林后十三14　愿主耶稣基督的恩，神的爱，圣灵的交通，与你们众人同在。

　　约贰3　恩典、怜悯、平安从父神，并从父的儿子耶稣基督，在真理和爱中，必与我们同在。

　　林后十三章十四节说，“愿主耶稣基督的恩，神的爱，圣灵的交通，与你们众人同在。”这里的祝福实际上是与民数记六章二十三至二十六节的祝福一样。主的恩就是主自己作我们的生命，给我们享受；神的爱就是神自己，作主恩的源头；圣灵的交通就是圣灵自己，作了主恩同着神爱的传输，给我们有分（民数记生命读经，九一页）。

　　2 Cor. 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

　　2 John 3 Grace, mercy, peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

　　The blessing in 2 Corinthians 13:14 is actually the same as that in Numbers 6:23-26. The grace of the Lord is the Lord Himself as life to us for our enjoyment, the love of God is God Himself as the source of the grace of the Lord, and the fellowship of the Spirit is the Spirit Himself as the transmission of the grace of the Lord with the love of God for our participation. (Life-study of Numbers, pp. 82-83)

　　在林后十三章十四节，使徒保罗也给人祝福的表样。……我们已经看见，祭司将人带给神。然而，使徒将神带给人；他带着神临到人。在十四节，我们看见三一神恩典的眷临。在使徒保罗的祝福里，三一神临到人，作他们的享受。这享受就是神的爱，作了基督的恩典，凭着圣灵的交通。爱、恩典和交通，不是三样分开的东西，乃是一样东西的三个方面或三个阶段。爱、恩典和交通乃是神作我们享受的三个阶段—爱是里面的，恩典是爱得了彰显，交通是恩典传输到我们里面。爱是在神自己里面。这爱得了彰显，就是恩典，而恩典是在交通里得以传输。我可能爱一位弟兄，这爱是在我的里面。这爱如何才能彰显出来？我可以送他一本圣经，把这爱彰显出来。圣经代表恩典，作我里面对这位弟兄爱的彰显。我要将这恩典传递给他，就必须真的将圣经交给他。这就是交通。

　　在旧约里，关于祝福的基本思想是将人带到神面前。但在新约里，与神同来的使徒，不仅将人带到神面前，也将神带到人里面。旧约借着祭司祝福的表样，与新约借着使徒祝福的表样，有很大的不同。新约的祝福高得多，也深得多。一方面，祝福别人就是将人带到神面前；另一方面，祝福乃是将神作为爱、恩典和交通带到人里面。

　　所有的基督徒对祝福这辞都很熟悉。有一首诗歌甚至说，“数主祝福！要一一地数！”（诗歌四九四首）毫无疑问，这首诗歌对祝福所表达的观念是，祝福就是得着好妻子，得着儿女、教育、升迁、房屋和轿车。照着这首诗歌，这些就是我们该一一数算的祝福。〔多年以前，〕我在一年的最后几小时唱这首诗歌。我把一些人召聚在一起，说，“让我们一一数算已过这一年的祝福。”但照着神纯正的话，祝福与此大不相同。照着旧约借着祭司祝福的表样，与新约借着使徒祝福的表样，正确的祝福乃是将人带到神面前，并将神当作恩典、爱和交通带到人里面，使他们享受三一神—父、子、灵。因此，祝福乃是一件享受三一神的事（创世记生命读经，一四五一至一四五二页）。

　　神的爱是源头，因为神是元始；主的恩是神爱的流道，因为主是神的显出；灵的交通乃是主的恩同着神爱的分赐，因为灵是主同着神的传输，给我们经历并享受三一神—父、子、圣灵，连同祂们神圣的美德（圣经恢复本，林后十三14注1）。

　　参读：创世记生命读经，第九十五篇。

　　In 2 Corinthians 13:14 the apostle Paul also gives a pattern of blessing....We have seen that a priest brings people to God. An apostle, however, brings God to people; he comes to people with God. In 2 Corinthians 13:14 we see a gracious visitation of the Triune God. In the blessing of the apostle Paul, the Triune God comes to people for their enjoyment. This enjoyment is the love of God as the grace of Christ by the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Love, grace, and fellowship are not three separate things; they are three aspects or stages of one thing. They are the three stages of God for our enjoyment. Love is within, grace is love expressed, and fellowship is the transmission of grace into us. Love is within God Himself. When this love is expressed, it is grace, and grace is transmitted in the fellowship. I may love a certain brother, but this love is within me. How can it be expressed? I may express it by giving him a Bible. The Bible represents grace as the expression of the love I have within me for this brother. In order to communicate this grace to him, I must actually hand the Bible to him. This is fellowship.

　　In the Old Testament the basic thought with respect to blessing is that of bringing people into God's presence. But in the New Testament the apostle, coming with God, not only brought people into the presence of God; he also brought God into them. There is a great difference between the Old Testament pattern of blessing by the priests and the New Testament pattern of blessing by the apostle. The New Testament blessing is much higher and deeper. On the one hand, to bless others is to bring them into the presence of God; on the other hand, it is to bring God into them as love, grace, and fellowship.

　　All Christians are familiar with the word blessing. One hymn even says, "Count your blessings, name them one by one." Undoubtedly, the concept of blessing expressed in this hymn is that blessing is a matter of being given a good wife, children, education, promotions, houses, and cars. According to this hymn, these are the blessings we should count one by one. More than thirty-five years ago, I sang this hymn during the last few hours of the year. I would gather some together and say, "Let us count the blessings of this past year, one by one." But the blessing according to the pure Word is much different from this. According to the Old Testament pattern of the blessing by the priest and the New Testament pattern of blessing by the apostle, the proper blessing is to bring people into the presence of God and to bring God into them as grace, love, and fellowship that they may enjoy the Triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Hence, blessing is a matter of enjoying the Triune God. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 1217-1218)

　　The love of God is the source, since God is the origin; the grace of the Lord is the course of the love of God, since the Lord is the expression of God; and the fellowship of the Spirit is the impartation of the grace of the Lord with the love of God, since the Spirit is the transmission of the Lord with God, for our experience and enjoyment of the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, with Their divine virtues. (2 Cor. 13:14, footnote 1)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Genesis, msg. 95