比利时信条 ，王志勇牧师译注The Belgic Confession (1561)
第三十一条 牧师、长老与执事
31. Of the
Ministers, Elders, and Deacons
第三十二条 教会规章与劝惩
32.
Of the Order and Discipline of the Church
第三十三条 圣礼
33.
Of the Sacraments
三十四条 洗礼
34. Of Holy Baptism
第三十五条 我们的主耶稣基督的圣餐
Article
35: The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
第三十六条 执政官
36. Of
Magistrates
第三十七条 最后的审判
37. Of the Last Judgment
第三十一条 牧师、长老与执事
31. Of the Ministers, Elders, and Deacons
我们相信，传讲上帝圣言的牧师（1）、长老与执事（2）应当由教会求告主 的名，按着圣经中吩咐的次序，由教会按照法定程序选举产生。因此，人人都须注 意，不可用不正确的方法私自担任教会圣职，必须等候上帝所定的呼召他担任圣职 的时间（3），从而明确自己有个人蒙召的见证，确知确信自己的侍奉出于主。
We believe, that the
ministers of God’s Word, and the elders and deacons, ought to be chosen to
their respective offices by a lawful election by the Church, with calling upon
the name of the Lord, and in that order which the Word of God teaches.
Therefore every one must take heed, not to intrude himself by indecent means,
but is bound to wait till it shall please God to call him; that he may have
testimony of his calling, and be certain and assured that it is of the Lord.
至于传讲上帝的圣言的牧师，不管他们在哪里，都拥有同样的权威，因为他们 是基督的仆人（4），而基督则是独一的普世性的主教和教会独一的元首（5）。 任何人都不可违背、轻看上帝设立的神圣的次序。因此，我们认为，为了他 们的工作的缘故，人人都当高度敬重传讲上帝圣言的牧师和教会中的众长老，尽量 与他们和睦相处，不可私下抱怨，不可争执嚷闹（6）。
As for the ministers of God’s
Word, they have equally the same power and authority wheresoever they are, as
they are all ministers of Christ, the only universal Bishop, and the only Head
of the Church. Moreover, that this holy ordinance of God may not be violated or
slighted, we say that every one ought to esteem the ministers of God’s Word,
and the elders of the Church, very highly for their work’s sake, and be at
peace with them without murmuring, strife or contention, as much as possible.
（1）提前 5：22 （2）徒 6：3 （3）耶 23：21；来 5：4；徒 1：23；13：2
（4）林前 4：1；3：9；林后 5：20；徒 26：16-17 （5）彼前 2：25；5：4；赛 61：1；腓 1：22；西 1：18 （6）帖前 5：12，13；提前 5：17；来 13：17
第三十二条 教会规章与劝惩
32. Of the Order and
Discipline of the Church
同时我们相信：虽然那些治理教会的人为了维持教会整体而制定一些规章乃 是有用和有益的，但他们应当特别谨慎，不要偏离我们唯一的主基督所设立的制度 （1）。因此，我们反对一切引进教会崇拜，用以束缚、压制人的良心的各种人为 的杜撰和规章（2）。 因此，我们唯独承认那些培育、保守教会的和谐，使所有人都顺服上帝的规章。为了实现这一目的，根据上帝的圣言，在若干情况下，逐出教会或进行劝惩乃 是必不可少的（3）。
In the meantime we believe,
though it is useful and beneficial, that those, who are rulers of the Church,
institute and establish certain ordinances among themselves for maintaining the
body of the Church; yet they ought studiously to take care, that they do not
depart from those things which Christ, our only Master, has instituted. And
therefore, we reject all human inventions, and all laws, which man would
introduce into the worship of God, thereby to bind and compel the conscience in
any manner whatever. Therefore we admit only of that which tends to nourish and
preserve concord, and unity, and to keep all men in obedience to God. For this
purpose, excommunication or church discipline is requisite, with the several
circumstances belonging to it, according to the Word of God.
（1）西 2：6-7 （2）林前 7：23；太 15：9；赛 29：13；加 5：1；罗 16：17-18 （3）太 18：17；林前 5：5；提前 1：20
第三十三条 圣礼
33. Of the Sacraments
我们相信恩惠的上帝，顾念我们的软弱，为我们设立了圣礼，藉此印证衪 对我们的诸般应许（1），作为上帝对我们的美意和恩典的保证，并且滋养、坚固 我们的信心。上帝把圣礼与福音真道联系在一起，把祂藉着祂的圣言所表明的以及 祂在我们心中的工作更好地呈献给我们的感官，从而在我们心中确证祂所赐给我们 的救恩，因为它们是上帝藉着圣灵的大能在我们心中所做的内在和无形之工的有形 标志和印记。所以，这些标记并非虚幻，毫无意义，欺骗我们。因为它们所代表的 真正对象乃是耶稣基督，没有耶稣基督就毫无意义可言（2）。
此外，我们以基督所设立的圣礼数目为满足，就是只有两个圣礼：洗礼与主耶 稣基督的圣餐（3）。 （1）罗 4：11；创 9：13；17：11 （2）西 2：11，17；林前 5：7 （3）太 26：36；28：19
We believe, that our gracious
God, on account of our weakness and infirmities has ordained the sacraments for
us, thereby to seal unto us his promises, and to be pledges of the good will
and grace of God toward us, and also to nourish and strengthen our faith; which
he has joined to the Word of the gospel, the better to present to our senses,
both that which he signifies to us by his Word, and that which he works
inwardly in our hearts, thereby assuring and confirming in us the salvation
which he imparts to us. For they are visible signs and seals of an inward and
invisible thing, by means whereof God works in us by the power of the Holy
Ghost. Therefore the signs are not in vain or insignificant, so as to deceive
us. For Jesus Christ is the true object presented by them, without whom they
would be of no moment. Moreover, we are satisfied with the number of sacraments
which Christ our Lord has instituted, which are two only, namely, the sacrament
of baptism, and the holy supper of our Lord Jesus Christ.
第三十四条 洗礼
34. Of Holy Baptism
我们相信并承认耶稣基督为律法的总结（1），祂藉着流出祂的宝血终结了 其他一切人用以赎罪或补罪的流血；并且祂既废除了用血所立的割礼，就设立了洗 礼来取代（2），使我们藉着洗礼被纳入上帝的教会，与其他所有人和异教分离， 目的就在于使我们完全属于祂，佩戴祂的印记与旗帜，向我们见证我们永远属于我 们恩慈的上帝和父。
We believe and confess that
Jesus Christ, who is the end of the law, has made an end, by the shedding of
his blood, of all other sheddings of blood which men could or would make as a
propitiation or satisfaction for sin and that he, having abolished circumcision,
which was done with blood has instituted the sacrament of baptism instead
thereof; by which we are received into the Church of God, and separated from
all other people and strange religions, that we may wholly belong to him, whose
ensign and banner we bear: and which serves as a testimony to us, that he will
forever be our gracious God and Father.
因此，祂吩咐一切属祂的人，要“奉父、子、圣灵的名”用清水受洗（3）， 藉此向我们表明：正如浇在身上的水洗除我们身体的污秽，当我们见到水洒在受洗 者的身上时，基督的血也藉着圣灵的能力，撒往我们里面的灵魂，洁净我们灵魂的 罪，使我们重生，从可怒之子，成为上帝的儿女（4）。这并不在于外部的水的功 效，而是在于上帝的儿子所洒的宝血（5），祂就是我们的红海，为了逃避法老— 也就是魔鬼--的暴政，进入属灵的迦南美地，我们必须穿越这红海。
Therefore he has commanded
all those, who are his, to be baptized with pure water, “in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost”: thereby signifying to us, that
as water washes away the filth of the body, when poured upon it, and is seen on
the body of the baptized, when sprinkled upon him; so does the blood of Christ,
by the power of the Holy Ghost, internally sprinkle the soul, cleanse it from
its sins, and regenerate us from children of wrath, unto children of God. Not
that this is effected by the external water, but by the sprinkling of the
precious blood of the Son of God; who is our Red Sea, through which we must
pass, to escape the tyranny of Pharaoh, that is, the devil, and to enter into
the spiritual land of Canaan.
因此，牧师所施行的是有形的圣礼（6），但主赐给圣礼所表明的，即各样的 恩赐和无形的恩典；清洗、洁净、涤尽我们灵魂的一切污秽与不义（7）；更新我 们的心灵，使之充满主的安慰；使我们确信上帝父般的恩慈；使我们穿上新人，脱 去旧人及其一切的作为（8）。
Therefore the ministers, on
their part, administer the sacrament, and that which is visible, but our Lord
gives that which is signified by the sacrament, namely, the gifts and invisible
grace; washing, cleansing and purging our souls of all filth and
unrighteousness; renewing our hearts, and filling them with all comfort; giving
unto us a true assurance of his fatherly goodness; putting on us the new man,
and putting off the old man with all his deeds.
因此，我们相信，凡真心寻求永生的人，应当受洗一次，不必再重复（9）， 因为我们不能出生两次。这洗礼的有效性不仅在水浇灌到我们身上并被我们领受之 时，也贯穿我们整个的一生（10）。
Therefore we believe, that
every man, who is earnestly studious of obtaining life eternal, ought to be but
once baptized with this only baptism, without ever repeating the same: since we
cannot be born twice. Neither does this baptism only avail us, at the time when
the water is poured upon us, and received by us but also through the whole
course of our life;
因此，我们痛恨重洗派的谬论，他们不仅不满足于一次领受的洗礼，还把信徒 的婴儿受洗定为有罪。我们相信信徒的婴孩当受洗礼，打上圣约的印记（11），正 如从前以色列人的孩童受割礼一样（12），我们的孩子受洗也是基于同样的应许。 基督流血洗净信徒的孩子的罪，不亚于洗净成人的罪（13）。因此，他们应当领受 基督为他们所设立的印记和圣礼，正如主在律法书中所吩咐的，在他们出生后，他 们应当参与记念基督的受苦与受死的圣礼，为他们献上一只羊羔—这是耶稣基督的 预表（14）。此外，割礼之对于犹太人，正如洗礼之对于我们的孩子一样。因此， 保罗称洗礼为基督的割礼（15）。
therefore we detest the error
of the Anabaptists, who are not content with the one only baptism they have
once received, and moreover condemn the baptism of the infants of believers,
whom we believe ought to be baptized and sealed with the sign of the covenant,
as the children in Israel formerly were circumcised, upon the same promises
which are made unto our children. And indeed Christ shed his blood no less for
the washing of the children of the faithful, than for adult persons; and
therefore they ought to receive the sign and sacrament of that, which Christ
has done for them; as the Lord commanded in the law, that they should be made
partakers of the sacrament of Christ’s suffering and death, shortly after they
were born, by offering for them a lamb, which was a sacrament of Jesus Christ.
Moreover, what circumcision was to the Jews, that baptism is to our children.
And for this reason Paul calls baptism the circumcision of Christ.
（1）罗 10：4 （2）西 2：11；彼前 3：21；林前 10：2 （3）太 28：19 （4）林前 6：11；多 3：5；来 9：14；约壹 1：7；启 1：6 （5）约 19：34 （6）太 3：11；林前 3：5，7；罗 6：3 （7）腓 5：26；徒 22：16；彼前 3：21 （8）加 3：27；林前 12：13；腓 4：22-24 （9）可 16：16；太 28：19；腓 4：5；来 6：2 （10）徒 2：38；8：16 （11）太 19：14；林前 7：14 （12）创 17：11-12 （13）西 2：11-12 （14）约 1：29；利：12：6 （15）西 2：11
第三十五条 我们的主耶稣基督的圣餐
Article 35: The Sacrament of
the Lord’s Supper
我们相信并承认，我们的救主耶稣基督的确设立了圣餐这一圣礼（1），目的就在于滋养并扶持那些衪所重生的人，将他们纳入衪的家中，就是衪的教会。
We believe and confess that
our Savior Jesus Christ has ordained and instituted the sacrament of the Holy
Supper to nourish and sustain those who are already born again and ingrafted
into his family: his church.
如今，那些重生之人的生命具有两重性（2），一是属肉体的、现世性的生命，这是他们第一次出生所得来的，与众人一样；另一方面就是属灵与属天的生命，这是上帝在他们第二次出生时赐给他们的（3），是由福音真道（4）、与基督的身体联合中产生的；这一生命与众不同，乃是特别赐给上帝的选民的（5）。同样，为维系我们肉体性的、地上的生命，上帝一直赐给我们地上的食物，这食物是众人同样具有的，正如众人都有同样的生命一样。但是，为了维系信徒才有的属灵与属天的生命，衪就赐给我们从天上降下的生命之粮，就是耶稣基督（6）。当信徒吃喝祂，也就是藉着圣灵所赐给的信心领受祂的时候，祂就滋养并坚固他们属灵的生命（7）。
Now those who are born again
have two lives in them. The one is physical and temporal– they have it from the
moment of their first birth, and it is common to all. The other is spiritual
and heavenly, and is given them in their second birth; it comes through the
Word of the gospel in the communion of the body of Christ; and this life is
common to God’s elect only. Thus, to support the physical and earthly life God
has prescribed for us an appropriate earthly and material bread, which is as
common to all as life itself also is. But to maintain the spiritual and
heavenly life that belongs to believers he has sent a living bread that came
down from heaven: namely Jesus Christ, who nourishes and maintains the
spiritual life of believers when eaten– that is, when appropriated and received
spiritually by faith.
为要向我们表明这种属灵的属天的食物，基督就用世上的有形的饼来表征衪的身体，用酒来表征衪的宝血（8）。祂用这饼酒向我们证实，我们确实是用双手来领受这一圣礼，用我们的嘴来吃喝饼酒，使我们的生命得到滋养，同样我们也藉着信心，就是我们灵魂的手与嘴，在我们的灵魂中确确实实地领受我们独一的救主基督的身体和宝血，目的就在于使我们的灵命得到扶持（9）。
To represent to us this
spiritual and heavenly bread Christ has instituted an earthly and visible bread
as the sacrament of his body and wine as the sacrament of his blood. He did
this to testify to us that just as truly as we take and hold the sacraments in
our hands and eat and drink it in our mouths, by which our life is then
sustained, so truly we receive into our souls, for our spiritual life, the true
body and true blood of Christ, our only Savior. We receive these by faith,
which is the hand and mouth of our souls.
现在，确确实实，毫无疑问，耶稣基督吩咐我们善用祂所设立的圣礼，这一吩咐并不是徒然的，因为祂在我们心中做成祂藉着这些标志所代表的一切，尽管做成的方式超出我们的理解，是我们无法完全明白的，正如圣灵的运行是隐藏的，是我们无法完全明白的一样。同时， 我们说我们所吃所喝的乃是基督的真身体和真宝血，这种说法也不是错谬的（10）。但是，我们吃喝基督的身体与宝血，并不是用嘴，而是通过信心藉着圣灵吃喝。因此，尽管基督一直在天上坐在祂父的右边（11），但衪并没有因此就不再使我们藉着信心享用祂。这一筵席是属灵的筵席，基督在这筵席中把祂自己和一切恩惠都传递给我们，使我们在其中享用祂自己，也享用祂通过受苦和受死而赢得的各种功德（12），使我们可怜的得不到安慰的灵魂通过吃祂的身体而得到滋养、坚固和安慰，通过喝祂的宝血而得到复兴和更新（13）。
Now it is certain that Jesus
Christ did not prescribe his sacraments for us in vain, since he works in us
all he represents by these holy signs, although the manner in which he does it
goes beyond our understanding and is uncomprehensible to us, just as the
operation of God’s Spirit is hidden and incomprehensible. Yet we do not go
wrong when we say that what is eaten is Christ’s own natural body and what is
drunk is his own blood– but the manner in which we eat it is not by the mouth
but by the Spirit, through faith. In that way Jesus Christ remains always
seated at the right hand of God the Father in heaven– but he never refrains on
that account to communicate himself to us through faith. This banquet is a
spiritual table at which Christ communicates himself to us with all his
benefits. At that table he makes us enjoy himself as much as the merits of his
suffering and death, as he nourishes, strengthens, and comforts our poor,
desolate souls by the eating of his flesh, and relieves and renews them by the
drinking of his blood.
此外，尽管饼酒与其所代表的有关，但并不是所有的人都领受二者。不敬畏上帝的人领受这圣礼而被定罪（14），他并没有领受圣餐的真谛。正如犹大与行邪术的西门确实都领受了圣餐，但并未领受圣餐所表征的基督，唯独信徒才与基督有份。
Moreover, though the
sacraments and thing signified are joined together, not all receive both of
them. The wicked person certainly takes the sacrament, to his condemnation, but
does not receive the truth of the sacrament, just as Judas and Simon the
Sorcerer both indeed received the sacrament, but not Christ, who was signified
by it. He is communicated only to believers.
最后，我们是在上帝的子民的聚会中用谦卑、敬畏的心领受这一圣礼（15），用感恩的心来记念我们的救主基督的受死，从中告白我们的信心和基督徒的敬虔。因此，如果事先没有正确地省察自己，任何人都不可来到主的桌前，免得吃这饼，喝这杯，招惹上帝对他的审判（16）。总之，我们用此圣礼激励自己以火热之心爱上帝，爱我们的邻舍。
Finally, with humility and
reverence we receive the holy sacrament in the gathering of God’s people, as we
engage together, with thanksgiving, in a holy remembrance of the death of
Christ our Savior, and as we thus confess our faith and Christian religion.
Therefore no one should come to this table without examining himself carefully,
lest “by eating this bread and drinking this cup he eat and drink to his own
judgment.”[78] In short, by the use of this holy sacrament we are moved to a
fervent love of God and our neighbors.
所以，我们拒绝一切混杂与可恶的发明，就是人所添加并搀杂在其中的亵渎圣礼的一切；并且重申，我们当以基督及使徒教导我们的圣礼为满足，按照他们所讲说的方式来讲说圣餐之事。
Therefore we reject as
desecrations of the sacraments all the muddled ideas and damnable inventions
that men have added and mixed in with them. And we say that we should be
content with the procedure that Christ and the apostles have taught us and
speak of these things as they have spoken of them.
（1） 太 26：26；可 14：22；路 22：19；林前 11：23-25（2） 约 3：6
（3） 约 3：5（4） 约 5：23，25（5） 约壹 5：12；约 10：28（6） 约 6：32-33，51（7） 约 6：63（8） 可 6：26（9） 林前 10：16-17；腓 3：17；约 6：35（10） 约 6：55-56；林前 10：16（11） 徒 3：21；可 16：19；太 26：11（12） 太 26：26，等；路 22：19-20；林前 10：2-4（13） 赛 55：2；罗 8：22-23（14） 林前 11：29；林后 6：14-15；林前 2：14（15） 徒 2：42；20：7（16） 林前 11：27-28
第三十六条 执政官
36. Of Magistrates
我们相信，我们恩慈的上帝，由于人类的败坏就设定了君王、诸侯和各级执 政官（1），使人按照特定的律法与政策来管理世界，以便约束人的放荡，使凡事 规规矩矩按照次序行。因此，上帝把宝剑赐给执政掌权者，为要惩恶扬善。他们的 职分不仅是要关注国家的和平，也要保护教会的侍奉，清除、防止一切偶像崇拜和 虚假宗教（2），从而摧毁敌基督的国度，促进基督的国度。因此，他们必须扶持 福音真道在各处广传，使上帝受到所有人的尊崇和敬拜，正如上帝在圣经中所吩咐 的那样。
We believe that our gracious
God, because of the depravity of mankind, has appointed kings, princes and
magistrates, willing that the world should be governed by certain laws and
policies; to the end that the dissoluteness of men might be restrained and all
things carried on among them with good order and decency. For this purpose he
has invested the magistracy with the sword, for the punishment of evildoers,
and for the protection of them that do well. And their office is, not only to
have regard unto, and watch for the welfare of the civil state; but also that
they protect the sacred ministry; and thus may remove and prevent all idolatry
and false worship; that the kingdom of antichrist may be thus destroyed and the
kingdom of Christ promoted. They must therefore countenance the preaching of
the Word of the gospel everywhere, that God may be honoured and worshipped by
every one, as he commands in his Word.
此外，不管具有什么身份、资格和条件，人人都有责任顺服各级执政官 （3），向他们纳税（4），给与他们适当的尊敬，凡事只要不违背上帝的圣言，就 当顺服他们（5）；在祷告中为他们代求，恳求上帝在他们所行的各个方面掌管并 引导他们，好使我们可以用敬虔、诚实的方式享受和平、安宁的生活（6）。
Moreover, it is the bounden
duty of every one, of what state, quality, or condition soever he may be, to
subject himself to the magistrates; to pay tribute, to show due honour and
respect to them, and to obey them in all things which are not repugnant to the
Word of God; to supplicate for them in their prayers, that God may rule and
guide them in all their ways, and that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
in all godliness and honesty.
因此我们憎恶重洗派以及煽动叛乱之人的谬论。同时，我们也憎恶一切否定 各种在上的权威和执政官，颠覆司法次序（7），主张凡物共有，搅扰上帝在人间 所设立的礼仪和美好次序之人的谬论（8）。
Wherefore we detest the
Anabaptists and other seditious people, and in general all those who reject the
higher powers and magistrates, and would subvert justice, introduce community
of goods, and confound that decency and good order, which God has established
among men.
（1）出 18：20，等；罗 13：1；箴 8：15；耶 21：12；22：2-3；诗 82： 1，6；101：2；申 1：15-16；16：18；17：15；但 2：21，37；5：18 （2）赛 49：23，25；王上 15：12；王下 23：2-4 （3）多 3：1；罗 13：1 （4）可 12：17；太 17：24 （5）徒 4：17-19；5：29；何 5：11 （6）耶 29：7；提前 2：1-2 （7）彼后 2：10 （8）犹 8，10
第三十七条 最后的审判
37. Of the Last Judgment
最后，我们相信：根据上帝的圣言，当主所命定的时间（所有人都不知道） 来到，被选之人的数目添满，那时，我们的主耶稣基督要从天降临，以肉体和可见 的形式，正如祂升天时一样（2），大有荣耀和威严地来审判活人死人（3），用火 焰焚烧这个旧世界，使其洁净（4）。那时，所有人都要亲自来到这个大审判官面 前，从世界之初到世界末了所存在的男女、孩童（5），都要被天使长的声音和上 帝的角声召唤（6）。因为一切死了的人要从地上复活，他们的灵魂要与他们以前 活着时所有的身体联合（7）。至于那些还活着的人，他们不会再像其他人一样死 去，而是在眨眼之间被改变，从会朽坏的变为不朽坏的（8）。 那时案卷（就是人的良心）就会展开，那些死了的人要按着他们在这个世界上 所行的善恶之事受审判（9）。所有人都要为所说的每一句闲话交帐，就是世人仅 仅算为娱乐和笑话的（10）。那时，人所有的隐秘和虚伪都要暴露出来，展现在众 人的面前（11）。
Finally we believe, according
to the Word of God, when the time appointed by the Lord (which is unknown to
all creatures) is come, and the number of the elect complete, that our Lord
Jesus Christ will come from heaven, corporally and visibly, as he ascended,
with great glory and majesty to declare himself judge of the quick and the
dead; burning this old world with fire and flame, to cleanse it. And then all
men will personally appear before this great judge, both men and women and
children, that have been from the beginning of the world to the end thereof,
being summoned by the voice of the archangel, and by the sound of the trumpet
of God. For all the dead shall be raised out of the earth, and their souls
joined and united with their proper bodies, in which they formerly lived. As
for those who shall then be living, they shall not die as the others, but be
changed in the twinkling of an eye, and from corruptible, become incorruptible.
Then the books (that is to say the consciences) shall be opened, and the dead
judged according to what they shall have done in this world, whether it be good
or evil. Nay, all men shall give an account of every idle word they have
spoken, which the world only counts amusement and jest; and then the secrets
and hypocrisy of men shall be disclosed and laid open before all.
因此，对于恶人和不敬畏上帝的人而言，一想到这一审判就会感到恐怖和可怕 （12）；但是，对于义人和选民而言，这个审判却是让人极其喜欢，并且大得安 慰。因为那时他们的拯救达于完全，他们要在那里领受他们所经历的劳苦的成果 （13）。他们的无辜要被众人知道，并且他们要看见恶人受到上帝极其可怕的报应 （14）。这些恶人就是那些在这个世界上用极其残酷的方式逼迫、压制、折磨他们 的人（15）。他们要被自己的良心的见证定罪（16）。既然已经不朽，就要在不灭 的火中受煎熬（17），这火是为魔鬼和他的众使者预备的（18）。
And therefore the
consideration of this judgment, is justly terrible and dreadful to the wicked
and ungodly, but most desirable and comfortable to the righteous and elect:
because then their full deliverance shall be perfected, and there they shall
receive the fruits of their labour and trouble which they have borne. Their
innocence shall be known to all, and they shall see the terrible vengeance
which God shall execute on the wicked, who most cruelly persecuted, oppressed
and tormented them in this world; and who shall be convicted by the testimony of
their own consciences, and being immortal, shall be tormented in that
everlasting fire, which is prepared for the devil and his angels.
相反，那信实和蒙拣选的人要得到荣耀和尊贵为冠冕（19）；上帝的儿子要 在父上帝和蒙拣选的天使面前承认他们的名（20）；他们一切的眼泪都要被擦干 （21）；他们的事业，就是现今被众多审判官与执政官定为异端与不敬虔的事业， 那时就会显明为是上帝之子的事业（22）。主要按照祂自己的恩典赏赐他们，使他 们得着人心从未想到的荣耀（23）。 因此，我们极其盼望那大日的来临，好叫我们完全享受上帝在我们的主基督耶 稣里所赐给我们的诸般应许（24）。阿们！ “主耶稣啊，我愿祢来！”（启 22：20）。
But on the contrary, the
faithful and elect shall be crowned with glory and honour; and the Son of God
will confess their names before God his Father, and his elect angels; all tears
shall be wiped from their eyes; and their cause which is now condemned by many
judges and magistrates, as heretical and impious, will then be known to be the
cause of the Son of God. And for a gracious reward, the Lord will cause them to
possess such a glory, as never entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Therefore we expect that great day with a most ardent desire to the end that we
may fully enjoy the promises of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. AMEN. “Even so,
come, Lord Jesus.” - Rev.22:20.
（1） 太 24：36；25：13；帖前 5：1-2；启 6：11；徒 1：7；彼后 3：10 （2） 徒 1：11 （3） 帖后 1：7-8；徒 17：31；太 24：30；25：31；犹 15；彼前 4：5；提 后 4：1 （4） 彼后 3：7，10；帖后 1：8 （5） 启 20：12-13；徒 17：31；来 6：2；9：27；林后 5：10；罗 14：10 （6） 林前 15：42；启 20：12-13；帖前 4：16 （7） 约 5：28-19；6：54；但 12：2；伯 19：26-27 （8） 林前 15：51-53 （9） 启 20：12-13；林前 4：5；罗 14：11-12；伯 34：11；约 5：24；但 12：2；诗 62：13；太 11：22；23：33；约 5：29；罗 2：5-6；林后 5：10；来 6：2；9：27 （10）罗 2：5；犹 15；太 12：36 （11）林前 4：5；罗 2：1-2，16；太 7：1-2 （12）启 6：15-16；来 10：27 （13）路 21：28；约壹 3：2；4：17；启 14：7；帖后 1：5-7；路 14：14 （14）但 7：26 （15）太 25：46；帖后 1：6-8；玛 4：3 （16）罗 2：15 （17）启 21：8；彼后 2：9 （18）玛 4：1；太 25：41 （19）太 25：34；13：43 （20）太 10：32 （21）赛 25：8；启 21：4 （22）赛 66：5 （23）赛 64：4；林前 2：9 （24）来 10：36-38
