弗一18 光照你们的心眼，使你们知道祂的呼召有何等盼望；祂在圣徒中之基业的荣耀，有何等丰富。

　　　　13 你们既听了真理的话，就是那叫你们得救的福音，也在祂里面信了，就在祂里面受了所应许的圣灵为印记。

　　作为神的后嗣，信徒与基督同作后嗣，是照着永远生命的应许和盼望，借着因基督的恩典得称义，并在基督的复活里得重生，得以承受三一神作他们的基业，有圣灵作凭质，得以在光中与众圣徒同享具体化在基督里的三一神，作他们的分，得以与基督同得荣耀，并得以承受那存留在诸天之上作活的盼望的基业。这要完成于信徒成为神所选定的基业。……〔以弗所一章十一节里〕“成了所选定的基业”，原文……意选择，或抽签指定。因此全句意即，我们在祂里面被标明为所选定的基业。我们成了所选定的基业，以承受神作基业。一面我们成了神的基业（18），给神享受；一面我们承受神作我们的基业（14），给我们享受。……借着三一神作到我们里面，我们被构成基业。神的元素作到我们这人里面，我们就成为祂在实际里的基业。所以，我们仍在成为神完满基业的过程中（新约总论第五册，三七至三八页）。

　　Eph. 1:18 The eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.

　　13 In whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, in Him also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise.

　　As heirs of God, the believers are joint heirs of Christ according to the promise and the hope of eternal life, through justification by the grace of Christ and regeneration in the resurrection of Christ, to inherit the Triune God as their inheritance with the Holy Spirit as the pledge, to share with all the saints in the light the Triune God embodied in Christ as their portion, to be glorified with Christ, and to inherit an inheritance kept in the heavens as a living hope. This consummates in the believers being made God’s inheritance…The Greek word rendered “were designated as an inheritance” [in Ephesians 1:11] means “to choose” or “assign by lot.” Hence, this clause literally means we were designated as a heritage. We were made an inheritance to inherit God’s inheritance. On the one hand, we were made God’s inheritance (v. 18) for God’s enjoyment; on the other hand, we were made to inherit God as our inheritance (v. 14) for our enjoyment… It is by having the Triune God wrought into us that we are constituted into an inheritance. As God’s element is wrought into our being, we become His inheritance in reality. Therefore, we are still in the process of being made God’s inheritance in full. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 1092)

　　以弗所一章十八节指明神的基业是在圣徒中。神先使我们成为祂的基业，作祂所买的产业，又使我们分享祂的一切所是、所有并所完成的，作我们的基业。总结起来，这一切成了祂在圣徒中的基业，直到永远。……神的基业在圣徒中，也在圣徒中间。我们圣徒是神的基业。然而，我们天然的所是不能作神的基业。神不愿承受我们的天然、我们的肉体、我们天然的人。祂渴望承受祂自己作到我们里面的一切。因此，凡神自己所作到我们里面的一切，就成为祂的基业。

　　我们既是神的基业，就受了圣灵为印记（13）。……因为我们已成了神所选定的基业，在我们得救时，神就把圣灵放在我们里面作印记，将我们标出，指明我们是属神的。……事实上，那灵自己就是印记。受了圣灵为印记，意思就是神已分赐到我们里面。因此，这印记在我们里面是活的、活动的，因那灵一直用神的素质印涂我们。这样被印涂，就是被神一切的所是浸透。因此，圣灵的印涂也指明神正作到我们里面。借着那灵的印涂，神正将祂的素质作到我们里面，使祂能享受我们，就是祂所买的产业，作祂的基业。

　　那构成神在圣徒中之基业的，乃是在我们里面的神自己。在这基业中有神荣耀的丰富。……信徒因着被神圣的素质所浸透，对祂就成为宝贵的。……如今这价值无匹的宝贵之神，正将祂自己作到我们里面，使我们成为祂荣耀的基业。当新耶路撒冷来临时，我们将看见这全然是宝贵的基业，凭神的荣耀而照耀。

　　我们得救以后是神的儿女、神的儿子、神性情的有分者和神的后嗣。我们是神的后嗣，享受祂作我们的基业，我们也成为祂的基业给祂享受。因此，我们对神圣基业的享受，完成于我们成为神的基业。我们享受神。然后我们对祂的享受，使我们成为祂的享受（新约总论第五册，三八至四○页）。

　　参读：新约总论，第一百零一篇。

　　Ephesians 1:18 indicates that God’s inheritance is in the saints. First God made us His inheritance as His acquired possession and gave us to participate in all He is, all He has, and all He has accomplished as our inheritance. Consummately, all these become His inheritance in the saints for eternity. God’s inheritance is in and among the saints. We, the saints, are God’s inheritance. However, what we are by nature cannot be God’s inheritance. God does not desire to inherit our nature, our flesh, our natural being. He desires to inherit all that He has wrought into us of Himself. Therefore, whatever God has wrought into us of Himself becomes His inheritance.

　　As those who are God’s inheritance, we have been sealed with the Holy Spirit (v. 13)…Because we have been made God’s inheritance, at the time we were saved God put His Holy Spirit into us as a seal to mark us out, indicating that we belong to God. Actually the Spirit Himself is the seal. To be sealed with the Holy Spirit means that God has been dispensed into our being. Hence, this seal is living and moving within us, for the Spirit is constantly sealing us with God’s essence. To be sealed in this way is to be saturated with all that God is. Therefore, the sealing of the Holy Spirit also indicates that God is being wrought into us. Through the sealing of the Spirit, God is working His essence into our being that He may enjoy us, His acquired possession, as His inheritance.

　　It is God Himself within us who constitutes His inheritance among the saints. In this inheritance are the riches of God’s glory…The believers become precious to Him by being saturated with the divine essence…Now this precious God of matchless worth is working Himself into us to make us His glorious inheritance. When the New Jerusalem comes, we shall see that it will be altogether a valuable inheritance, shining with God’s glory.

　　After being saved, we are children of God, sons of God, partakers of the divine nature, and heirs of God. As heirs of God, we enjoy Him as our inheritance, and we become His inheritance for His enjoyment. Therefore, our enjoyment of the divine inheritance consummates in our being made God’s inheritance. We enjoy God. Then our enjoyment of Him makes us His enjoyment. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1092-1094)

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