彼前一3~4 我们主耶稣基督的神与父是当受颂赞的，祂曾照自己的大怜悯，借耶稣基督从死人中复活，重生了我们，使我们有活的盼望，可以得着不能朽坏、不能玷污、不能衰残，为你们存留在诸天之上的基业。

　　我们需要对这事实有深刻的印象：我们的基业是三一神自己。……我们基业的凭质是圣灵。……物质的大厦不需要那灵神圣的人位作凭质、样品、预尝和担保。我们基业的凭质既是神圣的人位，就基业也必是神圣的人位—三一神自己。三一神是神要赐给我们的基业，而那灵作为三一神临到我们的终极完成，乃是这基业的凭质。那灵作我们基业的凭质，担保三一神要作我们的分，给我们享受。这是三一神作我们的基业（新约总论第五册，三○至三一页）。

　　1 Pet. 1:3-4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance, incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in the heavens for you.

　　We need to be impressed with the fact that our inheritance is the Triune God Himself…The pledge of our inheritance is the Holy Spirit…A material mansion would not need the divine person of the Spirit as a pledge, sample, foretaste, and guarantee. Since the pledge of our inheritance is a divine person, the inheritance must also be a divine person—the Triune God Himself. The Triune God is the inheritance God intends to give to us, and the Spirit as the ultimate consummation of the Triune God reaching us is the pledge of this inheritance. As the pledge of our inheritance, the Spirit guarantees that the Triune God will be our portion for our enjoyment. This is the Triune God as our inheritance. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 1086)

　　以弗所一章十四节说，那灵是我们得基业的凭质，为使神所买的产业得赎。我们蒙神救赎的人—召会，乃是神用基督的宝血所买的产业（徒二十28）。在神的经纶里，神成了我们的基业，我们也成了神的产业。我们是神的产业，但我们的身体仍需要得赎，因我们的身体仍在旧造里。……一面，三一神是我们的基业；另一面，我们是祂的产业。以弗所一章十四节里要紧的事，乃是那灵质押到我们里面，担保神要完满地作我们的基业。……在荣耀里，我们要享受神作我们的基业，祂也要享受我们作祂的产业。

　　我们的基业不是任何物质的事物。神圣的三一是我们的基业，并且祂那终极完成的灵已分赐到我们这人里面作凭质。如今这凭质在我们里面作工，救赎神的产业，直到我们享受祂作我们的分，祂也享受我们作祂产业的日子。

　　彼前一章三节告诉我们，借着基督的复活，我们蒙了重生，使我们有活的盼望。然后四节继续说，“可以得着不能朽坏、不能玷污、不能衰残，为你们存留在诸天之上的基业。”三节末了是一个逗点，而四节开始于“可以得着”。这指明四节的“可以得着……基业”，与三节“使……有活的盼望”是同位语。这就是说，活的盼望就是基业，基业就是活的盼望。由重生所得活的盼望，乃是我们对要来之福的期望；基业乃是我们的盼望在来世和永世中的实现。……活的盼望是生命的盼望，特别是永远生命的盼望。永远的生命是我们的享受，也是我们的基业。神所是的一切丰富，都包含在祂的生命里。这些丰富成了我们……的基业。我们每天对永远生命的经历，也是对那为我们存留在诸天上之基业的经历和享受。这指明活的盼望与基业乃是一。

　　借着我们第二次的出生，重生，我们已生入新的基业。照着彼前一章四节，这基业不是在地上，乃是存留在诸天之上。虽然这基业为我们存留在诸天之上，但我们现今在地上就能享受这基业。我们属天、神圣、属灵的基业是存留在诸天之上，但这基业却不断传输到我们灵里，作我们的享受。

　　三一神自己是我们基本的基业。与祂作我们基业有关的，有五件其他的事：将来魂的救恩、主来临时要显现的恩、将要显出的荣耀、不能衰残的荣耀冠冕以及永远的荣耀。这五项加在一起，乃是与神自己有关的次要基业。这些项目虽不是直接指三一神，却与神圣的生命，就是与神自己有关（新约总论第五册，三一至三二、三四至三五、三七页）。

　　参读：新约总论，第一百零一篇。

　　Ephesians 1:14 says that the Spirit is the pledge of our inheritance unto the redemption of the acquired possession. We, God’s redeemed ones, the church, are God’s possession acquired by His purchase with the precious blood of Christ (Acts 20:28). In God’s economy God becomes our inheritance, and we become God’s possession. As God’s possession, we still need the redemption of our body, for our body is still in the old creation… On the one hand, the Triune God is our inheritance; on the other hand, we are His possession. The crucial matter in Ephesians 1:14 is that the Spirit is pledged into us as a guarantee that God will be our inheritance in full…In the glory, we shall enjoy God as our inheritance, and He will enjoy us as His possession.

　　Our inheritance is not anything material. The Divine Trinity is our inheritance, and His consummated Spirit has been imparted into our being as a pledge. Now this pledge is working within us to redeem God’s possession until the day we enjoy Him as our portion and He enjoys us as His possession.

　　First Peter 1:3 tells us that through the resurrection of Christ we have been regenerated unto a living hope. Then verse 4 goes on to say, “Unto an inheritance, incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in the heavens for you.” At the end of verse 3 there is a comma, and verse 4 begins with “unto.” This indicates that “unto an inheritance” in verse 4 is in apposition to “unto a living hope” in verse 3. This means that the living hope is the inheritance and that the inheritance is the living hope. A living hope, resulting from regeneration, is our expectation of the coming blessing; an inheritance is the fulfillment of our hope in the coming age and in eternity. A living hope is a hope of life. In particular, it is a hope of eternal life. Eternal life is our enjoyment and also our inheritance. All the riches of God’s being are involved in His life. These riches have become our inheritance…Our daily experience of eternal life is also an experience and enjoyment of the inheritance kept for us in the heavens. This indicates that the living hope and the inheritance are one.

　　Through our second birth, regeneration, we have been born into a new inheritance. According to 1 Peter 1:4, this inheritance is not on earth; rather, it is kept in the heavens. Although this inheritance is kept for us in the heavens, we can enjoy it now on earth. Our heavenly, divine, spiritual inheritance is kept in the heavens; yet it is continually being transmitted into our spirit for our enjoyment.

　　The Triune God Himself will be our basic inheritance. Related to Him as our inheritance we have five other matters: the coming salvation of our souls, the grace to be revealed at the Lord’s coming, the glory to be revealed to us, the unfading crown of glory, and the eternal glory. These five items, added together, are a subsidiary inheritance related to God Himself. Although these items are not the Triune God directly, they are related to the divine life, which is God Himself. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1086-1087, 1089-1092)

　　Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 101