10旧约里的祭司如何先来到祭坛,然后再到洗濯盆,我们也是先来到十字架得拯救、蒙救赎并得称义,然后来就近主的话而得洁净。一天过一天,在早晨在晚间,我们都需要来就近圣经,借着话中之水的洗濯盆而得洁净。借着这样来就近主的话,我们就得洁净,脱离那从接触世界所累积的污秽。……在话的洗濯盆里有水。……保罗在这里所关心的不是干渴,乃是要除去消极的事物。这些事物是借着话中之水洗去的。
10As the priests in the Old Testament came first to the altar and then to the laver, so we come first to the cross to be saved, redeemed, and justified, and then we come to the word to be cleansed. Day by day, morning and evening, we need to come to the Bible and be cleansed by the laver of the water in the word. By coming to the word in this way, we are cleansed from the defilement we have accumulated in our contact with the world. In the laver of the word there is water…Here Paul is concerned not about thirst but about the removal of negative things. These things are washed away by the water in the word.