9哥林多人虽然已经得救,局部地与神和好,但是他们仍活在肉体里,也就是活在魂里,活在外面的人、天然的所是里。肉体、天然人的幔子仍然使他们与神有阻隔。这意思是说,他们天然的人是阻隔的幔子。因此,他们需要第二步的和好。保罗在林后五章……在哥林多人身上作工,要把肉体的幔子割开,将他们天然的生命钉十字架,销毁他们外面的人。使徒保罗在哥林多前后书所作的,乃是要将肉体这层阻隔的幔子割断,使哥林多信徒能进入至圣所(哥林多后书生命读经,三八○页)。
9Although the Corinthians had been saved and reconciled to God halfway, they still lived in the flesh; that is, they lived in the soul, the outer man, the natural being. The veil of the flesh, of the natural man, still separated them from God. This means that their natural being was a separating veil. Therefore, they needed the second step of reconciliation. In 2 Corinthians 5 Paul was working… on the Corinthians to cut the veil of the flesh asunder, to crucify their natural life, to consume their outer man. What the apostle Paul was doing in 1 and 2 Corinthians was to cleave the separating veil of the flesh so that the believers at Corinth could enter into the Holy of Holies. (Life-study of 2 Corinthians, p. 320)