今日真道聖言/2013年5月28日

威斯敏斯特大要理問答

49問：基督在受死的過程中，是如何的降卑自己？

答：基督在受死的過程中降卑自己，在於：

（1）被猶大出賣，遭門徒離棄，被世人譏笑拒絕，遭彼拉多定罪，受逼迫者拷打；

（2）並與死亡的恐怖與黑暗的權勢爭戰，經歷承擔神的震怒；

（3）他舍了自己的生命，作為贖罪祭，忍受了十字架的死亡，這是痛苦，羞辱，咒詛的死亡。

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問：在基督經歷死亡後，是如何的降卑自己？

答：在基督經歷死亡後，降卑自己，在於：

（1）被埋葬，持續在死的狀態中，在死的權勢之下，直到第三日；

（2）如此的經歷，也曾被描述為「降在陰間」

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問：基督升高的狀態包括哪些？

答；基督升高的狀態包括：祂的復活，升天，坐在天父的右邊，以及祂要再來審判世界。

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問：基督在祂的復活中，是如何升高的？

答：基督在祂的復活中升高，在於：

（1）祂經歷死亡而不見朽壞，因為祂原不能被死拘禁；

（2）祂復活的身體，是與祂受苦的身體同一的，具相同的基要屬性，然而此復活身體是不朽壞的，沒有今生人所共有的軟弱，與祂的靈魂真實聯合；

（3）祂以自己的大能在死後第三天復活，以此顯明自己是神的兒子；滿足了神的公義，征服了死亡以及掌死權的惡者，成為活人與死人的主；

（4）祂所作的這一切，都是以立約之代表，教會之元首的身分完成的，為要叫他們稱義，在恩典中活過來，支持他們抵擋仇敵，並保證他們在末日從死里復活。

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.