约十五4~5 你们要住在我里面，我也住在你们里面。枝子若不住在葡萄树上，自己就不能结果子，你们若不住在我里面，也是这样。我是葡萄树，你们是枝子；住在我里面的，我也住在他里面，这人就多结果子；因为离了我，你们就不能作什么。

　　信徒……是葡萄树的许多枝子。这就是说，信徒是神的基督的众肢体，在神圣的分赐里形成三一神的生机体。在约翰十五章一节主耶稣宣告：“我是真葡萄树”，在五节祂说，“我是葡萄树，你们是枝子。”这葡萄树及其枝子，就是基督和在基督里的信徒，是神经纶中三一神的生机体，因神的丰富而长大，并彰显祂神圣的生命。

　　约翰十五章的葡萄树，是宇宙的葡萄树，包含基督和祂作枝子的信徒。在这葡萄树，这生机体里，三一神活祂自己，彰显祂自己，并分赐祂自己到极点（新约总论第五册，一三七页）。

　　John 15:4-5 Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing.

　　The believers are also the many branches of the vine. This means that the believers are members of the Christ of God to form the organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing. In John 15:1 the Lord Jesus declared, “I am the true vine,” and in verse 5 He said, “I am the vine; you are the branches.” This vine, which is Christ, with its branches, which are the believers in Christ, is the organism of the Triune God in God’s economy to grow with His riches and to express His divine life.

　　The vine in John 15, therefore, is a universal vine comprising Christ and His believers as the branches. In this vine, this organism, the Triune God lives, expresses Himself, and dispenses Himself to the uttermost. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 1178)

　　我们是葡萄树的枝子，需要住在葡萄树（神的基督）里。……唯有当枝子住在葡萄树上，葡萄树对枝子才是一切。因这缘故，主耶稣说到祂自己是葡萄树，我们是枝子：“你们要住在我里面，我也住在你们里面。”〔约十五4〕我们的生活和享受，就是住在葡萄树里。我们作枝子的定命，就是留在葡萄树上。

　　葡萄树的枝子凭自己不能作什么，因为离了葡萄树，枝子就会枯萎死去。枝子与葡萄树之间的关系，描绘我们与主耶稣之间的关系。离了祂，我们就一无所是，一无所有，也一无所能。凡我们所是、我们所有并我们所作的，必须在主里，且凭着在我们里面的主。……我们不该在自己里面作什么；我们该凭着住在葡萄树里来作一切。……因为我们对主是枝子，主对我们是葡萄树，我们就必须住在祂里面，并让祂住在我们里面。然后在我们的经历中，基督对我们就是一切，作我们的享受。

　　任何绝缘体都会使我们与葡萄树丰富的供应断绝。一点不顺从、一个罪甚或罪恶的思想，都能成为绝缘体，使我们与葡萄树的丰富断绝。首先，我们必须看见我们是枝子。然后我们需要维持我们与主之间的交通。没有什么应当在祂与我们之间。……因此，我们需要祷告：“主耶稣，让你我之间没有什么事物，使我与你丰富的供应断绝。”

　　葡萄树和枝子是一个生机体以荣耀父。我们凭着葡萄树，借着结果子彰显神圣生命的丰富而荣耀父。结果子使父的生命得着彰显；因此，结果子使祂得着荣耀〔约十五8〕。

　　父是葡萄树的源头和本质。没有果子，葡萄树的素质、本质和生命就是隐藏、遮藏并受限制的。然而，在成串的果子上，葡萄树内里生命的丰富就得着彰显。这样彰显内里的生命，就是将神圣的本质从葡萄树里面释放出来。葡萄树的生命借着枝子的繁殖和繁增得着彰显，父就因此得荣耀，因为父在祂生命丰富里的所是，在葡萄树的繁殖和繁增上得着彰显。这是父的得荣耀。

　　我们结果子，就是三一神从里面的得荣、彰显。今天三一神在我们里面作我们的生命和性情，这三一神的生命和性情从我们里面的彰显，就是荣耀。所以，神圣的生命同其性情借着我们结果子得着彰显，父就得着荣耀（新约总论第五册，一三九至一四二页）。

　　参读：新约总论，第一百零九至一百一十篇；一个在灵里之人的自传，第六章。

　　As branches of the vine, we need to abide in the vine, the Christ of God… Only when the branches abide in the vine can the vine be everything to them. This is the reason the Lord Jesus said concerning Himself as the vine and us as the branches, “Abide in Me and I in you” [John 15:4]. Our life and enjoyment are to abide in the vine. Our destiny as branches is to remain in the vine…

　　A branch of a vine cannot live by itself, for it will wither and die apart from the vine. The relationship between the branches and the vine portrays the relationship between us and the Lord Jesus. We are nothing, we have nothing, and we can do nothing apart from Him. What we are, what we have, and what we do must be in the Lord and by the Lord in us…We should not do anything in ourselves; we should do everything by abiding in the vine… Because we are branches to the Lord and the Lord is the vine to us, we must abide in Him and let Him abide in us. Then in our experience Christ will be everything to us for our enjoyment.

　　Any insulation will separate us from the rich supply of the vine. A little disobedience, a sin, or even a sinful thought can be the insulation that separates us from the riches of the vine. First, we must see that we are branches. Then we need to maintain the fellowship between us and the Lord. Nothing should be between Him and us…Hence, we need to pray, “Lord Jesus, let there be nothing between You and me separating me from Your rich supply.”

　　The vine and the branches are an organism to glorify the Father. With the vine we have the glorification of the Father through the expression of the riches of the divine life in fruit-bearing. In fruit-bearing the Father’s life is expressed; hence, in fruit-bearing He is glorified [John 15:8].

　　The Father is the source and substance of the vine. Apart from the fruit, the essence, substance, and life of the vine are concealed, hidden, confined. However, the riches of the inner life of the vine are expressed in the clusters of fruit. To express the inner life in this way is to release the divine substance from within the vine. When the life of the vine is expressed through the branches in its propagation and multiplication, the Father is glorified, because what the Father is in the riches of His life is expressed in the propagation and multiplication of the vine. This is the glorification of the Father.

　　Our fruit-bearing is the glorification, the expression, of the Triune God from within. Today the Triune God is within us as our life and nature, and the expression of the life and nature of the Triune God from within us is glory. Therefore, when the divine life with its nature is expressed through us in fruit-bearing, the Father is glorified. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1180-1182)

　　Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 109—110; CWWL, 1967, vol. 2, “An Autobiography of a Person in the Spirit,” ch. 6