弗一6　　使祂恩典的荣耀得着称赞，这恩典是祂在那蒙爱者里面所恩赐我们的。

　　太三17　　看哪，又有声音从诸天之上出来，说，这是我的爱子，我所喜悦的。

　　神的拣选和预定都与神的恩典有关。……以弗所一章六节……所启示的，乃是前一节经文所提预定得儿子名分的结果。这意思是说，神恩典的荣耀得着称赞，乃是祂儿子名分的结果（5）。神预定我们得祂儿子的名分，就是为了使祂在祂恩典里的彰显，就是祂恩典的荣耀，得着称赞。至终，宇宙中每一样正面的事物，都要为神儿子的名分称赞神（罗八19），因而应验以弗所一章六节的话（新约总论第十一册，一○八至一○九页）。

　　Eph. 1:6 To the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He graced us in the Beloved.

　　Matt. 3:17 And behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My delight.

　　God’s choosing and predestination are related to the grace of God…What is revealed in Ephesians 1:6 is the issue of predestination unto sonship mentioned in the preceding verse. This means that the praise of the glory of God’s grace is the result, the issue, of the sonship (v. 5). God’s predestinating us unto sonship is for the praise of His expression in His grace, that is, for the praise of the glory of His grace. Eventually, every positive thing in the universe will praise God for sonship (Rom. 8:19), thus fulfilling what is spoken in this verse. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3338-3339)

　　神来作我们所是的一切，以及来为我们所作的一切，都是神自己作为恩典，在祂的成为肉体里临及我们。约翰一章清楚启示这事，那里告诉我们，是话的神成了肉体，支搭帐幕在我们中间，丰丰满满地有恩典，有实际，并且恩典和实际都是借着耶稣基督来的（14、16~17）。

　　恩典是神之于我们的所是，作我们的享受，而荣耀是彰显出来的神（出四十34）。“神恩典的荣耀”〔弗一6〕指明神的恩典（就是神自己作我们的享受）将祂彰显出来。神彰显于祂的恩典，祂的预定乃是为使这彰显得着称赞。我们接受恩典而享受神时，的确有这荣耀的感觉。恩典是神自己作我们的享受，荣耀是神得着显明，神恩典的荣耀就是神在我们对祂的享受中彰显出来了。

　　以弗所一章六节说，这恩典是〔神〕在那蒙爱者里面所恩赐我们的。神恩赐我们，意思就是祂把我们摆在恩典的地位上，使我们成为神赐恩并恩宠的对象，就是使我们得以享受神的一切所是。因着我们是在恩典的地位上，也是赐恩的对象，神就喜悦我们；祂的喜悦是在于我们，我们享受祂，也成了祂的享受。因此，这里有相互的享受：我们享受祂，祂也享受我们。在恩典中，祂是我们的喜乐和满足，我们也是祂的喜乐和满足。

　　六节里那蒙爱者乃是基督，就是神的爱子，神所喜悦的（太三17，十七5）。因此，神恩赐我们，乃是使我们成为祂喜悦的对象。这全然是神所喜欢的。在基督里，神用各样的福分祝福了我们。在那蒙爱者里，我们已蒙神恩赐，成为神所恩宠并喜欢的对象。我们既是这样的对象，就在神的恩典里，在祂所喜悦的爱子里享受神，也给神享受。在祂的爱子里，我们也成了祂所喜悦的。

　　“在那蒙爱者里面”这句话，说出父神在我们身上有完全的喜悦、满足和享受，因为我们已成为祂赐恩和喜悦的对象。就这一面的意义说，我们都该珍赏自己，甚至重看自己，因为我们已被摆在恩典的地位上，是神喜悦的对象。我们对自己该有这样的看法，不是照着我们天然的光景，乃是照着我们已蒙拣选、预定、重生、并赐恩的事实。神喜悦我们—不是在我们自己里，乃是在祂的爱子里。我们既成了神赐恩的对象，就在基督里得恩宠。

　　不仅如此，神丰富的恩典已为我们成功了救赎，并将赦免应用在我们身上（弗一7）。神的恩典不仅是丰富的（7），也是洋溢的（8）。神恩典的丰富向我们洋溢，一面，是用全般的智慧，为着神在永远里的计划；另一面，是用全般的明达，为着神在时间里计划的执行。……神洋溢的恩典，成就了将万有在基督里归一于一个元首之下（10），使我们成为神的基业（11），并使我们够资格承受神一切的所是（14）（新约总论第十一册，一○九至一一一页）。

　　参读：新约总论，第三百三十三篇。

　　Whatever God came to be to us and to do for us is God Himself as grace coming to us in His incarnation. This is clearly revealed in John 1, which tells us that God as the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us, full of grace and reality, and that grace and reality came through Jesus Christ (vv. 14, 16-17).

　　Grace is what God is to us for our enjoyment, whereas glory is God expressed (Exo. 40:34). The glory of His grace [Eph. 1:6] indicates that God’s grace, which is God Himself as our enjoyment, expresses Him. God is expressed in His grace, and His predestination is for the praise of this expression. As we receive grace and enjoy God, we have the sense of glory. Grace is God Himself as our enjoyment, glory is God manifested, and the glory of God’s grace is God expressed in our enjoyment of Him.

　　Ephesians 1:6 says that God has graced us in the Beloved. For God to grace us means that He has put us into the position of grace that we may be the object of God’s grace and favor, that is, that we may enjoy all that God is. Because we are in the position of grace and are the object of grace, God is pleased with us, His delight is in us, and we are enjoying Him and becoming His enjoyment. Hence, there is a mutual enjoyment: we enjoy Him, and He enjoys us. Here, in grace, He is our joy and satisfaction, and we are His joy and satisfaction.

　　The Beloved in verse 6 is Christ, God’s beloved Son, in whom He delights (Matt. 3:17; 17:5). Hence, in gracing us God makes us an object in whom He delights. This is altogether a pleasure to God. In Christ we have been blessed by God with every blessing. In the Beloved we were graced, made the object of God’s favor and pleasure. As such an object we enjoy God, and God enjoys us in His grace in His Beloved, who is His delight. In His Beloved we, too, become His delight.

　　The phrase in the Beloved conveys the full delight, satisfaction, and enjoyment God the Father has in us because we have been made the object of His grace and delight. In this sense we should all appreciate ourselves and even esteem ourselves highly because we have been positioned in grace and made the object of God’s delight. We should have such a view about ourselves, not according to our natural state, but according to the fact that we have been chosen, predestinated, regenerated, and graced. God delights in us, not in ourselves, but in His Beloved. Having become the object of God’s grace, we have been favored in Christ.

　　Moreover, God’s rich grace has accomplished redemption for us and has applied forgiveness to us (Eph. 1:7). God’s grace is not only rich (v. 7) but also abounding (v. 8). The riches of God’s grace have been caused to abound to us, on the one hand, in all wisdom for God’s plan in eternity and, on the other hand, in all prudence for God’s execution of His plan in time. God’s abounding grace…accomplishes the heading up of all things in Christ (v. 10), makes us an inheritance to God (v. 11), and qualifies us to inherit all that God is (v. 14). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3339-3340)

　　Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 333