8这思想在约翰的著作中得着发展。在约翰一章一节、十四节,我们看见那是神的话成了肉体,丰丰满满地有恩典,有实际。十六节继续说,“从祂的丰满里我们都领受了,而且恩上加恩。”在四章,主耶稣对撒玛利亚妇人说到活水(10、14)。在七章三十八节祂说,“信入我的人,就如经上所说,从他腹中要流出活水的江河来。”……启示录二十二章一至二节给我们看见,在新耶路撒冷里有生命河涌流,在这河中长着生命树,作生命的供应,支持并维持全城。在约翰的著作中所看见的,的确是耶利米二章十三节里所撒种子的长大(耶利米书生命读经,二一页)。
8This thought is developed in the writings of John. In John 1:1 and 14 we see that the Word, which was God, became flesh, full of grace and reality. Verse 16 goes on to say, “For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.”…The Lord Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman concerning living water (4:10, 14). In John 7:38 He said, “He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.”…Revelation 22:1 and 2 show us that in the New Jerusalem the river of life flows and that in this river grows the tree of life as the life supply to support and sustain the entire city. What we have in the writings of John is surely the growth of the seed sown in Jeremiah 2:13. (Life-study of Jeremiah, pp. 17-18)