The Life in Christ, Translated by C.J. deCatanzaro, Crestwood, New York 1974;参Panayiotis Nellas, Deification in Christ, p.111, St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1984 为这缘故,
约三16虽然没有提到“救”字,
三17节却有提到“救”字。“因为神差祂的儿子降世,不是要定世人的罪,乃是要叫世人因祂得救。”原因是十七节是包括在
16节里。
16节是总题,
17节是批注。
17节的得救,乃是
16节的“赐给”里一部分的工作。事实上,许多古教父视真正的“得救”为“成神”,而不是仅仅蒙“救赎”得赦罪。
Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology, An Introduction, pp.360-361, Blackwell Publishers
McGrath, Iustitia Dei, A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification, The Beginnings to the Reformation, p.3, Cambridge University Press
Jules Gross, La Divinisation Du Chretien Dapres Les Peres Gress, Librairie Lecoffre, J. Gabalda et Cle, Editeurs, Paris, 1938
Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, A History of the Development of Doctrine, 1, The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition, p.155, p.206, University of Chicago Press
参Dispensatio, Chambers & Murray, p.207; Lewis & Short, p.591, Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, p.77; Dictionary of St. Thomas Aquinas, pp.305-306
Tertullian, Against Praxeas, Chap. Ⅱ, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. Ⅲ, p.598, Eerdman Publishing Co.,该段原文拉丁文为unicum quidem Deum eredimus: sub hac tamen dispensatione, quam oeconomiam dicimus, ut unici Dei sit et Filius Sermo ipsius