12按其人性说,新耶路撒冷是羔羊—救赎之神—的人性妻子,有神的生命和性情(2、9)。这属人的妻子能与神圣的人位成为婚配,因为她有神圣的生命和性情。这使她有资格与救赎的神相配。……因为她是属人的,她就能成为救赎之神的人性妻子。因为她是神圣的,她就能与祂这神圣的人位成为婚配。……按其神性说,新耶路撒冷是蒙神救赎之选民的神性丈夫(救赎之神在祂终极完成的具体化身基督里,有人的生命和性情)。妻子是属人的,丈夫是神圣的。属人的妻子能与神圣的人位成为婚配,因为她有神圣人位的性情和生命。同一个实体是丈夫又是妻子,因为新耶路撒冷是神圣的,神圣的神乃是其构成的一部分。……新耶路撒冷按其人性是妻子,按其神性乃是丈夫。但作为神圣的丈夫,新耶路撒冷有属人的生命和性情。在其人性和神性里,新耶路撒冷乃是一对配偶,妻子和丈夫。
12According to its humanity, the New Jerusalem is the human wife (with the divine life and nature) of the Lamb, the redeeming God (vv. 2, 9). This human wife can marry a divine person because she has the divine life and nature. This qualifies her to match the redeeming God…Because she is human, she can be the redeeming God’s human wife. Because she is divine, she can marry Him, a divine person. According to its divinity, the New Jerusalem is the divine Husband (the redeeming God in His consummated embodiment, Christ, with the human life and nature) of God’s redeemed elect. The wife is human, and the Husband is divine. A human wife can marry a divine person because she has the divine person’s nature and life. The same entity can be both a husband and a wife because the New Jerusalem is divine. The divine God is a part of its constituent…The New Jerusalem is the wife according to its humanity and the Husband according to its divinity. But as the divine Husband, the New Jerusalem has the human life and nature. In its humanity and in its divinity it is a couple, a wife and a husband.