弗四15~16 唯在爱里持守着真实，我们就得以在一切事上长到祂，就是元首基督里面；本于祂，全身……叫身体渐渐长大，以致在爱里把自己建造起来。

　　西二19　 ……持定元首；本于祂，全身借着节和筋，得了丰富的供应，并结合一起，就以神的增长而长大。

　　以弗所四章十五节的“元首”，指明我们在生命里借着基督的扩增而有的长大，该是身体肢体在元首之下的长大（圣经恢复本，弗四15注4）。

　　我们在生命里的长大，是长到元首基督里面；但我们在基督身体里的功用，是从元首出来的。首先我们长到元首里面，然后我们就有一些本于（出于）元首为着祂的身体建造的东西（弗四16注1）。

　　信徒在基督里是一，乃是凭着祂复活的生命和祂神圣的性情，成为一个新人，如以弗所二章十五节所说的。这一个新人是完全在基督里的。我们天然的人，天然的性情和天然的性格，在这里毫无地位；在这一个新人里，基督是一切，又在一切之内（西三10~11）。这基督里的一，是借受浸成就的。受浸了结了一切分裂的区别，并将信徒带进与经过过程之三一神那神圣的生机联结里，使信徒主观地确信，他们彼此完全是一（加三28注5）。

　　Eph. 4:15-16 But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ, out from whom all the Body…causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.

　　Col. 2:19 …Holding the Head, out from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

　　Head in Ephesians 4:15 indicates that our growth in life by the increase of Christ should be the growth of the members in the Body under the Head. (Eph. 4:15, footnote 4)

　　To grow in life is to grow into the Head, Christ, but to operate in the Body of Christ is to operate out from Him. First, we grow up into the Head; then we have something that is out from the Head for the building up of the Body. (Eph. 4:16, footnote 1)

　　The believers are one in Christ by His resurrection life and His divine nature to be the one new man, as mentioned in Ephesians 2:15….There is no room for our natural being, our natural disposition, and our natural character; in this one new man Christ is all and in all (Col. 3:10-11). This oneness in Christ is achieved through baptism, which terminates all the divisive distinctions and ushers the believers into the divine organic union with the processed Triune God, resulting in the believers' subjective assurance that they are one with one another. (Gal. 3:28, footnote 5)

　　当我们享受基督，并持定祂作元首时，我们就吸取祂的丰富。按照歌罗西二章十九节，有个东西从元首出来，使身体以神的增长而长大。当我们在诸天之上、在灵里享受基督时，就能持定元首，并吸取祂的丰富。然后有个东西会从元首出来，使神在我们里面增长。这意思是说，神的元素更多加到我们里面，因而也加到身体里面。这便叫身体以神的增长、神的增多而长大。

　　当我们持定元首，我们就能吸取那延展无限、包罗万有之基督的丰富。这些丰富就是神的元素；这些元素从元首出来，在我们里面成为神的扩增，使身体因此而长大。至终，基督的身体要成为一个新人，基督在其中是一切，又在一切之内。因着基督是新人独一的构成成分，祂就是新人的每一个肢体，又在每一个肢体之内。

　　借着持定基督作元首，我们就对基督的身体有感觉。我们经历身体生活，就从元首吸取丰富，这些丰富乃是神的元素，在身体的肢体里面成为神的扩增，使全身因此而长大。所以，基督身体的长大乃是享受基督，持定祂作元首，并吸取祂的丰富所产生的结果（歌罗西书生命读经，六一四至六一五页）。

　　吸收的工作是分赐很好的说明。吃完以后，分赐的细致工作立刻开始，为要将食物分赐到我们这人的细胞和组织里。同样，三一神的分赐是要使经过过程并终极完成的三一神成为我们这人的构成。这分赐的细致工作天天不断，并要完成于那灵印涂的墨渗透我们的整个身体（弗一13~14）。这将是我们得荣耀时身体的得赎（罗八23）。

　　三一神分赐到我们里面，使我们以神的增长而长大（西二19）。任何东西要长大，都必须有某种元素或本质的增加。人类凭他们所吸取的食物而长大。你若不吃什么，就无法长大。我们基督徒以神的增长、富余、增加而长大。我们重生时，神进入我们里面。如今祂借着将祂自己更多加给我们，就在我们里面增长。然而，每位弟兄或姊妹所有的神的分量并不相同。……要使主在我们里面增长，我们必须每天到神的话这里来吃（为着神圣经纶的神圣分赐，三二页）。

　　参读：歌罗西书生命读经，第五十六篇。

　　As we enjoy Christ and hold Him as the Head, we absorb His riches. According to Colossians 2:19, something proceeds out from the Head which causes the Body to grow with the growth of God. When we enjoy Christ in the heavens and in our spirit, we hold the Head and absorb His riches. Then out from the Head something will proceed to produce the growth of God in us. This means that more of the element of God is added into our being and thereby into the Body. This causes the Body to grow with the growth, the increase, of God.

　　As we hold the Head, we absorb the riches of the extensive, all-inclusive Christ. These riches are the elements of God, the very elements that proceed out from the Head and become in us the increase of God by which the Body grows. Eventually, the Body will be the one new man in which Christ is all and in all. Because Christ is the unique constituent of the new man, He is every member of the new man and in every member.

　　Through holding Christ as the Head, we become conscious of the Body. Experiencing the Body life, we absorb the riches out from the Head. These riches are the very elements of God which become in the members of the Body the increase of God by which the whole Body grows. Therefore, the growth of the Body is the product of enjoying Christ, holding Him as the Head, and absorbing His riches. (Life-study of Colossians, pp. 495-496)

　　The work of assimilation is a good illustration of dispensing. Immediately after eating, the fine work of dispensing begins in order to dispense the food into the cells, fibers, and tissues of our being. In the same way, the dispensing of the Triune God is to make the processed and consummated Triune God the very constitution of our being. This fine work of dispensing continues day by day and will be finalized when the sealing ink of the Spirit permeates our entire body (Eph. 1:13-14). This will be the redemption of our body (Rom. 8:23) when we are glorified.

　　The dispensing of the Triune God into us causes us to grow with the increase of God (Col. 2:19). For anything to grow it must increase with some element or substance. Human beings grow by the food they take in. If you do not eat anything, you cannot grow. We Christians grow with the increase, the surplus, the addition, of God. God entered into us when we were regenerated. Now He is increasing within us by adding more of Himself to us. However, the amount of God that each brother or sister has differs. To have the Lord increase within us, we must come to the Word of God to eat each day. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 3, “The Divine Dispensing for the Divine Economy,” p. 241)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Colossians, msg. 56