耶二三5~6 ……我要给大卫兴起一个公义的苗；祂必作王掌权，行事精明，在地上施行公理和公义。……人要称呼祂的名为，耶和华我们的义。

　　三三16 在那些日子，犹大必得救，耶路撒冷必安然居住；这城的名必称为：耶和华我们的义。

　　〔在耶利米二十三章六节〕“耶和华我们的义”指神性里的基督，“公义的苗”（5）指人性里的基督。这里的名指明，基督作为大卫的后裔不仅是人，也是耶和华，就是那位创造天地、拣选亚伯拉罕、建立以色列族的，祂是大卫的主，就是大卫称祂为主的（太二二42~45，参启五5，二二16）（圣经恢复本，耶二三6注1）。

　　〔在耶利米二十三章六节〕“我们的”，指明基督与我们成为一，作我们的义（林前一30，林后五21）。基督基于祂的救赎，成为我们的义。基督是公义的苗（耶二三5），在肉体里来，作大卫的后裔，在十字架上受死流血，为要洗去我们的罪，并完成救赎（弗一7，来九22，彼前一18~19）。我们有了祂的救赎为基础，就能信入祂而蒙神赦免（徒十43），神就能称义我们（罗三24、26），使基督成为我们的义，而给我们穿上义袍（赛六一10）。这乃是为三一神的具体化身基督（西二9）开了一条路，使祂能进入我们里面，作我们的生命（三4上），我们内里生命的律（耶三一33），和我们的一切，而将祂自己分赐到我们全人里面，以完成神永远的经纶（耶二三6注2）。

　　Jer. 23:5-6 …I will raise up to David a righteous Shoot; and He will reign as King and act prudently and will execute justice and righteousness in the land….And this is His name by which He will be called: Jehovah our righteousness.

　　33:16 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely; and this is the name by which she will be called: Jehovah our righteousness.

　　Jehovah our righteousness [in Jeremiah 23:6] refers to Christ in His divinity, and a righteous Shoot (v. 5), to Christ in His humanity. The name here indicates that Christ, as a descendant of David, is not merely a man but is also the very Jehovah who created the heavens and the earth, selected Abraham, established the race of Israel, and was the Lord of David, the One whom he called Lord (Matt. 22:42-45; cf. Rev. 5:5; 22:16). (Jer. 23:6, footnote 1)

　　Our in Jeremiah 23:6 indicates that Christ becomes one with us to be our righteousness (1 Cor. 1:30; 2 Cor. 5:21). Christ is made our righteousness based on His redemption. As the righteous Shoot (Jer. 23:5), Christ came in the flesh as the descendant of David to die on the cross and shed His blood in order to wash away our sins and accomplish redemption (Eph. 1:7; Heb. 9:22; 1 Pet. 1:18-19). With His redemption as the basis, we can believe into Him to receive God’s forgiveness (Acts 10:43), and God can justify us (Rom. 3:24, 26), make Christ our righteousness, and clothe us with the robe of righteousness (Isa. 61:10). This opens the way for Christ as the embodiment of the Triune God (Col. 2:9) to enter into us as our life (Col. 3:4a), our inner law of life (Jer. 31:33), and our everything, to dispense Himself into our entire being for the accomplishing of God’s eternal economy. (Jer. 23:6, footnote 2)

　　神绝不放弃蒙祂拣选却岔开的子民。祂在定罪、惩罚、惩治以色列时，定意要成为肉体，作大卫的苗，使祂能成为祂子民的义。基于基督作为耶和华来成为他们的义，邪恶的以色列族必能得着恢复。至终，以色列要彰显基督—他们的义，作他们的中心（他们的所是）和他们的普及（他们的彰显）。这彰显要终极完成于新耶路撒冷（启二一12）（圣经恢复本，耶二三6注3）。

　　耶利米书核仁中的第三件事是基督之于我们的所是。……基督虽然是神，却成了大卫的苗或嫩条。这也就是说，祂成为肉体，成了大卫的苗裔〔二三5〕。基督作大卫的苗，嫩条，是柔细的、活的、新鲜的。

　　基督，大卫公义的苗，称为耶和华我们的义。在我们堕落的光景中，我们是败坏、罪恶、诡诈、无法医治且不能改变的。我们在神面前怎能是义的？在我们自己里面，这是不可能的；但在基督里，我们就能成为义的。……基于基督的救赎，神就能赦免我们的罪，忘记我们的罪，并称义我们。不仅如此，以基督的救赎作根基，基督自己就成了我们的义。不仅我们蒙神称义，神也将基督赐给我们，作我们的公义（林前一30）。基督已与我们成为一，作我们的公义，这是美妙的事实。

　　我们外面得称义，有基督作我们的义，但我们里面仍是虚空的；所以，我们还需要基督作我们别的事物。我们需要基督作神圣的生命，就是作到我们里面之人里神圣的生命（耶三一33）。这生命是个律，在我们里面作工，将神丰富所是里的一切，分赐到我们里面。神自己这样分赐、这样传输到我们里面，结果我们就不再虚空；反之，我们被分赐的三一神充满（耶利米书生命读经，三一四至三一五页）。

　　参读：耶利米书生命读经，第二篇；以赛亚书生命读经，第四十七篇。

　　God would never give up His elect yet distracted people. While He was condemning, punishing, and chastising Israel, He intended to be incarnated as a Shoot unto David so that He could be His people’s righteousness. Based on Christ’s coming as Jehovah to be their righteousness, the evil race of Israel can be restored. Eventually, Israel will manifest Christ, who is their righteousness, as their centrality (their being) and their universality (their expression). This manifestation will consummate in the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:12). (Jer. 23:6, footnote 3)

　　The third matter in the kernel of the book of Jeremiah is what Christ is to us….Although Christ is God, He became a Shoot, or Sprout, of David [Jer. 23:5]. This means that He was incarnated to be a descendant of David. As a Shoot, the Sprout, of David, Christ is tender, living, and fresh. Christ, the righteous Shoot of David, is called Jehovah our righteousness. In our fallen condition we are corrupt, sinful, deceitful, incurable, and unchangeable. How could we ever be righteous before God? In ourselves this is impossible, but we can become righteous in Christ….Based upon Christ’s redemption, God is able to forgive our sins, to forget our sins, and to justify us. Furthermore, with the redemption of Christ as the foundation, Christ Himself has become our righteousness. Not only have we been justified by God, but God has given Christ to us to be our righteousness (1 Cor. 1:30). It is a wonderful fact that Christ has become one with us to be our righteousness.

　　Outwardly, we are justified, having Christ as our righteousness, but inwardly we are still empty. Therefore, we need Christ to be something else to us. We need Christ as the divine life, the divine life that is wrought into our inner being (Jer. 31:33). This life is a law which works in us to dispense into our being all that God is in His rich being. As a result of this dispensing, this transfusing of God Himself into us, we are no longer empty. On the contrary, we are filled with the dispensing Triune God. (Life-study of Jeremiah, pp. 261-262)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Jeremiah, msg. 2; Life-study of Isaiah, msg. 47