下文我们还将谈到耶稣的复活也是圣子在历史中的“受生”,也就是圣父藉圣灵大能使死去的耶稣——既是圣子也是人子——复活。这样看来,耶稣的降生和复活都是圣父“生”圣子在历史和时间中的延伸。
保罗引用诗篇2:7确实是在见证耶稣的复活应验了旧约的预言。但是这处经文(“你是我的儿子,我今日生你”)本身也包含着“永恒生出”的内涵,所以才能够在希伯来书1:5又被引用,以说明耶稣基督的地位以及他与圣父的关系远超过天使。在歌罗西书1:15、18,保罗强调耶稣基督既是“首生的”,也是“从死里首先复生的”,前者是圣子在人性里降生,后者是圣子在人性里复生(活),而且两者都是圣父藉着圣灵的大能运行而成就的神迹,这与神圣三位格在永恒动态关系中圣父藉圣灵“生”圣子彼此呼应,故而可作以上神学推论。 尼西亚信经:我信独一主耶稣基督,上帝的独生子,在万世以前为父所生。在万世以前,但不是有一个固定的时间点,而是在永恒中为父所生。在永恒中生,不是连续的生,不断的生。在万世之中,公元前后两个确定的时间点定两个圣子在历史中的“受生”点,是错误的。神学工作者的主要任务是澄清,而不是创新。
什么叫圣子在人性里降生,圣子在人性里复活?不可理解。
另:耶稣的神性和人性联合后,即these two natures
are so united together in one person
that they are not even separated by his death.So then,
what he committed to his Father when he died
was a real human spirit which left his body.
But meanwhile his divine nature remained
united with his human nature even when he was lying in the grave; and his deity never ceased to be in him, just as it was in him when he was a little child,
though for a while it did not so reveal itself.
这个解释了你以为我的笔误。
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