约十五1 我是真葡萄树，我父是栽培的人。

　　5 我是葡萄树，你们是枝子；住在我里面的，我也住在他里面，这人就多结果子；因为离了我，你们就不能作什么。

　　（在约翰十五章一节，）这棵真葡萄树及其枝子，就是子和子里的众信徒，是神经纶中三一神的生机体，因神的丰富而长大，并彰显祂神圣的生命（圣经恢复本，约十五1注1）。

　　父是栽培的人，是葡萄树的源头、创始者、计划者、种植者、生命、本质、土壤、水分、空气、阳光和一切。子是葡萄树，是神经纶的中心，也是父一切丰富的具体化身。父借着栽培子，将祂自己连同祂一切的丰富，都作到这葡萄树里面；至终，这葡萄树借着枝子，作父团体的彰显。这就是父在宇宙中的经纶（约十五1注2）。

　　John 15:1 I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman.

　　5 I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing.

　　[In John 15:1] this true vine (the Son) with its branches (the believers in the Son) is the organism of the Triune God in God’s economy. This organism grows with His riches and expresses His divine life. (John 15:1, footnote 1)

　　The Father as the husbandman is the source, the author, the planner, the planter, the life, the substance, the soil, the water, the air, the sunshine, and everything to the vine. The Son as the vine is the center of God’s economy and the embodiment of all the riches of the Father. The Father, by cultivating the Son, works Himself with all His riches into the vine, and eventually the vine expresses the Father in a corporate way through its branches. This is the Father’s economy in the universe. (John 15:1, footnote 2)

　　主说祂是一粒麦子。这粒麦子……死了，就结出许多子粒来（约十二24）。……祂是那一粒，我们大家是这许多子粒。我们生来并不是这许多子粒，乃是主的生命进入我们里面，主把祂自己分赐到我们里面，我们得以重生，才成了这许多子粒；而这许多子粒乃是为着作成一个饼。我们虽多，却“只有一个饼”（林前十17）。原来是一粒一粒的麦子，现在这许多粒麦子被磨成粉，调在一起，就成为这一个饼。这一个饼就是象征召会。……这一个饼就是一个身体，这一个身体就是召会。……召会不是……社会。社会是人群组织而成的，召会却是基督产生出来的。召会乃是借着基督的死和复活，把祂分赐到我们里头，使我们成为一粒一粒的麦子。我们这一粒一粒的麦子调成一个，就是这一个饼。这一个饼就像征一个身体。

　　（在约翰二十章，）主复活之后，对马利亚说，“你往我弟兄那里去，告诉他们说……。”（17）当主在地上，还没有死和复活之先，……祂称（祂的门徒）为朋友（十五13~15），从来没有称他们为弟兄。为什么呢？因为那时候主的生命还没有进到门徒里面。乃是借着复活，在复活中主的生命就进到了门徒里面；门徒有了主的生命，所以也就成了主的弟兄。而这些弟兄，按照希伯来二章十二节看，就是召会。那里说，“我要向我的弟兄宣告你的名，在召会中我要歌颂你。”召会是什么？召会就是主众弟兄的组成。

　　在约翰十五章里主说，“我是葡萄树，你们是枝子。”（5）枝子若和树没有绝对主观的经历，枝子就不是枝子。树上的枝子和树是完全一体的，是没有办法分的。树里头的生命就是枝子里头的生命，树的性情就是枝子的性情，树的本质也就是枝子的本质。枝子和树没有一点的分别。认真说，所有的枝子都是树的一部分。

　　小树苗刚从地里长出来的时候并没有枝子。长来长去，一根一根的枝子就长出来了。所以召会是什么？召会就是从基督长出来的枝子。召会就是基督的众分枝集其大成而成功的。我们每一个信祂的人都是基督身上的枝子，因为是祂把自己长到我们里面来。因此我们也都是祂身上的肢体，而这些肢体合在一起也就是身体（CWWL一九七七年第三册，一六○至一六三页）。

　　参读：圣经中的主观真理，第三篇。

　　The Lord said that He was a grain of wheat [John 12:24]…. This [one] grain died and grew up to become many grains. Christ was the one grain, and we are the many grains. We were not the many grains by our human birth. When the Lord’s life came into us and the Lord dispensed Himself into us, we were regenerated to become the many grains to be made into one bread. Even though we are many, “there is one bread” (1 Cor. 10:17). Originally, the many grains were grains individually, but now they have been ground to powder and blended together to become one bread. This one bread signifies the church…. This bread is one Body, and this one Body is the church. The church is not… a society… organized by people….The church is produced out of Christ. The church is an issue of His dispensing Himself into us through His death and resurrection to make us grains of wheat. When we as the grains of wheat are blended into one, we become the one bread, and this one bread signifies the one Body.

　　In John 20, after His resurrection the Lord said to Mary, “Go to My brothers and say to them…”(v. 17). Before His death and resurrection, when the Lord was on earth,…He called [His disciples] friends [15:13-15], but He never called them brothers. Why? It was because at that time the Lord’s life had not yet entered into the disciples. It was through resurrection and in resurrection that His life entered into the disciples. Now since they had His life, they became the Lord’s brothers. According to Hebrews 2:12, these brothers are the church: “I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the church I will sing hymns of praise to You.” What is the church? The church is the composition of the Lord’s many brothers.

　　In John 15 the Lord said, “I am the vine; you are the branches” (v. 5a). The branches are not branches if they do not have an absolutely subjective experience of the vine. The branches and the vine are one and cannot be divided. The life in the vine is the life in the branches, the nature of the vine is the nature of the branches, and the substance of the vine is the substance of the branches. There is no difference at all between the vine and the branches. Strictly speaking, all the branches are parts of the vine.

　　When a small sprout first comes out of the ground, there is no branch. After a certain period of growth, the branches appear one after another. By this we see what the church is. The church is composed of the branches growing out of Christ. The church is the aggregate of all the branches of Christ. Every one of us who believes in Him is a branch of Christ because it is He who comes into us to grow in us. Therefore, we are all members of His Body, and when all these members are put together, they are the Body. (CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “The Subjective Truths in the Holy Scriptures,” pp. 123-125)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “The Subjective Truths in the Holy Scriptures,” ch. 3