【读圣经学英语】我一洗,就看见了

【读圣经学英语】我一洗,就看见了

约翰福音-John 9 章 12~17节

9:12 他们对他说,那个人在那里?他说,我不知道。
And they said to him, Where is He? He said, I do not know.
9:13 他们就把那从前瞎眼的人带到法利赛人那里。
They brought him who was once blind to the Pharisees.
9:14 耶稣和泥开他眼睛的那日是安息日。
Now it was the Sabbath, on which day Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
9:15 法利赛人也问他是怎么得看见的。瞎子对他们说,祂把泥抹在我的眼睛上,我一洗,就看见了。
Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. And he said to them, He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.
9:16 法利赛人中有的说,这个人不是从神来的,因为祂不守安息日。又有的说,一个罪人怎能行这样的神迹?他们中间就起了分裂。
Then some of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath. But others said, How can a man who is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them.
9:17 他们又对瞎子说,祂既然开了你的眼睛,你说祂是怎样的人?他说,是个申言者。
Then they said to the blind man again, What do you say about Him, in that He opened your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

亮光

主告诉他说,『你往西罗亚池子里去洗。』(约九7。)那人去一洗,回来的时候,就看见了。这里的洗乃是把泥洗掉,象征洗去老旧的人性,就如我们受浸时所经历的。(罗六3~4,6。)那瞎子去洗,表示他顺从主赐生命的话,所以他看见了。倘若他抹上泥之后,不愿去把泥洗掉,这会叫他比以前更瞎。我们顺从主膏油的涂抹,就使我们得洗净,能看见。

西罗亚这辞,意思是奉差遣,这是很有意义的。受生命之灵的涂抹,意思就是说,你一直在受差遣的地位上。膏油涂抹将我们放在受差遣的地位上。所以,我们必须顺从。主自己一直站在受父差遣的地位上,并且一直是顺从的。现在主同样将我们放在受祂差遣的地位上。当我们在主的话里接受了祂,并得到了祂膏油的涂抹,祂就将我们放在受差遣的地位上。我们现在必须顺从祂的差遣。当你在主的话里接受了祂,你第一步该作什么以顺从祂?你一旦信入了主,并在祂的话里接受了祂,主就会叫你到『水池』那里去。第一步是主会差你到『水池』那里去。祂要你去洗一洗,去受浸。从那时起,你必须每天并且整天应用这个洗。一天过一天,你必须晓得你整天都在接受这个洗。甚至今天,我已经接受了好几次的洗。生命的灵在你里面涂抹以后,主的命令『去洗』总是随之而来。

本章描述了一个瞎子、主耶稣和泥、瞎子的眼睛抹了泥、以及主叫这瞎子到西罗亚池子里去洗。那瞎子去一洗,泥就洗去了。泥是什么?泥象征人天然的生命或人的己。你去受浸时,旧人,旧泥,就被洗去。洗过之后,泥就埋在水里了。你受浸之后,你的旧人就埋在水里了。然而,你知不知道你必须每天应用受浸的洗?在你基督徒每天的生活中,你必须应用受浸的洗,将你的己和旧人的性情,置于死水中。

Enlightenment:

The Lord told him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (9:7). The man went, washed, and came seeing. To wash here is to cleanse away the clay. This signifies the washing away of our old humanity, as we have in baptism (Rom. 6:3-4, 6). That the blind man went and washed means he obeyed the life-giving Word of the Lord. So he received sight. If he had not gone to wash off the clay after being anointed with it, it would have blinded him even more. Thus, our obedience to the anointing brings us sight.

The word Siloam means sent. This is very meaningful. The anointing of the Spirit of life means that you are always in the position of being sent. The anointing puts us on the ground of being sent. Therefore, we must obey. The Lord Himself always stood on the ground of being sent by the Father and He was always obedient. Now the Lord puts us in the same position as His sent ones. After we receive the Lord in His Word and have His anointing, He puts us in the position of being sent. We must now be obedient to His sending. After you receive the Lord in His Word, what is the first step that you should take in order to be obedient? Once you have believed in the Lord and received Him in the Word, the Lord will ask you to go to a “pool.” The first step is that the Lord will send you to a “pool.” He will send you to wash and be baptized. From then on, you must daily and throughout the day apply this washing. Day by day, you must realize that you are being washed during the whole day. Even today, I have been washed several times. An order from the Lord always follows the anointing of the Spirit of life within you: “Go and wash.”

This chapter portrays the blind man, the Lord making the clay, the eyes of the blind man being anointed with the clay, and the Lord telling him to go and wash in the pool of Siloam. Once the blind man washed his eyes, the clay was gone. What is the clay? It signifies the natural life or the human self. When you went to be baptized, the old man, the old clay, was washed away. After the washing, it was buried in and under the water. Your old man was buried in the water after you were baptized. However, do you also realize that you must apply the washing of the baptism day by day? In every day of your Christian life you have to apply the washing of baptism by putting the self and the nature of the old man under the water of death.