林后十一2~3 我以神的妒忌，妒忌你们，因为我曾把你们许配一个丈夫，要将一个贞洁的童女献给基督。我只怕你们的心思或被败坏，失去那向着基督的单纯和纯洁，就像蛇用诡诈诱骗了夏娃一样。

　　生命树是很简单的。这棵树只有一种元素，就是生命。生命树的结果乃是生命。相反的，善恶知识树却是错综复杂的。与这棵树有关的，乃是善、恶、知识和死亡。

　　整本圣经就是这两棵树的发展。生命树表征神在基督里成了那灵，作我们的生命。……撒但乃是死亡的权势。表征撒但（就是死亡）的善恶知识树，包含知识、善与恶。蛇借着善恶知识树，以及这棵树的错综复杂，打岔了夏娃，使她偏离生命树。夏娃受了打岔、中了计，就失去她向着神的单纯和纯洁。结果夏娃堕落了，死亡也借着堕落进来了。这就是蛇打岔夏娃，使她偏离神经纶的故事（哥林多后书生命读经，五四八至五四九页）。

　　2 Cor. 11:2-3 For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your thoughts would be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity toward Christ.

　　The tree of life is simple. With this tree, there is just one element, and that element is life. The tree of life issues in life. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, on the contrary, is complicated and also complicating. With this tree, we have good, evil, knowledge, and death.

　　The Bible as a whole is a development of these two trees. The tree of life signifies God in Christ as the Spirit to be life to us… Satan is the power of death. The tree of knowledge of good and evil signifying Satan as death includes knowledge, good, and evil. The serpent distracted Eve from the tree of life by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with its complications. Because Eve was distracted and caught, she lost her singleness and purity toward God. The result was that Eve fell, and death came in through the fall. This is the story of how the serpent distracted Eve from God’s economy. (Life-study of 2 Corinthians, pp. 465-466)

　　保罗在林后十一章把蛇在夏娃身上所作的，应用到热中犹太教的人和在哥林多的召会。我相信保罗在灵的深处，知道这二者其实是一件事；发生在哥林多的事，乃是重演伊甸园中所发生的事。夏娃是妻子，而在哥林多的召会是许配给基督这独一丈夫的贞洁童女。因此，保罗在十一章二节说，“我以神的妒忌，妒忌你们，因为我曾把你们许配一个丈夫，要将一个贞洁的童女献给基督。”不仅如此，在伊甸园的妻子受了狡猾的蛇打岔；在哥林多的童女也因着热中犹太教的人而受到撒但打岔。保罗……把热中犹太教的人与撒但相提并论：“那等人是假使徒，是诡诈的工人，装作基督的使徒。这并不希奇，因为撒但自己也装作光的使者。”（13~14）保罗……指明，热中犹太教的人是假使徒，是撒但的差役〔15〕。

　　蛇来到夏娃跟前，并没有公然否认神的话，它乃是向女人说，“神岂是真说，你们不可吃园中所有树上的果子么？”（创三1）我们在这里看见蛇发问：“神岂是真说？”这种发问一面似乎承认神所说的，另一面却暗中破坏神的话。蛇发出这个问题，就把毒素注入夏娃里面，要暗中破坏神所说的话。

　　要哥林多信徒辨识保罗所传的耶稣与热中犹太教者所传的耶稣不同，是很难的事。名字是相同的，但需要辨识。……辨识一件事最好的办法，乃是照着生命或死亡来辨识。我们需要问这样的问题：这种教训到底是帮助我更多享受主，把我带进生命，还是把死亡的毒素注射到我里面？你可能发现，你若将某种教训或传讲接受到你里面，你里面对主的享受就立即中断了；有些东西如同绝缘体一样，使神圣的电流中断。因此，我们该学习以生命与死亡来辨识、分辨事物。

　　只要某人的教训或传讲剥夺我们对主作我们生命供应的享受，那种教训就是出于蛇的。然而，主真正的职事总是加强我们享受祂作我们生命的供应。……凡是使你对主的享受中断的东西，都是出于蛇的；凡增加你对主的享受的，就是出于那灵，出于新约的职事（哥林多后书生命读经，五四九至五五一、五五四至五五五页）。

　　参读：哥林多后书生命读经，第五十三篇。

　　In 2 Corinthians 11 Paul applies to the Judaizers and the church in Corinth what the serpent did to Eve. I believe that, deep in his spirit, Paul realized that these two matters were actually one and that what was happening in Corinth was a repetition of what took place in the garden of Eden. Eve was a wife, and the church in Corinth was a pure virgin, betrothed to one husband, Christ. For this reason, in 11:2 Paul says, “I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.” Furthermore, the wife in the garden of Eden was distracted by the subtle serpent. In Corinth the virgin was being distracted by Satan through the Judaizers… Paul associates the Judaizers with Satan. “Such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transfiguring themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself transfigures himself into an angel of light” (vv. 13-14)… Paul indicates that the Judaizers, the false apostles, are ministers of Satan [v. 15].

　　When the serpent came to Eve, he did not openly deny God’s word. Rather, the serpent said to the woman, “Did God really say, You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?” (Gen. 3:1). Here we see that the serpent asked, “Did God really say?” This kind of question seems, on the one hand, to recognize what God has said. On the other hand, it undermines God’s word. By asking this question, the serpent injected poison into Eve to undermine God’s speaking.

　　It was difficult for the Corinthian believers to discern the difference between the Jesus preached by Paul and the one preached by the Judaizers. The name was the same. But there was still the need of discernment. The best way to discern a matter is to discern according to life or death. We need to ask questions like this: Does this teaching help me to enjoy the Lord more and bring me into life, or does it cause the poison of death to be injected into me? You may find that if you accept a certain kind of teaching or preaching, taking it into you, immediately your inward enjoyment of the Lord is cut off. Some things function like insulation that stops the flowing of the divine electricity. Therefore, we must learn to discern, to differentiate, matters by life and death.

　　As long as someone’s teaching or preaching deprives us of the enjoyment of the Lord as our life supply, that teaching is of the serpent. However, the genuine ministry of the Lord always strengthens us in the enjoyment of Him as our life supply. Anything that cuts you off from the enjoyment of the Lord is of the serpent. But anything that causes your enjoyment of the Lord to increase is of the Spirit and of the New Testament ministry. (Life-study of 2 Corinthians, pp. 466-467, 469-470)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of 2 Corinthians, msg. 53