第89章 以弗所人的榜样
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第89章 以弗所人的榜样
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Chapter 89—Example of the Ephesians
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以弗所人悔改之后，改变了自己的习惯和行为。圣灵使他们认识到自己的罪。他们立即采取行动，公开了他们邪术的一切秘密。他们前来承认自己的罪，并“诉说自己所行的事。他们的心中充满了圣洁的愤恨，因为他们过去如此热衷于行邪术，非常重视这些书籍。在这些书中包含撒但所设计的条例和如何行邪术的方法。他们决心不再侍奉那恶者，所以拿出他们重价的书公开焚烧。他们如此来表明自己真心悔改归向上帝……{MYP 275.1}[1]
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When the Ephesians were converted, they changed their habits and practices. Under the conviction of the Spirit of God, they acted with promptness, and laid bare all the mysteries of their witchcraft. They came and confessed, and showed their deeds, and their souls were filled with holy indignation because they had given such devotion to magic, and had so highly prized the books in which the rules of Satan’s devising had laid down the methods whereby they might practice witchcraft. They were determined to turn from the service of the evil one, and they brought their costly volumes and publicly burned them. Thus they made manifest their sincerity in turning to God....?{MYP 275.1}[1]
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以弗所人在信服福音后所投之以炬的书，乃是他们先前所喜爱并容其管理他们的良心，指导他们心灵的。他们可以卖掉这些书，但这样就会使邪恶继续存留。从此以后，他们就憎恶邪术，憎恶行邪术的知识。我想要问问那些已经相信真理的青年人，你们有没有烧掉你的行邪术的书？{MYP 275.2}[2]
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The books the Ephesians committed to the flames on their conversion to the gospel, they formerly delighted in, and permitted them to rule their consciences and guide their minds. They might have sold them, but by so doing the evil would be perpetuated. They afterward abhorred the satanic mysteries, the magical arts, and regarded with aversion the knowledge they had obtained from them. I would ask the young who have been connected with the truth, Have you burned your magical books??{MYP 275.2}[2]
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【今日行邪术的书】
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我们并没有指责你们犯了那束缚以弗所人的罪，也没有说你们像他们那样行邪术，卜卦算命，按照诡秘的巫术而与邪灵交往。但你们没有与一切邪恶的创始者，与这些奥秘和阴间法术的设计者相交吗？你没有听从这世界的神，就是那空中掌权者的暗示吗？你有没有屈从他的虚谎，屈身作他的仆从，来作你悔改之前所作的事？你有没有献身作撒但的工具，从更广泛的意义上说，你有没有与堕落的天使来往，向他们学习自欺欺人的本领？{MYP 275.3}[3]
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【The Magic Books of Today】
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We do not charge you with the evil that had bound the Ephesians, or claim that you have practiced magic, and dealt in the arts of sorcery in?the same way as they had. We do not say that you have followed the mysteries of necromancy, or held communion with evil spirits. But are you not in communion with the author of all evil, with the deviser of all these mysteries and hellish arts? Do you not listen to the suggestions of him who is the god of this world, the prince of the power of the air? Have you not submitted to his falsehoods, and yielded yourselves as his agents to work that which was in harmony with your life before conversion? Have you not given yourselves up to be Satan’s agents and, in a broader sense, are you not holding intercourse with fallen angels, and learning lessons from them in the art of deceiving your own souls and the souls of others??{MYP 275.3}[3]
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行邪术的书会怎么样呢？你平时所读的是什么书？你如何度过你光阴的？你有没有设法研究圣经，以求听见上帝从圣经中对你说话的声音？世界上充斥了散布怀疑，不信和无神主义种子的书，你或多或少从这些书中学到一些东西。这些书就是行邪术的书。它们把上帝从人的心中排挤出去，使人心灵与真牧人隔开。{MYP 276.1}[4]
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What about the magical books? What have you been reading? How have you been employing your time? Have you been seeking to study the sacred oracles in order that you may hear the voice of God speaking to you out of His Word? The world is deluged with books which sow the seeds of skepticism, infidelity, and atheism, and to a larger or less degree you have been learning your lessons from these books, and they are magical books. They put God out of the mind, and separate the soul from the true Shepherd.?{MYP 276.1}[4]
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【无法进行严肃的思考】
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你所阅读的书是撒但的仆人所设计的，其目的是用撒但的会中所创立的理论来迷惑你的心，告诉你如何以邪恶的姿态来侍奉那恶者。具有不信倾向的书是何等地多。这些书籍以种种的疑问来动摇人心。撒但将他的毒气吹入这些书中，以致命的属灵的毒雾笼罩读书的人。{MYP 276.2}[5]
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【Mind Unfitted for Solemn Thought】
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The volumes you have read have been devised by the agents of Satan to bewitch the mind with theories formed in the synagogue of Satan, to show you how you may serve the evil one with satanic dignity. How numerous are the books of infidel?tendencies, which are calculated to unsettle the mind through specious doubts! Satan has breathed his poisonous breath upon them, and a deadly, spiritual malaria affects the soul that reads them.?{MYP 276.2}[5]
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世界上充斥虚构的读物。这种读物使人心充满虚幻和愚昧，厌弃真理和公义的道，无法进行严肃的思考，耐心恳切地研究圣经。圣经是我们走向上帝乐园的指南。{MYP 277.1}[6]
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What a mass of fictitious reading is there in the world, to fill the mind with fancies and follies, thus creating a disrelish for the words of truth and righteousness! The mind is thus unfitted for solemn thought, for patient, persevering investigation of the Scriptures, which is the guide book by which you are to be directed to the paradise of God.?{MYP 277.1}[6]
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许多作品讲论如何获得地上的财富，似乎这些财富能购买进入天国的护照。多少史书只记载人的大胆妄为。他们的生活并没有在通往更美家乡的道路上投下一线光芒。{MYP 277.2}[7]
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Much is written in regard to gaining earthly treasure, as though the wealth of this world would buy us a passport into heaven. What volumes of history have been written, filled with the daring, presumptuous achievements of men whose lives do not throw one glimmer of light upon the pathway that leads to the better country!?{MYP 277.2}[7]
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【误导人的书籍】
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许多书籍讲论战争和流血，误导着年轻的人。他们阅读的时候，撒但就在旁边，用他们所读到的勇士精神来鼓动他们，使他们热血沸腾，也想作出残忍的行为。许多诲淫诲盗的书只能激发不圣洁的愿望，点燃心中的情欲，引人离开纯洁的道路。{MYP 277.3}[8]
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【Misleading Books】
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How many books are there concerning war and bloodshed, which mislead the youth! As they read, Satan stands at their side to inspire them with the spirit of the warrior of whom they read, and their blood becomes heated in their veins, and they are stirred up to do cruel actions. How numerous are immoral books, which lead to unholy desires, and fire the passions of the heart, and lead away from all that is pure and holy!?{MYP 277.3}[8]
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你们手里拿的是行邪术的书，其中的画面是那曾担任天庭崇高使者的撒但所策划的。……{MYP 277.4}[9]
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You have had your magical books, in which the very scenes and pictures were inspired by him who was once an exalted angel in the courts of heaven....?{MYP 277.4}[9]
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【破除撒但邪术的迷惑】
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我要问，是否要将这些行邪术的书付之一炬？在撒但的会中，有许多唆使和助长纵欲的场所，然而也有见证者在场。有看不见的来宾记下暗中所行的事。撒但主持着一切虚妄，骄傲和娱乐的集会，策动种种狂欢的场面。他带着伪装出现。巫术从四面包围着我们。世界和教会都处在那恶者的影响之下。他要诱导他们去干他们所梦想不到的事。如果预先告知他们所要行的事，他们就会像哈薛听到先知预告他今后行径时那样大为吃惊了。……{MYP 278.1}[10]
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【Breaking the Spell of Satan’s Sorcery】
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I would ask, Shall the magical books be burned up? In the synagogue of Satan there are places of attraction where licentiousness is fostered and indulged; but the witness is there, and an unseen visitant testifies to the deeds done in darkness. In the associations of the vain, the proud, the mirthful, Satan presides, and is the chief mover in scenes of gayety. He is there in disguise. Witchcraft is going on around us on every hand, and the world and the church are under the influence of one who will lead them to do things they never dreamed of doing. Should they be informed of the deeds they will perform, they would be as much astonished as was Hazael when the prophet told him of his future course....?{MYP 278.1}[10]
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每一个不受上帝圣灵约束的成人和孩童都处在撒但邪术的影响之下。他要藉着自己的言行引诱别人离开真理的道路。当基督改变人心的恩典在人心里运作的时候，罪人就会因自己如此长久忽略上帝为他提供的伟大救恩而产生义愤。他会把自己的灵，魂，体都献给上帝，靠着上帝赐给他的恩典而摆脱与撒但的交往。他必像以弗所人一样斥责邪术，割断连于撒旦的最后一根绳索。他必离开黑暗之君的旗帜，来到以马内利大君的血染旗帜之下。他必烧尽行邪术的书。——《青年导报》1883年11月16日{MYP 278.2}[11]
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Every man, woman, and child that is not under the control of the Spirit of God is under the influence of Satan’s sorcery, and by his words and example he will lead others away from the path of truth. When the transforming grace of Christ is upon the heart, a righteous indignation will take possession of the soul because the sinner has so long neglected the great salvation that God has provided for him. He will then surrender himself, body, soul, and spirit, to God and will withdraw from companionship with Satan, through the grace given him of God. He will, like the Ephesians, denounce sorcery, and will cut the last thread that binds him to Satan. He will leave the banner of the prince of darkness, and will come under the bloodstained banner of Prince Emmanuel. He will burn the magical books.—The Youth’s Instructor, November 16, 1893.?{MYP 278.2}[11]