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John Capítulo 16
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Joh 16:1-33.
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Joh 16:1-33.
DISCOURSE AT THE SUPPER TABLE CONCLUDED.
1-5. These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended--both the warnings and the encouragements just given.
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2. 他們要把你們趕出會堂——
(Joh 9:22; 12:42)。
時候將到，凡殺你們的，就以為是事奉神——這些話意為宗教性的事奉——「以為是向神獻上事奉」。（大數的掃羅就是如此，
Ga 1:13, 14； Php 3:6)。
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2. They shall put you out of the synagogue--
(Joh 9:22; 12:42).
the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service--The words mean religious service--"that he is offering a service to God." (So Saul of Tarsus,
Ga 1:13, 14; Php 3:6).
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4. 這些事我從起頭就沒有告訴你們——從。
起頭——祂確實很早就說過
（路6:22），
但不像
約16:2
那樣。
因為我與你們同在。
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4. these things I said not . . . at--from.
the beginning--He had said it pretty early
(Lu 6:22),
but not quite as in
Joh 16:2.
because I was with you.
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5. 現在我往差我來的父那裡去——當祂與他們同在時，世界的仇恨主要針對祂自己；但祂的離去會使這仇恨轉而臨到他們，因為他們是祂的代表。
沒有人問我：祢往哪裡去？——他們在某種程度上曾問過
（約13:36；14:5）；
但祂希望對這事有更聰明、更迫切的追問。
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5. But now I go my way to him that sent me--While He was with them, the world's hatred was directed chiefly against Himself; but His departure would bring it down upon them as His representatives.
and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?--They had done so in a sort
(Joh 13:36; 14:5);
but He wished more intelligent and eager inquiry on the subject.
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6、7. 只因我將這些事對你們說了……你們的心就滿了憂愁——憂愁已經過度地使他們癱瘓，祂要振奮他們的心志。
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6, 7. But because I have said these things . . . sorrow hath filled your heart--Sorrow had too much paralyzed them, and He would rouse their energies.
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7. 我去是與你們有益的——
我的救主，這是否可能，
我竟因失去祢而得益？
KEBLE。
是的。
我若不去，保惠師就不到你們這裡來；我若去，就差祂來——（參
約7:39；
約14:15
的註釋）。
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7. It is expedient for you that I go away--
My Saviour, can it ever be
That I should gain by losing thee?
KEBLE.
Yes.
for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you, but if I depart, I will send him unto you--(See on
Joh 7:39;
Joh 14:15).
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8. 祂既來了等等——這是基督深邃言論中最富有思想的一段經文之一；以幾個大筆觸描繪了聖靈在世上職事的全部和每一部分——祂對個人以及群眾的運行，對信徒和不信者一視同仁〔OLSHAUSEN〕。
就要叫世人為罪、為義、為審判，自己責備自己——這詞太弱，不足以表達其意。責備確實包含在所用的字中，無疑這字從責備開始。但定罪或使信服才是所指的意思；既然前者表達聖靈對人類中不信部分的工作，後者表達對相信者的工作，最好不要將它局限於任何一方。
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8. And when he is come, he will, &c.--This is one of the passages most pregnant with thought in the profound discourses of Christ; with a few great strokes depicting all and every part of the ministry of the Holy Ghost in the world--His operation with reference to individuals as well as the mass, on believers and unbelievers alike [OLSHAUSEN].
he will reprove--This is too weak a word to express what is meant. Reproof is indeed implied in the term employed, and doubtless the word begins with it. But convict or convince is the thing intended; and as the one expresses the work of the Spirit on the unbelieving portion of mankind, and the other on the believing, it is better not to restrict it to either.
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9. 為罪，是因他們不信我——既然一切罪的根源都在於不信，那麼最嚴重的不信形式就是拒絕基督。然而聖靈將這真理銘刻於良心時，並不熄滅，反而是成全並加深對一切其他罪的感覺。
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9. Of sin, because they believe not on me--As all sin has its root in unbelief, so the most aggravated form of unbelief is the rejection of Christ. The Spirit, however, in fastening this truth upon the conscience, does not extinguish, but, on the contrary, does consummate and intensify, the sense of all other sins.
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10. 為義，是因我往父那裡去，你們就不再見我——毫無疑問，聖靈所要銘刻在罪人心中的，是基督個人的義。這事的證據在於一個偉大的歷史事實：祂已「往父那裡去，不再讓人看見」：——因為如果祂自稱為神的兒子、世界的救主是一個謊言，那「忌邪的神」的父怎會將這樣一個褻瀆者從死裡復活，並將祂升到自己的右邊呢？但如果祂是「誠信真實見證人」，是父的「義僕」，是「祂所揀選、心裡所喜悅的」，那麼祂往父那裡去、隨之從人的眼前消失，不過是祂在這裡下面所做的一切的合宜成全、威嚴的賞賜，是祂使命的印證，是祂在地上所見證的得著榮耀——因為那見證的承載者被接到父的懷中。這對基督之正直的凱旋式平反，對我們是神聖的證據，明亮如天，表明祂確實是世界的救主，是神的義僕，要因祂擔當他們的罪孽而使多人得稱為義
（賽53:11）。
因此，聖靈在這子句中被視為使世人信服：在基督裡有對他們先前被定罪之罪的感覺的完全解脫；我們不但不為祂的離去而哀痛，視之為不可彌補的損失，反而學會在其中誇口，視之為祂代表我們完全蒙悅納的證據，與一位明白這點的人同呼：「誰能控告神所揀選的人呢？有神稱他們為義了。誰能定他們的罪呢？有基督耶穌已經死了，而且從死裡復活，現今在神的右邊」等等
（羅8:33、34）。
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10. Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more--Beyond doubt, it is Christ's personal righteousness which the Spirit was to bring home to the sinner's heart. The evidence of this was to lie in the great historical fact, that He had "gone to His Father and was no more visible to men":--for if His claim to be the Son of God, the Saviour of the world, had been a lie, how should the Father, who is "a jealous God," have raised such a blasphemer from the dead and exalted him to His right hand? But if He was the "Faithful and True Witness," the Father's "Righteous Servant," "His Elect, in whom His soul delighted," then was His departure to the Father, and consequent disappearance from the view of men, but the fitting consummation, the august reward, of all that He did here below, the seal of His mission, the glorification of the testimony which He bore on earth, by the reception of its Bearer to the Father's bosom. This triumphant vindication of Christ's rectitude is to us divine evidence, bright as heaven, that He is indeed the Saviour of the world, God's Righteous Servant to justify many, because He bare their iniquities
(Isa 53:11).
Thus the Spirit, in this clause, is seen convincing men that there is in Christ perfect relief under the sense of sin of which He had before convinced them; and so far from mourning over His absence from us, as an irreparable loss, we learn to glory in it, as the evidence of His perfect acceptance on our behalf, exclaiming with one who understood this point, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth: Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died; yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God," &c.
(Ro 8:33, 34).
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11. 為審判，是因這世界的王受了審判——若假定此處所指為最後的審判，即使是好的解經家也完全錯失了這子句的要點。「這世界的王受了審判」這話，毫無疑問，與
約12:31
「現在這世界的王要被趕出去」是同義的；兩者都意指他對人的統治，或他奴役人並藉此毀滅人的權勢，已經被摧毀。基督的死「審判」了牠，即在司法上傾覆了牠，牠隨即被「趕出去」，即從牠所篡奪的統治中被驅逐
（來2:14； 約一3:8； 西2:15）。
因此，聖靈將使人的良心認識到：（一）罪的感覺，在拒絕那來「除去世人罪孽」者的事上達到極致；（二）在父的僕人之義中完全解脫的感覺——祂如今從那撇棄祂的地上被接到祂從永遠就居住的懷中；（三）從撒但枷鎖中得釋放的感覺——牠的受審為人帶來了成為聖潔的自由，以及從魔鬼的僕人轉變為全能之主的兒女的轉變。然而，對一類人來說，這一切只會帶來定罪；他們「不肯到基督那裡」——雖然祂已向他們顯明為賜生命的那位——使他們可以得生命。這樣的人既自願留在這世界之王的統治之下，就在他的審判中同受審判，其可見的成全將在大日來到。但對另一類人而言，這有福的教訓會有另一個結果——將他們從黑暗的國度遷到神愛子的國裡。
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11. Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged--By supposing that the final judgment is here meant, the point of this clause is, even by good interpreters, quite missed. The statement, "The prince of this world is judged," means, beyond all reasonable doubt, the same as that in
Joh 12:31,
"Now shall the prince of this world be cast out"; and both mean that his dominion over men, or his power to enslave and so to ruin them, is destroyed. The death of Christ "judged" or judicially overthrew him, and he was thereupon "cast out" or expelled from his usurped dominion
(Heb 2:14; 1Jo 3:8; Col 2:15).
Thus, then, the Spirit shall bring home to men's conscience: (1) the sense of sin, consummated in the rejection of Him who came to "take away the sin of the world"; (2) the sense of perfect relief in the righteousness of the Father's Servant, now fetched from the earth that spurned Him to that bosom where from everlasting He had dwelt; and (3) the sense of emancipation from the fetters of Satan, whose judgment brings to men liberty to be holy, and transformation out of servants of the devil into sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. To one class of men, however, all this will carry conviction only; they "will not come to Christ"--revealed though He be to them as the life-giving One--that they may have life. Such, abiding voluntarily under the dominion of the prince of this world, are judged in his judgment, the visible consummation of which will be at the great day. To another class, however, this blessed teaching will have another issue--translating them out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son.
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12-15. 等到真理的聖靈來了……因為祂不是憑自己說的——即不是從自己出來的，而是像基督自己一樣，「將祂所聽見的」、所受託去傳達的說出來。
並要把將來的事告訴你們——特別是指那些啟示，它們在書信中部分地、但最完全地在啟示錄中，打開了通往神國未來的視野，其地平線是永恆的山嶺。
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12-15. when he, the Spirit of truth, is come . . . he shall not speak of himself--that is, from Himself, but, like Christ Himself, "what He hears," what is given Him to communicate.
he will show you things to come--referring specially to those revelations which, in the Epistles partially, but most fully in the Apocalypse, open up a vista into the Future of the Kingdom of God, whose horizon is the everlasting hills.
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14. 祂要榮耀我，因為祂要將受於我的告訴你們——因此聖靈職事的全部設計就是榮耀基督——不是在祂自己的身位上，因為這是父在將祂升到自己的右邊時所成就的——而是在人的眼光和評價中。為此目的，祂要「領受屬基督的」——一切關乎基督的真理——「並要指示他們」，或使他們在自己的光中辨識它。聖靈教導的主觀性質——向人的靈魂發現基督在外表上是甚麼——在此非常清楚地表達了；同時也表明，尋求聖靈的啟示去作任何超越在靈魂中照亮基督自己是誰、教導了甚麼、在地上行了甚麼的事，是徒然的。
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14. He shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine and show it unto you--Thus the whole design of the Spirit's office is to glorify Christ--not in His own Person, for this was done by the Father when He exalted Him to His own right hand--but in the view and estimation of men. For this purpose He was to "receive of Christ"--all the truth relating to Christ--"and show it unto them," or make them to discern it in its own light. The subjective nature of the Spirit's teaching--the discovery to the souls of men of what is Christ outwardly--is here very clearly expressed; and, at the same time, the vanity of looking for revelations of the Spirit which shall do anything beyond throwing light in the soul upon what Christ Himself is, and taught, and did upon earth.
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15. 凡父所有的，都是我的——對在一切事上與父之絕對共享更清楚的表達，是無法想像的，雖然此處的「一切」是指恩典國度的事，是聖靈所要領受並向我們顯明的。我們在此瞥見了神格內在關係的奇妙。
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15. All things that the Father hath are mine--a plainer expression than this of absolute community with the Father in all things cannot be conceived, though the "all things" here have reference to the things of the Kingdom of Grace, which the Spirit was to receive that He might show it to us. We have here a wonderful glimpse into the inner relations of the Godhead.
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16-22. 等不多時，你們就不得見我；再等不多時，你們還要見我，因為我到父那裡去——世界因不再見祂而喜樂，似乎顯示祂所指的是藉著死從他們中間被除去；在那種情形下，他們因再見到祂而喜樂，指向他們在祂復活後重新出現在他們中間時的欣喜若狂，那時他們不能再懷疑祂的身分。同時，寡居教會在其主於天上不在時的悲傷，以及她在祂親自再臨時的欣喜，無疑也在此表達了。
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16-22. A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father--The joy of the world at their not seeing Him seems to show that His removal from them by death was what He meant; and in that case, their joy at again seeing Him points to their transport at His reappearance amongst them on His Resurrection, when they could no longer doubt His identity. At the same time the sorrow of the widowed Church in the absence of her Lord in the heavens, and her transport at His personal return, are certainly here expressed.
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23-28. 到了那天——即聖靈的時代（如 約14:20 所言）。
你們……要——問
我什麼——因著聖靈教訓的豐滿（約14:26，16:13；並參 約一2:27）。
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23-28. In that day--of the dispensation of the Spirit (as in
Joh 14:20).
ye shall ask--inquire of
me nothing--by reason of the fulness of the Spirit's teaching
(Joh 14:26; 16:13;
and compare
1Jo 2:27).
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24. 向來你們沒有奉我的名求什麼——因為「奉基督的名禱告，以及向基督禱告，都是以祂的得榮為前提」〔OLSHAUSEN〕。
求——當我離去以後，「奉我的名」。
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24. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name--for "prayer in the name of Christ, and prayer to Christ, presuppose His glorification" [OLSHAUSEN].
ask--when I am gone, "in My name."
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25. 用比喻——用隱晦的言語，與「明明的說」相對——即靠聖靈的教導。
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25. in proverbs--in obscure language, opposed to "showing plainly"--that is, by the Spirit's teaching.
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26. 我並不說……我為你們求父——好像祂自己不願幫助你們似的：基督確實為祂的百姓求父，但並非為了要使一雙不情願的耳朵轉為情願。
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26. I say not . . . I will pray the Father for you--as if He were not of Himself disposed to aid you: Christ does pray the Father for His people, but not for the purpose of inclining an unwilling ear.
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27. 因為父自己愛你們，因為你們已經愛我——他們這愛，乃是因著神在賜下祂兒子之事上那永遠的愛所激發出來的，這愛返照在信者心中，並安息在祂愛子身上。
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27. For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me--This love of theirs is that which is called forth by God's eternal love in the gift of His Son mirrored in the hearts of those who believe, and resting on His dear Son.
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28. 我從父出來——即：「你們說得對，我確實是如此出來，並且不久就要回到我所從出之處。」這對 約16:27 所暗示之真理的回應，好似出聲的思考，彷彿在這樣的主題上、在這樣的時刻，這真理對祂自己的靈是何等甘甜。
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28. I came forth from the Father, &c.--that is, "And ye are right, for I have indeed so come forth,and shall soon return whence I came." This echo of the truth, alluded to in
Joh 16:27,
seems like thinking aloud, as if it were grateful to His own spirit on such a subject and at such an hour.
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29、30. 祂的門徒說……如今祢明說，不再用比喻了——其實並不比從前更為明白；完全明白的時候尚未來到；但他們既窺見了祂的意思（不過如此而已），便急切地表達他們的滿意，好像很高興能從祂的話中悟出什麼。這何等動人地顯出他們內心的單純和信心的嬰孩性情！
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29, 30. His disciples said, . . . now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb--hardly more so than before; the time for perfect plainness was yet to come; but having caught a glimpse of His meaning (it was nothing more), they eagerly express their satisfaction, as if glad to make anything of His words. How touchingly does this show both the simplicity of their hearts and the infantile character of their faith!
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31-33. 耶穌回答說……現在你們信嗎？——即：「你們信是好的，因為這信心很快就要受到考驗，並且是以你們意想不到的方式。」
時候將到，如今已經到了，你們要分散，各歸自己的地方去，留下我獨自一人；其實我不是獨自一人——此處確實表達了一種對所經歷之委屈的深沉而可畏的感受，卻是何等充滿愛心！祂不至被完全離棄、有一位不會撇棄祂，這對祂而言是不可言喻的支持與安慰；但祂作為人，對同情的法則極其敏感，竟要失去一切屬人的體恤和鼓舞，這事將在他們日後回想之時，使他們心中充滿羞愧，正如救主在需要的時刻心中充滿了刺痛的憂愁一樣。「我指望有人體恤，卻沒有一個；我指望有人安慰，卻找不著一個」（詩69:20）。
因為有父與我同在——何等親近，帶著何等扶持的大能，誰能述說呢？
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31-33. Jesus answered . . . Do ye now believe?--that is, "It is well ye do, for it is soon to be tested, and in a way ye little expect."
the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone--A deep and awful sense of wrong experienced is certainly expressed here, but how lovingly! That He was not to be utterly deserted, that there was One who would not forsake Him, was to Him matter of ineffable support and consolation; but that He should be without all human countenance and cheer, who as Man was exquisitely sensitive to the law of sympathy, would fill themselves with as much shame, when they afterwards recurred to it, as the Redeemer's heart in His hour of need with pungent sorrow. "I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none"
(Ps 69:20).
because the Father is with me--how near, and with what sustaining power, who can express?
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33. 我將這些事告訴你們——不是指緊接在前面的話，而是指整篇講論，這些是最後的話，祂便以此總結。
是要叫你們在我裡面有平安——即前文所解釋的那崇高意義上的平安。（參見 約14:27。）
在你們世上你們有苦難——特別是由於世界對那些「不屬世界、卻從世界中蒙揀選的人」的致命反對而產生。因此所應許的「平安」絕非風平浪靜的平安。
但我已經勝了世界——不僅在你們以先勝了，更是為你們勝了，使你們也能同樣得勝（約一5:4-5）。
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33. These things I have spoken unto you--not the immediately preceding words, but this whole discourse, of which these were the very last words, and which He thus winds up.
that in me ye might have peace--in the sublime sense before explained. (See on
Joh 14:27).
In the world ye shall have tribulation--specially arising from its deadly opposition to those who "are not of the world, but chosen out of the world." So that the "peace" promised was far from an unruffled one.
I have overcome the world--not only before you, but for you, that ye may be able to do the same
(1Jo 5:4, 5).
約16:1-33。
席上的講論結束。
1-5. 這些事我已對你們說了，使你們不至於跌倒——包括剛才所給的警告和鼓勵。