15一个人对任何事物价值的衡量,常是看他对那件事物的认识有多少。在马太二十三章十六至二十六节的这段话里,我们能看见,有的人看见一个非常大的圣殿,大部分是用金子建成的,就把这殿当作非常贵重的。有的人看见一个祭坛,和献在其上的牛、羊、鸽子,就以祭坛为没有价值的,而以牛、羊、鸽子为贵重的。有人照着律法,将薄荷、芹菜、茴香献上十分之一,但对律法上那更重的事,就如正义、怜悯、信实,反倒不实行。有人对什么都很小心,就连蠓虫也都滤出来,但却把骆驼吞下去。有人急用杯盘时,只抹净杯盘的外面,杯盘的里面却满了污秽。……〔在这段话里,〕主耶稣称以上那些人为愚拙的、瞎眼的、假冒为善的。因为那些人完全不认识真实的价值,他们所有的价值观全数是错误的(倪柝声文集第三辑第十四册,一九○至一九一页)。
15A person often measures the value of something according to the amount of knowledge he has of it. In Matthew 23:16-26 we find some people whose eyes were on the splendor of the temple and how it was built mostly with gold. They considered the temple to be most valuable. Some saw the altar and compared it with the oxen, lambs, and turtle doves offered on it. They reckoned the altar to be of little value but the oxen and lambs and turtle doves to be of much value. Some offered a tenth of the mint, anise, and cummin, yet they neglected the weightier matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness. Some were very careful about everything. They strained out the gnat, but they swallowed the camel. Some were in a hurry to use the cup and the dish. They cleansed the outside of them, but inwardly there was filth…In Matthew 23:16-26 the Lord Jesus called these people fools, blind men, and hypocrites because they did not know the true concept of value. Their concept of value was all wrong. (CWWN, vol. 60, p. 387)