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1:1 當三十年四月初五日，以西結〔原文是我〕在迦巴魯河邊被擄的人中，天就開了，得見 神的異象。 In the 1:1 Or (((my))) thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
1:2 正是約雅斤王被擄去第五年四月初五日， On the fifth of the month--it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin-- 1:3 在迦勒底人之地、迦巴魯河邊，耶和華的話特特臨到布西的兒子祭司以西結；耶和華的靈〔原文是手〕降在他身上。 the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, 1:3 Or ((Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest)) by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. 1:3 Or ((Chaldeans)) There the hand of the LORD was upon him. 1:4 我觀看，見狂風從北方颳來，隨著有一朵包括閃爍火的大雲，周圍有光輝；從其中的火內發出好像光耀的精金； I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north--an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 1:5 又從其中顯出四個活物的形像來。他們的形狀是這樣：有人的形像， and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man, 1:6 各有四個臉面，四個翅膀。 but each of them had four faces and four wings. 1:7 他們的腿是直的，腳掌好像牛犢之蹄，都燦爛如光明的銅。 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. 1:8 在四面的翅膀以下有人的手。這四個活物的臉和翅膀乃是這樣： Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. All four of them had faces and wings, 1:9 翅膀彼此相接，行走並不轉身，俱各直往前行。 and their wings touched one another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved. 1:10 至於臉的形像：前面各有人的臉，右面各有獅子的臉，左面各有牛的臉，後面各有鷹的臉。 Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. 1:11 各展開上邊的兩個翅膀相接，各以下邊的兩個翅膀遮體。 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out upward; each had two wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and two wings covering its body. 1:12 他們俱各直往前行。靈往哪裏去，他們就往那裏去，行走並不轉身。 Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went. 1:13 至於四活物的形像，就如燒著火炭的形狀，又如火把的形狀。火在四活物中間上去下來，這火有光輝，從火中發出閃電。 The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it. 1:14 這活物往來奔走，好像電光一閃。 The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning. 1:15 我正觀看活物的時候，見活物的臉旁各有一輪在地上。 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. 1:16 輪的形狀和顏色〔原文是作法〕好像水蒼玉。四輪都是一個樣式，形狀和作法好像輪中套輪。 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. 1:17 輪行走的時候，向四方都能直行，並不掉轉。 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about 1:17 Or ((aside)) as the creatures went. 1:18 至於輪輞，高而可畏；四個輪輞周圍滿有眼睛。 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around. 1:19 活物行走，輪也在旁邊行走；活物從地上升，輪也都上升。 When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. 1:20 靈往哪裏去，活物就往那裏去；活物上升，輪也在活物旁邊上升，因為活物的靈在輪中。 Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. 1:21 那些行走，這些也行走；那些站住，這些也站住；那些從地上升，輪也在旁邊上升，因為活物的靈在輪中。 When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. 1:22 活物的頭以上有穹蒼的形像，看著像可畏的水晶，鋪張在活物的頭以上。 Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked like an expanse, sparkling like ice, and awesome. 1:23 穹蒼以下，活物的翅膀直張，彼此相對；每活物有兩個翅膀遮體。 Under the expanse their wings were stretched out one toward the other, and each had two wings covering its body. 1:24 活物行走的時候，我聽見翅膀的響聲，像大水的聲音，像全能者的聲音，也像軍隊鬨嚷的聲音。活物站住的時候，便將翅膀垂下。 When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty, 1:24 Hebrew ((Shaddai)) like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings. 1:25 在他們頭以上的穹蒼之上有聲音。他們站住的時候，便將翅膀垂下。 Then there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads as they stood with lowered wings. 1:26 在他們頭以上的穹蒼之上有寶座的形像，彷彿藍寶石；在寶座形像以上有彷彿人的形狀。 Above the expanse over their heads was what looked like a throne of sapphire, 1:26 Or ((lapis lazuli)) and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man. 1:27 我見從他腰以上有彷彿光耀的精金，周圍都有火的形狀，又見從他腰以下有彷彿火的形狀，周圍也有光輝。 I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. 1:28 下雨的日子，雲中虹的形狀怎樣，周圍光輝的形狀也是怎樣。這就是耶和華榮耀的形像。我一看見就俯伏在地，又聽見一位說話的聲音。 Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking. This is Alex Markley's PHPScripture v1.2.0, displaying a copy of Chinese Union Version Bible in XOOPS. 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始, 聖經文字部分由CCIM(網路基督使團)網站下載. 如欲修改經文請洽聖經公會. 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉（03月12日）
三月十二日 「那一晝一夜，耶和華使東風颳在埃及地上，到了早晨，東風把蝗蟲颳了來。……於是法老急忙召了摩西、亞倫來，耶和華轉了極大的西風，把蝗蟲颳起，吹入紅海，在埃及的四境連一個也沒有留下。」出埃及記十章13、16、19節 我們看神怎樣利用暴風拯救以色列人脫離殘酷的法老；還有神在表顯祂最大的神權時─神最後一次對付埃及的軍隊─也利用大東風（十四章21節）。當時以色列人都以為他們的處境太危急，太殘酷了─—前面是紅海，後面是追兵，兩旁都是高聳的山巖，斷絕了一切逃生的希望。以色列人在這時候只能彀仰望耶和華的拯救了。可是祂的拯救是大東風。這真出他們意外。可怕的風加增他們的驚慌，四周的寒冷凍得他們戰慄。他們怨神的拯救無非催逼他們死得快一點。恐怕那時他們全營的呼聲是：「我們死啦！埃及人追及我們了。」 正在絕望的時候，榮耀的勝利來了。吼聲可怕的東風把浪擊退，把海吹乾，以色列人向前走去，進入神的保護和慈愛中。兩旁是水晶的牆，前面是耶和華的榮光。終夜都是這樣；到了天一亮，最後一個以色列人也上了岸，大東風的使命便完成了。 於是以色列人向耶和華唱歌說：「成就他命的狂風……都當讚美耶和華。」（詩一四八8、12） 「仇敵說我要追趕，我要追上，我要分擄物…您叫風一吹，海就把他們淹沒，他們如鉛沉在大水之中。」（出十五9、10） 到有一天，我們要站在玻璃海上，拿著神的琴；與眾聖徒一同唱神僕人摩西的歌和羔羊的歌說：「眾聖之王阿，您的方法義哉，誠哉」（啟十五3，直譯） 如今你只覺得這大風暴的不可思議；將來你必看見威脅你的敵人，在戰慄恐怖的夜裏，殲滅淨盡。 如今你只注意到損失；將來你必見到祂為何打擊那已開始桎梧你的罪惡。 如今你因風嘯雷鳴而畏縮；將來你必知道祂如何擊退那滅絕生命的洪水，為你們開闢道路，通往那應許的福地。 ─皮爾斯 風雖猖狂奔放， 我的信心仍在歌唱。 我知道這不會傷害我， 神附在它的翅膀之上
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（03月12日）
March 12 "The Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts....Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste....And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt." (Exod. 10:13, 19.) ＳEE how in the olden times, when the Lord fought for Israel against the cruel Pharaoh, the stormy winds wrought out their deliverance; and yet again, in that grandest display of power─the last blow that God struck at the proud defiance of Egypt. A strange, almost cruel thing it must have seemed to Israel to be hemmed in by such a host of dangers─in front the wild sea defying them, on either hand the rocky heights cutting off all hope of escape, the night of hurricane gathering over them. It was as if that first deliverance had come only to hand them over to more certain death. Completing the terror there rang out the cry: "The Egyptians are upon us!" When it seemed they were trapped for the foe, then came the glorious triumph. Forth swept the stormy wind and beat back the waves, and the hosts of Israel marched forward, down into the path of the great deep─a way arched over with God's protecting love. On either hand were the crystal walls glowing in the light of the glory of the Lord; and high above them swept the thunder of the storm. So on through all that night; and when, at dawn of the next day, the last of Israel's host set foot upon the other shore, the work of the stormy wind was done. Then sang Israel unto the Lord the song of the "stormy wind fulfilling his word." "The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil....Thou didst blow with the wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters." One day, by God's great mercy, we, too, shall stand upon the sea of glass, having the harps of God. then we shall sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: "Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints." We shall know then how the stormy winds have wrought out our deliverance. Now you see only the mystery of this great sorrow; then you shall see how the threatening enemy was swept away in the wild night of fear and grief. Now you look only at the loss; then you shall see how it struck at the evil that had begun to rivet its fetters upon you. Now you shrink from the howling winds and muttering thunders; then you shall see how they beat back the waters of destruction, and opened up your way to the goodly land of promise. ─Mark Guy Pearse. "Though winds are wild, And the gale unleashed, My trusting heart still sings: I know that they mean No harm to me, He rideth on their wings."
■ 永活之泉（03月12日）
三月十二日 神的旨意和我們的意念 「願您的旨意成全。」馬太福音廿六章42節 神的最大特權乃是天上地上一切事物，都將照祂的旨意成全。當神按著祂自己的形像造人時，首要地，神要使祂所造的人與祂有完全同一的願望。能與神相似乃人最大的榮耀——思想意念都與神相同。人成了神在肉體的具體顯出，並使神的願望能以成就。 當神造人時，給人意志並能來揀選他所該作的，祂將自己限制於祂的旨意中。當人墮落之後，落到神仇敵的掌握中；神無限的愛又開始一件偉大的工作，要將人從仇敵手中奪回來，成就祂自己的旨意。意念在神的裡面，也在人裡面，成了一個推動的力量。正如人落在追求屬世事物的慾望生活中，神必須救贖他、教育他，使他能過著與神相合的生活，神的目的乃是要人心中的意念與祂的意念完全相合。 神在這方面的最大救法，乃是差遣祂的兒子到世上來，在祂的人性裡面再一次顯出神的性情、神一切的旨意。祂在禱告中甘願獻上自己，來成全神一切的旨意，在肉身中的神子在極大痛苦中禱告：「願您的意旨成全。」祂甚至於在被神離棄時仍順服到底，如此才能使一直欺騙著人的權勢被征服，使人得蒙拯救。由於父與子之間這種奇妙完全的和諧，當神的兒子禱告「願父的旨意成就」時，神偉大的救贖才得完成。 如今正是特別蒙拯救的日子，信徒必須首先為自己，然後為別人代禱時向神說：「願您的旨意行在地上，如同行在天上。」當我們這樣為教會——包括神家中所有的牧師、傳道人、剛強的及得救的信徒——為著那未蒙恩的，不論是掛名的基督徒或是異教徒呼籲的時候，我們有特權知道我們乃是為著神的旨意禱告，並且藉著禱告使神的旨意行在地上，如同行在天上。
■ 中文屬天日子（03月12日）
三月十二日 撇下所有的 「彼得就對祂說，看哪！我們已經撇下所有的跟從您了。」馬可福音十章28節 總而言之，我們的主所說的撇棄，是祂自己的撇棄，不是門徒有所為而為的撇棄。當心撇棄裡含有商業的氣味──「我委身於神，是因為我要脫離罪惡，因為要成聖。」這是我們與神有正式關係的結果，但是不一定是基督教根本的性質。撇棄是無所為而為的。我們已經是商業化了，來到神面前為的有所得，而不是為神。這好像說：「主啊！我所要的不是你，是我自己；我要自己潔淨，要充滿聖靈；要被放在你的陳列室中，使我得以說：「這是神為我所行的。」如果我們以一點點給神，換更多回來，在我們的撇棄裡就全無聖靈；這是卑陋自私的商業興趣。我們抓著了天，我們脫離了罪，我們生來有用於神──這些事在真正的撇棄裡不能有所考慮；因為撇棄是出於我們完全自願的去為耶穌基督。 當我們遇著實際關係的時候，把耶穌基督置於何地呢？我們多數是離棄祂──「是的，主啊！我聽見了您的呼召；但是我的母親妻子和我自己的利益阻擋了我，叫我不能再進一步了。」於是耶穌回答說：「你不配作我的門徒。」 撇棄的試驗是要超過愛人的頸項。走過吧！為神的撇棄必要補償你由撇棄所受的損失。當心我們對於神之半撇棄半不撇棄。僅僅知道在理想中撇棄，這是我們之中大多數人的毛病。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（03月12日）
三月十二日 「他們在曠野荒地漂流……」詩篇一百零七篇4節 所有為神爭戰的人，都應該不再在乎人好聽的意見和諂媚的讚美。即使好聽的意見是從神的子民而來，我們也不能破例。因為那狡猾的惡者能很容易地使這樣的話語滿足我們肉體的驕傲。 雖然神能藉同工使我們肯定所做的，但是我們絕不能把得到認同視為行事的動機。因為這種動機是毒藥，會剝奪我們能力。我們應該歸榮耀給神的能力。但是有時我們必須以在曠野荒地單獨漂流為滿足。 屬神的人必須單獨地與神同行，他必須以瞭解神是無所不知的為滿足。雖然我們的老我能從他人的臉色、看法和同情得到慰藉。雖然、將別人的幫助視為是「弟兄的愛」來欺騙自己；但是事實上，靠人的同情不僅是屬地的，而且是不可靠的。
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