【读圣经学英语】我对你们所说的话，就是灵，就是生命

【读圣经学英语】我对你们所说的话，就是灵，就是生命

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约翰福音-John 6 章 63~67节

6:63 赐人生命的乃是灵，肉是无益的；我对你们所说的话，就是灵，就是生命。
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
6:64 只是你们中间有不信的人。原来耶稣从起头就知道谁是不信的，谁要出卖祂。
But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who were the ones who did not believe and who was the one who would betray Him.
6:65 耶稣又说，所以我对你们说过，若不是蒙父所赐，没有人能到我这里来。
And He said, For this reason I have told you that no one can come to Me unless it has been given to him from the Father.
6:66 从此祂门徒中有许多退去的，不再与祂同行。
From that time many of His disciples went back to what they left behind and no longer walked with Him.
6:67 耶稣就对那十二个门徒说，你们也想离去么？
Jesus therefore said to the twelve, Do you also want to go away?

亮光

在六十三节主说，『我对你们所说的话，就是灵，就是生命。』

这节里的『话，』希腊文，rhema，雷玛，意思是实时、现时所说的话。这字不同于logos，娄格斯，常时的话，如约翰一章一节里的『话。』这里在灵之后题到话。灵是活的，也是真实的，却相当奥秘，不易捉摸，叫人难以了解；但话是具体的。主首先指明，为了赐人生命，祂要成为灵。然后祂说，祂所说的话就是灵，就是生命。这表明祂所说的话，乃是生命之灵的具体化身。现今祂在复活里是赐生命的灵，而这灵又具体化于祂的话。我们运用灵接受祂的话，就得着那是生命的灵。

话是在我们之外。当我将这话接受到我里面，话立刻成为灵。当我把话说出去，灵又成为话。当你将这话接受到你里面，话又成为灵；当你说出这话，灵再次成为话。人相信福音，就是相信话。这似乎相当希奇，当人接受话，这话在他们里面实实在在就成为灵。这是非常奥秘且美妙的。

Enlightenment:

In verse 63 the Lord says that “the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.”

The “words” in this verse is rhema in Greek, which means the instant and present spoken word. It differs from logos,which means the constant word, as in John 1:1. At this point, the words follow the Spirit. The Spirit is living and real, but rather mysterious, intangible, and difficult for people to apprehend, but the words are substantial. Firstly, the Lord indicated that for giving life He would become the Spirit. Then He said that the words He speaks are spirit and life. This shows that His spoken words are the embodiment of the life-giving Spirit. He is now the life-giving Spirit in resurrection, and the Spirit is embodied in His words. When we receive His words by exercising our spirit, we receive the Spirit who is life.

The Word is outside of us. When I receive the Word into me, it immediately becomes the Spirit. When I speak the Word out, the Spirit once again becomes the Word. When you receive the Word into you, the Word becomes the Spirit once more, and when you speak the Word out, it becomes the Spirit again. When people believe the gospel, they believe the Word. As strange as it may seem, when people receive the Word, the Word actually becomes the Spirit within them.  This is very mysterious and marvelous.