我们因信耶稣基督而称义 - 加拉太书读经随笔 第2章

加拉太书第二章第11-18节，保罗回忆说那次在安提阿，他批评了彼得（耶稣的十二个门徒之首）。原因是在安提阿，彼得本来与外邦人每次都一起吃饭，但是当那些受过割礼的人从雅各那里到来后，彼得就害怕，不再与外邦人一起吃饭了（因为外邦人是没有受过割礼的人）。当保罗看到彼得所做的不符合福音的真理时，就当着所有人的面批评了彼得。这所有的人里面就包括从雅各那里来的受过割礼的人。从保罗的话语里看，这些话是更多的说给那些受过割礼的人听的。保罗说我们虽为犹太人，但现在由于福音的缘故，行事为人不再遵循犹太人的老传统（这些老传统无非是要人行律法称义）。因此，我们不应该强迫外邦人随从犹太人的老传统行事；并且，我们知道人称义不是因为遵行律法，而是因为相信耶稣基督，因为凡有血气的，没有一人因行律法能够称义。可见，保罗写这段回忆的目的是再次向加拉太的弟兄们强调因信称义的道理。

 

加2:11 后来矶法到了安提阿、因他有可责之处、我就当面抵挡他。

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

加2:12 从雅各那里来的人、未到以先、他和外邦人一同吃饭．及至他们来到、他因怕奉割礼的人、就退去与外邦人隔开了。

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

加2:13 其余的犹太人、也都随着他装假．甚至连巴拿巴也随伙装假。

And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

加2:14 但我一看见他们行的不正、与福音的真理不合、就在众人面前对矶法说、你既是犹太人、若随外邦人行事、不随犹太人行事、怎么还勉强外邦人随犹太人呢。

But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

加2:15 我们这生来的犹太人、不是外邦的罪人、

"We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

加2:16 既知道人称义、不是因行律法、乃是因信耶稣基督、连我们也信了基督耶稣、使我们因信基督称义、不因行律法称义．因为凡有血气的、没有一人因行律法称义。

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.