21杀死以后,就需要埋葬。……不仅如此,还有另一种元素使我们复活。因此,在基督这土壤里的元素,首先埋葬我们,然后叫我们复活。在作土壤的基督里,我们被治死、埋葬、复活并得着生命。杀死和埋葬将反面的事物从我们身上带走,而复活将我们带离反面的事物。然后土壤里赐人生命的元素,就使我们活着。因此,在作土壤的基督里面,有杀死我们、埋葬我们、使我们复活并使我们活着的元素(歌罗西书生命读经,五七八、六一六至六一七、五七九至五八○页)。
21After the killing, we have burial…Furthermore, there is another element that raises us up. Thus, first, the elements in Christ as the soil bury us; then they raise us up. In Christ as the soil, we are put to death, buried, raised up, and given life. The killing and the burial take the negative things away from us, whereas being raised takes us away from the negative things. Then the element in the soil that gives life makes us living. Therefore, in Christ as the soil, there are elements that kill us, bury us, raise us up, and make us living. (Life-study of Colossians, second edition, pp. 456-457, 489, 457-458)