4229. 第32章
最后的审判 (续)
我们从第三卷 (系指拉丁文的第3卷) 开始解释主在马太福音 24章关于最后审判的预言. 这些解释被放在了那一卷最后几章的开头部分, 目前已解释到31节 (参看3353-3356, 3486-3489, 3650-3655, 3897-3901, 4056-4060节).
概括地说, 主的这些预言的内义从所给出的解释很清楚看出来, 即祂预言了教会的逐渐毁灭和最终一个新教会的建立, 其次序如下:
⑴教会成员不再知道何为良善与真理, 反而开始彼此争论它们.
⑵他们蔑视它们.
⑶他们从心里不承认它们.
⑷他们亵渎它们.
⑸由于信之真理和爱之良善仍存留在某些被称为 “选民” 的人当中, 故经上描述了那时信之真理所具有的状态.
⑹然后描述了仁的状态.
⑺最后论述了一个新教会的开始, 由最后所解释的那些话来表示, 即:
祂要差遣祂的使者, 用号筒的大声, 将祂的选民从四风, 从天这边到天那边, 都招聚了来. (马太福音 24:31)
这些话表示一个新教会的开始 (参看4060末尾节).
1
耶稣出了圣殿，正走的时候，门徒进前来，把殿宇指给他看。
2
耶稣对他们说：你们不是看见这殿宇麽？我实在告诉你们，将来在这里没有一块石头留在石头上，不被拆毁了。
3
耶稣在橄榄山上坐着，门徒暗暗的来说：请告诉我们，甚麽时候有这些事？你降临和世界的末了有甚麽豫兆呢？
5
因为将来有好些人冒我的名来，说：我是基督，并且要迷惑许多人。
6
你们也要听见打仗和打仗的风声，总不要惊慌；因为这些事是必须有的，只是末期还没有到。
7
民要攻打民，国要攻打国；多处必有饥荒、地震。
8
这都是灾难（灾难：原文是生产之难）的起头。
9
那时，人要把你们陷在患难里，也要杀害你们；你们又要为我的名被万民恨恶。
10
那时，必有许多人跌倒，也要彼此陷害，彼此恨恶；
12
只因不法的事增多，许多人的爱心才渐渐冷淡了。
14
这天国的福音要传遍天下，对万民作见证，然後末期才来到。
15
你们看见先知但以理所说的那行毁坏可憎的站在圣地（读这经的人须要会意）。
17
在房上的，不要下来拿家里的东西；
18
在田里的，也不要回去取衣裳。
20
你们应当祈求，叫你们逃走的时候，不遇见冬天或是安息日。
21
因为那时必有大灾难，从世界的起头直到如今，没有这样的灾难，後来也必没有。
22
若不减少那日子，凡有血气的总没有一个得救的；只是为选民，那日子必减少了。
23
那时，若有人对你们说：基督在这里，或说：基督在那里，你们不要信！
24
因为假基督、假先知将要起来，显大神迹、大奇事，倘若能行，连选民也就迷惑了。
26
若有人对你们说：看哪，基督在旷野里，你们不要出去！或说：看哪，基督在内屋中，你们不要信！
27
闪电从东边发出，直照到西边。人子降临，也要这样。
28
尸首在那里，鹰也必聚在那里。
29
那些日子的灾难一过去，日头就变黑了，月亮也不放光，众星要从天上坠落，天势都要震动。
30
那时，人子的兆头要显在天上，地上的万族都要哀哭。他们要看见人子，有能力，有大荣耀.，驾着天上的云降临。
31
他要差遣使者，用号筒的大声，将他的选民，从四方（方：原文是风），从天这边到天那边，都招聚了来。
32
你们可以从无花果树学个比方：当树枝发嫩长叶的时候，你们就知道夏天近了。
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这样，你们看见这一切的事，也该知道人子近了，正在门口了。
36
那日子，那时辰，没有人知道，连天上的使者也不知道，子也不知道，惟独父知道。
37
挪亚的日子怎样，人子降临也要怎样。
38
当洪水以前的日子，人照常吃喝嫁娶，直到挪亚进方舟的那日；
40
那时，两个人在田里，取去一个，撇下一个。
41
两个女人推磨，取去一个，撇下一个。
43
家主若知道几更天有贼来，就必儆醒，不容人挖透房屋；这是你们所知道的。
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所以，你们也要预备，因为你们想不到的时候，人子就来了。
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谁是忠心有见识的仆人，为主人所派，管理家里的人，按时分粮给他们呢？
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就动手打他的同伴，又和酒醉的人一同吃喝。
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在想不到的日子，不知道的时辰，那仆人的主人要来，
51
重重的处治他（或作：把他腰斩了），定他和假冒为善的人同罪；在那里必要哀哭切齿了。
8505. 'Today you will not find it in the field' means that [then] there will no longer be any acquiring of good through truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'not finding', when it refers to good that is obtained through truth, as no longer acquiring; and from the meaning of 'the field' as a person, at this point a person's mind in which good is implanted through truth. For a person is called a field because he receives the truths of faith, which are the seeds, and brings forth the fruit of the seeds, that is, forms of good.
[2] What this implies will be stated briefly. Before regeneration a person's actions spring from truth; but through that truth good is acquired, for during this time truth becomes good with him when it becomes part of his will and so of his life. But after regeneration his actions spring from good, and through that good truths are gained. To put it more intelligibly, before regeneration a person's actions spring from a spirit of obedience, but after regeneration from affection. The two states are the antithesis of each other; for in the former state truth is dominant, but in the latter good is dominant. Or, in the former state the person looks downwards or backwards, but in the latter upwards or forwards.
[3] When a person has reached the latter state, that is to say, when his actions spring from affection, he is no longer allowed to look back and do good from truth; for now the Lord is flowing into good, and leading him through that good If in this state he were to look back, that is, to do good from truth, his actions would spring from what is his own; for when a person's actions spring from truth he is guided by self, but when they spring from good he is guided by the Lord. These things are what is meant by the Lord's words in Matthew,
When you see the abomination of desolation, let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house; and let him who is in the field not return to take his clothes. Matthew 24:15-18.
And in Luke,
On that day, whoever will be on the housetop with his vessels in the house let him not come down to take them away; and whoever is in the field, let him likewise not return to the things behind him. Remember Lot's wife. Luke 17:31-32.
For more about what these words imply, see the explanations in 3652, 5895 (end), 5897, 7923, and below in 8506, 8510.
Such are the things meant in the internal sense by the words stating that the man[na] will not be found in the field on the seventh day and that some of the people went out to gather it but did not find any.
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