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出埃及记生命读经 · 第103篇

帐幕的门帘（三）

The Curtain for the Door of the Tent (3)
1读经： 出埃及记二十六章三十六至三十七节；林后五章十八至二十一节。
1Scripture Reading: Exo. 26:36-37; 2 Cor. 5:18-21
2帐幕里有两幅幔子，或者说有两幅帘子。第一层幔子在圣所的入口，叫作帘子；第 二层幔子把圣所与至圣所隔开，叫作幔子。出埃及记二十六章先说到内层的幔子，然后才说到帘子。三十一节说：“你要用蓝色、紫色、朱红色、捻的细麻，织幔子；以巧匠的手工绣上基路伯。”（直译。）这是隔开圣所与至圣所的幔子。（33。）三十六和三十七节说：“你要拿蓝色、紫色、朱红色、捻的细麻，用绣花的手工织帐幕的门帘。要用皂荚木为帘子作五根柱子，用金子包裹。”（直译我们在前面几篇信息里已 经表明，这两层幔子表征基督包罗万有之死的两方面。帘子表征基督为我们的罪死了，叫我们的罪得着赦免，我们还蒙神所称义。内层幔子表征基督替我们死，叫我们的肉体、我们堕落的性情得以裂开、撕裂，使我们能彀进入至圣所，尽情地享受神。
2In the tabernacle there were two veils, or two curtains. The first veil, located at the entrance to the Holy Place, was called the screen; the second curtain, separating the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies, was called the veil. Chapter twenty-six of Exodus speaks first of the inner veil and then of the screen. Verse 31 says, “And you shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; the work of a skillful workman shall it be made, with cherubim.” This was the veil which made a separation between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies (v. 33). Verses 36 and 37 say, “And you shall make a curtain for the door of the tent of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer. And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.” As we have pointed out in the foregoing messages, these two veils signify two aspects of the all-inclusive death of Christ. The screen indicates that Christ died for our sins so that our sins may be forgiven and that we may be justified by God. The inner veil indicates that Christ died for us so that our flesh, our fallen nature, may be rent, or torn, and that we may enter the Holy of Holies to enjoy God to the uttermost.
十六 和好的两方面
TWO ASPECTS OF RECONCILIATION
3最近我看见，帐幕的帘子和幔子，与林后五章保罗论和好的话有关。好些年来，我一直不懂这一章，尤其不晓得保罗为甚么要求哥林多人与神和好。在这章圣经里，保罗的确不是对付不信的人而是对付信徒。可是，他结束的话却与和好有关。为甚么保罗要对信徒说到他的职事是和好的职事？哥林多的信徒不是已经与神和好了么？他们 既然是真正的信徒，没有疑问，他们已经与神和好了。林后五章十九节说：“这就是神在基督里，叫世人与自己和好，不将他们的过犯算在他们身上；并且将这和好的话 语放在我们里面。”（直译。）二十节保罗接着说：“所以我们为基督作了大使，就好像神藉我们劝你们一般；我们替基督求你们与神和好。”（直译。）我们需要看见，保罗在这里说到和好的两方面，一方面与罪人有关，另一方面与信徒有关。
3Recently I have seen that the screen and the veil in the tabernacle are related to Paul’s word concerning reconciliation in 2 Corinthians 5. For many years I was puzzled by this chapter, especially by Paul’s appeal to the Corinthians to be reconciled to God. In this chapter Paul is definitely dealing not with unbelievers, but with believers. Nevertheless, he concludes this chapter with a word about reconciliation. Why in speaking to believers does Paul refer to his ministry as a ministry of reconciliation? Had those in Corinth not already been reconciled to God? Since they were genuine believers, they no doubt had been reconciled. Second Corinthians 5:19 says, “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not accounting their offenses to them, and putting in us the word of reconciliation.” Then in verse 20 Paul goes on to say, “On behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as God entreating through us; we beseech you on behalf of Christ, Be reconciled to God.” We need to see that here Paul speaks of reconciliation in two ways, or in two aspects. One aspect is related to sinners; the other aspect, to believers.
4如果我们认识帐幕里幔子与帘子的意义，就能明白，保罗在林后五章是怎么来对待哥林多信徒的。哥林多人已经通过了帐幕入口的第一层幔子─帘子，但是他们还没有通过第二层幔子─内层的幔子、隔开圣所与至圣所的幔子。这就是说，他们还没有经 历我们与神之间和好的两方面。哥林多人未信基督、得救以前，是神的仇敌。但他们 相信了基督，就与神和好了。他们得着了赦免，得称为义，能彀进入圣所，多少享受了主。虽然哥林多人经历了这一面的和好，不过，他们还没有进入至圣所。他们的和好只是有限度的和好，还没有达到进入至圣所完满享受神的地步。为这缘故，他们还需要进一步与神和好，就是保罗在林后五章二十节所说的和好。
4If we know the significance of the veil and the screen in the tabernacle, we shall be able to understand how Paul deals with the Corinthian believers in 2 Corinthians 5. The Corinthians had passed through the first veil, the screen, at the entrance to the tabernacle. But they had not yet passed through the second veil, the inner veil, the veil separating the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies. This means that they had not experienced both aspects of the reconciliation between us and God. Before the Corinthians believed in Christ and were saved, they were enemies to God. But when they believed in Christ, they were reconciled to God. They were forgiven, they were justified, and they could enter into the Holy Place to have a certain enjoyment of the Lord. However, although the Corinthians had experienced this aspect of reconciliation, they had not entered into the Holy of Holies. They had been reconciled to God to some extent, but not to the extent of being able to come into the Holy of Holies to enjoy God in full. For this reason, they needed a further reconciliation, the reconciliation Paul speaks of in 2 Corinthians 5:20.
5在哥林多前书十五章三节，保罗说：“因为我当日所领受又传给你们首要的事，就是基督照圣经所说，为我们的罪死了。”（直译。）保罗在这里强调基本的福音真理，基督为我们的罪死了，这与和好的第一面有关。和好的目的是要除去我们与神之间的阻隔。我们经历赦免、称义而进入圣所时，有些障碍多多少少就挪去了。可是，这个阻隔还有一面仍旧留着，这一面就是我们的肉体、我们堕落的性情。就着我们的罪来说，我们已经得了赦免，与神和好了。但就着我们的肉体、我们堕落的性情来说，我们可能还没有与神和好，我们与神之间还有间隔，不能在至圣所里享受祂。
5In 1 Corinthians 15:3 Paul says, “For I delivered to you, among the first things, that which also I received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.” Here Paul emphasizes the basic gospel truth that Christ died for our sins. This is related to the first aspect of reconciliation. The goal of reconciliation is to take away the barrier between us and God. When we experience forgiveness and justification and enter the Holy Place, the barrier is taken away to a certain extent. However, a particular aspect of the barrier remains, and this aspect is our flesh, our fallen nature. Concerning our sins, we have been forgiven and reconciled to God. But concerning our flesh, our fallen nature, we may not yet be reconciled to God. Rather, we still may be separated from Him, unable to enjoy Him in the Holy of Holies.
6哥林多信徒都是在基督里的真弟兄，保罗一再这样称呼他们。不过，在林后五章二十节，保罗劝他们要与神和好。二十一节，他又接着说：“神使那不知罪的，替我们成为罪；好叫我们在祂里面成为神的义。”这比基督为我们的罪死深多了。基督替我 们成为罪，好叫我们成为神的义，与基督死了叫我们罪得赦免、蒙神称义不一样。
6The Corinthian believers were genuine brothers in Christ, and Paul repeatedly addressed them as such. Nevertheless, in 2 Corinthians 5:20 he beseeches them to be reconciled to God. Then in verse 21 he goes on to say, “Him who did not know sin He made sin on our behalf, that we might become God’s righteousness in Him.” This is deeper than Christ dying for our sins. For Christ to be made sin for us so that we may become the righteousness of God is different from Christ dying so that we may have our sins forgiven and be justified by God.
7如果我们仔细读林后五章，就会看见和好事实上有两方面。十九节保罗说，神在基督里叫世人与自己和好。我们要注意，保罗说到世人与神和好时，没有告诉我们基督成为罪，反而只说，神不将他们的过犯归到他们身上。保罗说“世人”，就表示和好的这一面与罪人有关。但照二十节所说，就连已经与神和好的信徒，仍旧需要和好。在这几节圣经里，我们看见三班人：使徒、罪人，以及没有完全与神和好的信徒。
7If we read 2 Corinthians 5 carefully, we shall see that there are in fact two aspects of reconciliation. In verse 19 Paul says that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Notice that concerning the reconciling of the world to God, Paul does not tell us that Christ was made sin. On the contrary, he simply says that God did not reckon their offenses unto them. This aspect of reconciliation involves sinners, as indicated by Paul’s use of the word “world.” But according to verse 20, even the reconciled ones, the believers, still need to be reconciled. In these verses we see three classes of people: the apostles, sinners, and believers who have not been fully reconciled to God.
8今天基督教传道人多半只传讲和好的第一方面，说到神不将罪人的过犯归到他们身上。很少人说到和好的第二方面，就是基督成为罪，好叫我们在祂里面成为神的义。这一面比第一面深多了，它是帐幕第二层幔子所表征的。只有我们通过这层幔子的时候，才能彻彻底底与神和好，并且尽情地享受祂。
8Most Christian preachers today speak only of the first aspect of reconciliation, the aspect of God not reckoning sinners’ offenses against them. Few, if any, speak of the second aspect of reconciliation, the aspect related to Christ becoming sin so that we may become the righteousness of God in Him. This aspect, which is much deeper than the first, is signified by the second veil in the tabernacle. Only when we pass through this veil are we thoroughly reconciled to God and able to enjoy Him in full.
十七 神在肉体中定罪了罪
GOD CONDEMNING SIN IN THE FLESH
9和好的第二方面与罗马八章中保罗所说的话互相呼应。罗马八章三节与林后五章二十一节非常相似，那里说。“神─既差遣祂自己的儿子，成为罪之肉体的形状，并作了赎罪祭─就在肉体中定罪了罪。”（直译。）这段话与林后五章二十一节互相呼应，那里说基督替我们成为罪。神的儿子被差遣来成为罪之肉体的形状，然后，在十字架上替我们成为罪。基督在十字架上时，神在肉体中定罪了罪。这就是说，神把肉体，连同罪（罪实际上就是撒但自己）钉在十字架上而除灭了。神在肉体中定罪了罪，好叫律法义的要求成就在我们这不照着肉体，只照着灵生活行动的人身上。出埃及记二十六章内层的幔子，说明了罗马八章和林后五章中肉体受对付的事。如果我们没有帐幕幔子的豫表，就无法彻底领会：肉体一定要受对付。我们已经看过，内层幔子裂开就是表征我们的肉体被撕裂。
9This second aspect of reconciliation corresponds to what Paul says in Romans 8. Romans 8:3, a verse that is very similar to 2 Corinthians 5:21, says, “God sending His own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh.” This corresponds to the word in 2 Corinthians 5:21 about Christ being made sin for us. The Son of God was sent in the likeness of the flesh of sin and then, on the cross, He was made sin for us. When Christ was on the cross, God condemned sin in the flesh. This means that God crucified, killed, the flesh, including sin, which is actually Satan himself. God condemned sin in the flesh so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to flesh, but according to spirit. The flesh dealt with in Romans 8 and 2 Corinthians 5 is illustrated by the inner veil in Exodus 26. If we did not have the veil in the tabernacle as a type, we could not have a full understanding that the flesh must be dealt with. We have seen that the rending of the inner veil signifies the tearing of our flesh.
十八 新造
A NEW CREATION
10林后五章十六节说：“所以我们从今以后，不按着肉体认人了；虽然按着肉体认过基督，如今却不再这样认祂了。”（直译。）凡照着肉体认基督的人，顶多只是在外院子；许多时候，他们还离开了外院子。哥林多人可能是照着魂的领会来认识使徒，因为他们中间有许多人仍旧在表征魂的圣所里。在十七节保罗说到新造：“因此，若有人在基督里，他就是一个新造；旧事已过；看哪！它们都变成新的了。”（直译。）成为新造就绝对是新的了。这就是在至圣所里。
10Second Corinthians 5:16 says, “So that we, from now on, know no one according to flesh; even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know Him so no longer.” Those who know Christ according to the flesh are, at best, in the outer court. In many cases, they may not even be in the outer court. It is possible that the Corinthians knew the apostles according to their soulish understanding, for many of them were in the Holy Place, which signifies the soul. In verse 17 Paul speaks of the new creation: “So that if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, they have become new.” To be a new creation means to be absolutely new. This is to be in the Holy of Holies.
十九 向基督活着
LIVING TO CHRIST
11在林后五章十四节保罗说，基督一人替众人死了。这节圣经不是说基督为我们的罪死，好叫我们得着赦免。我们已经看过，罪得赦免是和好的第一方面。基督替我们死，是叫我们向祂活着。林后五章中的向基督活着，就等于罗马八章中照着灵生活行动。照着灵生活行动、向基督活着，比仅仅罪得赦免深多了。
11In 2 Corinthians 5:14 Paul says that One, that is Christ, died for all. This verse does not say that Christ died for our sins so that we may be forgiven. As we have seen, the forgiveness of sins is the first aspect of reconciliation. Christ died for us so that we may live to Him. Living to Christ in 2 Corinthians 5 is equal to walking according to spirit in Romans 8. Living to Christ by walking according to the spirit is much deeper than simply having our sins forgiven.
12以往，我一直不懂林后五章的一些事。这些年来，我还是不晓得这章圣经的真义。虽然二、三、四章我很清楚，但我对五章始终没有正确的领会。为此，在已过的十九年里面，我没有释放多少篇信息是与这章圣经，特别是与末几节有关的，可是现在我对这一章的看见愈过愈清楚。我们来到林后生命读经这一章的时候，就要看见这里保罗所作的，乃是要把信徒带进和好的第二方面里。这一面就是叫我们的肉体被撕裂，我们就能彀进入至圣所，对神有完满的享受。
12In the past I was troubled by certain matters in 2 Corinthians 5. For years, I did not know the real significance of this chapter. Although I had a clear view of chapters two, three, and four, I did not have a proper understanding of chapter five. For this reason, in the past nineteen years I have not given many messages on this chapter, especially on the last few verses. But now my view of this chapter is becoming clearer and clearer. As we shall see when we come to this chapter in the Life-study of 2 Corinthians, here we have a dealing which brings the believers into the second aspect of reconciliation. This aspect is to have our flesh torn so that we may enter the Holy of Holies and have the full enjoyment of God.
二十 保罗使用隐喻
PAUL’S USE OF METAPHORS
（一）基督行列中的俘虏
Captives in Christ’s Procession
13在哥林多后书里面，保罗用了许多隐喻。比方说，在林后二章十四至十六节他说：“感谢神，常在基督里，在胜利的行列中帅领我们，并藉着我们在各处显扬那因认识基督而有的香气；因为无论在那些正得救的人中，或是那些正灭亡的人中，我们向神都是基督馨香之气。在这等人，就作了死的香气叫他们死；在那等人，就作了活的香气叫他们活，这事谁能当得起呢？”（直译。）这几节圣经里有两个隐喻。第一个是得胜的行列。保罗看自己和别的使徒们是这样行列中的俘虏。他们完全给神俘掳了，如今他们一直在基督的行列中前进。可是，哥林多人还没有完全被俘掳。
13In 2 Corinthians Paul uses many metaphors. For example, in 2 Corinthians 2:14 through 16 he says, “But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and manifests through us the savor of the knowledge of Him in every place; for we are a fragrance of Christ to God in those who are being saved and in those who are perishing: to the one a savor from death unto death, to the other a savor from life unto life.” There are two metaphors in these verses. The first is that of the triumphal procession. Paul regarded himself and the other apostles as captives in such a procession. They had been fully captured by God, and now they were marching in Christ’s procession. The Corinthians, however, had not yet been wholly captured by the Lord.
（二）带着香的人
Bearers of Incense
14这几节圣经中第二个比喻是带着香的人。一方面，使徒们是俘虏；另一方面，他们是带着香的人，就是带着基督馨香之气的人。使徒们一面在基督的行列中前进，一面带着基督的馨香为香气。
14The second metaphor in these verses is the bearers of incense. On the one hand, the apostles were captives; on the other hand, they were those bearing incense, the fragrance of Christ. As the apostles marched in Christ’s procession, they bore the fragrance of Christ as incense.
（三）活的信
Living Epistles
15在林后三章二节和三节，保罗用了活的信这个隐喻：“你们就是我们的荐信，铭刻在我们的心里，被众人所知道所念诵的；你们显明是基督的信，藉着我们服事出来的，不是用墨刻的，乃是用活神的灵刻的；不是刻在石版上，乃是刻在心版上。”（直译。）这里给我们看见保罗和他的同工一直在写活的信。这些信是他们的荐信，使徒们是写信的人，信徒们是他们所写的信。
15In 2 Corinthians 3:2 and 3 Paul uses the metaphor of living epistles: “You are our letter, inscribed in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ ministered by us, inscribed not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart.” Here we see that Paul and his co-workers were writing living epistles. These epistles were their letters of commendation. The apostles were the writers, and the believers were the epistles written by them.
（四）没有遮蔽的镜子
Uncovered Mirrors
16第四个隐喻是镜子。保罗在林后三章十八节题到这面镜子：“而且我们众人既然以没有帕子遮蔽的脸，好像镜子观看并返照主的荣光，就渐渐变化成为同样的形像，从荣耀到荣耀，如同从主灵变成的。”（直译。）按这节圣经看来，信徒们该是没有帕子遮蔽的镜子。这就是说，我们不该再被律法的帕子遮蔽。我们该像没有遮蔽的镜子，观看主的荣光，因此就能渐渐变化。
16A fourth metaphor is that of a mirror. Paul refers to this in 2 Corinthians 3:18: “And we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.” According to this verse, the believers should be mirrors without any kind of veil covering them. This means that we should no longer be covered by the veil of the law. As uncovered mirrors we should behold the glory of the Lord and thus be transformed.
（五）瓦器
Earthen Vessels
17在林后四章七节保罗又用了一个隐喻─瓦器：“我们有这宝贝在瓦器里，要显明这莫大的能力，是出于神，不是出于我们。”（直译。）六节保罗说到神照耀在我们心里，叫我们认识神荣耀的光，显在基督的面上。我们在六节的光中来看第七节，就晓得七节的器皿可以比喻作照相机。保罗在这几节圣经里所描述的，实际上就是属灵摄影的经历。我们这些信徒好比照相机。神圣的光透过镜头，把一个形像、图像印在我们灵的底片上。原先，底片是空白的。但如今神这么一照耀，底片就印上了基督荣耀的形像。我们灵里底片上的形像就是瓦器里面的宝贝；不仅如此，这个宝贝是发电机，是属灵能力的源头。没有甚么东西能胜过这个发电机，连八、九节的事情也不例外。
17In 2 Corinthians 4:7 Paul uses yet another metaphor, that of earthen vessels: “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.” When we consider this verse in the light of what Paul says in verse 6, where he speaks of God shining in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ, we realize that the vessel in verse 7 may be likened to a camera. What Paul describes in these verses is actually the experience of spiritual photography. As believers, we can be compared to cameras. The divine light shines through the lens and causes an image, a figure, to be imprinted on the film of our spirit. Originally this film was blank. But now, through the shining of God, the film has the glorious image of Christ imprinted on it. This image on the film of our spirit is the very treasure in the earthen vessel. Furthermore, this treasure is a dynamo, the source of spiritual power. Nothing, including the things described in verses 8 and 9, can defeat this dynamo.
二十一 需要进一步的和好
THE NEED FOR FURTHER RECONCILIATION
18接续二、三、四章的林后五章是非常好的一章圣经。保罗在五章里表明，哥林多的信徒还没有进入保罗在前面几章所说的光景。这就是说，他们还没有进入至圣所，还被第二层幔子阻隔在外面。因此，他们需要进一步与神和好。这就是保罗劝他们与神和好的原因。和好的第二方面乃是叫我们的肉体被撕裂，不再完整。
18Chapter five of 2 Corinthians is an excellent continuation of chapters two, three, and four. In chapter five Paul indicates that the believers at Corinth had not yet entered into the situation described by Paul in the foregoing chapters. This means that they had not yet come into the Holy of Holies; they were still separated from it by the second veil. Thus, they needed further reconciliation. This is the reason Paul entreated them to be reconciled to God. To be reconciled in the second aspect is to have our flesh rent, torn into pieces.
19我们感谢主，叫我们能看见幔子与帘子，也能看见我们的肉体需要裂开，好叫我们能在至圣所里经历神。这些事我们既然看见了，就不能再满意外院子或圣所了。说真的，我们愈看见属灵的事，别的事就愈没有意义了。我们愈享受圣所，就愈不想回到外院子去。只有活在圣所和外院子界线上的人，才会想到离开圣所，回到外院子去。同样的原则，如果我们在至圣所里，也就不可能再退到别的地方去。我们再也不会满意于只住在圣所里。我们在至圣所里所看见的异象，会把我们监禁在至圣所里。
19We thank the Lord for what He has shown us concerning the veil and the screen and concerning the necessity to have the flesh rent so that we may experience God in the Holy of Holies. Having seen these things, we can no longer be content with the outer court or even the Holy Place. In a very real sense, the more we see concerning spiritual things, the more we are spoiled for anything else. The more we enjoy the Holy Place, the less we want to return to the outer court. Only those who live on the border between the Holy Place and the outer court would ever consider leaving the Holy Place and returning to the outer court. In the same principle, if we are in the Holy of Holies, there will be no way for us to go elsewhere. We can never again be content to live in the Holy Place. The vision we see in the Holy of Holies will imprison us.
20赞美主！祂给我们看见两层幔子─内层幔子和帘子，也向我们启示和好的两方面。我们都需要经过两层幔子，经历和好的两方面，好叫我们能进入至圣所，尽情地享受主。
20We praise the Lord for showing us the two veils, the inner veil and the screen, and for revealing the two aspects of reconciliation. We all need to pass through both veils and experience both aspects of reconciliation so that we may enter into the Holy of Holies to enjoy the Lord to the uttermost.