太七13~14 你们要进窄门；因为引到毁坏的，那门宽，那路阔，进去的人也多；引到生命的，那门窄，那路狭，找着的人也少。

　　这两棵树不是为着产生材料，乃是为给人吃其上的果子（创三3、6下）。生命树的果子成为滋养人的食物，为着分赐生命；善恶知识树的果子成为杀死人的毒物。吃就是把外面的东西接受进来，消化并吸收。我们必须谨慎我们吃的是什么。今天的电视和许多种的报纸和杂志，无疑是善恶知识树的枝子（约伯记生命读经，二三六页）。

　　Matt. 7:13-14 Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter through it. Because narrow is the gate and constricted is the way that leads to life, and few are those who find it.

　　The two trees are not for producing materials but for man to eat their fruit (Gen. 3:3, 6b), the fruit of the tree of life becoming food to man for nourishing, for the dispensing of life, and the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil becoming poison to man for killing. To eat means to take in something that is outside of us and then digest and assimilate it. We must be careful concerning what we eat. Surely, today’s television and so many different kinds of newspapers and magazines are branches of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (Life-study of Job, p. 194)

　　两棵树，作为神与撒但的表号，乃是两类人的两个源头。第一棵树是寻求神作生命，以得着供应与享受之人的源头，其中亚伯是领头的人（创四4）。第二棵树是跟随撒但作毒物以至于死而永远沉沦之人的源头，其中该隐是领头的人（5）。

　　这两个源头的结果成了地上的两个国。第一个是神的国，先是照着神旧约经纶的以色列国，然后是照着神新约经纶的召会（太二一43）；第二个是撒但的国（参十二26，西一13）。

　　这两个源头的结果带进两条线。……这两条线，就是两条路，是起源于两个源头。

　　第一条路是生命的路、狭路（太七14）、这道路（徒九2，十九9、23，二二4，二四22）、正路（彼后二15）、义路（21）、救人的道路（徒十六17）、神的道路（太二二16，徒十八26）以及主的道路（25），是为着给人寻求神，得着神，并在神永远的生命里享受祂作供应，而以祂永远的生命为目标，使他们

　　得以从神而生，有神的生命和性情（约一12~13），被变化并模成神荣耀的形像（林后三18，罗八29），并在神这荣耀里得着荣耀（30，彼前五10上，来二10上），以得着祂并有分于祂，到最完满的地步。在这条生命的道路上，有亚伯、塞特、以挪士、以诺、挪亚、亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各、摩西、大卫、撒母耳、旧约所有的申言者以及新约所有的信徒（十一39~40）。神对付约伯的目的，乃是要将他从善恶的路上转到这条生命的路上，使他能得着神到最完满的地步。

　　第二条路是善恶的路、死亡的路、阔路（太七13），让人跟随撒但，作他的儿女（约壹三10上），以至于死，并作他的同伴，有分于他永远的沉沦（太二五41）。在这条死亡、善恶的路上，有该隐、拉麦、雅八、犹八、土八该隐（犹11上，创四16~24）、含、古实、宁录（十6~12）、可拉、巴兰（彼后二15，犹11下）、扫罗、押沙龙、敌基督和他的跟从者（启十九19~21）以及所有的不信者（二十15）。

　　这两条路，就是生命的路和死亡的路，分别将人引到神命定的两个结局—新耶路撒冷和火湖。……两条路……构成支配、管治并规律人与神建立关系的两个原则。

　　第一个原则是生命的原则，按照这原则，所有在生命路上的人保持与神的接触，并且借着这原则一步一步地寻求神、得着神、拥有神并享受神，直至达到最完满的地步。

　　第二个原则是死亡、善恶的原则，在这原则里，所有在死亡路上的人都有意识或无意识地跟随撒但，并且借此弃绝神和祂生命的路，而成为撒但的同伴，以至于死和永远的沉沦（约伯记生命读经，二三六至二三九页）。

　　参读：约伯记生命读经，第六至七篇。

　　The two trees, as signs of God and Satan, are the two sources of two categories of men. The first tree is the source of men who seek God as life for their supply and enjoyment, of whom Abel is the leading one (Gen. 4:4). The second tree is the source of men who follow Satan as their poison unto death and eternal perdition, of whom Cain is the leading one (v. 5).

　　The outcome of the two sources becomes two kingdoms on the earth. The first is the kingdom of God, which was first the kingdom of Israel according to God’s Old Testament economy and then the church according to God’s New Testament economy (Matt. 21:43). The second is the kingdom of Satan (cf. 12:26; Col. 1:13).

　　These two sources issue in two lines…The two lines, as the two ways, originate from the two sources.

　　The first way is the way of life, the constricted way (Matt. 7:14), the Way (Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:22), the straight way (2 Pet. 2:15), the way of righteousness (v. 21), the way of salvation (Acts 16:17), the way of God (Matt. 22:16; Acts 18:26), and the way of the Lord (v. 25), for men to seek God, to gain God, and to enjoy God in His eternal life as the supply and unto His eternal life as the goal, that they may be born of God in His life and nature (John 1:12-13), transformed and conformed into His glorious image (2 Cor. 3:18; Rom. 8:29), and glorified in Him as glory (v. 30; 1 Pet. 5:10a; Heb. 2:10a) to gain Him and participate in Him to the fullest extent. In this way of life are Abel, Seth, Enosh, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Samuel, all the Old Testament prophets, and all the New Testament believers (11:39-40). God’s purpose in dealing with Job was to turn him from the way of good and evil to this way of life that he might gain God to the fullest extent.

　　The second way is the way of good and evil, the way of death, the broad way (Matt. 7:13), for men to follow Satan to be his children (1 John 3:10a) unto death and his companions in his eternal perdition (Matt. 25:41). In this way of death and of good and evil are Cain, Lamech, Jabal, Jubal, Tubal-cain (Jude 11a; Gen. 4:16-24), Ham, Cush, Nimrod (10:6-12), Korah, Balaam (2 Pet. 2:15; Jude 11b), Saul, Absalom, Antichrist and his followers (Rev. 19:19- 21), and all unbelievers (20:15).

　　These two ways, the way of life and the way of death, lead men to the two God-ordained ends—the New Jerusalem and the lake of fire—respectively… The two ways…constitute the two controlling, ruling, and regulating principles by which men have their relationship with God.

　　The first principle is the principle of life, according to which all men in the way of life keep their contact with God, and by which they seek God, gain God, possess God, and enjoy God, step by step, until they reach the fullest extent.

　　The second principle is the principle of death and of good and evil, in which all men in the way of death follow Satan either consciously or unconsciously, and through which they reject God and His way of life to be Satan’s companions unto death and eternal perdition. (Life-study of Job, pp. 194-196)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Job, msgs. 6—7