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以西結書 27:16

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16 亞蘭人因你的工作很多,就作你的客商;他們用綠寶石、紫色布繡貨、細麻布、珊瑚、紅寶石兌換你的貨物。

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Water generally represents “natural truth,” or true concepts about day-to-day matters and physical things. Since all water ultimately flows into the seas, then, it follows that a sea represents a huge agglomeration of such natural truths -- usually all of the natural truth a person has, or all the natural truth a church has. Water in the sea mixes freely, and is easily stirred up by winds and currents. This is also true of the concepts we hold about natural things -- they are not all related to each other, and when relationships do exist they usually can change without damaging the concepts themselves. Many of the concepts are easily disputed, and arguments can arise like waves on the ocean -- generally with little effect other than a mixing of waters. But the sea also offers great bounty. We draw fish from it (spiritual food), float ships (doctrinal systems) on it, bathe in it (using true concepts to purify ourselves), and the water that evaporates from it and falls as rain (purer forms of truth that can attach to desires for good) makes life possible.

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2327. “脸伏于地下拜” 表谦卑. 这是显而易见的, 无需解释. 在过去, 尤其在代表性教会中, 他们俯伏以致脸伏于地, 是因为脸表人的内在 (358, 1999节). 他们脸伏于地的原因在于, 地上的尘土表亵渎的和被谴责的 (278节). 所以, 他们由此表明这一事实, 凭自己, 他们是亵渎的和被谴责的. 出于同样的原因, 他们脸伏于地, 甚至在尘土和灰中打滚, 扬起尘土和灰落在头上, 这从相关经文可以看出来 (如耶利米哀歌 2:10; 以西结书 27:30; 弥迦书 1:10; 约书亚记 7:6; 启示录 18:19等等).

他们通过这些行为表现真谦卑的状态, 人们若不承认凭自己他们是亵渎的和被谴责的, 因而凭自己无法仰望主, 主那里的一切事物都是神性和神圣的, 就绝不会有这样的表现. 因此, 人越承认自己的状态, 就越具有真谦卑, 在进行敬拜时就越具有真正的虔诚. 一切敬拜中必包含谦卑, 没有谦卑就没有崇拜, 因而没有敬拜可言.

谦卑的状态是敬拜本身必不可少的状态, 原因在于, 内心越谦卑, 我欲及由此而来的一切罪恶越止息, 这一切越止息, 从主而来的良善与真理, 即仁与信就越流入进来. 因为阻碍接受这些事物的, 主要是我欲. 我欲里面含有与自我相比对别人的蔑视, 并且若自我得不到尊敬, 就会报复. 我欲里面还含有无情和残忍, 因而含有最坏的邪恶. 良善与真理绝不会被引入到这些东西中, 因为它们是完全对立的.

  
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