16借着胸牌所得的引导，总是与审判有关。……因着主的说话是借着消极的光景，这样的说话就是一种审判。……在保罗的照耀之下，黑暗就被暴露了。保罗有些书信是照着黑暗、照着召会里圣徒消极的光景写的。因着保罗看见在哥林多召会里的一些黑暗面，这些黑暗面乃是神审判的字母，保罗就能写出哥林多前书这卷审判的书来。但随着这卷书信里所含的一切审判，却有许多积极的事物，就是有基督的丰富，供应给在哥林多的信徒。这就是神说话的方式。不论是在旧约，或是在新约里，神的说话都是根据消极的光景；然而却有基督的丰富作祂子民的供应（出埃及记生命读经，一六三九至一六四一页）。
16The leading obtained through the breastplate always involves a judgment...Because the Lord’s speaking is through negative situations, that speaking is a judgment. Under the shining of Paul, the darkness was exposed. Paul wrote certain of his Epistles according to the darkness, according to the negative condition, of the saints in the churches. Because Paul saw certain dark areas in the church in Corinth, areas that were letters of God’s judgment, Paul could write Corinthians as a book of judgment. But along with all the judgment contained in this Epistle, there are many positive things: the riches of Christ ministered to the believers at Corinth. This is God’s way of speaking. Both in the Old Testament and the New Testament, God’s speaking is according to the negative situation yet with the riches of Christ as the supply for His people. (Life-study of Exodus, pp. 1431-1433)