以下是引用飞鹰1在2010-9-8 12:32:00的发言:
我今日生你又如何解释呢?就如应用在大卫身上,指的是他加冕周年,或者生(gegenneka)这个字应解释为神的父性,不是指任何特定时期。当应用于耶稣基督为弥赛亚,可以指道成肉身或死里复活。的确,使徒行传十三33是指基督从死里复活。
从上述这段有颜色的文字来看,我今日生你应用于耶稣基督为弥赛亚,可以指道成肉身或死里复活,从行传13:34来看,是指基督从死里复活。
作者关切圣父所赐予祂的圣子地位,这一点现在大家都没有问题,我们大家都相信圣子是道成肉身的。反而时间成为关健,因为道成肉身时,他是历史上从未有过的,是兼有神人二性的特殊人物,是未后的亚当---耶稣。
这神人---耶稣,他的神性、人性都是神的儿子呢?还是神性是神的儿子、人性是人的儿子呢?照罗马书1:3-4 论到他儿子,我主耶稣基督。按肉体说,是从大卫后裔生的。按圣善的灵说,因从死里复活,以大能显明是神的儿子。以及正统神学都认为耶稣是真神也是真人。这样看来,耶稣是真神也是真人,是因着他“神性是神的儿子、人性是人的儿子”(大卫的后裔)更附合圣经。这样我今日生你,是指耶稣复活时人性拨高为神的儿子,就顺理成章了。反之,道成肉身时,如果神性人性都已是神的儿子了,耶稣复活时,再我今日生你,就解释不通了。
但是,你是我的儿子,我今日生你是指复活时人性拨高为神的儿子,正是李所教导的,也是被很多人批为异端的“子化论”。
很显然为着批李的教训,势必会走向一个极端。即“人性”也是神的儿子,“人性”也是自有永有的,“人性”跟道成肉身无关(即没有道成肉身也有人性,没有道成肉身已有神人二性),道成肉身只不过取了个肉身,而不是取得真“人性”等等,就如428弟兄分享到的,势必会走向正统神学的反面。
参考以下John Calvin的解释.
<Commentary on Hebrews>
By John Calvin
Hebrews 1:4-6
5. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
5. Thou art my Son, etc. It cannot be denied but that this was spoken of David, that is, as he sustained the person of Christ. Then the things found in this Psalm must have been shadowed forth in David, but were fully accomplished in Christ. For that he by subduing many enemies around him, enlarged the borders of his kingdom, it was some foreshadowing of the promise, “I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. ” But how little was this in comparison with the amplitude of Christ’s kingdom, which extends from the east to the west? For the same reason David was called the son of God, having been especially chosen to perform great things; but his glory was hardly a spark, even the smallest, to that glory which shone forth in Christ, on whom the Father has imprinted his own image. So the name of Son belongs by a peculiar privilege to Christ alone, and cannot in this sense be applied to any other without profanation, for him and no other has the Father sealed.
But still the argument of the Apostle seems not to be well-grounded; for how does he maintain that Christ is superior to angels except on this ground, that he has the name of a Son? As though indeed he had not this in common with princes and those high in power, of whom it is written, “Ye are gods and the sons of the most”, (Psalm 50:6;)and as though Jeremiah had not spoken as honorably of all Israel, when he called them the firstborn of God. (Jeremiah 31:9.)They are indeed everywhere called children or sons. Besides, David calls angels the sons of God; “Who, ”he says, “is like to Jehovah among the sons of God?”(Psalm 89:6.)
The answer to all this is in no way difficult. Princes are called by this name on account of a particular circumstance; as to Israel, the common grace of election is thus denoted; angels are called the sons of God as having a certain resemblance to him, because they are celestial spirits and possess some portion of divinity in their blessed immortality. But when David without any addition calls himself as the type of Christ the Son of God, he denotes something peculiar and more excellent than the honor given to angels or to princes, or even to all Israel. Otherwise it would have been an improper and absurd expression, if he was by way of excellence called the son of God, and yet had nothing more than others; for he is thus separated from all other beings. When it is said so exclusively of Christ, “Thou art my Son,” it follows that this honor does not belong to any of the angels.
If any one again objects and says, that David was thus raised above the angels; to this I answer, that it is nothing strange for him to be elevated above angels while bearing the image of Christ; for in like manner there was no wrong done to angels when the highpriest, who made an atonement for sins, was called a mediator. They did not indeed obtain that title as by right their own; but as they represented the kingdom of Christ, they derived also the name from him. Moreover, the sacraments, though in themselves lifeless, are yet honored with titles which angels cannot claim without being guilty of sacrilege. It is hence evident that the argument derived from the term Son, is well grounded.
As to his being begotten, we must briefly observe, that it is to be understood relatively here: for the subtle reasoning of Augustine is frivolous, when he imagines that today means perpetuity or eternity. Christ doubtless is the eternal Son of God, for he is wisdom, born before time; but this has no connection with this passage, in which respect is had to men, by whom Christ was acknowledged to be the Son of God after the Father had manifested him. Hence that declaration or manifestation which Paul mentions in Romans 1:4, was, so to speak, a sort of an external begetting; for the hidden and internal which had preceded, was unknown to men; nor could there have been any account taken of it, had not the Father given proof of it by a visible manifestation.
I will be to him a Father, etc. As to this second testimony the former observation holds good. Solomon is here referred to, and though he was inferior to the angels, yet when God promised to be his Father, he was separated from the common rank of all others; for he was not to be to him a Father as to one of the princes, but as to one who was more eminent than all the rest. By the same privilege he was made a Son; all others were excluded from the like honor. But that this was not said of Solomon otherwise than as a type of Christ, is evident from the context; for the empire of the whole world is destined for the Son mentioned there, and perpetuity is also ascribed to his empire: on the other hand, it appears that the kingdom of Solomon has confined within narrow bounds, and was so far from being perpetual, that immediately after his death it was divided, and some time afterwards it fell altogether. Again, in that Psalm the sun and moon are summoned as witnesses, and the Lord swears that as long as they shall shine in the heavens, that kingdom shall remain safe: and on the other hand, the kingdom of David in a short time fell into decay, and at length utterly perished. And further, we may easily gather from many passages in the Prophets, that that promise was never understood otherwise than of Christ; so that no one can evade by saying that this is a new comment; for hence also has commonly prevailed among the Jews the practice of calling Christ the Son of David. |