這由上頭、由眾光之父所賜的知識出發,進到教導的話語,教導我們的鄰舍何為神那良善、完全、可喜悅的旨意;並藉著我們的教導,將一群特選的子民帶到神面前——就是那藉著祂的聖靈設立我們作祂教會之教師的神——好叫我們不至像那些藐視者、脫去婚筵禮服的人一樣,被丟在基督的洞房之外,倒要像精明的管家,在我們同作僕人的人中好好地管理了教導之話語的事,更在此之前先管理好我們自己生命的事,就得以毫無攔阻地進入其中,在聖潔的生命與屬天的知識的光輝裡,滿有光明並被聖靈充滿,並與基督一同作王,在聖靈裡與祂同承受父神國度的產業——聖靈乃是那永活不朽的泉源與生命——一切榮耀、尊貴、敬拜都歸與祂,從今直到永永遠遠。
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Ὅτι οὐκ ἀκίνδυνον τό διδόμενον ἡμῖν παρά Θεοῦ τάλαντον κατορύττειν·
For it is not without peril to bury the talent given to us by God;
因為將神所賜給我們的才幹埋藏起來,並非沒有危險;
1:3018
χρή γάρ δημοσιεύειν αὐτό καί τοῖς πᾶσιν ὑποδεικνύειν καί τάς εὐεργεσίας Θεοῦ εὐγνωμόνως ἀνακηρύττειν εἰς τήν τῶν ἀκουόντων ὠφέλειαν, κἄν τινες ἀπαρέσκωνται
for it must be made public and shown to all, and the benefactions of God must be gratefully proclaimed for the profit of the hearers, even though some be displeased.
因為必須將它公開,向眾人展示,並要感恩地宣揚神的恩惠,為使聽見的人得益處,縱使有些人不悅。
1:3019
() Ἀδελφοί καί πατέρες καί τέκνα ἐν Χριστῷ τῷ Θεῷ, τί πρός τά κατηχηθέντα παρ ἡμῶν ἐν διαφόροις πολλάκις λόγοις ὑπενοήσατε;
Brothers and fathers and children in Christ our God, what have you supposed concerning the things we have often catechized you in various discourses?
在基督我們的神裡的弟兄們、父老們、兒女們哪,對於我們在許多不同講論中屢次向你們所教導的事,你們心裡是怎樣揣測的呢?
1:3020
Τί κατά τοῦ ταῦτα παρρησίᾳ λαλήσαντος ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἀπεφήνασθε;
What verdict have you within yourselves pronounced against him who has spoken these things with boldness?
對於那坦然無懼地講說這些事的人,你們在自己心裡下了怎樣的判斷呢?
1:3021
Μή τι τῶν θείων ἔξω Γραφῶν εἰπεῖν ἡμᾶς ὑπελάβετε;
Have you supposed that we have spoken anything outside the divine Scriptures?
你們是否以為我們所講的有什麼是在神聖的經文之外的呢?
1:3022
Μή τι λεληθότως ἡμᾶς κατεμέμψασθε, ὡς ὑπέρογκα λελεχότας;
Have you secretly blamed us as having spoken things too lofty?
你們是否暗中責怪我們,說我們講了過於高大的話呢?
1:3023
Μή τι κατεκρίνατε, ὡς μεγαλορρημονοῦντας ἡμᾶς;
Have you condemned us as speaking boastfully?
你們是否定我們的罪,說我們是誇大其詞呢?
1:3024
Εἰ οὖν οὕτω πρός τά ῥηθέντα διετέθητε, ἵλεως ὑμῖν γένοιτο Χριστός, ἐγώ δέ παρακαλῶ τήν ἀγάπην ὑμῶν ἵνα μηδείς τῷ τοιούτῳ κρίματι ἐπιμείνῃ
If, then, you have been thus disposed toward what has been said, may Christ be merciful to you; but I entreat your love, that no one persist in such a judgment.
那麼,倘若你們對所講的話存了這樣的心思,願基督憐憫你們;但我懇求你們的愛心,願沒有人固執於這樣的判斷。
1:3025
Οὐ γάρ ἐνδείξεως χάριν ταῦτα γεγράφαμεν, μή τοῦτο συγχωρήσῃ ἐλεήσας καί ἀγαγών ἡμᾶς εἰς ταῦτα Θεός, ἀλλά μεμνημένοι τῶν δωρεῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὧν ἀπ ἀρχῆς βίου καί μέχρι τοῦ παρόντος πεποίηκε μεθ ἡμῶν τῶν ἀναξίων, εὐχαριστοῦντες () ἀνυμνοῦμεν αὐτόν, ὡς εὔσπλαχνον Δεσπότην καί εὐεργέτην ἡμῶν Κύριον, καί τό ἐπιδοθέν ἡμῖν παρ αὐτοῦ τάλαντον εὐγνωμόνως πᾶσιν ὑμῖν καταβάλλομεν
For we have not written these things for the sake of display—may God, who has had mercy on us and led us into these things, not permit that!—but, mindful of the gifts of God, which from the beginning of our life until the present He has wrought with us who are unworthy, giving thanks we hymn Him as a compassionate Master and our benefactor Lord, and gratefully lay before you all the talent bestowed on us by Him.
因為我們寫這些事並不是為了炫耀——願那憐憫我們、引導我們進入這些事的神,斷不容此事!——乃是因為記念神的恩賜,就是祂從我們生命之初直到如今,向我們這不配的人所施行的;我們感恩地讚美祂,稱祂為滿有憐憫的主宰、施恩於我們的主,並感恩地將祂所賜給我們的才幹擺在你們眾人面前。
1:3026
Ποῦ γάρ καί δυνάμεθα τό τοσοῦτον μέγεθος τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν αὐτοῦ σιωπᾶνἤ ἀγνωμόνως ὡς ἀμνήμονες καί κακοί δοῦλοι κατορύττειν τό δοθέν ἡμῖν τάλαντον;
For how could we possibly keep silent about the sheer magnitude of His benefactions, or, like unmindful and wicked servants, ungratefully bury the talent given to us?
因為我們怎能對祂如此浩大的恩惠緘默不言,或像那不記念、惡劣的僕人一樣,忘恩負義地埋藏所賜給我們的才幹呢?
1:3027
Τοῦτο γάρ ποιεῖν μή δυνάμενοι, ἀνακηρύττομεν τόν αὐτοῦ ἔλεον, ὁμολογοῦμεν τήν χάριν, πᾶσι δεικνύομεν τήν πρός ἡμᾶς αὐτοῦ ἀγαθότητα καί παρακαλοῦμεν καί ὑμᾶς διά τῆς διδασκαλίας τοῦ λόγου ἀγωνίσασθαι μετασχεῖν τῶν αὐτοῦ δωρεῶν καί ἀπολαῦσαι, ὧν καί ἡμεῖς οἱ ἀνάξιοι διά τῆς ἀφάτου αὐτοῦ ἀγαθότητος ἀπηλαύσαμεν
Since, then, we cannot do this, we proclaim His mercy, we confess His grace, we show to all His goodness toward us, and we exhort you also, through the teaching of the word, to strive to partake of and enjoy His gifts—those which we too, the unworthy, through His ineffable goodness have enjoyed.
既然我們不能這樣行,我們就宣揚祂的憐憫,承認祂的恩典,向眾人顯明祂向我們所施的良善,並勸勉你們也要藉著這話語的教導,竭力去分享並享受祂的恩賜——就是連我們這不配的人,也藉著祂那說不盡的良善所已享受過的。
1:3028
Οὐδέν γάρ ὑμᾶς ἐν τούτῳ ἀδικοῦμενἤ ἠδικήσαμεν, ἀλλά μεταδοῦναι ποθοῦμεν ἐξ ὧν εἰλήφαμεν τοῖς συνδούλοις ἡμῶν, οἵτινές ἐστε ὑμεῖς, οἱ Χριστοῦ λαός καί ποίμνιον ἱερόν καί βασίλειον ἱεράτευμα ἀκούειν καί καλεῖσθαι ἠξιωμένοι
For in this we do you no wrong, nor have we wronged you, but we long to impart of what we have received to our fellow servants, who are you yourselves—the people of Christ, the holy flock, counted worthy to be called and to be heard as a royal priesthood.
因為在這事上我們並沒有虧負你們,也未曾虧負過你們,倒是渴望將我們所領受的分給我們同作僕人的人,就是你們自己——基督的子民、聖潔的羊群,蒙算為配得被稱、被聽為君尊的祭司。
1:3029
καταμηνύει λέγων ἐν μυστηρίῳ αὐτοῖς·
He discloses it to them, saying in a mystery:
他就以奧祕向他們指明,說:
1:3030
Δράμετε σπουδῇ καί ὑμεῖς, ἵνα λάβητε, δακτυλοδεικτῶν καί ὑποδεικνύων αὐτοῖς τόν τό νόμισμα αὐτῷ ἐπιδόντα, εἰ δέ καί διαπιστοῦσιν, ἐπί τῆς παλάμης ἀπογυμνώσας δείκνυσι καί αὐτό, ἵνα πιστεύσαντες σπουδῇ χρήσωνται καί τόν ἐλεήμονα ἐκεῖνον ἄνδρα ταχύ καταλάβωσιν, οὕτω δή καί ταπεινός ἐγώ, πτωχός καί γυμνός ἀγαθοῦ καί δοῦλος τῆς ἁγιωσύνης πάντων ὑμῶν, πεῖραν τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ φιλανθρωπίας καί συμπαθείας λαβών, ὡς διά μετανοίας () αὐτῷ προσελθών καί διά τῆς τοῦ ἁγίου Συμεών μεσιτείας, τοῦ πατρός μου καί πατρός ὑμῶν, τήν χάριν ἀπειληφώς ἀνάξιος πάσης χάριτος, οὐ φέρω μόνος ταύτην κρύπτειν ἐν κόλπῳ ψυχῆς, ἀλλά πᾶσι τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς ὑμῖν λέγω καί πατράσι μου τάς δωρεάς τοῦ Θεοῦ καί ὁποῖόν ἐστι τό δοθέν μοι τάλαντον, ὅσον τό ἐπ ἐμοί, φανερῷ ὑμῖν καί διά τοῦ λόγου ὡς ἐπί παλάμης ἀπογυμνῶ τοῦτο, καί λέγω οὐχ ὡς ἐν παραβύστῳ καί μυστηρίῳ, ἀλλά μεγάλῃ βοῶν τῇ φωνῇ·
'Run in haste, you too, that you may receive'—pointing with his finger and showing them the one who had handed him the coin; and if they disbelieve, he even bares it on his palm and shows the coin itself, that they, believing, may make eager use of it and quickly reach that merciful man. So too do I, the lowly one, poor and stripped of any good and a servant of the holiness of you all: having received an experience of God's love for mankind and of His compassion, having drawn near to Him through repentance and, through the mediation of holy Symeon, my father and your father, having received the grace—I who am unworthy of all grace—I cannot bear to keep it hidden alone in the bosom of my soul, but I tell to all of you, my brothers and my fathers, the gifts of God and what manner of thing the talent is that has been given me; as far as it rests with me, I make it plain to you, and through the word I bare it as upon a palm, and I speak not as in a corner and in secret, but crying out with a great voice:
「你們也當急速奔跑,好使你們得著」——他就用指頭指著,向他們顯明那把錢幣交給他的人;他們若不信,他甚至攤開手掌,把那錢幣本身給他們看,好使他們相信而急速使用它,快快尋著那位滿有憐憫的人。照樣,卑微的我,貧窮、缺乏一切美善、又作你們眾人聖潔的僕人,既已經歷了神對人類的慈愛與祂的體恤,藉著悔改就近了祂,又藉著我父、也是你們父的聖西面的中保作用,領受了這恩典——我這不配得任何恩典的人——就不能忍受獨自將它藏在自己心靈的懷中,倒要向你們眾弟兄與父老們述說神的恩賜,並所賜給我的才幹是何等樣的;就我所能及的,我向你們表明,並藉著話語如攤在手掌上一般將它顯露出來;我所講的不是在暗處與隱密中,乃是大聲呼喊說:
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Ἄνθρωπος μέν γάρ ἐάν ὀβολόν πτωχῷ τινι δῷ, εἶτα ἐκεῖνος πρός τό καί ἑτέροις δοῦναι τοῦτον καταμηνύσειεν, ὀργίζεται καί πρός τό δοῦναι μᾶλλον σκληρύνεται, δέ Θεός οὐχ οὕτως, ἀλλά τοὐναντίον ἅπαν ποιεῖ
For if a man gives an obol to some poor person, and then that person makes it known to others so that he might give to them also, the man grows angry and hardens himself all the more against giving; but God is not so—rather He does the very opposite.
因為人若把一個小錢給某個窮人,那人隨後把這事告訴別人,好叫他也施捨給別人,這人就發怒,反而更加剛硬不肯施捨;神卻不是這樣,倒是行事截然相反。
1:3032
Ἐάν γάρ τινι δῷ πνευματικόν χάρισμα ἤγουν τάλαντον καί οὐ κηρύξῃ τοῖς πᾶσι καί δημοσιεύσῃ αὐτό, Προσέλθετε, λέγων, πρός τόν ἁπλῶς διδόντα Δεσπότην καί μηδένα κενόν ἀποστρέφοντα, ἀλλά λαβών κρύψειε κατορύξας αὐτό, τότε μᾶλλον ὀργίζεται κατά τοῦ λαβόντος ὡς φθονεροῦ καί μή θέλοντος τούς ἑαυτοῦ ἀδελφούς λαβεῖν, ὡς αὐτός ἔλαβε
For if He gives to someone a spiritual gift—that is, a talent—and that person does not proclaim it to all and make it public, saying, 'Come to the Master who gives freely and turns none away empty,' but rather, having received it, hides it by burying it, then God is all the more angered against the one who received it, as being grudging and unwilling that his own brothers should receive as he himself received.
因為祂若賜給某人一項屬靈的恩賜——就是一份才幹——而那人不向眾人宣揚、不將它公開,不說「你們來就近那白白施予、不打發任何人空手而回的主宰罷」,反而領受了以後就把它埋藏隱匿,那麼神就更向那領受的人發怒,因他嫉妒吝惜,不願他自己的弟兄像他一樣領受。
1:3033
Διά τοῦτο οὖν, εἶδον καίἅ ἔργῳ καί πείρᾳ Θεοῦ θαυμάσια ἔγνωκα, μή λαλεῖν οὐκ ἀνέχομαι, ἀλλά καί τοῖς λοιποῖς ἅπασιν ὡς ἐνώπιον Θεοῦ προμαρτύρομαι, λέγων μεγάλῃ τῇ φωνῇ·
For this reason, therefore, I cannot endure to keep silent about the things I have seen, and the wonders of God that I have come to know by deed and by experience, but I solemnly testify beforehand to all the rest as before God, saying with a great voice:
所以為這緣故,我不能忍受對我所見的事,並我藉著行為與經歷所認識的神的奇妙作為,緘默不言,倒要如同在神面前一般,向其餘眾人鄭重地預先作見證,大聲說:
1:3034
Δράμετε πάντες πρό τοῦ κλεισθῆναι διά θανάτου τήν τῆς μετανοίας θύραν ὑμῖν, δράμετε ἵνα πρό τῆς ἐξόδου καταλάβητε, σπεύσατε ἵνα λάβητε, κρούσατε ἵνα πρό τῆς τελευτῆς () τάς τοῦ παραδείσου πύλας Δεσπότης ὑμῖν ἀνοίξειε καί ἑαυτόν ὑμῖν ἐμφανίσειε, σπουδάσατε τήν τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλείαν ἐντός ὑμῶν καί γνωστῶς κτήσασθαι καί μή κενοί ταύτης ἐντεῦθεν ἀποδημήσητε, καί μάλιστα οἱ ταύτην ἀγνώστως ἔχειν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς οἰόμενοι, μηδέν δέ διά τήν οἴησιν ἔχοντες
Run, all of you, before the door of repentance is closed to you by death; run, that you may lay hold before your departure; make haste, that you may receive; knock, that before your end the Master may open to you the gates of paradise and manifest Himself to you; be zealous to possess consciously the kingdom of heaven within you, and do not depart hence empty of it—and above all you who imagine that you possess it within yourselves without perceiving it, while possessing nothing on account of your self-conceit.
你們眾人都當奔跑,趁悔改的門還未因死亡向你們關閉;要奔跑,好在離世之前得以把握;要趕快,好使你們得著;要叩門,好使主宰在你們終了之先,為你們開啟樂園的門,並向你們顯明祂自己;要熱切地在你們裡面自覺地擁有天國,不要空無此國就從此離世——尤其是你們這些自以為在裡面擁有此國卻不自覺、卻因自負而其實一無所有的人。
1:3035
Πῶς οὖν, εἰπέ μοι, τόν τοῦ Χριστοῦ Πατέρα θεάσηται, νοῦν Χριστοῦ μή κτησάμενος;
How then, tell me, shall he behold the Father of Christ, who has not acquired the mind of Christ?
那麼請你告訴我,那沒有得著基督心思的人,怎能看見基督的父呢?
1:3036
δέ ἐκεῖνον μή βλέπων λαλοῦντα ἐντός αὐτοῦ, διά τίνοςἤ πῶς εἴπῃ·
And he who does not see Him speaking within him—through what, or how, shall he speak?
那不見祂在自己裡面說話的人,藉著什麼、又怎能開口說話呢?
1:3037
μή ἐντός αὐτοῦ τήν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν γνωστῶς κτησάμενος, πῶς ἐν αὐτῇ μετά θάνατον εἰσελεύσεται;
He who has not consciously acquired the kingdom of heaven within himself—how shall he enter into it after death?
那沒有在自己裡面自覺地得著天國的人,死後怎能進入其中呢?
1:3038
μή μένοντα ἐν αὐτῷ διά τοῦ Πνεύματος τόν Υἱόν σύν τῷ Πατρί θεασάμενος, πῶς μετ αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι ἔσεται, καθώς Κύριος εἶπε·
He who has not beheld the Son abiding in him through the Spirit together with the Father—how shall he be with them in the age to come, even as the Lord said:
那沒有藉著聖靈看見子與父一同住在自己裡面的人,怎能在將來的世代與他們同在,正如主所說的:
1:3039
Πάτερ, οὕς δέδωκάς μοι, θέλω ἵνα ὅπου εἰμί ἐγώ, κἀκεῖνοι ὦσι μετ ἐμοῦ, καί πάλιν·
'Father, those whom You have given me, I will that where I am, they also may be with me'; and again:
「父啊,你所賜給我的人,我願意我在那裡,他們也同我在那裡」;又說:
1:3040
Οὐ περί τούτων δέ ἐρωτῶ μόνον, ἀλλά καί περί πάντων τῶν πιστευόντων διά τοῦ λόγου αὐτῶν εἰς ἐμέ, ἵνα πάντες ἕν ὦσι, καθώς σύ, Πάτερ, ἐν ἐμοί κἀγώ ἐν σοί καί αὐτοί ἐν ἡμῖν ἕν ὦσι
'Neither for these only do I ask, but also for all who believe in me through their word, that they all may be one, even as You, Father, are in me and I in You, that they also may be one in us.'
「我不但為這些人祈求,也為那些因他們的話信我的人祈求,使他們都合而為一;正如你父在我裡面,我在你裡面,使他們也在我們裡面合而為一。」
1:3041
Κἀγώ τήν δόξαν ἥν δέδωκάς μοι δέδωκα αὐτοῖς, ἵνα ὦσιν ἕν, καθώς ἡμεῖς ἕν ἐσμεν, ἐγώ ἐν αὐτοῖς καί σύ ἐν ἐμοί, ἵνα ὦσι τετελειωμένοι εἰς ἕν καί ἵνα γινώσκῃ κόσμος ὅτι σύ μέ ἀπέστειλας καί ἠγάπησας αὐτούς καθώς ἐμέ ἠγάπησας
'And the glory which You have given me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one—I in them and You in me—that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that You have sent me and have loved them even as You have loved me.'
「你所賜給我的榮耀,我已賜給他們,使他們合而為一,像我們合而為一;我在他們裡面,你在我裡面,使他們完完全全地合而為一,並叫世人知道是你差了我來,也知道你愛他們如同愛我一樣。」
1:3042
Οὗτος τοίνυν τρόπος, ἀδελφοί, τῆς ἐμῆς, ὥς τινες οἴονται, μεγαλορρημοσύνης
This, then, brothers, is the character of my so-called boastfulness, as some suppose.
所以弟兄們,這就是我那所謂誇大之詞的本相,正如有些人所揣測的。
1:3043
Οὕτω με ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ κινεῖ πρός ὑμᾶς τούς ἐμούς πατέρας καί () ἀδελφούς ἀποκαλύψαι τήν ἄφατον πρός ἡμᾶς τοῦ Θεοῦ ἀγαθότητα καί ἀγάπην, δι ἥν οὕτω καί ἐν τηλικούτοις δοξάζει τούς εἰς αὐτόν ἠλπικότας ἀνεπιφθόνως
Thus does the love of God move me toward you, my fathers and brothers, to reveal the ineffable goodness and love of God toward us, on account of which He thus and in such great measure, without grudging, glorifies those who have set their hope on Him.
神的愛就這樣激動我來到你們——我的父老與弟兄們——面前,向你們揭示神向我們所施那說不盡的良善與慈愛;為著這緣故,祂就如此地、以如此大的量度,毫無嫉妒地榮耀那些仰望祂的人。
1:3044
Ἀλλ ἐρωτῶντι ἀποκρίθητέ μοι, παρακαλῶ·
But answer me, I beg you, as I ask:
但我求你們,在我問的時候回答我:
1:3045
Πατήρ ἀγνώστως ἀγαπᾷ τόν Υἱόν καί Υἱός ἀγνώστως καί ἀοράτως σύνεστι τῷ Πατρί; – Οὔ, πάντως εἴποιτε
Does the Father love the Son unknowingly, and is the Son present with the Father unknowingly and invisibly?—By no means, you would surely say.
父是在不知覺中愛子嗎?子是在不知覺、不可見中與父同在嗎?——你們必定會說:「斷乎不是。」
1:3046
Εἰ γάρ τοῦτο δῶμεν καί ἀγνοεῖν ἀλλήλους τόν Πατέρα καί τόν Υἱόν δογματίσομεν, οἴχεται πίστις ἡμῶν καί ἀπόλωλεν·
For if we grant this and lay down as doctrine that the Father and the Son are ignorant of one another, our faith is gone and utterly destroyed;
因為我們若承認這事,並立為教義說父與子彼此不認識,那麼我們的信仰就消亡、全然毀滅了;
1:3047
ἀγνοούντων γάρ ἐκείνων ἀλλήλους ἀνάγκη πᾶσα καί ἡμᾶς παντελῶς ἀγνοεῖν αὐτούς·
for if they are ignorant of one another, it follows of absolute necessity that we too are wholly ignorant of them;
因為他們若彼此不認識,那麼我們也就必然完全不認識他們;
1:3048
εἰ δέ τοῦτο, ἄρα ἄθεοί ἐσμεν, Θεοῦ γνῶσιν μή ἐσχηκότες
and if this be so, then we are godless, not having attained the knowledge of God.
若是這樣,我們就是無神的人,未曾得著對神的認識。
1:3049
Εἰ δέ καθώς ἐκεῖνος γινώσκει, φησίν, Πατήρ τόν Υἱόν, καί Υἱός γινώσκει τόν Πατέρα καί ὡς Θεός σύνεστι τῷ Θεῷ καί Πατρί καί Πατήρ ὁμοίως σύνεστι τῷ Υἱῷ, ὡς ὅταν λέγῃ·
But if, even as He says, the Father knows the Son and the Son knows the Father, and as God is present with God the Father, and the Father likewise is present with the Son—as when He says:
但若正如祂所說的,父認識子,子也認識父,並且子作為神與神也就是父同在,父同樣也與子同在——正如祂說:
1:3050
Καθώς σύ, Πάτερ, ἐν ἐμοί κἀγώ ἐν σοί, οὕτω καί αὐτοί ἐν ἐμοί ὦσι κἀγώ ἐν αὐτοῖς, τό ἴσον πάντως δηλοῖ τῆς μετ ἀλλήλων ἑνώσεως
'Even as You, Father, are in me and I in You, so may they also be in me and I in them'—this altogether signifies the equality of their union with one another.
「正如你父在我裡面,我在你裡面,使他們也在我裡面,我也在他們裡面」——這就完全表明他們彼此聯合的同等性。
1:3051
Πλήν τοῦ μέν Υἱοῦ πρός τόν Πατέρα ἕνωσις φυσική ἐστι καί συνάναρχος, δέ ἡμετέρα πρός τόν Υἱόν θέσει καί χάριτι, ὅμως εἰς τό αὐτό οἱ πάντες ἐσμέν ἡνωμένοι Θεῷ καί ἀχώριστοι, ὡς αὐτός πάλιν φησίν·
Yet the Son's union with the Father is natural and coeternal, whereas our union with the Son is by adoption and by grace; nevertheless we are all united to God in one and the same reality and are inseparable, as He again says:
只是子與父的聯合乃是本性的、同為無始的,我們與子的聯合卻是憑收納與恩典;然而我們眾人都在同一實際裡與神聯合,並且不能分開,正如祂又說:
1:3052
Ἐγώ ἐν αὐτοῖς καί σύ ἐν ἐμοί, ἵνα ὦσι τετελειωμένοι εἰς ἕν, διατί;
'I in them and You in me, that they may be perfected into one.' Why?
「我在他們裡面,你在我裡面,使他們完完全全地合而為一。」為什麼呢?
1:3053
ἵνα γινώσκῃ κόσμος ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας καί ἠγάπησας αὐτούς, καθώς ἐμέ ἠγάπησας, καί Παῦλος·
'That the world may know that You have sent me and have loved them even as You have loved me'; and Paul says:
「叫世人知道是你差了我來,也愛他們如同愛我一樣」;保羅也說:
1:3054
Ὅπου οὐκ ἔνι Ἕλλην καί Ἰουδαῖος, βάρβαρος, Σκύθης, δοῦλος, ἐλεύθερος, ἀλλά τά πάντα καί ἐν πᾶσι Χριστός
'Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.'
「在此並不分希臘人、猶太人、化外人、西古提人、為奴的、自主的,惟有基督是包括一切,又住在各人之內。」
1:3055
Ταῦτα τοιγαροῦν ἀκούσατε οἱ δοκοῦντες εἶναι () πνευματικοί καί τῷ λαλοῦντι πιστεύσατε, ἐμέ δέ τόν λέγοντα ὑμῖν ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τῆς χάριτος τάς δωρεάς, ἅς λαμβάνουσι ἀπό Θεοῦ οἱ ἐν πίστει θερμῇ προστρέχοντες αὐτῷ καί ποιοῦντες αὐτοῦ τάς ἐντολάς, λειτουργοῦντα τῷ ἄνωθεν ἐνηχοῦντι Πνεύματι, πάσης ἀπολύσατε μέμψεως
Hear these things, therefore, you who think yourselves to be spiritual, and believe Him who speaks; and as for me who tell you in the word of grace of the gifts which those receive from God who run to Him with fervent faith and keep His commandments—me who minister to the Spirit that sounds forth from above—acquit me of every blame.
所以你們這些自以為屬靈的人,當聽這些事,並要信那說話的;至於我,我在恩典的話語中向你們述說那些恩賜,就是那些以火熱的信心奔向神、並遵行祂誡命之人從神所領受的;我不過是服事那從上頭發聲的聖靈;願你們免我一切的責備。
1:3056
Τίς δέ λαλῶν, αὐτοῦ τοῦ Κυρίου ἀκούσατε λέγοντος·
And who it is that speaks—hear the Lord Himself saying:
至於那說話的是誰,你們當聽主自己說:
1:3057
Οὐ γάρ ὑμεῖς ἐστε οἱ λαλοῦντες, ἀλλά τό Πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ λαλοῦν ἐν ὑμῖν
'For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of God speaking in you.'
「因為不是你們自己說的,乃是神的靈在你們裡面說的。」
1:3058
Ὁρᾶτε ὡς οὐκ ἐγώ τά ὑπερφυῆ καί μεγάλα πρός τήν ὑμετέραν ἀγάπην λαλῶ, ἀλλά τό Πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ τό λαλοῦν ἐν ἡμῖν
You see that it is not I who speak the supernatural and great things to your love, but the Spirit of God who speaks in us.
你們看,向你們的愛心講說那些超乎本性、偉大之事的並不是我,乃是那在我們裡面說話的神的靈。
1:3059
Τοῦτο δέ καί Πέτρος κορυφαῖος ἐπιμαρτυρεῖ λέγων·
And this Peter the chief also testifies, saying:
為首的彼得也為此作見證,說:
1:3060
Οὐ γάρ θελήματι ἀνθρώπου ἠνέχθη ποτέ προφητεία, ἀλλ ὑπό Πνεύματος Ἁγίου φερόμενοι ἐλάλησαν ἅγιοι Θεοῦ ἄνθρωποι·
'For prophecy was never brought forth by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were borne along by the Holy Spirit.'
「因為預言從來沒有出於人意的,乃是神的聖人被聖靈感動說出來的。」
1:3061
Εἰ δέ ἡμεῖς εὐτελεῖς ὄντες καί ἀνάξιοι μακράν ἐσμεν πάσης ἁγιωσύνης καί τῶν ἁγίων τοῦ Θεοῦ ἀνθρώπων, ἀλλ οὐ δυνάμεθα ἀρνήσασθαι τήν δωρεάν τήν δοθεῖσαν ἡμῖν ἀπό Θεοῦ, ὡς δέ ὑπόχρεοι τῆς αὐτοῦ χάριτος διακονοῦμεν ὑμῖν τά λόγια τοῦ Θεοῦ καί ἀνακαλύπτομεν τό τάλαντον ἐδόθη ἡμῖν καί τό χάρισμα διά προφητείας μετά ἐπιθέσεως τῶν χειρῶν τοῦ ἀρχιερέως, τοῦ εἰς τήν ἱερωσύνην ἡμᾶς τελειώσαντος, καθώς αὐτός οὗτος κορυφαιότατος ἡμῖν τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐντέλλεται, φησί γάρ·
But if we, being of no account and unworthy, are far from all holiness and from the holy men of God, yet we cannot deny the gift given to us by God; rather, as debtors of His grace, we minister to you the oracles of God and uncover the talent which was given to us, and the gift bestowed through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the high priest who perfected us into the priesthood—even as this same chief of the apostles enjoins upon us, for he says:
但我們雖是卑賤不配的,遠離一切聖潔,也遠離神的聖人,卻不能否認神所賜給我們的恩賜;反倒作祂恩典的欠債者,將神的聖言服事給你們,並揭開所賜給我們的才幹,和那藉著預言、隨同大祭司按手所賜的恩賜——就是那把我們成全歸入祭司職分的大祭司;正如這位使徒的領袖對我們所吩咐的,他說:
1:3062
Ἕκαστος καθώς ἔλαβε χάρισμα, εἰς ἑαυτούς αὐτό διακονοῦντες ὡς καλοί οἰκονόμοι ποικίλης χάριτος Θεοῦ
'Each one, as he received a gift, ministering it among yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.'
「各人要照所得的恩賜彼此服事,作神百般恩典的好管家。」
1:3063
Εἴ τις λαλεῖ, ὡς λόγια Θεοῦ, εἴ τις διακονεῖ, ὡς ἐξ ἰσχύος ὡς χορηγεῖ Θεός
'If anyone speaks, let it be as the oracles of God; if anyone ministers, let it be as of the strength which God supplies.'
「若有講道的,要按著神的聖言講;若有服事人的,要按著神所賜的力量服事。」
1:3064
() Τοιγαροῦν τό Πνεῦμα ἐστι τό λαλοῦν, ἀδελφοί, οὐκ ἐγώ, ὡς Κύριος καί τούτου πιστός μαθητής ἡμᾶς ἐβεβαίωσαν
It is therefore the Spirit that speaks, brothers, not I, as the Lord and His faithful disciple have confirmed to us.
所以弟兄們,是聖靈在說話,不是我;正如主和祂那忠信的門徒向我們所證實的。
1:3065
Ἀπολεῖς γάρ, φησί, πάντας τούς λαλοῦντας τό ψεῦδος
'For You shall destroy,' He says, 'all who speak falsehood.'
「因為說謊言的,你必滅絕他們」,經上這樣說。
1:3066
Ὥσπερ δέ τῷ λαλοῦντι διά τοῦ Πνεύματος ἀπιστῶν, εἰς τό Πνεῦμα τό λαλοῦν ἐξαμαρτάνει καί βλασφημεῖ, οὕτω πάλιν τῆς ἄνωθεν χάριτος ἐστερημένος τοῦ Πνεύματος, ἐάν τολμήσῃ εἰπεῖν ὅτι Ἐν Ἁγίῳ φθέγγομαι Πνεύματι , ὡς Σίμων Μάγος καί οἱ ἐκείνου σύμφρονες ἔσται ἀλλότριος τοῦ Θεοῦ καί ἀντίθετος
And just as he who disbelieves the one who speaks through the Spirit sins against the Spirit that speaks and blasphemes, so again he who is bereft of the grace of the Spirit from above, if he dares to say, 'I speak in the Holy Spirit,' like Simon the Magus and those who are of like mind with him, shall be a stranger to God and His adversary.
正如那不信藉聖靈說話之人的人,就是得罪那說話的靈並褻瀆祂;照樣,那缺乏上頭聖靈恩典的人,若膽敢說「我是在聖靈裡說話」,就像行邪術的西門和那些與他同心的人一樣,必成為與神隔絕的人、神的敵對者。
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γάρ τοῖς λόγοις ἀντιπίπτων τοῦ Πνεύματος πάντως ἀντίθεος
For he who resists the words of the Spirit is altogether an adversary of God.
因為那抵擋聖靈言語的人,全然是與神為敵的。
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Θεός γάρ ἀχώριστος ἐστι καί ἀδιαίρετος·
For God is inseparable and undivided;
因為神是不能分開、不能分割的;
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τό γάρ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα τῆς τοῦ Πατρός καί τοῦ Υἱοῦ ἀϊδιότητός τε καί βασιλείας ἀχώριστον
for the Holy Spirit is inseparable from the eternity and the kingship of the Father and of the Son.
因為聖靈與父和子的永恆性以及國度是不能分開的。
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Μή οὖν θεομάχοι καί ἀντίθεοι γενέσθαι θελήσητε, ἀδελφοί, ἀλλά δεῦτε προσκυνήσατε καί προσπέσατε σύν ἡμῖν καί μή ἀναστῆτε ἐκεῖθεν μέχρις ἄν λάβητε τήν δωρεάν τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὡς καί ἡμεῖς ἐλάβομεν οἱ ἀνάξιοι ταύτην τῇ αὐτοῦ χάριτι
Do not, then, wish to become fighters against God and His adversaries, brothers, but come, worship and fall down with us, and do not rise up from that place until you receive the gift of God, as we too, the unworthy, received it by His grace.
所以弟兄們,你們不要甘願作與神爭戰的人、神的敵對者,倒要來與我們一同敬拜俯伏,並且不要從那裡起來,直到你們領受了神的恩賜,正如我們這不配的人也藉著祂的恩典領受了一樣。
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Οὐδέν ἐναντίον λέγομεν πρός ὑμᾶς, ἀδελφοί, ἀλλά τήν ἀγάπην ἡμῶν δεικνύομεν πλουσίαν πρός πάντας ὑμᾶς
We say nothing hostile against you, brothers, but we display our love, rich toward you all.
弟兄們,我們對你們並沒有說什麼敵對的話,倒是向你們眾人顯出我們豐盛的愛。
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Εἰ οὖν ἐλέγομεν ὅτι ἡμεῖς μέν ἐλάβομεν χάριν δωρεάν παρά τοῦ Πατρός τῶν φώτων ὅθεν πᾶν δώρημα τέλειον, ὑμᾶς δέ λαβεῖν οὐ βουλόμεθα, δικαίως ἄν καί ἐκ Θεοῦ καί ἐξ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν ἐμισούμεθα·
For if we were saying that we indeed have received grace as a free gift from the Father of lights, from whom is every perfect gift, but that we are unwilling for you to receive it, we should justly be hated both by God and by you yourselves;
因為我們若說我們固然白白地從眾光之父——各樣全備的恩賜都是從祂而來——領受了恩典,卻不願你們也領受,那麼我們理當被神並被你們自己所恨惡;
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νυνί δέ τήν ἀλήθειαν ἀπό τῆς θείας Γραφῆς καί ἀπό τῆς πείρας αὐτῆς παριστῶντες καί τήν βασιλικήν ὑποδεικνύοντες ὑμῖν ὁδόν, τί ὑμᾶς ἀδικοῦμεν;
but now, when we set forth the truth from the divine Scripture and from experience of it itself, and point out to you the royal road, in what do we wrong you?
但如今我們既從神聖的經文並從對它本身的經歷中陳明真理,又向你們指出那君王的道路,我們在什麼事上虧負了你們呢?
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Εἰ δέ ὡς ἀνώνυμόν με () καί ἀφανῆ καί ἐλάχιστον λογιζόμενι οὐ καταδέχεσθε παρ ἐμοῦ ἐκδιδάσκεσθαι, γνῶτε καί μάθετε ὅτι τά μωρά τοῦ κόσμου Θεός ἐξελέξατο, ἵνα καταισχύνῃ τούς σοφούς καί τά ἀσθενῆ καί ἀπερριμένα, ἵνα καταισχύνῃ τά ἔνδοξα καί ἰσχυρά
But if, reckoning me nameless and obscure and least, you do not deign to be taught by me, know and learn that God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and the weak things and the things cast aside, to shame the glorious and strong.
但你們若因看我為無名、不出眾、又最微小的人,就不屑受我的教導,那麼你們當知道並明白:神揀選了世上愚拙的,叫有智慧的羞愧;又揀選了那軟弱的、被人厭棄的,叫那榮耀、強壯的羞愧。
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Ἀλλ ἴσως παρελθών τις εἰς μέσον εἴποι·
But perhaps someone, coming forward into the midst, might say:
但或許有人挺身出到當中說:
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Μεγάλα τῷ ὄντι καί ὑπέρ φύσιν εἰσί, Θεοῦ γάρ εἰσι λόγοι, καθώς εἴρηταιΚαί πῶς οὐδείς, φησί, τῶν μεγάλων πατέρων οὕτως ἀναφανδόν περί ἑαυτοῦ ἀπεφήνατοἤ τοιούτους λόγους λελάληκεν, οἵους λαλεῖς σύ, περί ἑαυτοῦ;Λέληθας σεαυτόν, ἄνθρωπε
'These things are truly great and beyond nature, for they are words of God, as has been said.' 'And how is it,' he says, 'that none of the great fathers ever declared so openly concerning himself, or spoke such words concerning himself as you speak?' You have deceived yourself, O man.
「這些事的確偉大而超乎本性,因為正如所說的,它們是神的話語。」他又說:「怎麼從前那些偉大的父老們,沒有一個這樣公然論到自己,或講說你所講的那樣關乎自己的話呢?」人哪,你是自欺了。
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Μᾶλλον μέν οὖν οἱ ἀπόστολοι καί οἱ πατέρες συνᾴδοντά μου τοῖς λόγοις καί ὑπερβαίνοντα λελαλήκασιν, ἀλλά τό ἀξιόπιστον τῶν λεγόντων εὐπαράδεκτα καί πιστά ποιεῖ τά λεγόμενα, δέ ἡμετέρα εὐτέλεια καί τά πᾶσιν ὡμολογημένα ὡς ψευδῆ καί βδελυκτά ὑμῖν ποιεῖ καταφαίνεσθαι
Rather, the apostles and the fathers have spoken things that accord with my words and even surpass them; but the trustworthiness of the speakers makes what they say readily acceptable and credible, whereas our worthlessness makes even things acknowledged by all appear to you as false and abominable.
其實,使徒與父老們所講的話,與我的話一致,甚至過之;只是那些說話者的可信性使他們所講的容易被接納、被相信,我們的卑賤卻使連眾人所公認的事,在你們看來也顯為虛謊、可憎。
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Ὅμως ἔχω καί ἄλλην αἰτίαν εἰπεῖν, δι ἥν ταῦτα καί μή βουλόμενος ἐξεκάλυψα
Nevertheless, I have yet another reason to give, on account of which I have disclosed these things even against my will.
然而,我還有另一個理由可說,正是為這緣故,我雖不願意,也把這些事揭露了出來。
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τῶν λεγόντων μή εἶναι τά νῦν τοιοῦτον ἐπί τῆς γῆς καί ἐν μέσῳ ἡμῶν ἄρτι ἄνθρωπον ψευδής καί παράλογος ἄνοια καί ὑπόληψις
The false and irrational folly and supposition of those who say that there is not now upon the earth and in our midst at present such a man.
有些人說如今地上、就在我們中間,並沒有這樣的人;這乃是虛謊、悖理的愚妄與臆測。
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Καί ὅρα μοι τήν κακίαν, ὅπως ἐστί πολυμήχανος
And consider for me the malice, how full of contrivances it is.
你且為我思想那惡毒,它是何等的詭計多端。
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Μή φανερῶς γάρ λεγόντων ἡμῶν, ἀλλ ὑποκρύβειν σπευδόντων τό χάρισμα, ἀληθεύειν ἐκεῖνοι νομίζουσιν·
For when we do not speak openly, but are eager to conceal the gift, those men suppose that we are telling the truth;
因為當我們不公開陳述,反倒急於隱藏這恩賜時,那些人便以為我們說的是真話;
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ἐάν δέ ἡμεῖς ἐκκαλύψαντες τήν ἀλήθειαν εἴπωμεν, ὡς ὑπερηφάνων ἡμῶν αὐτίκα καταγινώσκουσιν, ἀγνοοῦντες τάς τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων φωνάς
but if we uncover the truth and declare it, they at once condemn us as arrogant, being ignorant of the sayings of the holy apostles.
但當我們揭開真理而說出來時,他們立刻定我們為驕傲,卻不知道眾聖使徒的話語。
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Ποίας δή ταύτας, τό Ἡμεῖς νοῦν Χριστοῦ ἔχομεν
And what sayings are these? The words, 'We have the mind of Christ.'
這些話究竟是甚麼呢?就是那句:「我們是有基督的心思的。」
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Ἆρα ὑπερβολήν κρίνετε, πρός αὐτούς ἄν εἴποιμι, τοῦτο ὑπερηφανίας;
Do you judge this to be an excess of arrogance? — I would say to them.
我要對他們說:你們難道判定這是驕傲的過分之舉嗎?
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() τό Ἐκ τούτου γινώσκομεν ὅτι ἐν ἡμῖν ἐστιν, ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος οὐ δέδωκεν ἡμῖν;
And the saying, 'By this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit which He has given us'?
還有那句:「我們所以知道神住在我們裡面,是因祂所賜給我們的聖靈。」這又如何呢?
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Τοῦτο δέ πῶς ἐκλάβοιτε κατά τοῦ λέγοντος;
And how would you take this against the one who says it?
你們又怎能拿這話來反對說這話的人呢?
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Ἀλλά καί τόἬ δοκιμήν ζητεῖτε τοῦ ἐν ἐμοί λαλοῦντος Χριστοῦ, καί τό Δοκῶ Πνεῦμα Θεοῦ ἔχειν , καί τό Ἡμεῖς δέ οὐκ ἐλάβομεν πνεῦμα δουλείας πάλιν εἰς φόβον, ἀλλά Πνεῦμα υἱοθεσίας, ἐν κράζομεν·
But also the saying, 'You seek a proof of Christ speaking in me,' and, 'I think that I too have the Spirit of God,' and, 'For we did not receive a spirit of slavery again unto fear, but a Spirit of adoption, in whom we cry:
還有那句:「你們是尋求基督在我裡面說話的憑據」,以及「我想我也有神的靈」,還有「因為我們所受的不是奴役的靈,仍舊害怕;而是兒子名分的靈,靠著這靈我們呼叫:
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Ἀββᾶ Πατήρ, καί τόὉ Θεός εἰπών ἐκ σκότους φῶς λάμψαι, ὅς ἔλαμψεν ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν ;
Abba, Father'; and the words, 'God who said, Let light shine out of darkness, is He who has shone in our hearts'?
阿爸,父」;還有那句:「那吩咐光從黑暗裡照出來的神,已經照在我們心裡。」
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Ταῦτα οὖν πάντα ὑπερηφανίας ὑμῖν λογισθήσονται ῥήματα;
Will all these words then be reckoned by you as words of arrogance?
難道這一切話語,都要被你們算為驕傲的話嗎?
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Εἰ δέ καί τόν τῆς ἐλλάμψεως τρόπον βούλῃ μαθεῖν, τόν ἐγγινόμενον τοῖς ἀγαπῶσι τόν Κύριον, ἄκουε αὐτοῦ τοῦ Παύλου λέγοντος·
But if you wish also to learn the manner of the illumination that comes to those who love the Lord, listen to Paul himself as he says:
但你若也願意明白那臨到愛主之人身上光照的方式,就當聽保羅自己所說的:
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Ἔχομεν δέ τόν θησαυρόν τοῦτον ἐν ὀστρακίνοις σκεύεσιν, εἴτ οὖν σώμασιν
'We have this treasure in earthen vessels' — that is, in bodies.
「我們有這寶貝放在瓦器裡」──也就是放在身體裡。
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Εἰ δέ μή ἔστι, φησί, τοιοῦτος τά νῦν, τί;
But if one is not, he says, such at the present time — what then?
但他說,倘若如今有人還不是這樣的人,那又如何呢?
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Εἰ τοίνυν καί θέλοντα λέγεις μή δύνασθαι, ποῦ θήσομεν τό Ὅσοι δέ ἔλαβον αὐτόν ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς ἐξουσίαν τέκνα Θεοῦ γενέσθαι, καί το Εἰ θέλετε, θεοί ἐστε καί υἱοί Ὑψίστου πάντες, καί τό Γίνεσθε ἅγιοι, ὅτι ἐγώ ἅγιός εἰμι;
If, then, you say that even one who wills is unable, where shall we place the saying, 'But as many as received Him, to them He gave authority to become children of God,' and, 'If you will, you are gods and all of you sons of the Most High,' and, 'Be holy, for I am holy'?
那麼,你若說連願意的人也不能,那我們要把這話安放在哪裡呢:「凡接受祂的,祂就賜他們權柄,成為神的兒女」,以及「你們若願意,你們都是神,都是至高者的兒子」,還有「你們要聖別,因為我是聖別的」?
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Εἰ δέ σύ μή τοιοῦτος, ἀλλ ἕτεροι πλεῖστοι, Θεοῦ βουλομένου, οὕς αὐτός ἀγνοεῖς
But if you are not such a one, yet very many others are — since God so wills — whom you yourself do not know.
但你縱然不是這樣的人,卻另有許多別人是這樣的──因為神如此願意──只是你自己不認識他們罷了。
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Εἰ γάρ ἐπί τοῦ Ἠλιοῦ ἑπτακισχιλίους εἶχεν Θεός τούς μή κάμψαντας γόνυ τῇ Βαάλ, () πολλῷ μᾶλλον νῦν, ὅτε τό Πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ τό Ἅγιον πλουσίως ἐξέχεεν ἐφ ἡμᾶς
For if in the days of Elijah God had seven thousand who had not bowed the knee to Baal, how much more now, when He has poured out His Holy Spirit richly upon us!
因為若在以利亞的日子,神尚且有七千人未曾向巴力屈膝,那麼如今祂既將祂的聖靈豐豐富富地澆灌在我們身上,豈不更是如此嗎!
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βουλομένου τό αἴτιον, οὐ τοῦ Θεοῦ
The cause lies with him who wills, not with God.
原因在於人肯不肯願意,而不在於神。
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