彼前二21 ……基督也为你们受过苦，给你们留下榜样，叫你们跟随祂的脚踪行。

　　23 祂被骂不还口，受苦不说威吓的话，只将一切交给那按公义审判的。

　　彼后一3 神的神能，借着我们充分认识……祂……，已将一切关于生命和敬虔的事赐给我们。

　　随着神的行政，有神的供备。神将祂的供备赐给我们，使我们能与祂的行政配合。换句话说，我们若要完成神的行政，就需要神的供备；那就是说，我们需要神圣的供应。在彼得后书里，作者首先陈明神圣的供应。我们看见神的能力如何供给我们需要的一切供应。这是本书主要的意义。不但如此，彼得后书给我们看见彼得前书所揭示神行政之图画的延续。所以，彼得后书有神圣的供备与神圣的行政（彼得后书生命读经，一页）。

　　1 Pet. 2:21 …Christ also suffered on your behalf, leaving you a model so that you may follow in His steps.

　　23 Who being reviled did not revile in return; suffering, He did not threaten but kept committing all to Him who judges righteously.

　　2 Pet. 1:3 Seeing that His divine power has granted to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the full knowledge of Him…

　　With God’s government there is God’s provision. God grants us His provision so that we may cooperate with His government. In other words, if we would carry out God’s government, we need God’s provision; that is, we need the divine supply. In 2 Peter the writer first presents the divine supply. We see how God’s power provides all the supply for our need. This is the main significance of this book. Furthermore, the Epistle of 2 Peter shows us a continuation of the picture of God’s government unveiled in 1 Peter. Therefore, what we have in 2 Peter is the divine provision and the divine government. (Life-study of 2 Peter, p. 1)

　　〔在彼前二章二十三节，〕“一切”指主所受一切的苦。主总是把所受的一切羞辱和伤害，交给那位在祂的行政里按公义审判的公义之神，使自己服从祂。这指明主在地上生活为人时，承认神的行政。

　　我有点担心，你们读本节时，也许没有留意“审判”这辞。我们习惯说，我们将事情交给信实、怜悯或恩慈的主。你曾说“我将一切交给那按公义审判的神”么？我想我们没有多少人有过这种实行。我们没有这样祷告，原因是我们的祷告、措辞和发表还是太传统。这使我们不会去应用神纯正话语里的许多思想和发表。

　　主耶稣在地上受苦时，将一切交给那按公义审判的一位。这简短的话不但指明主过一种作我们榜样的生活，也指明祂过一种绝对在神行政下的生活。祂自己始终在神的行政下，祂将一切与祂有关的事都交给神的审判。

　　在四章十二节彼得说，“亲爱的，有火炼的试验临到你们，为要试炼你们，不要以为奇怪，似乎是遭遇非常的事。”火炼的试验，原文意焚烧，表征炼净金银之熔炉的焚烧（箴二七21，诗六六10），与彼前一章七节所用的隐喻相似。彼得认为信徒所遭受的逼迫，乃是这样一个神用以炼净他们生命的熔炉。这是神在行政管理的审判中对付信徒的方式，这审判要从神自己的家起首（四17~19）。

　　火炼的试验不是神对付罪人或反对者的方式，乃是对付信徒，对付祂家人的方式。焚烧的炉是神用来执行祂行政管理之审判的方法。在祂行政的管理中，祂用火炼的试验作熔炉，炼净信徒可能有的任何渣滓。不错，我们在基督里的信徒是金子，但我们仍有许多渣滓。所以，我们需要被炼净。这个炼净不能只借着教导、交通或参加召会的聚会完成。我们都需要经过焚烧的炉。神将我们放在焚烧的炉里，放在火炼的试验里，烧去我们的渣滓。彼得认为这是神在信徒身上行政对付的审判（彼得前书生命读经，二二○至二二一、二九七、三三一页）。

　　参读：彼得后书生命读经，第一、十三篇。

　　[In 1 Peter 2:23], according to the usage of the verb “kept committing” in Greek, “all” needs to be inserted here as its object. This word refers to all the sufferings of the Lord. He kept committing all the insults He suffered and all His injuries to Him who judges righteously in His government, to the righteous God, to whom He submitted Himself. This indicates that the Lord recognized God’s government while He was living a human life on earth.

　　I am somewhat concerned that in your reading of this verse you may not pay attention to the word judges. We are accustomed to saying that we commit things to the Lord who is faithful or merciful or kind. Have you ever said, “I commit everything to God who judges righteously”? I do not think that many of us have had this practice. The reason we do not pray like this is that our prayer, expression, and utterance are still too traditional. This keeps us from applying many of the thoughts and utterances in the pure Word.

　　While the Lord Jesus was on earth suffering, He kept committing all to the One who judges righteously. This brief word indicates not only that the Lord lived a life that was a model for us, but also that He lived a life absolutely under God’s government. He Himself was always under the government of God, and He committed everything related to Him to God’s judgment.

　　In 1 Peter 4:12 Peter says, “Beloved, do not think that the fiery ordeal among you, coming to you for a trial, is strange, as if it were a strange thing happening to you.”…Fiery ordeal here means burning. It signifies the burning of a smelting furnace for the purification of gold and silver, like the metaphor used in 1:7. Peter considered the persecution the believers suffered as such a burning furnace used by God to purify their life. This is God’s way to deal with the believers in the judgment of His governmental administration, which begins from His own house (4:17-19).

　　The fiery ordeal is God’s way to deal not with sinners and opposers but with believers, the members of His household. The burning furnace is a means used by God to carry out the judgment of His governmental administration. In the administration of His government, God uses fiery ordeals as a furnace to purify any dross the believers may have. Yes, as believers in Christ we are gold, yet we still have a lot of dross. Therefore, we need to be purified. This purification cannot be accomplished simply through teaching, fellowship, or attending the meetings of the church. We all need to pass through the burning furnace. God puts us into a burning furnace, into fiery ordeals, to burn away our dross. This is regarded by Peter as a judgment in God’s governmental dealing with the believers. (Life-study of 1 Peter, pp. 185-186, 275-276)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of 2 Peter, msgs. 1, 13