9罗马七章四节告诉我们,作为妻子,我们结果子给神。我们在复活里并一直向神活着,就结果子给神。当我们在肉体里—就是说,当我们是旧丈夫的时候—与我们有关的一切都是死。我们所能产生的就是死。我们产生的一切,都是属死、给死的果子。现今我们是重生的人—就是妻子—我们结果子给神。这意思是,我们所作的一切,现今都与神有关。从前,我们所是和所作的都是死。所以,在这里我们看见在死与神之间,在结果子给死与结果子给神之间生动的对比。这给我们看见,在我们还是旧人和旧丈夫,被捆在律法之下时,我们所是和所作的一切都是死,结果是给死的果子。身为新人和归与新丈夫的妻子,我们所是和所作的一切,都与神有关,我们结果子给神。“结果子给神”这话,意思乃是神出来了,神作为果子产生出来了。因此,我们一切的所是和所作,必须是活的神。我们必须生出神来,作神的满溢。这样,我们就有活神作我们的果子,并且我们结果子给神(新约总论第十册,六二至六三页)。
9Romans 7:4 tells us that as a wife we bear fruit to God. When we are in resurrection and always live to God, we bear fruit to God. When we were in the flesh, that is, when we were the old husband, everything related to us was death. All we could produce was death. Everything we brought forth was a fruit of death and to death. Now as a regenerated person, that is, as the wife, we bear fruit to God. This simply means that everything we do now is related to God, whereas formerly, whatever we were and whatever we did was death. Therefore, here we see a vivid contrast between death and God, between bearing fruit to death and bearing fruit to God. This shows that when we were the old man and the old husband, held under the law, everything we were and did was death. The result was fruit to death. As a new man and the wife married to a new husband, whatever we are and do is related to God. We bear fruit to God. The phrase bear fruit to God means that God comes forth, that God is brought forth as fruit. Thus, all we are and do must be the living God. We must bring forth God as an overflow of God. In this way we have the living God as our fruit, and we bear fruit to God. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3064)