【读圣经学英语】当彼此洗脚

【读圣经学英语】当彼此洗脚

约翰福音-John 13 章 14~18节

13:14 我是主,是夫子,尚且洗你们的脚,你们也当彼此洗脚。
If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
13:15 我给你们作了榜样,叫你们照着我向你们所作的去作。
For I have given you an example so that you also may do even as I have done to you.
13:16 我实实在在的告诉你们,奴仆并不大过主人,受差遣的也不大过差遣他的。
Truly, truly, I say to you, A slave is not greater than his master, nor one who is sent greater than the one who sends him.
13:17 你们既晓得这事,若是去行就有福了。
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
13:18 我这话不是指着你们众人说的,我知道我所拣选的是谁;但这是要应验经书:“同我吃饭的人,举起脚跟踢我。”
I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, "He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.''

亮光

我们不只需要主自己直接的洗脚,也需要彼此洗脚。主告诉我们要彼此洗脚。正如我已经说过的,有时我们必须照字面遵守主的话,但我们更要按灵意遵守祂的话。我们必须藉着将圣灵的工作供应人,将神话语的光照供应人,并藉着将内在生命的运行供应人,来彼此洗脚。藉此,我帮助你,你帮助我,我们帮助彼此在圣灵的工作、神话语的亮光、或内在生命的运行上得着洗净。每当我们弟兄们聚在一起交通祷告时,需要以属灵的洗脚彼此服事。以属灵的洗脚彼此服事,保守我们脱离属地接触的污染。亲爱的弟兄们,你曾想过你多么需要这种相互的洗脚吗?当你在这地上行动工作的时候,你不只需要主在你灵中直接给你洗脚的服事,也需要从弟兄姊妹们得到洗脚的服事。

Enlightenment:

We need not only the foot-washing that is exercised directly by the Lord Himself but also the mutual foot-washing of one another. The Lord told us to wash one another’s feet. As I have mentioned already, sometimes we must keep the Lord’s word literally, but to an even greater degree we must keep His word spiritually. We must wash one another’s feet by ministering the work of the Holy Spirit, by ministering the enlightenment of the Word, and by ministering the operation of the inner life. In this way, I help you, you help me, and we help one another to be washed in the work of the Holy Spirit, in the light of the Word, or in the operation of the inner life. Whenever we brothers come together for fellowship and prayer, we need to minister the spiritual foot-washing to one another. It is the spiritual foot-washing ministered to one another that keeps us clean from the earthly touch. Dear brothers, have you considered how much you need this kind of mutual foot-washing? While you are walking and working on this earth, you need not only the Lord’s foot-washing ministered directly within your spirit but also the foot-washing from the brothers and sisters.