今日真道聖言/2013年6月11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.

問111：第三誡命是什麼？

答：第三誡命是：「不可妄稱耶和華你上帝的名，因為妄稱耶和華名的，耶和華必不以他為無罪」。

Q. 111. Which is the third commandment?

A. The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

問112：第三誡命所要求的責任是哪些？

答：第三誡命要求的責任是：

（1）在我們的思念，默想，言話，寫作中，都要以聖潔敬畏的態度來稱上帝的名字，名號，屬性，典章，聖道，聖禮，禱告，起誓，許願，搖簽，祂的作為，和一切祂藉以顯明祂自己的事物；

（2）我們要以聖潔的態度宣告信仰，負責的言語交談，使榮耀歸於上帝，使我們與他人都得益處。

Q. 112. What is required in the third commandment?

A. The third commandment requires, that the name of God, his titles, attributes, ordinances, the word, sacraments, prayer, oaths, vows, lots, his works, and whatsoever else there is whereby he makes himself known, be holily and reverently used in thought, meditation, word, and writing; by an holy profession, and answerable conversation, to the glory of God, and the good of ourselves, and others.