11我们里面都能感觉到,今天我们的儿子名分还不完全。不过,儿子名分会越来越完全,直到我们得荣的时候,要达到高峰;那时,我们将有完满的复活,并且在性情和外表上,都标出为神的儿子。我们不论在名义上或在实际上,不论在灵里、在魂里或是在身体里,都是神的儿子。正如一粒康乃馨种子长大成为一株完全长成且盛开的植物,照样,我们也要经过复活的过程,直到完满地得着荣耀,并且标出为神的众子。我们现今乃是在复活的过程中,使我们能以圣别、变化、模成并得荣。……这就是福音的中心目标(罗马书生命读经,六五一至六五四、六五六至六五七页)。
11We all have the sense within that today our sonship is not yet full. However, it will get fuller and fuller until it reaches the peak at the time of our glorification, when we will be fully resurrected and designated the sons of God in nature and in appearance. Both in name and in reality we will be the sons of God in spirit, in soul, and in body. Just as a carnation seed grows from a seed into a full-grown blossoming plant, so we will be processed through resurrection until we are fully glorified and designated as the many sons of God. We are now in the process of resurrection so that we may be sanctified, transformed, conformed, and glorified…This is the central aim of the gospel. (Life-study of Romans, pp. 536-538, 540)