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出埃及记生命读经 · 第155篇

赎罪银（三）

The propitiation silver (3)
1读经： 出埃及记三十章十一至十六节；三十六章二十五至二十八节；民数记一章四十五至四十六节；二章三十二节。
1Scripture Reading: Exo. 30:11-16; 36:25-28; Num. 1:45-46; 2:32
2没有赎罪银，神的居所就无法建造起来。不但如此，没有赎罪银，神的居所也无法行动。赎罪银为带卯的座、柱顶、柱子上的钩子和杆子提供了材料。赎罪银也关联到 数点二十岁以上的男丁，他们要被征召，编组成为军队，为着神在地上的行动争战。
2Without the propitiation silver, God’s dwelling place could not be built up. Furthermore, apart from the propitiation silver, there was no way for God’s dwelling place to move. The propitiation silver provided the material for the sockets, the caps, the hooks, and the fillets of the pillars. The propitiation silver was also related to the numbering of the males twenty years of age and over to be drafted to form the army to fight for God’s move on earth.
半舍客勒作为记念
A half-shekel for a memorial
3有些圣经教师误解了赎罪银的意义，说它不过是基督救赎的豫表。表面看来，赎罪银的确是豫表基督的救赎。但为着基督救赎的初步经历，我们不需要付出甚么。然而，论到出埃及记三十章里的赎罪银，凡被数点的都必须纳银子半舍客勒。
3Some teachers of the Bible misinterpret the significance of the propitiation silver and say that it is simply a type of Christ’s redemption. Apparently the propitiation silver does typify the redemption of Christ. But for the initial experience of Christ’s redemption, we do not need to pay anything. However, concerning the propitiation silver in Exodus 30, all those who were numbered were required to pay a half-shekel of silver.
4后来在以色列人中间，这半舍客勒就成为众所周知的丁税。马太十七章二十四至二十七节就是说到这件事。二十四节说：“到了迦百农，有收半舍客勒的人来见彼得说，你们的先生不纳半舍客勒么？”（另译。）这半舍客勒就是三十章十二至十六节里为着神居所的丁税。在马太十七章我们看见，出埃及记写好一千五百年后，三十章十二至十六节里的条例已经成了与纳丁税、人头税有关的定例。根据出埃及记三十章，凡二十岁以上的男丁都必须纳半舍客勒。这的确不仅仅是基督救赎的一个豫表而已。
4Later, among the children of Israel, this half-shekel was known as the poll tax. Matthew 17:24-27 refers to this. Verse 24 says, “And when they came to Capernaum, those who received the half-shekel came to Peter and said, Does not your teacher pay the half-shekel?” This half-shekel was the poll tax for God’s dwelling place in 30:12-16. In Matthew 17 we see that, fifteen hundred years after the book of Exodus was written, the regulation in 30:12-16 had become a statute related to the paying of the poll tax, the head tax. According to chapter thirty of Exodus, the half-shekel had to be paid by every male twenty years of age and older. Surely this is more than simply a type of the redemption of Christ.
5出埃及记三十章里所纳的半舍客勒乃是一种税。原则上，它有几分像今天的所得税。神用这种税来完成两件事。首先，神用这种税来征收银子，为着帐幕的建造。从出埃及记三十八章二十五至二十八节我们晓得，由赎罪银这项税收所得的银子，用来为帐幕的柱子作了一百个带卯的座，也作了柱顶、钩子和杆子。其次，神用这项税收完成了军队的编组。因此，神藉着纳半舍客勒银子，作了两件事：帐幕的建造和军队的 编组。
5The payment of the half-shekel in Exodus 30 was a kind of tax. In principle, it was somewhat similar to today’s income tax. This tax was used by God to accomplish two things. First, God used this tax to collect silver for the building up of the tabernacle. From Exodus 38:25-28 we learn that the silver from this tax, the propitiation silver, was used to make the hundred sockets for the pillars of the tabernacle and also to make the caps, the hooks, and the fillets. Second, God used this tax to accomplish the formation of an army. Therefore, through the single matter of the half-shekel payment God did something for the building of the tabernacle and the formation of the army.
6赎罪银与基督的救赎有关，但它不是救赎的直接豫表，因为在这个豫表里没有血。因着没有血，银子实际上就与基督的死无关。反之，赎罪银所豫表的基督乃是被高举的一位、升天的一位，而不是钉十字架的一位。凡是被数点编组成为神军队的人所纳的银子，都当作举祭。出埃及记三十章十四节说：“凡过去归那些被数的人，从二十岁以外的，要将这举祭奉给耶和华。”（另译。）举祭乃是表征升天里的基督。
6The propitiation silver is related to Christ’s redemption, but it is not a direct type of redemption, for in this type there is no blood. Because there is no blood, the silver is not actually related to the death of Christ. Rather, the Christ typified by the propitiation silver is the uplifted One, the ascended One, not the crucified One. All the silver paid in by those numbered to form God’s army was regarded as a heave offering. Exodus 30:14 says, “Every one passing over unto those that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the heave offering of Jehovah.” The heave offering signifies Christ in ascension.
7这个献给神的举祭不是为着救赎，而是作为记念。十六节说：“可以在耶和华面前为以色列人作记念，赎生命。”记念是一件可悦的事。在神看来，被征召入神军队的 以色列人所纳的半舍客勒，乃是一种记念。
7This heave offering was offered to God not for redemption but for a memorial. Verse 16 says, “It shall be a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah to make propitiation for your souls.” A memorial is a pleasant matter. In the sight of God, the half-shekel paid by the children of Israel drafted into His army was a memorial.
对基督最高的经历
The highest experience of Christ
8我们已经强调，惟有二十岁以上的男丁才能彀纳赎罪银。从属灵上说，这表明我们都必须长大。倘若我们没有长大，达到二十岁，我们就没有资格被征召入军队，为着神在地上的行动争战。在有些国家里，青年人也许害怕被征召入伍，就盼望能彀不到役龄。他们因为害怕被征召入伍，他们就不想长大。在属灵的生命上，许多信徒的长大受到拦阻。也许他们相当老了，看起来却好像侏儒；他们没有在生命里长大。我们盼望在主的恢复里，我们中间没有侏儒。我盼望别人问起我们几岁时，更多的人能彀说，就属灵而论，我们已经满了二十岁，有资格纳半舍客勒了。最终，我们都应当能说：“赞美主，在属灵的生命上，我不再是个十几岁的人！我已经过了二十岁，有资格纳半舍客勒，并且彀资格被征召入神的军队。”
8We have emphasized the fact that the propitiation silver could be paid only by males twenty years of age and upward. This indicates that, spiritually speaking, we all need to grow up. If we do not grow up and reach the age of twenty, we shall not be qualified to be drafted into the army to fight for God’s move on earth. In some countries the young people may be afraid of being drafted and wish that they could stay under draft age. Because they are afraid of the military draft, they do not want to grow up. In the spiritual life many believers have their growth stunted. Although they may be rather old, it seems that they are dwarfs. They have not grown in life. We hope that among us in the Lord’s recovery there will not be any dwarfs. I hope that more and more of us will be able to say when we are asked how old we are, spiritually speaking, that we have reached the age of twenty and are qualified to pay the half-shekel. Eventually, we all should be able to say, “Praise the Lord that in the spiritual life I am no longer a teenager! I am past the age of twenty, and I am qualified to pay the half-shekel and be drafted into God’s army.”
9半舍客勒的意义是甚么？它豫表甚么？半舍客勒是豫表升天里的基督，不是豫表道成肉身的基督、钉十字架的基督，甚至也不是豫表复活的基督。作为举祭的赎罪银乃是升天基督的豫表。
9What is the significance of the half-shekel? What does it typify? The half-shekel typifies Christ in ascension. It does not typify the incarnated Christ, the crucified Christ, nor even the resurrected Christ. The propitiation silver as a heave offering is a type of the ascended Christ.
10我们要纳半舍客勒，对基督的经历必须达到最高点，就是与祂一同坐在诸天界里。这便是对基督最高的经历。我们必须经历这样的一位基督，才有作为半舍客勒的基督。换句话说，半舍客勒银子表征我们经历了升天的基督，当作丁税来缴纳。
10In order for us to pay the half-shekel, our experience of Christ must reach the highest point, the point where we are sitting with Him in the heavenlies. This is the highest experience of Christ. We need to experience such a Christ in order to have Him as the half-shekel. In other words, the half-shekel of silver signifies the ascended Christ experienced by us and paid by us as the poll tax.
11半舍客勒银子是表征我们经历的基督是升天的那一位。我们在聚会中，必须是在天上。不然，我们就不能尽功用。每当我们没有与基督一同在天上，我们就无法在聚会中尽功用。当我们合式地尽功用时，我们就真在升天的基督里了。
11The half-shekel of silver signifies our experience of Christ as the ascended One. When we are in the meetings, we need to be in the heavens. Otherwise, we shall not be able to function. Whenever we are not with Christ in the heavens, we cannot function in the meetings. When we function properly, we are truly in the ascended Christ.
每一个人都必须纳这个税额
Each one required to pay the amount
12现在我们必须接着找出，何以富足的和贫穷的都必须出半舍客勒。富足的不必多出，贫穷的也不得少出。十五节说：“他们为赎生命将举祭献给耶和华。富足的不可多出，贫穷的也不可少出，各人要出半舍客勒。”（另译。）每一个纳税的人都必须出同样的税额，就是半舍客勒。
12Now we need to go on to find out why the rich and the poor alike were to pay a half-shekel. The rich were not required to pay more, and the poor were not allowed to pay less. Verse 15 says, “The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give the heave offering of Jehovah to make propitiation for your souls.” Everyone who paid this tax was to pay the same amount, a half-shekel.
13照三十章十三节来看，一舍客勒是二十季拉，所以半舍客勒就是十季拉。再者，十季拉等于一比加。半舍客勒、十季拉、一比加，都是表征同样的数量。神只要求祂的百姓纳半舍客勒。
13According to 30:13, a shekel was twenty gerahs. A half-shekel, therefore, was ten gerahs. Furthermore, ten gerahs were equal to one bekah. A half shekel, ten gerahs, and one bekah all signify the same quantity. God required that His people pay only a half-shekel.
14在马太十七章，有收丁税的人来问彼得说，他的先生纳不纳半舍客勒。彼得没有到主那里去问半舍客勒的这个问题，就回答说，他的夫子的确要纳丁税。这显示出彼得忘了他在变化山上所看见的异象。在马太十七章五节，有声音从云彩里出来说：“这是我的爱子，我所喜悦的；你们要听祂！”父告诉门徒说，不要听从摩西或以利亚，他们分别代表律法和先知；倒要听从神活的儿子基督。父似乎在说：“别管摩西说甚么，以利亚说甚么，只要留心我儿子所说的，你们要听祂！”虽然彼得听见了从云彩里出来的声音，但他下山的时候，却没有通过收丁税之人的试验。事实上，彼得当时并不懂山上所发生的是怎么一回事。
14When the gatherers of the poll tax came to Peter in Matthew 17, they asked Peter if his master paid the half-shekel. Instead of going to the Lord for the answer to the question concerning the half-shekel, Peter answered that his Teacher did pay the poll tax. This indicates that Peter forgot the vision he had seen on the mount of transfiguration. In Matthew 17:5 the voice out of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I delight; hear Him!” The Father was telling the disciples not to listen to Moses or Elijah, who, respectively, represented the law and the prophets, but to listen to Christ, the living Son of God. It seems that the Father was saying, “Don’t care for what Moses says or for what Elijah says. Only care for what My Son says. Hear Him!” Although Peter had heard the voice out of the cloud, when he came down from the mountain he failed the test with the gatherers of the poll tax. Actually, Peter at that time did not understand what had happened on the mountain.
15那些收丁税的人想要知道，主耶稣是不是要照着摩西所说的纳半舍客勒。如果彼得懂得他在山上所听见的，就会回答说：“不，我的夫子不需要纳税。”因着彼得还受传统的影响，他就回答说：“纳。”我们也和彼得一样，仍然太受宗教传统的影响。
15Those who collected the poll tax wanted to know if the Lord Jesus paid the half-shekel according to what Moses said. If Peter had understood what he had heard on the mountain, he would have answered, “No, it is not necessary for my Teacher to pay this tax.” Because Peter was still under the influence of tradition, he answered the question with a yes. Like Peter, we are also still too much under the influence of religious tradition.
16马太十七章二十五节说：“他进了屋子，耶稣先向他说，西门，你的意思如何？世上的君王，向谁征收关税丁税？是向自己的儿子呢，是向外人呢？”事实上，主是对彼得说了责备的话。主似乎是说：“彼得，你忘了你在变化山上所听见的。我是那圣殿所有人的儿子，我是君王的儿子，所以我不需要纳甚么税。”
16Matthew 17:25 says, “And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive custom or poll tax, from their sons or from strangers?” The Lord was actually giving Peter a word of rebuke. The Lord seemed to be saying, “Peter, you have forgotten what you heard on the mountain. I am the Son of the One who owns the temple. I am the Son of the King. Therefore, I don’t need to pay any tax.”
17彼得也许因着主的问题愣住了。他可能对自己说：“现在我该怎么办？我告诉外面的人说，夫子要纳半舍客勒，他们还在门外等着收税，但主清楚地向我表示，祂不需要纳税。”可是，照马太十七章二十七节来看，主还接着说：“但恐怕触犯他们，你且往海边去钓鱼，把先钓上来的鱼拿起来，开了他的口，必得一块钱，可以拿去给他们，作你我的税银。”当主纠正并教导彼得时，同时也顾到了他的需要。主对付我们 的方式总是这样。
17Peter may have been shocked by the Lord’s answer. Perhaps he said to himself, “What shall I do now? I told those outside that my Teacher paid the half-shekel, and they are still outside the door waiting for the payment. But the Lord has made it clear to me that He does not need to pay the tax.” However, according to Matthew 17:27, the Lord went on to say, “But that we may not stumble them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel; take that and give it to them for Me and you.” While the Lord was correcting and teaching Peter, He took care of his need. This is always the Lord’s way in dealing with us.
18赎罪银的数额是半舍客勒，表明主在这件事上对我们的要求并不太高。照样，在聚会中尽功用的要求也不很高，只要每一个参加聚会的人出半舍客勒就彀了。我们要被征召入属天的军队，也只需要纳半舍客勒的税。由神的观点来看，这个税额并不很高。
18The fact that the amount of the propitiation silver was a half-shekel indicates that God’s requirement of us in this matter is not too high. The requirement of functioning in the meetings is likewise not very high; it is only a half-shekel from each one attending the meeting. The tax that must be paid in order for us to be drafted into the heavenly army is also just a half-shekel. From God’s point of view, the amount of this tax is not very high.
19虽然税额只是半舍客勒，但也是十季拉。十这个数字既是表征完全，十季拉就表明纳足了税，没有短缺。此外，半舍客勒也等于一比加，是完全的单位。所以纳半舍客 勒就意味着纳得十足完全。
19Although the amount of the tax was only a half-shekel, it was also ten gerahs. Since the number ten signifies fullness, the ten gerahs indicate that the tax involved a payment in full. There was no deficiency. Furthermore, the half-shekel was equal to one bekah, a complete unit. Therefore, the payment of the half-shekel involved a payment that was full and complete.
20神关乎赎罪银的命令是：富足的不可多出，贫穷的也不可少出，各人要出半舍客勒。这完全与今天基督徒中间一般的作法相对。今天基督徒的作法是多多益善。那些富足的、属灵大汉所出的比神所要求的还多，而贫穷的甚么都不出。结果在所谓的事奉里面，就有了圣品与凡俗的阶级。少数人包办说话，大部分的人甚么也不说。
20God’s command that, concerning the propitiation silver, the rich not pay more than a half-shekel and the poor not pay less is altogether against the common practice among today’s Christians. This practice is that the more someone puts in, the better. Those who are rich, the spiritual giants, pay more than God requires, and the poor do not pay anything. The result is that in the so-called services there is the system of clergy-laity. A few do all the speaking, and the majority of the people do not say anything.
21我愿对我们中间领头的和能说善道的人讲一句警告的话：不要以为你很富足，所以在聚会中所纳的比半舍客勒多。我也要对那些不善发表，然而就属灵而论，已过了二十岁的人说一句话：你必须出半舍客勒，少一点也不可以。
21I would like to say a word of warning to the leading ones among us and to those who are good speakers: Do not think that because you are rich you should pay more than a half-shekel in the meetings. I would also say a word to those who are not good speakers, yet who, spiritually speaking, are above the age of twenty: You need to pay a half-shekel, nothing less.
22主恨恶尼哥拉一党人的行为；祂恨恶属灵大汉成为圣品阶级，而其他的圣徒成为平信徒。出埃及记三十章里赎罪银的豫表的确能彀这样来解释并应用。因着今天基督徒中间圣品与凡俗的阶级，就没有人口调查，也没有征兵入伍。
22The Lord hates the deeds of the Nicolaitans. He hates that the giants would become a clergy, and that the other saints would become laymen. The type of the propitiation silver in Exodus 30 certainly can be interpreted and applied in this way. Because of the system of clergy and laity among today’s Christians, there is no census, no draft.
23领头的人要谨慎，你们在聚会中所纳丁税的数额不要多于半舍客勒。即使神使你丰富─要为此感谢祂─你也必须受约束，不可在聚会中多纳税，要把说话的机会留给别人。那些自认为贫穷、软弱的人，至少也有半舍客勒。
23Leading ones, be careful that the amount of the poll tax you pay in the meetings is not more than a half-shekel. Even though you have been enriched by God — thank Him for this — you need to be limited and not pay so much tax in the meetings. Leave opportunity for others to speak. Those who regard themselves as poor and weak at least have a half-shekel.
24那些说自己没有半舍客勒的人应当受到鼓励，要在每一个聚会中得着半舍客勒好付出去。不然照圣经来看，他们就要被剪除。那些不纳所得税的人也许会被判刑入狱。同样的原则，不纳半舍客勒税银的人也要被剪除。今天许多基督徒因着没有纳税而“入狱”。
24Those who say that they do not have a half-shekel should be encouraged to gain a half-shekel to pay in each meeting. Otherwise, according to the Bible they will be cut off. Those who do not pay their income tax may be sentenced to jail. In the same principle, those believers who do not pay the half-shekel tax will be cut off. Many Christians today have been “jailed” because they have not paid their tax.
在每一个聚会中纳半舍客勒
Paying the half-shekel in every meeting
25一个正当的聚会，一个活泼、丰富、平衡的聚会，乃是人人都纳半舍客勒的聚会。 但今天的光景乃是：有些富足的人摆上几百万舍客勒，而多半的基督徒一点也不纳。这是今天基督徒的光景，这可能也是我们中间的光景。
25A proper meeting, a meeting that is living, rich, and balanced, is one in which each one pays the half-shekel. But the situation today is that certain rich ones may put in millions of shekels, whereas most of the Christians do not pay anything at all. This is the situation of today’s Christians, and it may also be the situation among us.
26我很关心领头的人在聚会中纳得太多。倘若领头的人纳得太多，他们就会杀死聚会。另一方面，许多圣徒所纳的也许比半舍客勒少，还有些人甚么也不付。每当你来到教会的聚会中，总该摆上你的半舍客勒。这不是很大的要求。事实上你只需要出半舍客勒，然而这半舍客勒乃是十足的摆上，完全的单位，因为它是十季拉，一比加。我渴望看见众圣徒都出半舍客勒的聚会。
26I am concerned that in the meetings the leading ones are paying too much. If the leading ones pay too much, they will kill the meetings. On the other hand, many of the saints may pay less than a half-shekel, and some may not pay anything. Whenever you come to a church meeting, you should put in your half-shekel. This is not a great requirement. Actually you need to pay just a half-shekel, yet this half-shekel is a full payment and a complete unit, for it is ten gerahs and one bekah. I long to see meetings where all the saints pay the half-shekel.
27最近在教会聚会中多付与少付的问题深深困扰着我。除了擘饼聚会以外，在大多数的聚会中，有些人付得太多─多于半舍客勒，有些人付得太少─少于半舍客勒。当然，我们不能责备那些未满二十岁的人甚么也不付。纳税过多的那班人也许像团体的牧师一般尽功用，而其余的与会者就好像平信徒一样。这种光景一直使我为难。这不是主的恢复，也不是为着编组军队的人口调查。
27Recently I have been deeply bothered by the matter of overpayment and underpayment in the church meetings. With the exception of the Lord’s table meeting, in most meetings some pay too much — more than a half-shekel — and others pay too little — less than a half shekel. Of course, we cannot blame those who spiritually are under the age of twenty for not paying anything. A group of those who pay too much tax may function like a corporate pastor, and the rest of the attendants may be like laymen. This kind of situation bothers me. This is not the Lord’s recovery, and this is not the census for the formation of the army.
28我们都需要长大，并且经历基督到神所要求的标准。然后这半舍客勒不可用我们自己的平，而须用圣所的平来秤量。因这缘故，十三节把舍客勒称为圣所的舍客勒（另译），按着神的圣洁标准量出。至少，我们必须经历基督到一个程度，有足彀的银子来纳我们属灵的丁税，为着人口调查，也为着征兵入伍。
28We all need to grow and experience Christ to the standard required by God. Then the half-shekel must be weighed not by our own balance but by the balance in the sanctuary. For this reason, in verse 13 the shekel is called the shekel of the sanctuary, a shekel weighed according to God’s holy standard. At the least, we need to experience Christ to the extent that we have enough silver to pay our spiritual poll tax for the census, for the draft.
29如果我们在每一个聚会中都纳半舍客勒，我们的聚会就会多么刚强、活泼、丰富、拔高、优越、美妙。我再说，属灵生命上非常幼嫩的人不需要纳半舍客勒。就属灵说，他们是小孩子。我们中间有这样幼嫩的人是正常的。但所有二十岁以上的人都必须纳半舍客勒。这乃是为着军队的编组。
29If we all pay the half-shekel in each meeting, how strong, living, rich, uplifted, excellent, and wonderful our meetings will be. Again I say that those who are very young in the spiritual life are not required to pay the half-shekel. Spiritually speaking, they are children or teenagers. It is normal to have such young ones among us. But all those over the age of twenty are required to pay the half-shekel. This is for the formation of the army.
为着神的行动争战
Fighting for God’s move
30当军队出去与仇敌争战的时候，我们不会差遣刚学走路的小孩、学龄儿童或十几岁的少年。反之，我们会在家里维护他们的安全。然而，满了二十岁的人就必须出去争战。事实上，每一个聚会都是一场争战。我们必须晓得，每一个聚会都是为着神的行动争战。
30When the army goes forth to fight the enemy, we do not send the toddlers, school-age children, or teenagers. Rather, we would keep them safe and protected at home. Those who are twenty and upward, however, must go forth to fight. Actually, every meeting is a fight. We need to realize that every meeting is a fight for God’s move.
31现在我们应当清楚了，赎罪银乃是为着神居所的建造，也是为着神见证的行动。以后我们会看见，神的居所建造起来以后，赎罪银最终要用来当作维护费的。
31By now we should be clear that the propitiation silver is for the building up of God’s dwelling place and also for the move of God’s testimony. Eventually, as we shall see later on, after God’s dwelling place had been built, the propitiation silver served as the maintenance fee.