读经：尼八1~3，5~6，8，13~18
Scripture Reading: Neh. 8:1-3, 5-6, 8, 13-18
Scripture Reading: Neh. 8:1-3, 5-6, 8, 13-18
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神永远的定旨乃是要将祂自己作到我们里面，作我们的生命和一切，使我们接受祂作我们的人位，活祂并彰显祂；这是神心头的愿望，也是圣经的中心点─弗一9，三11，腓一20~21上：
God's eternal purpose is to work Himself into us as our life and our everything so that we may take Him as our person, live Him, and express Him; this is the desire of God's heart and the focal point of the Bible— Eph. 1:9; 3:11; Phil. 1:20-21a:
God's eternal purpose is to work Himself into us as our life and our everything so that we may take Him as our person, live Him, and express Him; this is the desire of God's heart and the focal point of the Bible— Eph. 1:9; 3:11; Phil. 1:20-21a:
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神中心的工作，是要将祂自己在基督里作到祂所拣选并救赎的人里面─弗三16~17上：
God's central work is to work Himself in Christ into His chosen and redeemed people—Eph. 3:16-17a:
God's central work is to work Himself in Christ into His chosen and redeemed people—Eph. 3:16-17a:
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我们一切的难处都是由于一件事─我们缺少得着神在基督里作到我们里面─加四19。
All our problems are due to one thing—our shortage of having God in Christ wrought into our being—Gal. 4:19.
All our problems are due to one thing—our shortage of having God in Christ wrought into our being—Gal. 4:19.
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我们需要与这工作合作，让神将基督作为那灵，作到我们全人的每一部分─弗三17上。
We need to cooperate with this work by allowing God to work Christ as the Spirit into every part of our being—Eph. 3:17a.
We need to cooperate with this work by allowing God to work Christ as the Spirit into every part of our being—Eph. 3:17a.
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神在祂救恩里的心意，是要将祂自己作到我们里面，借着改变我们的饮食，并以基督喂养我们，改变我们的构成─出十六14~15，约六27，32，35：
God's intention in His salvation is to work Himself into us and change our constitution by changing our diet and feeding us with Christ—Exo. 16:14-15; John 6:27, 32, 35:
God's intention in His salvation is to work Himself into us and change our constitution by changing our diet and feeding us with Christ—Exo. 16:14-15; John 6:27, 32, 35:
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食物是我们为着自己的满足而接受进来的任何事物─伯二三12下，耶十五16：
Food is anything that we take into us for our satisfaction—Job 23:12b; Jer. 15:16:
Food is anything that we take into us for our satisfaction—Job 23:12b; Jer. 15:16:
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我们所吃的食物生机的进到我们里面，成为我们的构成。
The food that we eat enters into us organically and becomes our constitution.
The food that we eat enters into us organically and becomes our constitution.
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无论我们爱好什么，巴望什么，渴求什么，这些就是构成我们全人的粮食─民十一4~6。
Whatever we desire and hunger and thirst after is the diet according to which our being has been constituted—Num. 11:4-6.
Whatever we desire and hunger and thirst after is the diet according to which our being has been constituted—Num. 11:4-6.
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神要更换我们的饮食，好改变我们的构成─申八3：
God will change our diet in order to change our constitution—Deut. 8:3:
God will change our diet in order to change our constitution—Deut. 8:3:
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神要我们消化并吸取祂，使祂能成为我们内里所是的构成成分。
God wants to be digested and assimilated by us so that He can become the constituent of our inward being.
God wants to be digested and assimilated by us so that He can become the constituent of our inward being.
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我们就是我们所吃的；因此，我们若吃神作我们的食物，我们就与神成为一，甚至在生命和性情上，但不是在神格上，成为神。
We are what we eat; therefore, if we eat God as our food, we will be one with God and even become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.
We are what we eat; therefore, if we eat God as our food, we will be one with God and even become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.
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神的愿望是要将祂自己作到我们里面，并作我们的一切，使我们能被建造成为祂的居所─弗三16~17上，二21~22：
God's desire is to work Himself into us and to be everything to us so that we can be built up as His dwelling place—Eph. 3:16-17a; 2:21-22:
God's desire is to work Himself into us and to be everything to us so that we can be built up as His dwelling place—Eph. 3:16-17a; 2:21-22:
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只有那些被基督重新构成的人，才够资格被建造成为召会，就是神今天的居所─21~22节。
Only those who have been reconstituted with Christ are qualified to be built up as the church, God's dwelling place today—vv. 21-22.
Only those who have been reconstituted with Christ are qualified to be built up as the church, God's dwelling place today—vv. 21-22.
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为着召会的建造，我们都需要被基督重新构成─三16~21。
For the building of the church, we all need to be reconstituted with Christ—3:16-21.
For the building of the church, we all need to be reconstituted with Christ—3:16-21.
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为着神经纶的完成，我们需要对付天然的构成─我们身心能力的集大成─林前二14：
For the fulfillment of God's economy, we need to deal with the natural constitution—the aggregate of our physical and mental powers—1 Cor. 2:14:
For the fulfillment of God's economy, we need to deal with the natural constitution—the aggregate of our physical and mental powers—1 Cor. 2:14:
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天然的构成是旧人活出来的彰显，与人的能力、干才、智慧、聪明、办法和手腕有关─林后一12，雅三15，腓三3~7。
The natural constitution is the expression of the living out of the old man that is related to human ability, capability, wisdom, cleverness, schemes, and skills—2 Cor. 1:12; James 3:15; Phil. 3:3-7.
The natural constitution is the expression of the living out of the old man that is related to human ability, capability, wisdom, cleverness, schemes, and skills—2 Cor. 1:12; James 3:15; Phil. 3:3-7.
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我们必须从天然蒙拯救，被带进复活里，使我们对神成为有用的─林后一9，四14，腓三10~11。
We must be delivered from being natural and be brought into resurrection in order to be useful to God—2 Cor. 1:9; 4:14; Phil. 3:10-11.
We must be delivered from being natural and be brought into resurrection in order to be useful to God—2 Cor. 1:9; 4:14; Phil. 3:10-11.
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以斯拉用属天的真理教育以色列人，把他们重新构成，使以色列能成为神的见证─尼八1~3，5~6，8，13~18：
Ezra reconstituted the people of Israel by educating them with the heavenly truths so that Israel could become God's testimony—Neh. 8:1-3, 5-6, 8, 13-18:
Ezra reconstituted the people of Israel by educating them with the heavenly truths so that Israel could become God's testimony—Neh. 8:1-3, 5-6, 8, 13-18:
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神对以色列的心意，是要在地上得着一班神圣构成的子民，作祂的见证；神的子民要作祂的见证，必须被神的话重新构成─赛四九6，六十1~3。
God's intention with Israel was to have on earth a divinely constituted people to be His testimony; in order for God's people to be His testimony, they had to be reconstituted with the word of God—Isa. 49:6; 60:1-3.
God's intention with Israel was to have on earth a divinely constituted people to be His testimony; in order for God's people to be His testimony, they had to be reconstituted with the word of God—Isa. 49:6; 60:1-3.
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百姓从被掳归回之后仍是任性的，因为他们生在并长在巴比伦，有了巴比伦的构成：
After the return from captivity, the people were still unruly, for they had been born and raised in Babylon and had become Babylonian in their constitution:
After the return from captivity, the people were still unruly, for they had been born and raised in Babylon and had become Babylonian in their constitution:
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巴比伦的元素已经作到他们里面，构成到他们全人里面─亚三3~5。
The Babylonian element had been wrought into them and constituted into their being—Zech. 3:3-5.
The Babylonian element had been wrought into them and constituted into their being—Zech. 3:3-5.
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他们返回列祖之地，成为以色列国的公民后，需要被重新构成。
After they returned to the land of their fathers to be citizens of the nation of Israel, they needed a reconstitution.
After they returned to the land of their fathers to be citizens of the nation of Israel, they needed a reconstitution.
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神的子民需要教导和重新构成，好被带进照着神的文化，就是彰显神的文化中；这种文化需要许多教育─尼八8。
There was the need of teaching and reconstitution to bring the people of God into a culture that was according to God, a culture that expressed God; this kind of culture requires a great deal of education—Neh. 8:8.
There was the need of teaching and reconstitution to bring the people of God into a culture that was according to God, a culture that expressed God; this kind of culture requires a great deal of education—Neh. 8:8.
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以斯拉在神百姓的重新构成上非常有用，因为他有属天、神圣之构成和文化的总和，并且借着他，百姓得以被神的话重新构成─1~2节。
For the reconstituting of God's people, Ezra was very useful, for he bore the totality of the heavenly and divine constitution and culture, and he was one through whom the people could be reconstituted with the word of God—vv. 1-2.
For the reconstituting of God's people, Ezra was very useful, for he bore the totality of the heavenly and divine constitution and culture, and he was one through whom the people could be reconstituted with the word of God—vv. 1-2.
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以斯拉把百姓带回到神的话上，使他们重新受教育，并被圣言中的属天真理重新构成。
Ezra brought the people back to the Word of God so that they might be reeducated and reconstituted with the heavenly truths in the divine Word.
Ezra brought the people back to the Word of God so that they might be reeducated and reconstituted with the heavenly truths in the divine Word.
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要重新构成神的百姓，需要用神口里所出、并彰显神的话，教育他们─诗一一九2，9，105，130，140：
In order to reconstitute the people of God, there was the need to educate them with the word which comes out of the mouth of God and which expresses God—Psa. 119:2, 9, 105, 130, 140:
In order to reconstitute the people of God, there was the need to educate them with the word which comes out of the mouth of God and which expresses God—Psa. 119:2, 9, 105, 130, 140:
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重新构成神的百姓，就是教育他们，把他们摆进神的话里，使他们被神的话浸透─西三16。
To reconstitute the people of God is to educate them by putting them into the word of God so that they may be saturated with the word—Col. 3:16.
To reconstitute the people of God is to educate them by putting them into the word of God so that they may be saturated with the word—Col. 3:16.
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当神的话在我们里面作工，神的灵，就是神自己，自然而然的就借着话将神的性情同神的元素分赐到我们里面；这样，我们就被重新构成─提后三16~17。
As the word of God works within us, the Spirit of God, who is God Himself, through the word spontaneously dispenses God's nature with God's element into our being; in this way we are reconstituted—2 Tim. 3:16-17.
As the word of God works within us, the Spirit of God, who is God Himself, through the word spontaneously dispenses God's nature with God's element into our being; in this way we are reconstituted—2 Tim. 3:16-17.
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借着以斯拉的职事，以色列人（在预表上）被重新构成，结果成为特别的国，就是圣别、分别归神、彰显神的国─赛四九6，六十1~3，亚四2：
As a result of being reconstituted through the ministry of Ezra, Israel (in type) became a particular nation, a nation sanctified and separated unto God, expressing God—Isa. 49:6; 60:1-3; Zech. 4:2:
As a result of being reconstituted through the ministry of Ezra, Israel (in type) became a particular nation, a nation sanctified and separated unto God, expressing God—Isa. 49:6; 60:1-3; Zech. 4:2:
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被掳归回的人，是个别的并团体的被重新构成，成为神的见证。
The returned captives were reconstituted personally and corporately to become God's testimony.
The returned captives were reconstituted personally and corporately to become God's testimony.
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他们被神的思想、神的考量、并神的一切所是灌输，使他们成为神的复制。
They were transfused with the thought of God, with the considerations of God, and with all that God is; this made them God's reproduction.
They were transfused with the thought of God, with the considerations of God, and with all that God is; this made them God's reproduction.
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借着这种神圣的构成，人人都在生命和性情上成为神；结果，他们成为神圣的国，彰显神圣的特性─彼前二9。
By this kind of divine constitution, everyone became God in life and in nature; as a result, they became a divine nation expressing the divine character—1 Pet. 2:9.
By this kind of divine constitution, everyone became God in life and in nature; as a result, they became a divine nation expressing the divine character—1 Pet. 2:9.