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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（02月24日）
二月廿四日 「約翰一件神蹟沒有行；但約翰指著這人所說的一切話都是真的。」約翰福音十章41節 也許你對於自己非常不滿意，因為你既不是一個天才，又沒有顯著的恩賜，又沒有特別的技能。雖然你的生活頂平庸，你的日子都是平淡無味的，然而你仍舊可以活出一個偉大的、非常的生命來。 約翰一件神蹟沒有行過，但是主耶穌讚許他說：「凡婦人所生的，沒有一個興起來大過施洗約翰的。」 約翰惟一的職務，是為光作見證，這件事是你我都作得到的。約翰的目的，只要有人需要基督，他自己只作一個聲音就滿足了，你我亦該如此。 甘願只作一個聲音，只能被聽見，不能被看見；甘願只作一面鏡子，因反射日光的榮耀，以至鏡面被隱蔽；甘願只作黎明的微風，早晨起來報告：「白日將至！白日將至！」一會兒遂即隱逝，作主的工作也是如此。 或許你作的是一件最普通，最微小的事情，絕沒有人注意你，但是這正是主所派你的工作。如果你生活在性情不相投的人們中間，你就當用愛心去戰勝他們。如果你有了錯誤，不要讓它伸長開來，而遮蔽了一切，你要把它深鎖在胸中，消除它和戰敗它。 也許不知不覺間我們自己還不知道，我們已經作了頂美的工作：撒種、通水泉、領人對基督有正當的認識……雖然沒有廣告替我們鼓吹，沒有紀念碑為我們建立，然而我的心已經滿足，如果有人——只有一個人也不妨——能說： 「……他一件神蹟沒有行過，但是因著他見證的聲音，我們就親自認識主了。」 ─馬得勝 「您所隱藏的人。」（詩八三3） 從泥土裏， 萌茁了濃濃的緣葉， 這是由於春風的呼喚與吹拂， 葉子底下微微的清香， 預示著花之將發。 多麼美好的花， 躲在葉子下面， 為我們粗疏的目光所沒有發現， 揭開葉子讓粉紅或純白的五月花， 仰起頭來迎接外面射來的亮光。 不是正有這樣的生命， 他的美德善行， 只被洞燭幾微的神所看見， 有如隱在葉下的花， 長得無比的美艷？ 被摧殘的靈魂開出了， 純潔美麗的信與愛之花， 因為葉子的遮掩， 隱沒了它可愛的容華。 忠義之花， 冠蓋群芳， 生長在人所不見的地方， 奇妙的是藏在葉下的花， 發出最甜蜜的芬芳。 我們模糊的視覺雖無所見， 一苞一萼， 祂卻完全知道； 安心等待聖光的啟示， 總有一天， 主會親手揭開葉子， 顯出它的美好。 許多神最寶貴的工人， 都是從普通的人群裏呼召出來的。（太十四23）
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月24日）
February 24 "John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true." (John 10:41.) ＹOU may be very discontented with yourself. You are no genius, have no brilliant gifts, and are inconspicuous for any special faculty. Mediocrity is the law of your existence. Your days are remarkable for nothing but sameness and insipidity. Yet you may live a great life. John did no miracle, but Jesus said that among those born of women there had not appeared a greater than he. John's main business was to bear witness to the Light, and this may be yours and mine. John was content to be only a voice, if men would think of Christ. Be willing to be only a voice, heard but not seen; a mirror whose surface is lost to view, because it reflects the dazzling glory of the sun; a breeze that springs up just before daylight, and says, "The dawn! the dawn!" and then dies away. Do the commonest and smallest things as beneath His eye. If you must live with uncongenial people, set to their conquest by love. If you have made a great mistake in your life, do not let it becloud all of it; but, locking the secret in your breast, compel it to yield strength and sweetness. We are doing more good than we know, sowing seeds, starting streamlets, giving men true thoughts of Christ, to which they will refer one day as the first things that started them thinking of Him; and, of my part, I shall be satisfied if no great mausoleum is raised over my grave, but that simple souls shall gather there when I am gone, and say, "He was a good man; he wrought no miracles, but he spake words about Christ, which led me to know Him for myself." ─George Matheson. "THY HIDDEN ONES" (psa. 83:3.) "Thick green leaves from the soft brown earth, Happy springtime hath called them forth; First faint promise of summer bloom, Breathes from the fragrant, sweet perfume, Under the leaves. "Lift them! what marvelous beauty lies, Hidden beneath, from our thoughtless eyes! Mayflowers, rosy or purest white, Lift their cups to the sudden light, Under the leaves. "Are there no lives whose holy deeds─ Seen by no eye save His who reads Motive and action─in silence grow, Into rare beauty, and bud and blow Under the leaves? "Fair white flowers of faith and trust, Springing from spirts bruised and crushed; Blossoms of love, rose-tinted and bright, Touched and painted with Heaven's own light Under the leaves. "Full fresh clusters of duty borne, Fairest of all in that shadow grown; Wondrous the fragrance that sweet and rare, Comes from the flower-cups hidden there Under the leaves. "Though unseen by our vision dim, Bud and blossom are known to Him; Wait we content for His heavenly ray─ Wait till our Master Himself one day Lifteth the leaves." "God calls many of His most valued workers from the unknown multitude." (Luke 14:23.)
■ 永活之泉（02月24日）
二月廿四日 神的慈愛 「你們要稱謝耶和華，因祂本為善，祂的慈愛永遠長存。」詩篇一三六篇1節 這篇詩，完全是讚美神的慈愛。在這廿六節中，我們看見每一節都有：「祂的慈愛永遠長存。」詩人心中充滿了這個喜樂的思想，我們的心中也應當充滿了這賜福的保證。神永遠不改變的慈愛，是我們不止息地讚美和感謝的緣由。 讓我們看詩篇一○三篇怎樣述說神的慈愛：「我的心哪，你要稱頌耶和華，……祂以仁愛和慈悲為你的冠冕。」（1、4節）在神一切的屬性中，慈愛是祂的冠冕；但願這個也成為我們頭上和生命中的冠冕。「耶和華有憐憫，有恩典，不輕易發怒，且有豐盛的慈愛。」（8節）神的偉大，是何等的奇妙；照樣，祂的慈愛也是何等的無限。「天離地何等的高，祂的慈愛向敬畏祂的人，也是何等的大。」（11節）這是何等的思想！像天離地那樣的高，神的慈愛，要帶下祂豐富的祝福，也是測不透的人。「耶和華的慈愛，歸於敬畏祂的人，從亙古到永遠。」（17節）在這裡，詩人又重新說到那無邊無涯的慈愛和憐憫。 哦！我的心哪，多少次讀到這些話，都沒有思想到這測不透的偉大。要安靜默想，直到你的心響應詩篇卅六篇的話：「耶和華啊，您的慈愛上及諸天……，神啊，您的慈愛何其寶貴！世人投靠在您翅膀的蔭下。……，願您常施慈愛給認識您的人。」 哦，我的魂哪，我們要在極大的喜樂中稱頌感謝神，因為祂以奇妙的慈愛，作為你的冠冕，並且說：「您的慈愛比生命更好。」（詩六十三3）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月24日）
二月廿四日 犧牲的快樂 「我也甘心樂意為你們……費財費力。」哥林多後書十二章15節 神的靈將祂的愛澆灌到我們心裡的時候，我們就能將自己與耶穌基督對於人類所具的興趣化合起來，而耶穌基督對於各種人都具有興趣。我們在基督徒的事工中，不可受我們各方面的關係的指導；這是我們對耶穌基督關係中的一個最大的試驗。犧牲的快樂，在於為朋友捨命，不在於將生命隨隨便便的拋棄，卻是有意的為祂和祂對於人類所具的興趣而送掉，不是為甚麼運動。保羅僅為一件事犧牲自己──就是要得人順服耶穌基督。保羅無時無刻不注視耶穌，從未注視自己。「向甚麼樣的人，我就作甚麼樣的人，無論如何，總要救些人。」當某人說他定要向神開展一種聖潔生活的時候，他對於他的同胞再沒有甚麼用處；是將他自己放在臺上了，怎能與人們的生活發生關係呢？保羅把自己看為犧牲品；所以他無論往那裡，聽耶穌基督隨意使用。我們中有許多人是追求我們自己的目的，所以耶穌基督不能隨意使用我們。如果我們服從耶穌，我們就不服從自己的目的去做事。保羅說他知道怎樣處卑賤，因為他生活的本源是崇敬耶穌。我們易於不崇敬耶穌基督，卻易於崇敬那些解脫我們靈性的事。保羅不照他的動機：「為我弟兄，就是自己被咒詛，與基督分離，我也願意。」──這是胡說亂道麼？一個具有愛心的人，像這樣表白，並非過分，保羅真真是愛耶穌基督的。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月24日）
二月廿四日 「罪必不能作你們的主，因你們不在律法之下，乃在恩典之中」羅馬書六章14節 摩西失敗的原因在於：「(律法原來一無所成)就引進了更美的指望。」(來七19)也因此他一生的工作不能完全實現。他看到迦南地卻無法進入；他是律法的起草人，但也是其受害者；他的生及死可說是說明律法無法領人到應許之地的最佳證據。得知摩西僅僅因為一點小錯誤，而失去了他所有的遺產，使我更加願意強調法律嚴刑：「……凡不常照律法書上所記一切之事去行的，就被咒詛。」(加三10) 但是藉著神恩典的榮耀，我們可以加上「律法不能為摩西所行的，福音卻能成就。」那因舊約律法緣故不能渡過約但河的人，卻能與神的兒子同站在黑門山上，分享主改變形像時的榮耀，談論祂在髑髏地上永續的榮耀。 那樣的恩典，我們只有在耶穌基督的福音下始能得著。
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