启四5 ……有七盏火灯在宝座前点着，这七灯就是神的七灵。

　　　五6 我又看见宝座与四活物中间，并众长老中间，有羔羊站立，像是刚被杀过的，有七角和七眼，就是神的七灵，奉差遣往全地去的。

　　灯台含示了三一神的意义。金是作成灯台的本质，台是金的具体表现，灯又是台的彰显。金表征父是本质，台表征子是父的具体化身，而灯表征那灵是父在子里的彰显（启示录生命读经，一○六页）。

　　Rev. 4:5 …There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

　　5:6 And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a Lamb standing as having just been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

　　The lampstand implies the significance of the Triune God. Gold is the substance with which the lampstand is made, the stand is the embodiment of the gold, and the lamps are the expression of the stand. The gold signifies the Father as the substance, the stand signifies the Son as the embodiment of the Father, and the lamps signify the Spirit as the expression of the Father in the Son. (Life-study of Revelation, p. 84)

　　灯台在本质上是一，但在彰显上是七，因为一座灯台上有七盏灯。……本质上灯台是一块金，但它上面有七盏灯。这就奥妙地指明，三一神在本质上是一。这位神在本质上是一，但在彰显上，祂乃是七灵。父是本质，化身于子这形体；子又彰显为七灵。

　　七灯头一次是在出埃及记提到。……我们若从出埃及记往下到撒迦利亚书，就看见七灯是基督的七眼，和神的七眼（亚三9，四10）。我们……〔在〕启示录，就看见羔羊的七眼就是那是神加强之灵的七眼。因此，我们有确实的根据说，七灯就是七倍加强的灵，作基督的彰显。

　　灯台含示三一神的意义；它象征那具体化并得着彰显的三一神。父神是神圣的金，具体化身在子基督里面，然后借着那灵完全彰显出来。……具体化身必定是独一的，因为我们的神是独一的。所以，具体化身必定是一座台。然而彰显必须是完

　　整的，在神行动上是完整的。……七是神行动上完整的数字。多少世纪以来，神是在祂的行动中得着彰显。因此，七灯表征那在神完整的行动上，作基督彰显的加强之灵。这是对神圣三一的实际领会。神圣的三一乃是为着要把神分赐到人里面。神这神圣的一位，首先具体化身在基督里，然后借着七倍加强的灵彰显出来。……金子成形为台，是为着成就神的定旨；……预表基督的台是借着预表神七灵的七灯彰显出来。神的七灵不是与神分开的，七灵乃是神的七眼，也是救赎者羔羊的七眼。……七灵也是那块建造的石头上的七眼。因此，七灵乃是七眼带同基督的救赎，为着神的建造。无论什么时候，七眼看着人，人就蒙救赎，并且被建造在神的家里。这就是神圣的三一。

　　仅有父没有子，就是只有本质，没有形体。只有金子锤成了灯台的时候，才有实体的形状。灯台是金子本质的形体，但若没有灯，这形体还不能彰显出去。因此，本质是父，具体形状是子，而彰显是灵，使父神在子里得着彰显。

　　召会是基督的具体表现，是那灵的复制。那灵是基督的实际（约十四17~20，十六13~15），而召会是那灵的复制（启二二17上）。召会同着那灵，就是基督的具体表现，是耶稣的见证（一2、9，十九10）。因此，更多的灵，更多的召会，更多耶稣的见证（启示录生命读经，一○六至一○七、一一五至一一七页）。

　　参读：生命信息（下册），第六十八至七十章；召会是那灵的翻版，第三章。

　　Substantially, the lampstand is one, but expressively, it is seven because it is one lampstand with seven lamps…In substance the lampstand is one piece of gold, but it holds seven lamps. This mysteriously indicates that substantially the Triune God is one. In substance He is one, but in expression He is the seven Spirits. The Father as the substance is embodied in the Son as the form, and the Son is expressed as the seven Spirits.

　　The seven lamps are first mentioned in Exodus…As we proceed from Exodus to Zechariah, we see that the seven lamps are the seven eyes of Christ and the seven eyes of God (Zech. 3:9; 4:10)…[In] Revelation, we see that the seven eyes of the Lamb are the seven eyes that are the intensified Spirit of God. Hence, we have a strong basis for saying that the seven lamps are the sevenfold intensified Spirit as the expression of Christ.

　　The lampstand implies the significance of the Triune God; it symbolizes the Triune God embodied and expressed. God the Father as the divine gold is embodied in Christ the Son and then is fully expressed through the Spirit…The embodiment must be uniquely one because our God is uniquely one. Thus, the embodiment must be one stand. The expression, however, must be complete, and complete in God’s move…Seven is the number for completion in God’s move. Throughout the centuries God has been expressed in His move. This is the reason that the seven lamps signify the intensified Spirit as the expression of Christ in God's complete move. This is the practical understanding of the Trinity. The Trinity is for the dispensing of God into humanity. God, the Divine Being, is first embodied in Christ and then expressed through the sevenfold intensified Spirit…The gold has been formed into a stand for the fulfillment of God's purpose…This stand, which is a type of Christ, is expressed through the seven lamps signifying the seven Spirits of God. The seven Spirits of God are not separate from God; They are the seven eyes of God and of the Lamb, the Redeemer…They are also the seven eyes of the building stone. Hence, They are the seven eyes with the redemption of Christ for God’s building. Whenever these eyes look at people, they are redeemed and built into God’s house. This is the Trinity.

　　To have only the Father without the Son is to have the substance without the embodiment. Only when the gold is beaten into the form of a stand do we have the embodiment. While the stand is the embodiment of the substance, without the seven lamps, this embodiment cannot have its expression. Hence, the substance is the Father, the embodiment is the Son, and the expression is the Spirit expressing God the Father in the Son.

　　The church is the embodiment of Christ and the reproduction of the Spirit. The Spirit is the reality of Christ (John 14:17-20; 16:13-15), and the church is the reproduction of the Spirit (Rev. 22:17a). The church with the Spirit is the embodiment of Christ, the testimony of Jesus (1:2, 9; 19:10). Therefore, the more Spirit, the more church and the more testimony of Jesus. (Life-study of Revelation, pp. 84-85, 91-93)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1979, vol. 1, “Life Messages, volume 2,” chs. 68—70; CWWL, 1975-1976, vol. 2, “The Church—the Reprint of the Spirit,” ch. 3