14马太二十二章十一至十二节的婚筵礼服也说明了这点。在这个比喻中,主说到一个没有穿婚筵礼服的人进来参加婚筵。王看见这人便说,“朋友,你没有穿婚筵的礼服,是怎么进到这里来的?”宾客无言可答。于是王对他的仆役说,“把他的手脚捆起来,扔在外面黑暗里,在那里必要哀哭切齿了。”(13)……按照古时犹太人的风俗,凡参加婚筵的人都必须穿特别的婚筵礼服。……我们若想有资格参加基督的婚筵,就需要凭基督活着,并且在我们的日常生活中把祂活出来。这一位基督,就是主观的基督,便成了婚筵礼服,使我们有资格可参加婚筵。因此,我们需要称义的衣服,也需要婚筵礼服(新约总论第十四册,二五一至二五三页)。
14This is…illustrated by the wedding garment in Matthew 22:11 and 12. In this parable the Lord spoke of a man who comes into the wedding feast without a wedding garment. The king, seeing the man, says, “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?” The guest is speechless. Then the king says to his servants, “Bind his feet and hands, and cast him out into the outer darkness. In that place there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth” (v. 13)…According to the custom of the ancient Jews, no one could attend a wedding feast without a special wedding garment…If we would be qualified to attend the wedding feast of Christ, we need to live by Christ and live Him out in our daily living. This Christ, the subjective Christ, will be the wedding garment to qualify us to be admitted into the wedding feast. Therefore, we need both the justifying garment and the wedding garment. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 4325-4327)