教会证言-卷五-第84章
第83章 假冒的奇事
教会证言-卷五-第84章
Chap. 83—A Miracle Counterfeited
教会证言-卷五-第84章
有人认为《教会证言》卷一第292页中的一句话与《大斗争》卷一第184页中的话有矛盾。[《大斗争》卷一现已绝版,其内容经怀爱伦重写并扩充后于1890年发表,名为《先祖与先知》。这里所说的那句话见第264页。——怀爱伦托管委员会。]这些段落提到术士们假冒亚伦所行的奇事。《证言》上说:“术士们不能行上帝藉摩西行的所有那些奇事。他们只能行少数几个。术士的杖确实变成了蛇,但亚伦的杖吞了它们。”最后一句就是有问题的那句,实际上与圣经的话是一样的:“他们各人丢下自己的杖,杖就变作蛇;但亚伦的杖吞了他们的杖”(出7:12)。在《大斗争》卷一中说:“术士们似乎用他们的邪术行了几件与上帝藉着摩西和亚伦的手行的那些事相似的事。实际上,术士并没有使他们的杖变作蛇;只是借着邪术,以及借着那大欺骗者的帮助,变出蛇的样子来,假冒上帝的作为。”这段话不但与前面那句不矛盾,反而解释了那句话。{5T696.2}[1]
教会证言-卷五-第84章
Some have found difficulty in reconciling a statement in?Testimonies for the Church, volume I, page 292, with one in?Great Controversy, volume I, page 184. [The account presented in this now-out-of-print volume was rewritten and amplified by Ellen G. White and published in 1890 as?Patriarchs and Prophets. See page 264 of that volume for the statement paralleling the one referred to here. [White Trustees.]] These passages refer to the work of the sorcerers in counterfeiting the miracle performed by Aaron, of turning the rod to a serpent. The testimony says: “The magicians could not perform all those miracles which God wrought through Moses. Only a few of them could they do. The magicians’ rods did become serpents, but Aaron’s rod swallowed them up.” This last sentence, which is the one in question, is substantially the same as the Bible statement: “They cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.” The statement in volume I, of theControversy, is: “The magicians seemed to perform several things with their enchantments similar to those things which God wrought by the hand of Moses and Aaron. They did not really cause their rods to become serpents, but by magic, aided by the great deceiver, made them appear like serpents,to counterfeit the work of God.” This statement, instead of contradicting the former, is simply explanatory of it.{5T 696.2}[1]
教会证言-卷五-第84章
在《证言》中,没有充分表达我想要传达的思想。在第293页有一句话使意思更为清楚些:“术士并不单靠他们自己的技巧行事,也靠着他们的神,就是魔鬼的能力行事,魔鬼智巧地施行他假冒上帝作为的欺骗之工。”摩西靠着上帝的能力曾把那杖变成了一条活蛇。撒但藉着魔术,假冒了这个奇事。撒但并没有能力制造活蛇,因为他没有创造或赐生命的权柄。这种权柄唯独属于上帝。但撒但做了他所能做的一切——他造了一个赝品。藉着他的能力,通过术士们行了出来,他就使那些杖显出了蛇的样子。{5T697.1}[2]
教会证言-卷五-第84章
There is not, in the Testimony, a full expression of the thought which I wished to convey. On page 293 is a sentence which makes the meaning clearer: “The magicians wrought not by their own science alone, but by the power of their god, the devil, who ingeniously carried out his deceptive work of counterfeiting?the work of God.” Moses, by the power of God, had changed the rod to a living serpent. Satan, through the magicians,counterfeited?this miracle. He could not produce living serpents, for he has not power to create or to give life. This power belongs to God alone. But all that Satan could do he did—he produced a counterfeit. By his power, working through the magicians, he caused the rods to assume the appearance of serpents.{5T 697.1}[2]
教会证言-卷五-第84章
术士的杖确实变成了蛇那句话,意思只不过是它们在外表上变得象蛇了;而法老和他的宫廷也相信它们变成蛇了。在外表上无法把它们跟摩西和亚伦造出的蛇区别出来;虽然一个是真的,其它的是假的。而且主使活蛇吞了那些假蛇。{5T697.2}[3]
教会证言-卷五-第84章
The statement that they did become serpents, simply means that they were such in appearance; such they were believed to be by Pharaoh and his court. There was nothing in their appearance to distinguish them from the serpent produced by Moses and Aaron; but while one was real, the others were spurious. And the Lord caused the living serpent to swallow up the pretended ones.{5T 697.2}[3]
教会证言-卷五-第84章
法老想证明自己顽抗上帝的命令为有理,因此就找一些借口,来抹煞上帝藉着摩西所行的神迹。撒但所给他的,正合他的愿望。撒但藉着术士所作的事,使埃及人看摩西亚伦也不过是术士,或魔术家一流的人物,而且看他们所带来的信息,不是出于一位更高的神明。{5T697.3}[4]
教会证言-卷五-第84章
Pharaoh desired to justify his stubbornness in resisting the divine command; he was seeking some excuse to disregard the miracle which God had wrought through Moses. Satan gave him just what he wanted. By the work which he wrought through the magicians he made it appear to the Egyptians that Moses and Aaron were only magicians and sorcerers, and hence that the message which they brought would not claim respect as coming from a superior being.{5T 697.3}[4]
教会证言-卷五-第84章
甚至假蛇被吞掉这事也没有被法老看为是上帝能力的特别作为,而视之为是由一种高于他臣仆的魔术行出来的。因而这种赝品就使他大胆反叛,使他更加不信了。{5T697.4}[5]
教会证言-卷五-第84章
Even the swallowing up of the counterfeit serpents was not regarded by Pharaoh as the special work of God’s power, but as accomplished by a kind of magic superior to that of his servants. Thus this counterfeit work emboldened him in his rebellion, causing him to fortify himself against conviction.{5T 697.4}[5]
教会证言-卷五-第84章
撒但藉着蛇为媒介,表演其超乎自然的能力,使伊甸园中的亚当夏娃犯罪了。在世界末日之前,他还要行更大的奇事。他要尽力之所能,施行实在的奇迹。他不单是假装要行而已,圣经上说,他“因赐给他的权柄,……能行奇事,就迷惑住在地上的人”(启13:14)。这段圣经使我们看出,他是会行一些比装腔作势更大的奇事。然而他的力量也是有限,过此就不行了,因此他就要用欺骗来补助,伪造那些他的实力所不能行的事。在末世之时,他要如此出现,叫人相信他是基督复临世上。他一定要使自己变成光明的天使。虽然他能在各种外表上带有基督的样式,维妙维肖,但除了那些象法老一样设法拒绝真理的人们以外,并无一人会被他骗去。{5T698.1}[6]
教会证言-卷五-第84章
It was by the display of supernatural power, in making the serpent his medium, that Satan caused the fall of Adam and Eve in Eden. Before the close of time he will work still greater wonders. So far as his power extends, he will perform actual miracles. Says the Scripture: “He ... deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do,” not merely those which he pretends to do. Something more than mere impostures is brought to view in this scripture. But there is a limit beyond which Satan cannot go, and here he calls deception to his aid and counterfeits the work which he has not power actually to perform. In the last days he will appear in such a manner as to make men believe him to be Christ come the second time into the world. He will indeed transform himself into an angel of light. But while he will bear the appearance of Christ in every particular, so far as mere appearance goes, it will deceive none but those who, like Pharaoh, are seeking to resist the truth.{5T 698.1}[6]
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