36在林后十二章九节我们看见,基督所给使徒保罗那够用的恩典,作为基督那在人的软弱上显得完全,并覆庇使徒的能力。神给使徒保罗许多高的启示,所以神关切他因得着这许多启示而骄傲。神甚至把他带到三层天,到乐园,听见不能言传的话语,是人不可说的(2~4)。所以神给他一根刺,就是撒但的使者,邪灵,时时攻击他(7)。保罗三次祷告,叫这刺挪去,但主不挪去。反之,祂对保罗说,“我的恩典够你用的。”(8~9)没有人能忍受这根刺,但主的恩典能。这全丰全足的恩典成了维持并扶持保罗的能力。这恩典也覆庇他,如同帐棚覆罩在他身上,保护他,遮盖他。因此,这全丰全足的恩典作两件事。首先,这恩典在积极一面扶持、维持并加强我们;这是攻势的。其次,这恩典遮盖并保护我们;这是守势的。这全丰全足的恩典就是基督,而基督乃是经过过程、终极完成的三一神,成为那灵。基督这末后的亚当成了赐生命的灵(林前十五45下)(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第一册,五一二至五一三、五二八至五二九页)。 36In 2 Corinthians 12:9 we see the sufficient grace of Christ to the apostle Paul as the power of Christ that was perfected in weakness and that overshadowed the apostle. God gave the apostle Paul many high revelations, so God was concerned for him that he might be proud in receiving these many revelations. God had even brought him to the third heaven and to Paradise to hear unspeakable words, which it was not allowed for a man to speak (vv. 2-4). So God gave him a thorn, which was a messenger of Satan, an evil spirit, to buffet him all the time (v. 7). Paul prayed three times for the thorn to be removed, but the Lord would not remove it. Instead, He told Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you” (vv. 8-9). No one could bear such a thorn, but the Lord’s grace could. This all-sufficient grace became the power to sustain and support Paul. It also overshadowed him, tabernacled over him, to protect and cover him. Thus, the all-sufficient grace does two things. First, it supports, sustains, and strengthens us positively; this is offensive. Second, it covers and protects us; this is defensive. This all-sufficient grace is Christ, and Christ is the processed, consummated Triune God to be the Spirit. Christ as the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b). (CWWL, 19941997, vol. 1, “Crystallization-study of the Epistle to the Romans,” pp. 406407, 419-420)