启三8　　 我知道你的行为；看哪，我在你面前给你一个敞开的门，是无人能关的；因为你稍微有一点能力，也曾遵守我的话，没有否认我的名。

　　10　 你既遵守我忍耐的话，我也必保守你免去……试炼的时候。

　　太十八20 因为无论在哪里，有两三个人被聚集到我的名里，哪里就有我在他们中间。

　　“非拉铁非”，原文意弟兄相爱。就表号说，在非拉铁非的召会预表十九世纪初期，主在英国兴起的弟兄们所恢复的正当召会生活。正如在撒狄的召会所预表改革的召会，是对在推雅推喇的召会所预表背道天主教的反应；照样，弟兄相爱的召会，也是对死的、改革的召会的反应。这反应要继续对背道的天主教和堕落的更正教作相反的见证，直到主回来。

　　在非拉铁非的召会有一个显著的特征，就是遵守主的话（启三8）。按照历史，没有别的基督徒像非拉铁非召会的圣徒，曾那样严谨地遵守主的话。在非拉铁非的召会—恢复的召会—不在意传统，乃在意神的话（新约总论第七册，五四三至五四四页）。

　　Rev. 3:8 I know your works; behold, I have put before you an opened door which no one can shut, because you have a little power and have kept My word and have not denied My name.

　　10 Because you have kept the word of My endurance, I also will keep you out of the hour of trial…

　　Matt. 18:20 For where there are two or three gathered into My name, there am I in their midst.

　　In Greek, Philadelphia means “brotherly love.” As a sign, the church in Philadelphia prefigures the proper church life recovered by the brothers who were raised up by the Lord in England in the early part of the nineteenth century. Just as the reformed church, prefigured by the church in Sardis, was a reaction to the apostate Catholic Church, prefigured by the church in Thyatira, so the church of brotherly love is a reaction to the dead reformed church. This reaction will continue as an anti-testimony to both apostate Catholicism and degraded Protestantism until the Lord comes back.

　　One outstanding feature of the church in Philadelphia is that she kept the Lord’s word [Rev. 3:8]. According to history, no other Christians have kept the Lord’s word as strictly as those in the church in Philadelphia. The church in Philadelphia, the recovered church, does not care for tradition; she cares for the word of God. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 2525-2526)

　　我们不该认为在非拉铁非的召会是刚强、有能并得胜的。我们也许非常高估在非拉铁非的召会，但主说她只是稍微有一点能力。讨主喜悦的，不是我们刚强，乃是我们用自己的一点能力，尽我们所能的作。

　　主也说，在非拉铁非的召会没有否认祂的名。……话是主的发表，名是主自己。背道的召会偏离了主的话，成了异端。虽然改革的召会多少有点恢复到主的话上，但他们否认了主的名，以许多别的名称呼自己。恢复的召会不但完全回到主的话上，也弃绝了主耶稣基督之外一切的名。……偏离主的话就是背道，以主的名之外的名称呼召会，就是属灵的淫乱。召会如同贞洁的童女许配给基督（林后十一2），除了她丈夫的名以外，不该有别的名。……在恢复的召会生活里，没有巴兰的教训（启二14），没有尼哥拉党的教训（15），没有耶洗别的教训（20），也没有撒但深奥之事（24），唯有主纯正的话。同样，恢复的召会没有称谓的公会（名称），唯有主耶稣基督这独一的名。从主的话偏离到各种异端，并在基督的名以外高举许多的名，是堕落的基督教最显著的记号；从一切的异端、传统回到纯正的话，并弃绝一切别的名，高举主的名，是恢复的召会中最感人的见证。

　　主是那拿着大卫的钥匙，开了就没有人能关的（三7），祂给恢复的召会一个敞开的门，无人能关。从十九世纪初期，正当召会生活的恢复开始，直到如今，主的恢复始终有敞开的门。组织的基督教越想关闭这门，这门就越敞开。今天尽管有许多反对，这门在世界各地总是敞开的。钥匙是在召会元首的手中，不在反对者的手中（新约总论第七册，五四四至五四五页）。

　　参读：新约总论，第二百三十八、四百一十二篇；启示录生命读经，第十五篇；神圣的经纶，第十四章。

　　We should not regard the church in Philadelphia as being strong, powerful, and prevailing. Whereas we may estimate the church in Philadelphia very highly, the Lord says that she had “a little power.” What pleases the Lord is not that we are strong but that we use our little power to do the best we can.

　　In Revelation 3:8 the Lord also says that the church in Philadelphia has not denied His name…. The word is the Lord’s expression, and the name is the Lord Himself. The apostate church has deviated from the Lord’s word and has become heretical. The reformed church, though recovered to the Lord’s word to some extent, has denied the Lord’s name by denominating herself with many other names. The recovered church has not only returned to the Lord’s word in a full way but has also abandoned all names other than that of the Lord Jesus Christ…. To deviate from the Lord’s word is apostasy, and to denominate the church with any name other than the Lord’s is spiritual fornication. The church as the chaste virgin betrothed to Christ (2 Cor. 11:2) should not have any name other than her Husband’s…. In the recovered church life we have no teachings of Balaam (Rev. 2:14), no teachings of the Nicolaitans (2:15), no teachings of Jezebel (2:20), and no mysterious doctrines of Satan (2:24); we have only the pure word of the Lord. Likewise, the recovered church has no denominations (names) but the unique name of the Lord Jesus Christ. The deviation from the Word to heresies and the exaltation of so many names other than that of Christ are the most striking signs of degraded Christianity. The return to the pure Word from all heresies and traditions and the exaltation of the Lord’s name by abandoning every other name are the most inspiring testimony in the recovered church.

　　As the One who has the key of David and who opens and no one shall shut (3:7), the Lord has given the recovered church “an opened door which no one can shut” [v. 8]. Since the recovery of the proper church life began, in the early part of the nineteenth century, until now, a door has always been wide open to the Lord’s recovery. The more that organized Christianity tries to shut the door, the wider it is open. In spite of much opposition, the door today is open worldwide. The key is in the hand of the Head of the church; it is not in the hand of the opposers. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 2526-2527)

　　Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 238, 412; Life-study of Revelation, msg. 15; CWWL, 1984, vol. 3, “The Divine Economy,” ch. 14