彼后二2 也有许多人将要随从他们的邪荡，叫真理的路因他们的缘故被毁谤。

　　彼前一22 你们既因顺从真理，洁净了自己的魂，以致爱弟兄没有假冒，就当从清洁的心里彼此热切相爱。

　　在彼后二章二节……真理的路就是基督徒按着真理生活的途径；这真理乃是新约内容的实际（提前二4，三15，四3，提后二15、18，多一1）。这途径按其各种美德有其他的名称，如正路（彼后二15，参来十二13）、义路（彼后二21，太二一32）、平安的路（路一79，罗三17）、救人的道路（徒十六17）、神的道路（太二二16，徒十八26）、主的道路（约一23，徒十八25）、这道路（九2，十九9、23，二二4，二四22）；并被毁谤为异端的道路（二四14）。

　　真理的路会因假教师的缘故被毁谤。既然真理的路是实际的路，而实际的路是神经纶的路，这就是说，假教师会使新约的整个启示被毁谤（彼得后书生命读经，九二至九三页）。

　　2 Pet. 2:2 And many will follow their licentiousness, because of whom the way of the truth will be reviled.

　　1 Pet. 1:22 Since you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from a pure heart fervently.

　　[In 2 Peter 2:2] the way of the truth is the path of the Christian life according to the truth, which is the reality of the contents of the New Testament (1 Tim. 2:4; 3:15; 4:3; 2 Tim. 2:15,18; Titus 1:1). It is designated by other titles according to its various virtues, like the straight way (2 Pet. 2:15; see Heb. 12:13), the way of righteousness (2 Pet. 2:21; Matt. 21:32), the way of peace (Luke 1:79; Rom. 3:17), the way of salvation (Acts 16:17), the way of God (Matt. 22:16; Acts 18:26), the way of the Lord (John 1:23; Acts 18:25), and the Way (Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:22). It was slandered as the way of heresy (Acts 24:14).

　　Because of the false teachers, the way of the truth will be reviled. Since the way of the truth is the way of reality, and the way of reality is the way of God’s economy, this means that the false teachers will cause the entire revelation of the New Testament to be reviled. (Life-study of 2 Peter, p. 80)

　　我们的魂得洁净，乃是那灵圣化我们的性情，使我们在神圣别的性情里过圣别的生活（彼前一15~16）。这比洗罪（来一3）和洗净（约壹一7）还要深。后二者是洗净我们外面的所作，前者是洁净我们里面的所是—魂，如以弗所五章二十六节话中之水的洗涤。

　　要领会因顺从真理洁净自己的魂是什么意思，我们必须清楚彼前一章二十二节里真理的意思。这里的真理是圣别人的真理，就是神实际（真理）的话（约十七17）。彼前一章二十二节真理的意思不是道理。真理是包含在神的话里，并借着神的话所传输的实际。例如，约翰三章十六节说，“神爱世人。”这是神圣的话。然而，这话对许多读本节的人仅仅是道理，对我们却不该是这样。只在道理上读本节，就是有天然的领会。……我们若要越过天然的领会来看本节，就需要摸着在这简短的话里所包含，并借着这话所传输的实际。我们读“神爱世人”时，需要问自己，我们有没有经历这爱。我们该说，“神爱世人。这‘世人’包括我么？这话的意思是神爱我么？”任何这样读本节的人，就必得救。这样的人会说，“神啊，我何等感谢你，世人包括我。你爱世人，意思就是你爱我。”这就是把约翰三章十六节当作真理，当作实际，而不仅仅当作道理。

　　提前三章十五节说，召会是活神的家。本节包含道理，但对我们这不该仅仅是道理。保罗说到召会是活神的家，这话该是真理、实际。我们需要问：“我所在之地的召会是活神的家么？”我们若这样读本节，就会接触实际、真理。真理是包含在神的话里，并借着神的话传输给我们的扎实内容、实际。

　　（在彼前一章十三节，）彼得……嘱咐我们要束上我们心思的腰，谨慎自守。我们不该允许我们的心思游荡，我们也不该醉酒或被麻醉。……束上我们的心思，实际上就是洁净我们的魂。每当我们的心思游荡的时候，我们的魂就不洁净。异议的思想使我们的心思游荡。……我们的心思开始游荡，我们的魂就成为不洁的。……我们洁净自己的魂，乃是借着束上我们的心思，并将其定准在一件事上，不允许它游荡（彼得前书生命读经，一三五、一三七至一三八、一四○至一四一页）。

　　参读：彼得后书生命读经，第二、九、十三篇。

　　The purification of our souls is the Spirit’s sanctification of our disposition that we may live a holy life in God’s holy nature (1 Pet. 1:15-16). It is deeper than the purification of our sins (Heb. 1:3) and the cleansing of sin (1 John 1:7). The latter is the purification of our outward doing; the former, the purification of our inward being—the soul. This is like the washing in the word in Ephesians 5:26.

　　In order to understand what it means to purify our souls by obedience to the truth [1 Pet. 1:22], we must be clear concerning the meaning of truth in this verse. Truth here is the sanctifying truth, which is God’s word of reality (John 17:17). Truth in this verse does not mean doctrine. Truth is the reality contained in God’s word and conveyed by it. For example, John 3:16 says, “God so loved the world.” This is the divine word. This word, however, should not merely be a doctrine to us, as it is with so many readers of John 3:16. To read this verse only in a doctrinal way is to have a natural understanding…. If we are to have more than a natural understanding of John 3:16, we need to touch the reality contained in this short word and conveyed by it. When we read, “God so loved the world,” we need to ask ourselves if we have experienced this love. We should say, “God so loved the world. Does this ‘world’ include me? Does this word mean that God so loved me?” Anyone who reads John 3:16 in this way will get saved. Such a one would say, “O God, how I thank You that the world includes me. For You to love the world means that You love me.” This is to take John 3:16 as truth, as reality, and not merely as a doctrine.

　　First Timothy 3:15 says that the church is the house of the living God. This verse contains doctrine, but to us it should not be merely a doctrine. Rather, Paul’s word about the church being the house of the living God should be a truth, a reality. We need to ask, “Is the church in my locality the house of the living God?” If we read the verse in this way, we shall contact reality, truth. The truth is the solid content, the reality, contained in the word of God and conveyed by it to us.

　　[In 1 Peter 1:13] Peter charges us to gird up the loins of our mind and to be sober. We should not allow our mind to wander, and we should not be drunken or drugged. To gird up our mind is actually to purify our soul. Whenever our mind is wandering, our soul is impure. Dissenting thoughts cause our mind to wander….When our mind begins to wander, our soul becomes unclean. If this is our situation, we need to purify our soul….We purify our soul by girding up our mind and by setting it on one thing, not allowing it to wander. (Life-study of 1 Peter, pp. 113-117)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of 2 Peter, msgs. 2, 9, 13