【读圣经学英语】从天上降下来赐生命给世人的

【读圣经学英语】从天上降下来赐生命给世人的

约翰福音-John 6 章 31~37节

6:31 我们的祖宗在旷野吃过吗哪,如经上所记:“祂把那从天上来的粮赐给他们吃。”
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, "He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.''
6:32 耶稣说,我实实在在的告诉你们,不是摩西把那从天上来的粮赐给你们,乃是我父把那从天上来的真粮赐给你们。
Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread out of heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
6:33 因为神的粮,就是那从天上降下来赐生命给世人的。
For the bread of God is He who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.
6:34 他们对祂说,主啊,常将这粮赐给我们。
They said therefore to Him, Lord, give us this bread always.
6:35 耶稣对他们说,我就是生命的粮,到我这里来的,必永远不饿;信入我的,必永远不渴。
Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall by no means hunger, and he who believes into Me shall by no means ever thirst.
6:36 只是我对你们说过,你们已经看见我,还是不信。
But I have said to you that you have also seen Me, and yet you do not believe.
6:37 凡父所赐给我的人,必到我这里来;到我这里来的,我绝不把他丢在外面。
All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and him who comes to Me I shall by no means cast out.

亮光

三十五至五十一节启示,主已经藉着成为肉体临到人,好赐人生命。我们如何能接受主作食物,作生命的粮?这一章用图像启示了接受的路,但多少世代以来一直为人所忽略。首先,主说祂『从天上降下来。』(约六33,38,41,42,50,51,58。)祂如何从天上降下来?祂是藉着成为肉体降下来的。祂藉着有分于血肉之体(来二14)而成为人。祂是在肉体里来,并且祂来是作人。魔鬼和邪灵恨恶这事。要试验人有没有邪灵,惟一的方法就是问那鬼或邪灵,承认不承认耶稣基督是在肉体里来的。(约壹四2。)成为肉体是主成为我们的生命所采取的第一个步骤。

三十五节说,『耶稣对他们说,我就是生命的粮,到我这里来的,必永远不饿;信入我的,必永远不渴。』生命的粮是以食物的形态作人生命的供应,就像生命树一样『好作食物,』(创二9,)作人生命的供应。到主这里来的,必永远不饿,信入祂的,必永远不渴。照二章所立定的原则,这也是变死亡为生命。死亡的源头是知识树,生命的源头是生命树。

Enlightenment:

Verses 35 through 51 reveal that the Lord has come to man by being incarnated that He might give life to man. By what way can we take the Lord as food, as the bread of life? This chapter reveals the way figuratively, but for many generations people have overlooked it. First of all, the Lord said that He “came down from heaven” (6:33, 38, 41, 42, 50, 51, 58). By what way did He come down from heaven? He came down by incarnation. He became a man by partaking of flesh and blood (Heb. 2:14). He came in the flesh and He came as a man. The devil and the evil spirits hate this. The only way to test whether or not a person has an evil spirit is to ask the demon or spirit if he would confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh (1 John 4:2). Incarnation is the first step that the Lord took in order to become our life.

Verse 35 says, “Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall by no means hunger, and he who believes in Me shall by no means ever thirst.” The bread of life is the life supply in the form of food, like the tree of life (Gen. 2:9), which is also the life supply “good for food.” He who comes to the Lord shall never hunger, and he who believes in Him shall never thirst. In the principle set forth in chapter two, this also is the changing of death into life. Death is of the source of the tree of knowledge, and life is of the source of the tree of life.