教会证言-卷一-第16章
第16章 安息日开始的时间
教会证言-卷一-第16章
Chap.16 - Time to Begin the Sabbath
教会证言-卷一-第16章
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我看见的经文是：“从晚上到晚上，要守为安息日”（利23:32）。天使说：“要接受上帝的话，阅读它，理解它，你就不会犯错误。要仔细地读，你就会发现什么是晚上，以及晚上是什么时候。”我问天使关于安息日的开始时间，上帝有没有对祂的子民不悦。我蒙指示回顾了安息日初兴起的时候，并随着上帝的子民直到现在，但没有看到主不悦纳，或不嘉许他们。我问为何这样，以致我们这么晚才必须改变安息日开始的时间。天使说：“你将要明白，但还没有明白。”天使说：“若是亮光来到，而人们不顾或拒绝那亮光，就会被定罪，上帝也会不悦；但在亮光来到之前，是没有罪的，因为他们没有亮光可以拒绝。”我见到有些人心中以为主曾说明安息日从六点开始，然而我只看到是“从晚上”开始的，于是就推断出晚上就是六点。我看到上帝的仆人们必须团结起来，同心合意。{1T 116.1}[1]
教会证言-卷一-第16章
【SEE APPENDIX.】
I saw that it is even so: "From even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath." Said the angel: "Take the word of God, read it, understand, and ye cannot err. Read carefully, and ye shall there find what even is, and when it is. I asked the angel if the frown of God had been upon His people for commencing the Sabbath as they had. I was directed back to the first rise of the Sabbath, and followed the people of God up to this time, but did not see that the Lord was displeased, or frowned upon them. I inquired why it had been thus, that at this late day we must change the time of commencing the Sabbath. Said the angel: "Ye shall understand, but not yet, not yet." Said the angel: "If light come, and that light is set aside or rejected, then comes condemnation and the frown of God; but before the light comes, there is no sin, for there is no light for them to reject." I saw that it was in the minds of some that the Lord had shown that the Sabbath commenced at six o'clock, when I had only seen that it commenced at "even," and it was inferred that even was at six. I saw that the servants of God must draw together, press together. {1T 116.1}[1]
教会证言-卷一-第16章
【附录】
第116页：“安息日开始的时间”——约有十年时间，守安息日的复临信徒从星期五下午六点到星期六下午六点遵守安息日。1846年贝约瑟长老所发表的第一份论第四诫安息日之永恒性小册子里，提出了他所认为这样遵守安息日的经文依据。他引用了葡萄园工人的比喻。最后一批工人是在“酉初”蒙召的，只工作了一个小时。“到了晚上”就与他们结帐（太20:6,8,12）。他将此与基督的问题“白日不是有十二小时吗？”相对照（约11:9），考虑到赤道时间或宗教年份的开始，主张“晚上”是从下午六点开始的。人们没有深究就接受他结论主要原因，可能是出于对他的年龄和经验，以及他虔诚人生的尊敬。{1T 713.2}[2]
教会证言-卷一-第16章
【APPENDIX】
PAGE 116, "TIME TO BEGIN THE SABBATH"--FOR A PERIOD OF ABOUT TEN YEARS SABBATHKEEPING ADVENTISTS OBSERVED THE SABBATH FROM 6 P. M. FRIDAY TO 6 P. M. SATURDAY. ELDER JOSEPH BATES IN HIS FIRST PAMPHLET ON THE PERPETUITY OF THE SABBATH OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, PUBLISHED IN 1846, HAD GIVEN REASONS FOR THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL SUPPORT FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH IN THIS WAY. HE CITED THE PARABLE OF THE LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD, THE LAST GROUP OF WHICH HAD BEEN CALLED AT "THE ELEVENTH HOUR" OF THE DAY AND HAD WROUGHT BUT ONE HOUR. THE RECKONING WAS MADE WITH THEM "WHEN EVEN WAS COME." MATTHEW 20:6, 8, 12. COMPARING THIS WITH CHRIST'S QUESTION, "ARE THERE NOT TWELVE HOURS IN THE DAY?" HE ARGUED THAT THE "EVEN" BEGAN WITH THE TWELFTH HOUR, OR SIX O'CLOCK, RECKONING WITH EQUATORIAL TIME OR THE BEGINNING OF THE SACRED YEAR. RESPECT FOR HIS YEARS AND EXPERIENCE AND HIS GODLY LIFE MAY HAVE BEEN THE MAIN REASONS FOR ACCEPTING HIS CONCLUSIONS WITHOUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION.{1T 713.2}[2]
教会证言-卷一-第16章
随着时间的流逝和信息的传开，越来越多遵守安息日的人开始质疑这种算法，提出了以日落时间来计算安息日的开始。J.N.安德烈长老就这个问题充分研究了圣经之后，写了一份论文，阐述支持日落时间的圣经理由。这份论文于1855年11月17日安息日在密歇根州巴特尔克里克的集会上提出来讨论，结果几乎全体在场的人都认为安德烈长老的结论是正确的。关于该问题的说明两天后在这个异象里赐给了怀爱伦，回答了一些人心中的问题，在信徒中达成一致。怀雅各长老后来论述了这个经验，说明异象的作用是肯定圣经研究的结论，而不是提出新的教训：{1T 713.3}[3]
教会证言-卷一-第16章
AS TIME PASSED AND THE MESSAGE SPREAD, AN INCREASING NUMBER OF SABBATHKEEPERS QUESTIONED THE PRACTICE AND ADVOCATED THE SUNSET TIME FOR RECKONING THE BEGINNING OF THE SABBATH. A THOROUGH BIBLE INVESTIGATION OF THE QUESTION WAS MADE BY ELDER J. N. ANDREWS, WHO WROTE A PAPER SETTING FORTH THE BIBLICAL REASONS IN FAVOR OF THE SUNSET TIME. THIS PAPER WAS INTRODUCED AND DISCUSSED ON SABBATH, NOVEMBER 17, 1855, AT THE CONFERENCE IN BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, WITH THE RESULT THAT NEARLY, BUT NOT QUITE, ALL PRESENT WERE CONVINCED THAT ELDER ANDREW'S CONCLUSION WAS CORRECT. THE PRESENTATION OF THE SUBJECT TO MRS. WHITE IN THIS VISION, GIVEN TWO DAYS LATER, ANSWERED THE QUESTIONS LINGERING IN SOME MINDS AND EFFECTED UNITY AMONG THE BELIEVERS. COMMENTING ON THIS EXPERIENCE, AS ILLUSTRATING THE OFFICE OF THE VISIONS TO CONFIRM CONCLUSIONS BASED ON BIBLICAL STUDY RATHER THAN TO INTRODUCE NEW TEACHINGS, ELDER JAMES WHITE WROTE LATER:{1T 713.3}[3]
教会证言-卷一-第16章
“问题自然会出现。如果赐下异象是为了纠正错误，为什么她没有早一些看到六点钟的错误呢？我一直很感恩，因为上帝按祂自己的合适时间纠正了错误，并不让我们在这一点上存在不幸的分歧。但是，亲爱的读者，主在这一点上的作为与属灵恩赐的正确地位是和谐一致的。在主的仆人殷勤查考祂的话之前，祂显然不愿用圣灵的恩赐教导祂子民有关圣经的问题。关于安息日开始的时间，当主的仆人殷勤查考了圣经，多数人已经确定，但一些人在这个问题有与整个团体不一致的危险时，上帝才彰显祂的慈爱，通过圣灵的恩赐完成这项合适的工作。”——《评论与通讯》1868年2月25日。{1T 713.4}[4]
教会证言-卷一-第16章
THE QUESTION NATURALLY ARISES, IF THE VISIONS ARE GIVEN TO CORRECT THE ERRING, WHY DID SHE NOT SOONER SEE THE ERROR OF THE SIX O'CLOCK TIME? I HAVE EVER BEEN THANKFUL THAT GOD CORRECTED THE ERROR IN HIS OWN GOOD TIME, AND DID NOT SUFFER AN UNHAPPY DIVISION TO EXIST AMONG US UPON THIS POINT. BUT, DEAR READER, THE WORK OF THE LORD UPON THIS POINT IS IN PERFECT HARMONY WITH HIS MANIFESTATIONS TO US ON OTHERS, AND IN HARMONY WITH THE CORRECT POSITION UPON SPIRITUAL GIFTS. IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE THE DESIRE OF THE LORD TO TEACH HIS PEOPLE BY THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT ON THE BIBLE QUESTIONS UNTIL HIS SERVANTS HAVE DILIGENTLY SEARCHED HIS WORD. WHEN THIS WAS DONE UPON THE SUBJECT OF THE TIME TO COMMENCE THE SABBATH, AND MOST WERE ESTABLISHED, AND SOME WERE IN DANGER OF BEING OUT OF HARMONY WITH THE BODY ON THIS SUBJECT, THEN, YES, THEN, WAS THE VERY TIME FOR GOD TO MAGNIFY HIS GOODNESS IN THE MANIFESTATION OF THE GIFT OF HIS SPIRIT IN THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ITS PROPER WORK.--REVIEW AND HERALD, FEB. 25, 1868.{1T 713.4}[4]
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