1Ⅰ The particular recovery and work that God is doing in one age is the ministry of that age; the ministry of the age ministers the present truth to God’s people; in 2 Peter 1:12 the present truth can also be rendered “the up-to-date truth”:
2A Although all the truths are in the Bible, through man’s foolishness, unfaithfulness, negligence, and disobedience many truths were lost and hidden from man—cf. 2 Kings 22:8.
3B Freshly revealed truths are not God’s new inventions; rather, they are man’s new discoveries; every worker of the Lord should inquire before God as to what the present truth is.
4三 神的真理是累积的,而不是推翻已往;我们今天所看见的,都是神累积的启示。
4C God’s truths are cumulative; later truths do not negate earlier ones; what we see today are the cumulative revelations of God.
5四 但愿神恩待我们,叫我们不作“现有真理”的落伍者;但愿我们儆醒,不让肉体渗入,不让自己有地位。
5D May God be gracious to us that we do not become castaways of “the present truth”; may we be watchful and not allow the flesh to come in or the self to gain any ground.