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馬太福音 9

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1 耶穌上了船,渡過海,來到自己的城裡。

2 有人用褥子抬著一個癱子到耶穌跟前來。耶穌見他們的信心,就對癱子:小子,放心罷!你的罪赦了。

3 有幾個文士心裡:這個人僭妄的話了。

4 耶穌知道他們的心意,就:你們為甚麼心裡懷著惡念呢?

5 :你的罪赦了,或:你起來行走,那一樣容易呢?

6 但要叫你們知道,人子在地上有赦罪的權柄;就對癱子起來!拿你的褥子回家去罷。

7 那人就起來,回家去了。

8 眾人看見都驚奇,就歸榮耀與神,因為他將這樣的權柄賜給人。

9 耶穌從那裡往前走,看見一個人名叫馬太,在稅關上,就對他:你跟從我來。他就起來跟從了耶穌。

10 耶穌在屋裡席的時候,有好些稅吏和罪人,與耶穌和他的門徒一同席。

11 法利賽人看見,就對耶穌的門徒:你們的先生為甚麼和稅吏並罪人一同吃飯呢?

12 耶穌見,就:康健的人用不著醫生,有病的人才用得著。

13 經上說:我喜愛憐恤,不喜愛祭祀。這句話的意思,你們且去揣摩。我本不是召人,乃是召罪人。

14 那時,約翰的門徒來見耶穌,說:我們和法利賽人常常禁食,你的門徒倒不禁食,這是為甚麼呢?

15 耶穌對他們新郎和陪伴之人同在的時候,陪伴之人豈能哀慟呢?但日子將到,新郎要離開他們,那時候他們就要禁食

16 沒有人把新布補在舊衣服上;因為所補上的反帶壞了那衣服,破的就更大了。

17 也沒有人把新酒裝在舊皮袋裡;若是這樣,皮袋就裂開,酒漏出來,連皮袋也壞了。惟獨把新酒裝在新皮袋裡,兩樣就都保全了。

18 耶穌這話的時候,有一個管會堂的拜他,:我女兒剛才死了,求你去按手在他身上,他就必活了。

19 耶穌便起來跟著他去;門徒也跟了去。

20 有一個女人,患了十二年的血漏,來到耶穌背後,摸他的衣裳繸子;

21 因為他心裡:我只摸他的衣裳,就必痊愈。

22 耶穌過來,看見他,就:女兒,放心!你的信救了你。從那時候,女人就痊愈了。

23 耶穌到了管會堂的家裡,看見有吹手,又有許多人亂嚷,

24 :退去罷!這閨女不是死了,是睡著了。他們就嗤笑他。

25 眾人既被攆出,耶穌就進去,拉著閨女的手,閨女便起來了。

26 於是這風聲傳遍了那地方。

27 耶穌從那裡往前走,有兩個瞎子跟著他,喊叫說:大衛的子孫,可憐我們罷!

28 耶穌進了房子,瞎子就到他跟前。耶穌:你們信我能作這事麼?他們:主阿,我們信。

29 耶穌就摸他們的眼睛,:照著你們的信給你們成全了罷。

30 他們的眼睛就開了。耶穌切切的囑咐他們:你們要小心,不可叫人知道。

31 他們出去,竟把他的名聲傳遍了那地方。

32 他們出去的時候,有人將鬼所附的一個吧帶到耶穌跟前來。

33 鬼被趕出去,吧就出話來。眾人都希奇,:在以色列中,從來沒有見過這樣的事。

34 法利賽人:他是靠著鬼王趕鬼。

35 耶穌走遍各城各鄉,在會堂裡教訓人,宣講天國的福音,又醫治各樣的病症。

36 他看見許多的人,就憐憫他們;因為他們困苦流離,如同羊沒有牧人一般。

37 於是對門徒:要收的莊稼多,作工的人少。

38 所以,你們當求莊稼的主打發工人出去收他的莊稼。

   

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Conjugial Love # 41

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41. 7. Spiritual marriage is meant by the Lord's words, that after the resurrection they are not given in marriage. In the Gospels we read the following:

Some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection..., asked Jesus, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote...that if anyone's brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.... There were seven brothers, (and one after another they took her as wife, but they died childless).... Lastly...the woman died also. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of them does she become...?"

But Jesus, answering, said to them, "The children of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who shall be held worthy to attain the second age, and the resurrection from the dead, shall neither marry nor be given in marriage; nor can they die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. Moreover, that the dead rise again, even Moses showed in reference to the bush, when he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' So, then, He is not God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him." (Luke 20:27-38; cf. Matthew 22:23-32, Mark 12:18-27)

The Lord taught two things by these words. First, that a person rises again after death. And secondly, that people are not given in marriage in heaven.

He taught that a person rises again after death by saying that God is not God of the dead but of the living, and that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are still alive. So likewise in the parable about the rich man in hell and Lazarus in heaven (Luke 16:19-31).

[2] Secondly, He taught that people are not given in marriage in heaven by saying that those who are held worthy to attain the second age neither marry nor are given in marriage.

The only kind of marriage meant here is spiritual marriage, and this clearly appears from the words that immediately follow, that they cannot die any more because they are like the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

By spiritual marriage, conjunction with the Lord is meant, and this is achieved on earth. And when it has been achieved on earth, it has also been achieved in heaven. Therefore in heaven the marriage does not take place again, nor are people given in marriage. This, too, is meant by the words, "The children of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are held worthy to attain the second age neither marry nor are given in marriage."

Such persons are also called by the Lord, "children of the wedding" 1 (Matthew 9:15, Mark 2:19), and here, "angels," "children of God," and "children of the resurrection."

[3] To marry means to be conjoined with the Lord, and to go to a wedding means to be received into heaven by the Lord. This appears from the following references:

The kingdom of heaven is like a man, a king, who arranged a wedding for his son, and sent out his servants (with invitations to a wedding). (Matthew 22:2,3, to verse 14)

The kingdom of heaven is like ten virgins, who...went out to meet the bridegroom (five of whom were prepared to go to the wedding). (Matthew 25:1 ff.)

The Lord meant Himself in this passage, which is apparent from the thirteenth verse there, where it says,

Stay awake..., because you know not the day and the hour in which the Son of Man will come. (Matthew 25:13)

Also from the book of Revelation:

The time for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.... Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. (Revelation 19:7,9)

There is a spiritual meaning in each and every thing the Lord said, and this we fully showed in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture (published in Amsterdam in 1763).

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1. Actually, "children of the bridechamber."

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.