士七13~14　　…一个大麦圆饼辊入米甸营中，…这不是别的，乃是…基甸的刀；神已将米甸和全营都交在他的手中。

　　林前十17　　因着只有一个饼，我们虽多，还是一个身体，因我们都分受这一个饼。

　　十二24　　…但神将这身体调和在一起…。

　　按照士师记七章九至十五节，基甸在米甸营中听见一个梦的叙述。（在十三至十四节）一个米甸人将梦告诉同伴，…那同伴回答说，这不是别的，乃是基甸的刀；神已将米甸和全营都交在基甸的手中。基甸听见这梦的叙述和梦的讲解，就敬拜神。他回到以色列营中，说，“起来吧，耶和华已将米甸营交在你们手中了”（15）。

　　基甸将三百人分作三队，把角和空瓶交在各人手里，瓶内都有火把（16）。他们就吹角，打破瓶子，左手拿着火把，右手拿着角，喊叫说，“耶和华和基甸的刀！”（19~20。）米甸全营的人都乱窜，一面喊叫，一面逃跑（士师记生命读经，三七页）。

　　Judg. 7:13-14 …There was this round loaf of barley bread tumbling through the camp of Midian….This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon….God has delivered Midian and all the camp into his hand.

　　1 Cor. 10:17 Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body; for we all partake of the one bread.

　　12:24…But God has blended the body together…

　　According to Judges 7:9 through 15, Gideon heard the account of a dream in the camp of Midian. [In verses 13-14] one of the Midianites recounted a dream to his companion…. His companion responded by saying that this was nothing else than the sword of Gideon and that God had delivered Midian and all the camp into Gideon’s hand. When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he worshipped, returned to the camp of Israel, and said, “Arise, for Jehovah has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand” (v. 15).

　　Gideon divided the three hundred men into three companies and put trumpets into their hands, as well as empty pitchers, with torches inside the pitchers (v. 16). They blew the trumpets and shattered the pitchers. Then, holding the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands, they cried out, “A sword for Jehovah and for Gideon!” (vv. 19-20). Then the whole camp of the Midianites ran off, and they shouted and fled. (Life-study of Judges, p. 29)

　　神给基甸三百人，叫他们成为一体。单独的得胜，是不当的。基甸和那三百人，举动一致，作法一样。肉体都割去了，所以能一样。这是在那灵里的合一，在身体里的生活（倪柝声文集第一辑第十一册，一四○页）。

　　大麦饼是一个永不受限制之复活基督的饼。…你说你不能应付局面，对！你实在不能。但有一位能—就是作大麦的那一位。有一个大麦饼在你里面；有一点点复活的基督在你里面，那就够了（包罗万有的基督，五七页）。

　　保罗认为召会是一个饼（林前十17），这种想法不是他自己发明的，乃是取自旧约。利未记二章四节的素祭，是由细面调油所作的饼组成的。面的每一部分都是用油混合或调和的。那就是相调。保罗告诉我们，召会乃是由细面所作成的饼。…约翰十二章二十四节说，基督是一粒麦子，落在地里死了，在复活里长起来，产生许多子粒，就是我们，祂的信徒。我们是许多子粒，被磨成细面，好作成召会这饼。在这里我们能看见圣经中相调的思想。

　　（林前十二章二十四节）说得很清楚，神把所有的信徒调和在一起。但这恢复中的相调在哪里？我们可能以为召会中的配搭就是相调的实际；但我必须告诉你们，甚至召会中的配搭也不是基督身体的实际。…我们要在基督身体的实际里，就需要完全在基督复活的生命里。在众地方召会中，我们的确有些美好的配搭，但是我要问：“这种配搭是凭天然的生命，还是在复活里作出来的？”在复活里，意思就是我们天然的生命被钉死，然后我们这人里神所造的部分就在复活里被拔高，在复活里与基督成为一。…今天，在众地方召会中，我们一般所能看见的，多半是在聚会、活动、工作和事奉上的“召会”；我们看不见多少在复活里，就是在那灵里，在那是灵的基督里，并在终极完成的神里面，基督身体的实际（关于相调的实行，一五至一七页）。

　　参读：包罗万有的基督，第五至六章；关于相调的实行，第二至四章。

　　God gave Gideon three hundred men and made them one body. Individual victory is not proper. Gideon and those three hundred men moved together and acted in one accord. All of their flesh was cut off, so they could be one. This is the oneness in the Spirit and a living in the Body. (CWWN, vol. 11, p. 774)

　　A barley loaf…is a loaf of the resurrected Christ who can never be limited….You say that you cannot meet the situation. This is right. You surely cannot. But there is One who can—the One who is the barley. A barley loaf is within you; a little bit of the resurrected Christ is in you—that is good enough. (CWWL, 1961-1962, vol. 4, “The All-inclusive Christ,” p. 236)

　　Paul’s thought of the church being one bread [1 Cor. 10:17] was not his own invention; rather, it was taken from the Old Testament. The meal offering in Leviticus 2:4 consisted of cakes made of fine flour mingled with oil. Every part of the flour was mixed, or mingled, with the oil. That is blending. Paul tells us that the church is a bread, a cake, made of fine flour…. John 12:24 says that Christ is the one grain of wheat who fell into the earth and died and grew up in resurrection to produce many grains, which are we, His believers. We are the many grains so that we may be ground into fine flour for making the cake, the bread, of the church. Here we can see the thought of blending in the Bible.

　　[First Corinthians 12:24] says clearly that God has blended all the believers together. But where is the blending in the recovery? We may think that the coordination in the church is the reality of the blending. However, I must tell you that even the coordination in the church is not the reality of the Body of Christ. To be in the reality of the Body of Christ, we need to be absolutely in the resurrection life of Christ. We do have some good coordination in the local churches. However, I would ask, “Is this kind of coordination carried out by the natural life or in resurrection?” To be in resurrection means that our natural life is crucified, and then the God-created part of our being is uplifted in resurrection to be one with Christ in resurrection. It is common today that in the local churches what we can see is mostly the “church” in its meetings, activities, works, and services. But we cannot see much of the reality of the Body of Christ in resurrection, that is, in the Spirit, in the pneumatic Christ, and in the consummated God. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” pp. 112-113)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1961-1962, vol. 4, “The All-inclusive Christ,” chs. 5-6; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” chs. 2-4