43 信徒若是失去味道,就是失去功用,用在田里就不合式,田表征召会是神的耕地(林前三9),带进要来的国度(启十一15);堆在粪里也不合式,粪堆表征火坑,宇宙中的污秽之地(二一8);他们已经得救,免去了永远的沉沦,但他们不适合于要来的国度,他们要从千年国的荣耀里被扔出去,撇在一旁受管教—路十四35。 43 If the believers lose their taste, their function, they will be fit neither for the land, signifying the church as God’s farm (1 Cor. 3:9), which issues in the coming kingdom (Rev. 11:15), nor for the manure pile, signifying hell, the filthy place in the universe (21:8); having been saved from eternal perdition but being unfit for the coming kingdom, they will be thrown out from the glory of the kingdom in the millennium and be put aside for discipline — Luke 14:35.