【读圣经学英语】你还不认识我么？

约翰福音-John 14 章 8~10 节

Enlightenment:

When the Lord said that He was the way and that He was going to bring the believers into the Father, Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father and it suffices us” (v. 8). The Lord replied, “Am I so long a time with you, and you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. How is it that you say, Show us the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me?” (vv. 9-10). The Lord seemed to be saying, “I have been with you for three and a half years and all this time you have been seeing Me, and still you have not known the Father? Don’t you know that if you see Me, you see the Father, that if you know Me, you know the Father? I am in the Father and the Father is in Me.” Even up until this very moment, the Lord’s word here remains a mystery. What does it mean? On the one hand it means that the Father and the Son are just one and on the other hand that They are still two. If you were to ask me how this could be, I would say, “I don’t know. I know only that on the one hand the Father and the Son are one, that if you see the one then you see the other because the two are one. The Father is in the Son. If you see the Son, then surely you see the Father. But, on the other hand, They are still two.” This is the mystery of the Triune God.

Here I must issue a warning: Never consider that the Father and the Son are two separate gods. That is heresy. We do not have three gods. We have one unique Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. At this point I am even careful not to use the word person. Although sometimes, for our speaking and understanding, we use the word person, we should not press this term too far into tritheism. We cannot explain the Triune God adequately, but it is a fact that God is triune. If you have seen the Son, you have seen the Father because the Father is embodied in the Son to be seen among the believers. The Son is the embodiment and the expression of the Father.

亮光

当主说祂是道路，祂要将信徒带到父里面，腓力就对祂说，『主阿，将父显给我们看，我们就知足了。』（约十四8。）主回答说，『腓力，我与你们同在这样长久，你还不认识我吗？人看见了我，就是看见了父；你怎么说，将父显给我们看？我在父里面，父在我里面，你不信吗？』（约十四9～10。）主似乎说，『我与你们同在三年半了，这段时间你们一直看见我，你们还不认识父吗？岂不知你们若看见了我，就是看见了父；认识了我，就是认识了父吗？我在父里面，父在我里面。』即使到了此时此刻，主说的这话仍旧是个奥秘。这到底是什么意思？一面，这是说父和子就是一个；另一面，祂们仍是两个。你若问我这怎么可能，我就会说，『我不知道。我只知道，一面，父和子是一个。你若看见了这位，就是看见了那位，因为二者乃是一。父在子里面。你若看见了子，当然就看见了父。但另一面，祂们仍是两个。』这就是三一神的奥秘。

这里我必须题出一个警告：绝不可将父和子看为两位个别的神。那是异端。我们没有三位神。我们只有独一的三一神－父、子、灵。在这里我很谨慎，甚至不用『身位』这辞。虽然有时，为着说话和领会，我们用『身位』这辞，但我们不该将这辞引伸得太过而成为三神论。我们无法充分的解释三一神，但神是三而一的却是事实。你若看见了子，就是看见了父，因为父化身在子里，显在信徒中间。子是父的化身和彰显。