今日真道圣言/2013年6月10日

威斯敏斯特大要理问答

问106：第一诫命中“除了我以外（在我面前）”，这特别要教导我们什么？

答：第一诫命中“除了我以外”或“在我面前”要教导我们：上帝鉴察万事万物，特别注意人们犯“有别神”的罪，对此罪大为不悦。所以，“除了我以外”或“在我面前”此句话是用来阻止我们犯此罪，强调此罪的严重，是最卑劣的惹祂愤怒之罪；此句话也劝服我们在祂面前行事为人，所作的一切都是事奉祂。

Q. 106. What are we specially taught by these words, before me, in the first commandment?

A. These words, before me, or before my face, in the first commandment, teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh special notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other God: that so it may be an argument to dissuade from it, and to aggravate it as a most impudent provocation: as also to persuade us to do as in his sight, whatever we do in his service.

问107：第二诫命是什么？

答：第二诫命是“不可为自己雕刻偶像，也不可作什么形像，仿佛上天，下地，和地底下水中的百物；不可跪拜那些像，也不可事奉他；因为我耶和华你的上帝，是 忌邪的上帝，恨我的，我必追讨他的罪，自父及子直到三四代；爱我守我诫命的，我必向他们发慈爱直到千代”。

Q. 107. Which is the second commandment?

A. The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: 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.

问108：第二诫命中所要求的责任什么？

答：第二诫命中所要求的责任是：要接纳遵守上帝在祂的圣道中，所制订的一切有关敬虔崇拜的典章，保持其纯全；特别是奉基督的名祷告感谢；圣道的宣读，传讲，与聆听；圣礼的施行与领受；教会的治理与劝诫；圣工的进行与维护；敬虔的禁食；奉神的名宣誓，向祂谨守誓言：并且禁止，弃绝，反对一切虚伪的崇拜；按照每个人的处境与呼召，除去虚伪的崇拜，以及所有拜偶像的标志。

Q. 108. What are the duties required in the second commandment?

A. The duties required in the second commandment are, the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath instituted in his word; particularly prayer and thanksgiving in the name of Christ; the reading, preaching, and hearing of the word; the administration and receiving of the sacraments; church government and discipline; the ministry and maintenance thereof; religious fasting; swearing by the name of God, and vowing unto him: as also the disapproving, detesting, opposing, all false worship; and, according to each one's place and calling, removing it, and all monuments of idolatry.

问109：第二诫命中所禁止的罪恶是什么？

答：第二诫命中所禁止的罪恶是：

（1）任何人为设计，提议，命令，使用，认可的，却非上帝亲自所设立的宗教崇拜；

（2）以我们内心或外在世界中，任何受造物的形像样式，制造上帝的代表图像，不论是三位格或其中一位格；崇拜这些图像，或其中的神，或借着这些图像来崇拜神；

（3）制造假神的任何图像，任何敬拜或事奉它们的行为；

（4）以传统，风俗，敬虔外貌，好意，或任何假冒为借口，随着自己的私意杜撰，或由他人传留下来，所带来的各样迷信作法，以增添或删减方式，腐化了对上帝的崇拜；

（5）买卖圣职，亵渎不敬，所有疏忽藐视，阻扰反对上帝所定规的崇拜与典章。

Q. 109. What sins are forbidden in the second commandment?

A. The sins forbidden in the second commandment are, all devising, counseling, commanding, using, and any wise approving, any religious worship not instituted by God himself; the making any representation of God, of all or of any of the three persons, either inwardly in our mind, or outwardly in any kind of image or likeness of any creature whatsoever; all worshiping of it, or God in it or by it; the making of any representation of feigned deities, and all worship of them, or service belonging to them; all superstitious devices, corrupting the worship of God, adding to it, or taking from it, whether invented and taken up of ourselves, or received by tradition from others, though under the title of antiquity, custom, devotion, good intent, or any other pretense whatsoever; simony; sacrilege; all neglect, contempt, hindering, and opposing the worship and ordinances which God hath appointed.