127# 人必须清楚区分救赎与十字架受难这两件事工；倘若混淆不分，人的心智便如同航船误入浅滩、撞上礁石，连船长舵手、一众水手都一同覆灭，使人在一切关乎主救恩的真理上全然误入歧途。人若无法清晰分辨这二者，就如同在梦中看见虚幻景象，凭着虚影妄加推断、当作真实，实则尽是虚空戏影；又好比暗夜行路之人，误将树叶当作人的发丝，上前攀扯纠缠，最终反倒捆住自己，深陷迷惑之中。虽救赎与十字架受难彼此有别，却在拯救的果效上合而为一，主借着十字架受难成就人性与父的完全合一，也借此永远成为世人的救赎主。
127# 这两件事，即救赎和十字架受难，必须被视为不同；否则，人的心智就像一艘船撞上流沙或岩石，与舵手、船长和船员一起失事；也就是说，它在属于主拯救的一切事上都犯了错。因为没有这两件事彼此不同的观念，人就像在梦中一样，看到想象的事物，并从中得出结论，以为它们是真的，而事实上，它们是荒诞不经的；或他就像一个人在夜里行走，抓住某棵树的叶子，以为它们是人的头发，走近时把自己的头发缠在树枝上。虽然救赎和十字架受难是两回事，但它们在拯救方面却构成一体；因为主通过与父合一而成为永恒的救赎主，这种合一通过十字架受难完成。
127. Redemption and the suffering on the cross must be seen as separate. Otherwise the human mind gets wrecked as a ship does on sandbars or rocks, causing the loss of the ship, the helmsman, the captain, and the sailors. It goes astray in everything having to do with salvation by the Lord. If we lack separate ideas of these two things we are in a kind of dream; we see images that are unreal and we make conjectures based on them that we think are real but are just made up. We are like someone walking out [to a tryst] at night, who, thinking that the leaves of a tree within his grasp are human tresses, sidles closer, only to entangle his own hair in them.
Although redemption and the suffering on the cross are two different things, nevertheless they become one in contributing to salvation. When the Lord became united to his Father, which happened through the suffering on the cross, he became the Redeemer forever.
127. Redemption and the passion on the cross must be thought of as two distinct events; otherwise men's minds will ground like a ship on sandbanks or rocks and sink, steersman, captain, crew and all, that is to say, it will go astray in all matters which concern salvation from the Lord. Without a clear view of these two distinct events a person is like one who sees imaginary things in a dream, and draws inferences from things he takes to be real, but are in fact absurd. Or he is like someone walking at night-time, and when he grasps the branches of a tree, thinks it is someone's hair, so he comes closer and gets his own hair entangled. But although redemption and the passion on the cross are two distinct events, still they are combined in effecting salvation, since the Lord by His union with the Father, the result of His suffering on the cross, became the Redeemer for ever.
127. These two things, redemption and the passion of the cross, must be seen to be distinct; otherwise the human mind, like a vessel, strikes upon sand-banks or rocks and is lost, with pilot, captain, and crew together; that is, it errs in all things pertaining to salvation by the Lord. For without an idea of these two things as distinct, man is as if in a dream, and sees imaginary things, and from these draws conclusions, supposing them to be real when yet they are fantastic; or he is like one walking in the dark, who takes hold of the leaves of some tree and thinks them to be the hair of a man, and going nearer entangles his own hair in the branches. But although redemption and the passion of the cross are two distinct things, yet in reference to salvation they make one; since it was by union with His Father, which was completed through the passion of the cross, that the Lord became the Redeemer to eternity.
127. These two things, redemption and the passion of the cross, must be considered as distinct; otherwise the human mind is like a ship, which strikes upon quicksands or rocks, and is lost with pilot, captain and crew; that is, it falls into error in all things which relate to salvation by the Lord. For without an idea of these two things as distinct from each other, a man is, as it were, in a dream, seeing imaginary things, and he draws inferences from things which he believes to be real, but which nevertheless are only absurd; or he is like one walking by night, who takes hold of the leaves of some tree, supposing them to be the hair of a man, and who, coming nearer, entangles his own hair in the branches. Although redemption and the passion of the cross are two distinct things, yet they make one with respect to salvation; since the Lord, by union with His Father, which was completed by the passion of the cross, became the Redeemer to eternity.
127. Haec duo, Redemptio et Passio crucis, distincte percipienda sunt, alioquin incidit mens humana sicut navis in syrtes aut in scopulos, ac perit una cum gubernatore, nauclero et nautis, hoc est, errat in omnibus illis, quae salvationis a Domino sunt: nam homo absque distincta idea de duobus illis, est tanquam in somnio et videt vana, et auguratur ex illis, quae credit realia esse, cum tamen sunt ludicra; aut est sicut qui ambulat in nocte, et dum arripit frondes alicujus arboris, credit crines hominis esse, et accedit propius, et suos crines eis implicat. Sed tametsi Redemptio et Passio crucis duo distincta sunt, usque ad salvationem unum faciunt, quoniam Dominus per Unionem cum suo Patre, quae per Passionem crucis peracta est, factus est Redemptor in aeternum.