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马太福音 11

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1 耶稣吩咐完了十二个门徒,就离开那里,往各城去传道,教训人。

2 约翰在监里基督所作的事,就打发两个门徒去,

3 问他:那将要的是你麽?还是我们等候别人呢?

4 耶稣回答:你们去,把所见,所看见的事告诉约翰。

5 就是瞎子看见,瘸子行走,长大麻风的洁净,聋子见,死人复活,穷人有福音传给他们。

6 凡不因我跌倒的就有福了!

7 他们走的时候,耶稣就对众人讲论约翰:你们从前出到旷野是要看甚麽呢?要看风吹动的芦苇麽?

8 你们出去到底是要看甚麽?要看穿细软衣服的人麽?那穿细软衣服的人是在王宫里。

9 你们出去究竟是为甚麽?是要看先知麽?我告诉你们,是的,他比先知大多了。

10 经上记着:我要差遣我的使者在你前面预备道路,所的就是这个人。

11 我实在告诉你们,凡妇人所生的,没有一个兴起来大过施洗约翰的;然而国里最小的比他还大。

12 从施洗约翰的时候到如今,国是努力进入的,努力的人就得着了。

13 因为众先知和律法说预言,到约翰为止。

14 你们若肯领受,这人就是那应当的以利亚。

15 有耳可的,就应当

16 我可用甚麽比这世代呢?好像孩童在街市上招呼同伴,说:

17 我们向你们吹笛,你们不跳舞;我们向你们举哀,你们不捶胸。

18 约翰了,也不吃也不喝,人就他是被鬼附着的;

19 人子了,也吃也喝,人又他是贪食好酒的人,是税吏和罪人的朋友。但智慧之子总以智慧为是(有古卷:但智慧在行为上就显为是)。

20 耶稣在诸城中行了许多异能,那些城的人终不悔改,就在那时候责备他们,

21 哥拉汛哪,你有了!伯赛大阿,你有了!因为在你们中间所行的异能,若行在推罗、西顿,他们早已披麻蒙灰悔改了。

22 但我告诉你们,当审判的日子,推罗、西顿所受的,比你们还容易受呢!

23 迦百农阿,你已经升到上(或作:你将要升到上麽),将来必坠落阴间;因为在你那里所行的异能,若行在所多玛,他还可以存到今日。

24 但我告诉你们,当审判的日子,所多玛所受的,比你还容易受呢!

25 那时,耶稣:父阿,地的主,我感谢你!因为你将这些事向聪明通达人就藏起来,向婴孩就显出来。

26 父阿,是的,因为你的美意本是如此。

27 一切所有的,都是我父交付我的;除了父,没有人知道子;除了子和子所愿意指示的,没有人知道父。

28 凡劳苦担重担的人可以到我这里来,我就使你们得安息。

29 我心里柔和谦卑,你们当负我的轭,学我的样式;这样,你们心里就必得享安息。

30 因为我的轭是容易的,我的担子是轻省的。

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 678

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678. And gave glory to the God of heaven, signifies that they acknowledged and worshipped the Lord. This is evident from the signification of "giving glory" or of "glorifying," as being to acknowledge and worship (of which presently); also from the signification of "the God of heaven," as being the Lord. That the Lord is the God of heaven He Himself made clear when He was in the world and when He departed out of the world. When He was in the world He said in John:

The Father hath given all things into the hand of the Son (John 3:35).

The Father hath given to the Son power over all flesh (John 17:2).

And in Matthew:

All things have been delivered unto Me by the Father (Matthew 11:27).

And when He departed out of the world He said to the disciples:

All power hath been given unto Me in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18).

From this it is clear that the Lord is the God of heaven.

[2] "To give glory" means to acknowledge and worship the Lord, because "to give glory" signifies that to Him alone glory belongs because He is the God of heaven and earth, and at the same time to acknowledge that all things of the church are from Him, thus all salvation and eternal life. From this it follows that "to give glory" and "to glorify," in reference to God, mean to worship and to adore Him. In reference to the Lord, "glory" properly signifies in the Word the Divine truth proceeding from Him, for the reason that this Divine truth is the light of heaven, and from that light angels and men have not only all their intelligence and wisdom, but also all their happiness, and besides this, all magnificence in the heavens, which is ineffable; these, therefore, are what are properly signified by "the glory of God;" and because Divine truth is glory it follows that "the glory of the Lord" means to enlighten angels and men, and to bestow intelligence and wisdom, and to bless with felicities and delights, and also to make magnificent all things in the heavens, and that this glory is not from the love of glory, but from love towards the human race. This is why the Lord says in John:

Herein is My Father glorified that ye may bear much fruit, and may become My disciples (John 15:8);

again:

The words which Thou hast given Me I have given unto them, and I am glorified in them (John 17:8, 10).

[3] That this is the glory of the Lord can be seen from this, that the light of heaven, from which is all wisdom, beauty, and magnificence in the heavens, proceeds from the Lord as a sun, and it is the Lord's Divine love that appears to the angels as a sun. From this it is clear that the light of heaven, which in its essence is Divine truth and Divine wisdom, is the Divine love proceeding; and as love desires nothing else than to give that which is its own to another, thus to fill others with blessedness, what will not the Divine love do? Nevertheless, the Lord cannot give His glory to anyone and fill him with wisdom and blessedness unless he acknowledges and worships the Lord, for it is by this that man conjoins himself to the Lord by love and faith; for in order that acknowledgment and worship may be acknowledgment and worship, it must be from love and faith; and without conjunction by means of these no good can flow in from the Lord, because it is not received. All this makes clear that "to give glory to the God of heaven" means to acknowledge and worship the Lord.

[4] That "glory" signifies the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord, and that the Lord's glory with man is the reception of Divine truth, may be seen above (n. 33, 345). That the Lord's glorification is from the Lord Himself, and that with men and angels it is the reception and acknowledgment that every good and truth and everything of salvation and life is from the Lord, may also be seen above n. 288.

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