腓二5~7　你们里面要思念基督耶稣里面所思念的：祂本有神的形状，不以自己与神同等为强夺之珍，紧持不放，反而倒空自己，取了奴仆的形状……。

　　12　这样，我亲爱的，你们既是常顺从的，不但我与你们同在的时候，就是我如今不在的时候，更是顺从的，就当恐惧战兢，作成你们自己的救恩。

　　〔腓立比二章十二节的救恩〕不是指救我们脱离神的定罪和火湖的永远救恩，乃是指每天的救恩，就是一位活的人；这是我们以所活、所经历、所享受的基督，作外面和里面的榜样而有的结果。这救恩的主要元素，乃是作钉十字架生命的基督（5~8），以及在高举里的基督（9~11）。当这榜样成为信徒内里的生命时，就成了他们的救恩。只有这事会叫使徒的喜乐满足（圣经恢复本，腓二12注5）。

　　Phil. 2:5-7 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave…

　　12 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

　　[The salvation in Philippians 2:12 is] not eternal salvation from God's condemnation and from the lake of fire but the daily salvation that is a living Person. This daily salvation results from taking the very Christ whom we live, experience, and enjoy as our inward as well as outward pattern. The main elements of this salvation are Christ as the crucified life (vv. 5-8) and Christ in His exaltation (vv. 9-11). When this pattern becomes the believers' inward life, the pattern becomes their salvation. Only this would make the apostle's joy full. (Phil. 2:12, footnote 4)

　　腓立比二章五至十一节所启示的榜样，现今必须成为我们的救恩。这由十二节开头的“这样”二字所指明。保罗清楚地给我们看见基督是我们奇妙的榜样之后，就接着说，“这样，我亲爱的，……就当恐惧战兢，作成你们自己的救恩。”……作我们榜样的基督是包罗的，也是排他的。这个榜样是排他的，因为祂排除一切世界、肉体或罪恶的事物。消极的事物与基督无分无关，也无法进到祂里面。但在积极一面，祂是包罗万有的，因为祂是那倒空自己、降卑自己，并且被神高举并荣耀的神人救主。这样的榜样对我们既是如此便利，现今我们就必须作成自己的救恩。

　　作成我们自己的救恩，就是作出这榜样，在我们的经历中成为这榜样的翻印。作为榜样的基督，可比作印刷书籍所用的原版，而我们对这榜样的主观经历成为我们的救恩，可比作书页的印刷。在制作一本书的过程中，每一页原版都要一再地翻印，才能作出许多书来。在我们的经历中，神人救主应该被翻印，成为我们主观的救恩。我们所要作成的救恩，乃是作为我们榜样的基督。

　　多年来我一直不明白，保罗在二章十三节为什么说神，而不说那灵。现在我知道，保罗特意这样写，为要给我们看见，那作我们救恩榜样的基督，就是在我们里面运行的神。我们若思想这一节的上下文，就会看见，作为榜样的基督，也就是运行的神。在客观一面，祂是榜样；在主观一面，当祂进到我们里面，并在我们里面运行的时候，祂就是运行的神。在十字架上，祂是基督；但在我们里面，祂是运行的神。在十字架上，祂这位基督为我们设立一个榜样；但在我们里面，祂这位神乃是那不断运行以作出这榜样的一位。因此，榜样就是救恩，救恩就是运行的神。

　　我们每天都可以经历运行的神作我们实际的救恩。每当我们与那在我们里面运行的神合作，我们就享受救恩。神的运行成了我们的救恩。不仅如此，这救恩还是这榜样的翻印、复制。榜样在我们里面翻印，就成了我们的救恩。这榜样的翻印乃是借着神在我们里面运行而得以成就的（腓立比书生命读经，四五三至四五四、四五八页）。

　　在一章，救恩是来自耶稣基督之灵全备的供应；在二章，救恩是来自在我们里面运行的神。运行的神就是耶稣基督的灵。在这两处，救恩都是实行的、天天的、时时的。一章十九节常时的救恩，是为着特别的人，在特别的景况中，从特殊的遭遇中得救；二章十二节常时的救恩，是为着所有的信徒，在日常生活的一般景况中，从普通的事物中得救（圣经恢复本，腓二12注5）。

　　参读：腓立比书生命读经，第四十三、四十八至四十九篇。

　　The very pattern revealed in Philippians 2:5-11 must now become our salvation. This is indicated by the words so then at the beginning of verse 12. After giving us a clear view of Christ as our wonderful pattern, Paul says, “So then, my beloved,… work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” As our pattern, Christ is both inclusive and exclusive. The pattern is exclusive because it excludes everything worldly, fleshly, or sinful. There is no way for negative things to have any part in Him or access to Him. But, on the positive side, He is all-inclusive, for He is the God-man Savior who emptied and humbled Himself and who has been exalted and glorified by God. With such a pattern available to us, we now must work out our own salvation.

　　To work out our salvation is to work out this pattern and to become in our experience a reprint of the pattern. Christ as the pattern can be compared to a page of type used in printing a book, and our subjective experience of the pattern becoming our salvation can be compared to the printing of the pages of a book. In making a book, each page of type is reprinted again and again until there are many copies. In our experience, the God-man Savior should be reprinted and become our subjective salvation. The very salvation we are to work out is Christ as our pattern.

　　For years I did not understand why in Philippians 2:13 Paul spoke of God and not of the Spirit. Now I realize that Paul did this deliberately in order to show us that the Christ who is the pattern for our salvation is the very God operating in us. If we consider the context of this verse, we shall see that Christ as the pattern is also the operating God. Objectively, He is the pattern. Subjectively, when He comes into us and operates within us, He is the operating God. On the cross, He was Christ. But within us, He is the operating God. On the cross He, as Christ, established a pattern for us. But within us He, as God, is the operating One to work out this pattern. Therefore, the pattern is the salvation, and the salvation is the operating God.

　　We may experience the operating God daily as our practical salvation. Whenever we cooperate with God operating in us, we enjoy salvation. God's operation becomes our salvation. Furthermore, this salvation is the reprint, the reproduction, of the pattern. When the pattern is reprinted in us, it becomes our salvation. The reprinting of the pattern is accomplished by God operating in us. (Life-study of Philippians, pp. 378-379, 382)

　　In Philippians 1 salvation comes through the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, but in 2:12 salvation comes from the operating God within us. The operating God is actually the Spirit of Jesus Christ. In both these cases salvation is a practical, daily, moment-by-moment salvation. The constant salvation in 1:19 is one in which a particular believer is saved from a specific encounter in a particular situation, whereas the constant salvation in 2:12 is one in which any believer is saved from ordinary things in common situations in his daily living. (Phil. 2:12, footnote 4)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Philippians, msgs. 43, 48-49