今日真道聖言/2013年11月9日

威斯敏斯特大要理問答

問110：第二誡命列舉甚麼理由，使我們更要遵行它？

答：第二誡命所列舉的理由，使我們更要遵行它，是包含在以下的話：「因為我耶和華你的上帝，是忌邪的上帝，恨我的，我必追討他的罪，自父及子，直到三四代；愛我守我誡命的，我必向他們發慈愛，直到千代」。

（1）上帝的主權在我們之上，我們屬於祂；祂為屬於祂的崇拜極其熱心，祂恨惡一切虛假的崇拜，因為這些是屬靈方面的淫亂，必遭致祂的義怒刑罰；

（2）祂將凡違背此誡命者，視為恨祂的；祂警告必追討他們的罪，直到數代；

（3）祂將凡遵行此誡命者，視為愛祂守祂誡命的；祂應許賜憐憫給他們，直到許多代。

Q. 110. What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it?

A. The reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it, contained in these words, For I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments; are, besides God's sovereignty over us, and propriety in us, his fervent zeal for his own worship, and his revengeful indignation against all false worship, as being a spiritual whoredom; accounting the breakers of this commandment such as hate him, and threatening to punish them unto divers generations; and esteeming the observers of it such as love him and keep his commandments, and promising mercy to them unto many generations.