九　基督是我们与父同在的辩护者（约壹二1）；“辩护者”，原文指被召到另一个人身边以帮助他的一位，因此是帮助者；也指提供法律之援助的人，或为别人代求的人，因此是辩护者、律师或代求者：

I　Christ is our Advocate with the Father (1 John 2:1); the Greek word for Advocate refers to one who is called to another’s side to aid him; hence, a helper; it refers also to one who offers legal aid or one who intercedes on behalf of someone else; hence, an advocate, counsel, or intercessor:

１　按照启示录十二章十节和十一节，撒但昼夜控告神的儿女，但他们能因羔羊的血胜过他。

１　According to Revelation 12:10-11, Satan is accusing God’s children day and night, but they can overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb.

２　撒但可能控告我们是不洁、不圣、不义的，但父神会说，“撒但，看看那义者耶稣基督；我的儿女有位好律师。”

２　Satan would accuse us of being unclean, unholy, and unrighteous, but God the Father would say, “Satan, look at Jesus Christ the righteous One; My children have a good Attorney.”

３　我们必须告诉撒但：“住口，不要说话！”然后我们要赞美羔羊，说，“阿利路亚归与羔羊！为着血，阿利路亚！”

３　We have to tell Satan, “Shut up! Don’t say anything!” and then we need to praise the Lamb by saying, “Hallelujah to the Lamb! Hallelujah for the blood!”

４　当我们喊，“阿利路亚！”生命又分赐到我们里面了；我们的辩护者基督处理我们的案件，好叫生命的分赐能一直进行。

４　When we shout “Hallelujah,” life is dispensed into us once more; Christ, our Advocate, is taking care of our case so that life dispensing can continuously go on.

十　我们的基督是阿拉法，也是俄梅嘎（二二13上）；在希腊字母当中，基督是第一个字母—阿拉法，是最后一个字母—俄梅嘎，也是中间所有的字母，为要无穷尽的分赐生命。

J　Our Christ is the Alpha and the Omega (22:13a); in the Greek alphabet Christ is the first letter, Alpha, the last letter, Omega, and all the letters in between for the inexhaustible dispensing of life.

十一　基督是首先的，也是末后的（二8，二二13中），是永远存在、永不改变的一位：

K　Christ is the First and the Last (2:8; 22:13b), the ever-existing, unchanging One:

１　无论逼迫的环境如何，主仍是一样；没有一事能在祂以先，也没有一事能在祂以后。

１　Whatever the persecuting environment may be, the Lord remains the same; nothing can precede Him, nor can anything exist after Him.

２　凡事都在祂管制的界限之内；基督占有每一件事物和每一个地方。

２　All things are within the limits of His control; Christ occupies everything and every place.

十二　基督是初，也是终（13下）；初，意即祂是万有的起源；终，意即祂是万有的终结；这不仅指明没有人在主耶稣之先，也没有人在主耶稣之后，也指明没有祂，就没有起源，也没有终结（参罗十一36）。

L　Christ is the Beginning and the End (v. 13c); the Beginning indicates that He is the origination of all things, and the End, that He is the consummation of all things; hence, the indication here is not only that there is nothing before or after the Lord Jesus but also that there is no origination or consummation without Him (cf. Rom. 11:36).

十三　基督是神创造之物的元始（启三14下）；这是指主作为神创造之物的起源或根源，含示主是神工作中不变永存的根源，目的是要把神分赐到祂所拣选的造物里面；这指明恢复后又堕落的老底嘉召会，是因离开主这源头（耶二13）而改变了。

M　Christ is the beginning of the creation of God (Rev. 3:14b); this refers to the Lord as the origin or source of God’s creation, implying that the Lord is the unchanging and ever-existing source of God’s work for the purpose of dispensing God into His chosen ones; this indicates that the degraded recovered church in Laodicea has changed by leaving the Lord as the source (Jer. 2:13).

十四　基督是那活着的；基督在启示录一章十七至十八节说，“我……是那活着的；我曾死过，看哪，现在又活了，直活到永永远远，并且拿着死亡和阴间的钥匙；”基督要分赐生命，祂就必须是那活着的，好把召会作成活神的家—提前三15。

N　Christ is the living One; in Revelation 1:17-18 Christ said, “I am...the living One; and I became dead, and behold, I am living forever and ever; and I have the keys of death and of Hades”; for Christ to dispense life, He must be the living One to make the church the house of the living God—1 Tim. 3:15.