22约翰在约壹五章十六节来到这一段话的要点。……约翰在这里是说,人若看见他的弟兄,就是在主里和他亲近的人,犯了不至于死的罪,就当为那人祈求。这里的“祈求”,必是指我们住在与神交通里而有的祷告。……“将生命赐给他”这句话的主词还是上文的“人”,这人也是“祈求”的主词。这指明祈求的人将生命赐给他所代求的人。这不是说,祈求的人本身有生命,能凭自己将生命赐给别人。这乃是说,这样一个住在主里面,与主是一,并且在与主是一的灵里(林前六17)祈求的祈求者,成了神赐生命的灵能将生命赐给他所代求之人的凭借。这是一件在神圣生命的交通里,分赐生命的事。我们要成为能将生命分赐给别人的人,就必须住在神圣的生命里,并在神圣的生命里行事、生活、为人。雅各书五章十四至十六节的祷告是为着医治,这里的祷告是为着分赐生命。 22In 1 John 5:16 John comes to his point in this section…Here John is saying that if anyone sees his brother, someone close to him in the Lord, sinning a sin not unto death, he should ask concerning that one. The word ask here must refer to a prayer made when we are abiding in fellowship with God. The subject of will give life is still he, the subject of the first predicate shall ask. This indicates that the asker will give life to the one for whom he is asking. This does not mean that the asker has life of himself and can give life by himself to others. It means that such an asker, who is abiding in the Lord, who is one with the Lord, and who is asking in one spirit with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17), becomes the means by which God’s lifegiving Spirit can give life to the ones for whom he is asking. This is a matter of life-imparting in the fellowship of the divine life. To be one who can give life to others, we must abide in the divine life and walk, live, and have our being in the divine life. In James 5:14-16 the prayer is for healing; here the prayer is for life-imparting.