今日真道聖言/2013年6月10日

威斯敏斯特大要理問答

問106：第一誡命中「除了我以外（在我面前）」，這特別要教導我們什麼？

答：第一誡命中「除了我以外」或「在我面前」要教導我們：上帝鑑察萬事萬物，特別注意人們犯「有別神」的罪，對此罪大為不悅。所以，「除了我以外」或「在我面前」此句話是用來阻止我們犯此罪，強調此罪的嚴重，是最卑劣的惹祂憤怒之罪；此句話也勸服我們在祂面前行事為人，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.

問107：第二誡命是什麼？

答：第二誡命是「不可為自己雕刻偶像，也不可作什麼形像，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」。

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.

問108：第二誡命中所要求的責任什麼？

答：第二誡命中所要求的責任是：要接納遵守上帝在祂的聖道中，所制訂的一切有關敬虔崇拜的典章，保持其純全；特別是奉基督的名禱告感謝；聖道的宣讀，傳講，與聆聽；聖禮的施行與領受；教會的治理與勸誡；聖工的進行與維護；敬虔的禁食；奉神的名宣誓，向祂謹守誓言：並且禁止，棄絕，反對一切虛偽的崇拜；按照每個人的處境與呼召，除去虛偽的崇拜，以及所有拜偶像的標誌。

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.

問109：第二誡命中所禁止的罪惡是什麼？

答：第二誡命中所禁止的罪惡是：

（1）任何人為設計，提議，命令，使用，認可的，卻非上帝親自所設立的宗教崇拜；

（2）以我們內心或外在世界中，任何受造物的形像樣式，製造上帝的代表圖像，不論是三位格或其中一位格；崇拜這些圖像，或其中的神，或借著這些圖像來崇拜神；

（3）製造假神的任何圖像，任何敬拜或事奉它們的行為；

（4）以傳統，風俗，敬虔外貌，好意，或任何假冒為藉口，隨著自己的私意杜撰，或由他人傳留下來，所帶來的各樣迷信作法，以增添或刪減方式，腐化了對上帝的崇拜；

（5）買賣聖職，褻瀆不敬，所有疏忽藐視，阻擾反對上帝所定規的崇拜與典章。

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.