今日真道圣言/2013年5月28日

威斯敏斯特大要理问答

49问：基督在受死的过程中，是如何的降卑自己？

答：基督在受死的过程中降卑自己，在于：

（1）被犹大出卖，遭门徒离弃，被世人讥笑拒绝，遭彼拉多定罪，受逼迫者拷打；

（2）并与死亡的恐怖与黑暗的权势争战，经历承担神的震怒；

（3）他舍了自己的生命，作为赎罪祭，忍受了十字架的死亡，这是痛苦，羞辱，咒诅的死亡。

Q. 49. How did Christ humble himself in his death?

A. Christ humbled himself in his death, in that having been betrayed by Judas, forsaken by his disciples, scorned and rejected by the world, condemned by Pilate, and tormented by his persecutors; having also conflicted with the terrors of death, and the powers of darkness, felt and borne the weight of God's wrath, he laid down his life an offering for sin, enduring the painful, shameful, and cursed death of the cross.

50问：在基督经历死亡后，是如何的降卑自己？

答：在基督经历死亡后，降卑自己，在于：

（1）被埋葬，持续在死的状态中，在死的权势之下，直到第三日；

（2）如此的经历，也曾被描述为「降在阴间」

Q. 50. Wherein consisted Christ's humiliation after his death?

A. Christ's humiliation after his death consisted in his being buried, and continuing in the state of the dead, and under the power of death till the third day; which hath been otherwise expressed in these words, He descended into hell.

51问：基督升高的状态包括哪些？

答；基督升高的状态包括：祂的复活，升天，坐在天父的右边，以及祂要再来审判世界。

Q. 51. What was the estate of Christ's exaltation?

A. The estate of Christ's exaltation comprehendeth his resurrection, ascension, sitting at the right hand of the Father, and his coming again to judge the world.

52问：基督在祂的复活中，是如何升高的？

答：基督在祂的复活中升高，在于：

（1）祂经历死亡而不见朽坏，因为祂原不能被死拘禁；

（2）祂复活的身体，是与祂受苦的身体同一的，具相同的基要属性，然而此复活身体是不朽坏的，没有今生人所共有的软弱，与祂的灵魂真实联合；

（3）祂以自己的大能在死后第三天复活，以此显明自己是神的儿子；满足了神的公义，征服了死亡以及掌死权的恶者，成为活人与死人的主；

（4）祂所作的这一切，都是以立约之代表，教会之元首的身分完成的，为要叫他们称义，在恩典中活过来，支持他们抵挡仇敌，并保证他们在末日从死里复活。

Q. 52. How was Christ exalted in his resurrection?

A. Christ was exalted in his resurrection, in that, not having seen corruption in death (of which it was not possible for him to be held), and having the very same body in which he suffered, with the essential properties thereof (but without mortality, and other common infirmities belonging to this life), really united to his soul, he rose again from the dead the third day by his own power; whereby he declared himself to be the Son of God, to have satisfied divine justice, to have vanquished death, and him that had power of it, and to be Lord of quick and dead: all which he did as a public person, the head of his church, for the justification, quickening in grace, support against enemies, and to assure them of their resurrection from the dead at the last day.