14著名的新约解经家哥德(Frederic Louis Godet)在他所著之《罗马书注释》一书中说,罗马六章五节所启示的生长与接枝的思想有关。哥德将这一节译为:“我们若借着祂死的样式〔与祂〕成为一,成为同一棵植物,也必要作祂复活的分享者。”照哥德所说,生长一辞指“因着生机的联结,一者有分于属乎另一者的生命、生长和生存状态”。两棵树借着接枝有了生机的联结,一棵树就有分于另一棵树的生命和特征。我们将这领会应用到属灵的经历上,就可以说,我们已接枝到神的儿子基督,就是经过过程之三一神的具体化身这“树”里。我们借着接枝与祂成为一,现今就有分于祂这包罗万有者的生命和特征,这样我们就在祂里面生长。
14Frederic Louis Godet, a famous expositor of the New Testament, has suggested in his Commentary on Romans that the growth revealed in Romans 6:5 is related to the notion of grafting. He translated this verse: “For if we have become one and the same plant [with Him] through the likeness of His death, we shall be also partakers of His resurrection.” According to Godet, the word grown denotes “the organic union in virtue of which one being shares the life, growth, and phases of existence belonging to another.” Through the organic union of two trees, accomplished by grafting, the one tree partakes of the life and characteristics of the other tree. Applying this understanding to our spiritual experience, we may say that we have been grafted into the “tree” of Christ, the Son of God, as the embodiment of the processed Triune God. Having become one with Him through grafting, we now partake of the life and characteristics of Him as the all-inclusive One, and in this way we grow in Him.