以信为本的人和亚伯拉罕一同得福 - 加拉太书读经随笔 第3章

加拉太书第三章第1-9节，保罗对加拉太人说耶稣基督已经在我们眼前被钉上了十字架，又是谁迷惑了弟兄姊妹们让大家远离福音呢？要知道我们是因为听信福音而受了圣灵，而不是因为遵行律法。因此，既然我们以听信福音开始，就让我们始终持守在福音里，而不是转而去服从肉体或者说律法，以行律法为本的都是被咒诅的。因为神要叫人因信称义，所以在旧约圣经里亚伯拉罕信神就算他为义，并预见了神将要外邦人因信称义，就预先传福音给亚伯拉罕说万邦必因他得福。可见，那以信为本的人都会和有信心的亚伯拉罕一同得福，并且成为亚伯拉罕的子孙。

 

加3:1 无知的加拉太人哪、耶稣基督钉十字架、已经活画在你们眼前、谁又迷惑了你们呢。

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?

加3:2 我只要问你们这一件、你们受了圣灵、是因行律法呢、是因听信福音呢。

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

加3:3 你们既靠圣灵入门、如今还靠肉身成全么．你们是这样的无知么。

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

加3:4 你们受苦如此之多、都是徒然的么．难道果真是徒然的么。

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

加3:5 那赐给你们圣灵、又在你们中间行异能的、是因你们行律法呢、是因你们听信福音呢。

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

加3:6 正如『亚伯拉罕信　神这就算为他的义。』

Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

加3:7 所以你们要知道那以信为本的人、就是亚伯拉罕的子孙。

Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

加3:8 并且圣经既然预先看明、　神要叫外邦人因信称义、就早已传福音给亚伯拉罕、说、『万国都必因你得福。』

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

加3:9 可见那以信为本的人、和有信心的亚伯拉罕一同得福。

So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.