哥林多前书 10
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弟兄们，我不愿意你们不晓得，我们的祖宗从前都在云下，都从海中经过，
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并且都吃了一样的灵食，
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也都喝了一样的灵水。所喝的，是出於随着他们的灵磐石；那磐石就是基督。
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但他们中间多半是神不喜欢的人，所以在旷野倒毙。
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这些事都是我们的鉴戒，叫我们不要贪恋恶事，像他们那样贪恋的；
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也不要拜偶像，像他们有人拜的。如经上所记：百姓坐下吃喝，起来玩耍。
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我们也不要行奸淫，像他们有人行的，一天就倒毙了二万三千人；
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也不要试探主（有古卷：基督），像他们有人试探的，就被蛇所灭。
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你们也不要发怨言，像他们有发怨言的，就被灭命的所灭。
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他们遭遇这些事都要作为鉴戒，并且写在经上，正是警戒我们这末世的人。
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所以，自己以为站得稳的，须要谨慎，免得跌倒。
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你们所遇见的试探，无非是人所能受的。神是信实的，必不叫你们受试探过於所能受的；在受试探的时候，总要给你们开一条出路，叫你们能忍受得住。
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我所亲爱的弟兄阿，你们要逃避拜偶像的事。
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我们所祝福的杯，岂不是同领基督的血麽？我们所擘开的饼，岂不是同领基督的身体麽？
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我们虽多，仍是一个饼，一个身体，因为我们都是分受这一个饼。
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你们看属肉体的以色列人，那吃祭物的岂不是在祭坛上有分麽？
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我是怎麽说呢？岂是说祭偶像之物算得甚麽呢？或说偶像算得甚麽呢？
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我乃是说，外邦人所献的祭是祭鬼，不是祭神。我不愿意你们与鬼相交。
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你们不能喝主的杯又喝鬼的杯，不能吃主的筵席又吃鬼的筵席。
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我们可惹主的愤恨麽？我们比他还有能力麽？
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凡事都可行，但不都有益处。凡事都可行，但不都造就人。
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无论何人，不要求自己的益处，乃要求别人的益处。
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凡市上所卖的，你们只管吃，不要为良心的缘故问甚麽话，
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倘有一个不信的人请你们赴席，你们若愿意去，凡摆在你们面前的，只管吃，不要为良心的缘故问甚麽话。
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若有人对你们说：这是献过祭的物，就要为那告诉你们的人，并为良心的缘故不吃。
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我说的良心不是你的，乃是他的。我这自由为甚麽被别人的良心论断呢？
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我若谢恩而吃，为甚麽因我谢恩的物被人毁谤呢？
Apocalypse Explained #626
626. APOCALYPSE. CHAPTER 11.
1. And there was given to me a reed like a staff; and the angel stood near, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2. And the court which is without the temple cast out, and measure it not, for it is given to the nations, and the holy city shall they trample down forty-two months.
3. And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
4. These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands standing before the God of the earth.
5. And if anyone will hurt them, fire shall go forth out of their mouth and shall devour their enemies; and if anyone will hurt them, thus must he be killed.
6. These have power to shut heaven, that the rain rain not in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague as often as they will.
7. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that cometh up out of the abyss shall make war with them and overcome them and kill them.
8. And their bodies shall be upon the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9. And they of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations shall see their bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their bodies to be placed in sepulchers.
10. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and shall be glad, and shall send gifts one to another, because those two prophets tormented them that dwell upon the earth.
11. And after the three days and a half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon them that beheld them.
12. And they heard a great voice out of heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they went up into heaven in the cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13. And in that hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and there were killed in the earthquake names of men seven thousand; and the rest became afraid, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14. The second woe is past; behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
15. And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world are become our Lord's and His Christ's, and He shall reign unto the ages of the ages.
16. And the twenty-four elders who sit before God upon their thrones fell upon their faces and worshiped God,
17. Saying, We give Thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who is, and who was, and who is to come, because Thou hast taken Thy great power and entered upon the kingdom.
18. And the nations were angered, and Thy anger is come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, the prophets and the saints, and to them that fear Thy name, the small and the great, and to destroy them that destroy the earth.
19. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His covenant; and there were lightnings and voices and thunders and an earthquake and great hail.
EXPOSITION
Verses 1, 2. And there was given to me a reed like a staff; and the angel stood near saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. And the court which is without the temple cast out, and measure it not, for it is given to the nations; and the holy city shall they trample down forty-two months.
1. "And there was given to me a reed like a staff," signifies the mode of visitation, that is, of exploring the quality of the church in respect to truth and to good n. 627; "and the angel stood near saying," signifies the Lord's will and command (n. 628); "Rise, measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein," signifies that he should explore the church, what is its quality in respect to the reception of Divine truth and Divine good, and thence in respect to the worship of the Lord. n. 629).
2. "And the court which is without the temple cast out, and measure it not," signifies that the external of the Word, and thence of the church and of worship, is not to be explored n. 630; "for it is given to the nations," signifies since it has been perverted by evils of life and falsities of doctrine n. 631; "and the holy city shall they trample down," signifies that they will destroy all the doctrine of truth and good from the Word n. 632; "forty-two months," signifies even to the end of the old church and the beginning of the new n. 633.
