启一4~5　约翰写信给在亚西亚的七个召会：愿恩典与平安，从那今是昔是以后永是的，从祂宝座前的七灵，并从那忠信的见证人、死人中的首生者、为地上君王元首的耶稣基督，归与你们。祂爱我们，用自己的血，把我们从我们的罪中释放了。

　　神圣的三一是我们的神最高的神圣属性。已过在关于神身位的神学研究里，发明了“三一的”这辞。“三一的”是形容词，正如“圣别的”是形容词一样。三一神有一种属性，就是三一。……圣别是神的属性，三一也是神的属性。在林后十三章十四节，恩、爱与交通是三一神的属性，但神最高的属性乃是神圣的三一。说祂将祂自己分赐到我们里面，是一般的说法。专一地说，我们必须晓得，祂是分赐祂的三一，因为祂的三一是最高且包罗万有的属性，包括祂的爱、祂的恩、祂的交通、祂的圣别和祂的一切。……如果神不是三一的—父、子、灵，祂就无法将祂自己分赐到我们里面（长老训练第三册，八七页）。

　　Rev. 1:4-5 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood.

　　The Divine Trinity is the top divine attribute of our God. In the theological study of the past concerning God's person, the word triune was invented. Triune is an adjective just as holy is an adjective. The Triune God bears an attribute, which is trinity....Holiness is an attribute of God, and trinity is also an attribute of God. In 2 Corinthians 13:14 grace, love, and fellowship are attributes of the Triune God, but the top attribute of our God is the trinity. To say that He is dispensing Himself into us is a general speaking. Specifically speaking, we must realize that He is dispensing His trinity because His trinity is the top and all-inclusive attribute including His love, His grace, His fellowship, His holiness, and His everything.

　　If God were not triune—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—He could not have a way to dispense Himself into us. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, "Elders' Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision," p. 304)

　　这次交通会帮助你们明了，如何使用、领会并应用圣经中，特别在新约里，论到神圣三一的许多经文。因为整体说来，圣经是由神圣的三一构成的。这是一个很大的主题。我相信在要来的年日里，我们若是对祂忠信，关于这件事会有更多的光（长老训练第三册，八九页）。

　　我们要以准确、简洁的方式来看，关于神圣的三一，圣经到底说了什么。为着这次研读，我们需要全人专注，操练我们的心思和我们的灵。这样透彻、详尽研究的结论，应该成为我们衡量所有其他教训的标准，包括教父、大公会议和信经的教训。

　　主的恢复是真理的恢复。主使用路德马丁恢复了关于因信称义的真理。神圣三一的重要真理已经争论了十九个世纪；我们花时间和精力，带着祷告的灵，对圣言中所启示的神圣三一，作一次透彻、详尽的研读，是非常值得的。我们在辩证的灵里，刻意用“圣言中所启示的”这辞，含示我们只在意圣经所说的，并且我们知道圣经所说的可能不同于传统的教训。然而，我们的灵不是为着争执，而是为着供应真理，给圣徒预防注射，好对抗错误的教训。

　　圣经包含许多明确的教训，就如使徒保罗在罗马三至五章论到称义的教训。然而，圣经没有任何直接论及神圣三一的教训或道理。反之，圣经从始至终，只在许多神圣、属灵事实的描述中指明三一。例如创世记一章一节……就指明三一。尽管这一节没有任何关于三一的教训或道理，但我们看见，神创造的描述确定地指明神是三一的。

　　已过十九个世纪以来，许多伟大的学者主要是将三一想成一种教训，要使我们认识神的身位，就是祂的神格。然而，圣经没有关于三一的道理，这事实强烈指明，三一的存在不是为着教训，而是为使神将祂自己作到我们里面，使我们可以有分于、经历并享受祂。这在马太二十八章十九节和林后十三章十四节完全得着证明；这些是圣经中关于三一的最佳经文（圣言中所启示的神圣三一，二至四页）。

　　参读：长老训练第三册，第七至八篇。

　　This fellowship may help you to realize how to use, understand, and apply many verses in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, concerning the Divine Trinity because as a whole the Bible is constructed with the Divine Trinity. This is a great subject. I believe that if we are faithful to Him in the coming years, more light will come concerning this matter. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, "Elders' Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision," p. 305)

　　In a precise and brief way we will see what the Bible actually says about the Trinity. For this kind of study we need to concentrate our entire being, exercising both our mind and our spirit. The conclusion of such a thorough and exhaustive study should be the standard by which we measure all other teachings, including those of the church fathers, councils, and creeds.

　　The Lord's recovery is a recovery of the truth. With Martin Luther the Lord recovered the truth concerning justification by faith. The crucial truth of the Divine Trinity has been debated for nineteen centuries. It is altogether worthwhile for us to spend our time and energy with a spirit of prayer to conduct a thorough and exhaustive study of the Divine Trinity as revealed in the holy Word. We intentionally use the phrase as revealed in the holy Word in a polemical spirit to imply that we care only for what the Bible says, and we recognize that what the Bible says may be different from traditional teachings. Nevertheless, our spirit is not to fight but to minister the truth to inoculate the saints against wrong teachings.

　　The Bible contains many explicit teachings, such as the apostle Paul's teaching concerning justification in Romans 3 through 5. However, the Scriptures do not contain any direct teaching or doctrine concerning the Divine Trinity. Instead, the Trinity is only indicated throughout the Scriptures in many narrations of the divine and spiritual facts. For instance, Genesis 1:1...indicates the Trinity. Although this verse does not contain any teaching or doctrine of the Trinity, we will see that the narration of God's creation definitely indicates that God is triune.

　　Through the past nineteen centuries many great scholars have primarily considered the Trinity as a teaching for us to know about God's person, His Godhead. However, the fact that the Bible contains no doctrines concerning the Trinity indicates strongly that the Trinity does not exist for teaching but for God to work Himself into us so that we may partake of, experience, and enjoy Him. This is fully proven by Matthew 28:19 and 2 Corinthians 13:14, which are the best verses concerning the Trinity in the Bible. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 3, "The Divine Trinity as Revealed in the Holy Word," pp. 207-209)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, "Elders' Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision," chs. 7-8