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2018-12-26


接受祂的神性Accepting His Deity

[每日靈修] 12/25/2018,  駱鴻銘編譯

耶穌在約翰福音十七章中的大祭司禱告中說道:「父啊,現在求你使我同你享榮耀,就是未有世界以先,我同你所有的榮耀。」(第5節)。耶穌在這裏提到了祂在創世之前所擁有的地位。這是對祂參與上帝永恆榮耀的默認。

在第四世紀,教會在基督的神性方面面臨嚴重的危機。亞流派異教徒否認基督的神性,聲稱耶穌是一個被上帝收養,而與上帝建立特殊關係的受造物。在他們與正統基督徒的爭論中,他們使用了粗俗和貶義的歌曲作為宣傳方法。

為了回應亞流派的攻擊,正統基督徒製作了他們自己的歌曲,其中一首是榮耀頌(Gloria Patri)。請注意這首著名歌曲的歌詞:

榮耀都歸於聖父、聖子、聖靈,三一全能真神。
正如太初直到現今,榮耀萬古而常新。永無窮盡,阿們,阿們。

Gloria Patri在被教會接納之初就起到了一種戰鬥歌曲的作用,是對正統基督教的號召。這個原始功能已經隨著時間而丟失了,因此它現在是用來作為崇拜禮儀中的回應。我們不再意識到那種將榮耀歸於基督的非凡意義。

活在神的面光中(在神面前禱告):
嘗試在本此的閱讀中使用Gloria Patri作為屬靈爭戰的歌曲。引用或大聲唱出來。

進一步研讀:
約十七5 父啊,現在求你使我同你享榮耀,就是未有世界以先,我同你所有的榮耀。
約十七22 你所賜給我的榮耀,我已賜給他們,使他們合而為一,像我們合而為一。
約十七24 父啊,我在哪裡,願你所賜給我的人也同我在那裡,叫他們看見你所賜給我的榮耀;因為創立世界以前,你已經愛我了。

Accepting His Deity
In Jesus’ high priestly prayer in John 17, He says: “And now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was” (v. 5). Here Jesus alludes to a position He held before creation. It is a tacit claim to His participation in the eternal glory of God.

In the fourth century, the church faced a serious crisis with respect to the deity of Christ. The Arian heretics denied the deity of Christ, claiming that Jesus was a creature who was adopted into a special relationship with God. In their controversy with orthodox Christians, they used ribald and derogatory songs as a method of propaganda.

In response to the Arian attacks, the orthodox Christians composed their own songs, one of which was the Gloria Patri. Note the words of this well-known song:

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, amen.

In its inception, the Gloria Patri functioned as a type of fight song, a rallying cry for orthodox Christianity. That original function has been lost through the passing of time so that it is now used as a liturgical response. We no longer sense the extraordinary significance of ascribing glory to Christ.

Coram Deo
Try using the Gloria Patri in this reading as a spiritual warfare song. Quote or sing it out loud.

Passages for Further Study
John 17:5
John 17:22
John 17:24