路十八1~3 耶稣又对他们讲一个比喻，是要人常常祷告，不可灰心，说，某城里有一个审判官，不惧怕神，也不尊重人。那城里有个寡妇，常到他那里，说，我有一个对头，求你给我伸冤。

　　路加十八章三节的寡妇表征信徒。就某种意义说，在基督里的信徒在今世是寡妇，因他们的丈夫基督（林后十一2）不在他们这里了。

　　主在这个比喻中指明，基督里的信徒有一个对头，就是魔鬼撒但，对这对头我们需要神的伸冤。我们应当为此恒切祷告（见启六9~10），不可灰心。

　　照路加十八章四节看，那审判官多时不肯为寡妇伸冤。然后他心里说，“我虽不惧怕神，也不尊重人，只因这寡妇常常搅扰我，我就给她伸冤吧，免得她不断来缠磨我。”（4~5）接着，主说，“你们听这不义的审判官所说的。神的选民昼夜呼吁祂，祂纵然为他们忍耐着，岂不终久给他们伸冤么？我告诉你们，祂要快快地给他们伸冤了。然而，人子来的时候，在地上找得到信心么？”（6~8）主在八节的话指明，神报复我们的仇敌，乃是在救主回来的时候（路加福音生命读经，三九八至三九九页）。

　　Luke 18:1-3 And He told them a parable to the end that they ought always to pray and not lose heart, saying, There was a certain judge in a certain city who did not fear God and did not regard man. And there was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, Avenge me of my opponent.

　　The widow in Luke 18:3 signifies the believers. In a sense, the believers in Christ are a widow in the present age because their Husband, Christ (2 Cor. 11:2), is absent from them.

　　In this parable the Lord indicated that the believers in Christ have an opponent. This opponent is Satan the devil, concerning whom we need God’s avenging. We ought to pray persistently for this avenging (see Rev. 6:9-10) and should not lose heart.

　　According to Luke 18:4, the judge for a time would not avenge the widow of her opponent. Then he said within himself, “Even though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow causes me trouble, I will avenge her, lest by continually coming she wear me out” (vv. 4-5). Following this, the Lord went on to say, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God by all means carry out the avenging of His chosen ones, who cry to Him day and night, though He is long-suffering over them? I tell you that He will carry out their avenging quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” (vv. 6-8). The Lord’s word in verse 8 indicates that God’s avenging us of our enemy will be at the Savior’s coming back. (Life-study of Luke, p. 337)

　　三一神是给人享受的，但是堕落的人类对这事完全没有观念，完全没有知觉。世界的人忙着嫁娶、买卖、栽种、盖造（路十七27~28）。他们没有想到神是他们的享受，因为他们都被麻醉了。所以，主在从加利利到耶路撒冷的漫长旅程上，几次论到这件事。比方，祂在路加十四章告诉门徒，他们必须恨恶这世代的事物，甚至需要恨恶自己的魂生命，因为凡打岔他们享受基督的事物，他们都该恨恶。在十七章主又说到，被麻醉的世代阻止神的百姓享受神圣的产业。主在十八章再次论到这件事以前，向我们揭示与我们享受禧年有关的另一件事，就是从我们对头来的逼迫。

　　我们需要领悟，我们这些神的百姓，在这被麻醉且麻醉人的世代中，就像寡妇一样。就某种意义说，主，我们的丈夫，已经不在了。不仅如此，我们有一个一直在逼迫我们的对头。

　　主也向祂的门徒启示，当我们寻求祂时，需要恨恶任何阻挠我们享受祂的事物。不仅如此，我们在享受祂时，会遭受逼迫。这逼迫来自我们的对头，他是神的仇敌，也成了我们的仇敌，因我们站在神这一边。

　　十八章一至八节的比喻指明，当主表面上不在的期间，我们从我们的对头所受的苦难。实际上主没有离去，祂与我们同在。但当祂表面上不在的期间，我们是寡妇，反对我们的人一直在搅扰我们。

　　我们的神似乎是不义的，因为祂允许祂的儿女遭受不义的逼迫。比方，施浸者约翰被斩，彼得殉道，保罗下监，约翰被放逐。……甚至今天我们仍遭受不义的错待。

　　当我们的丈夫表面上不在，留我们在地上如同寡妇的时候，我们的神暂时好像是不义的审判官。虽然祂看似不义，但我们仍要向祂求诉，恒切祷告，一再地烦扰祂（路加福音生命读经，四○○至四○二、四○四页）。

　　参读：路加福音生命读经，第四十篇。

　　The Triune God is for man’s enjoyment. Nevertheless, the fallen human race has no concept of this whatever; it has no sense concerning it at all. The people of the world are busy with marrying and giving in marriage, with buying and selling, with planting and building (Luke 17:27-28). They have no thought concerning God being their enjoyment, for they all have been drugged, stupefied. Therefore, in His long journey from Galilee to Jerusalem, the Lord touched this matter a few times. For example, in chapter 14 He told His disciples that they must hate the things of this generation. They even need to hate their own soul-life, for they should hate anything that distracts them from the enjoyment of Christ. In chapter 17 the Lord came to this point again when He spoke about the stupefied generation, which keeps God’s people away from their enjoyment of the divine inheritance. Before He touched this matter again in chapter 18, He unveiled something else that concerns our enjoyment of the jubilee, and this is the persecution that comes from our opponent.

　　We need to realize that as God’s people in this stupefied and stupefying generation, we are like a widow. In a sense, our Husband, the Lord, is absent. Furthermore, we have an opponent who is constantly persecuting us.

　　The Lord’s word to His disciples reveals that while we are seeking Him, we need to hate any thing and any matter that frustrate us from our enjoyment of Him. Furthermore, as we are enjoying Him, we will suffer persecution. This persecution comes from our opponent, the one who is the enemy of God and who has become our enemy because we take sides with God.

　　The parable in 18:1-8 indicates the suffering we have from our opponent during the Lord’s apparent absence. Actually, the Lord is not absent; He is present. But during His apparent absence, we are a widow whose opposer is troubling her all the time.

　　It seems that our God is not righteous, for He allows His children to be unrighteously persecuted. For example, John the Baptist was beheaded, Peter was martyred, Paul was imprisoned, and John was exiled…Even today we are still undergoing unrighteous mistreatment.

　　When our Husband is apparently absent and we are left on earth as a widow, temporarily our God seems to be an unrighteous judge. Although He appears to be unrighteous, we still must appeal to Him, pray persistently, and bother Him again and again. (Life-study of Luke, pp. 338-339, 341)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Luke, msg. 40