7# 至于基督教各教会的教义都一致教导上帝是独一的，这是众所周知的事实。它们之所以如此教导，是因为所有教义都源于圣经；而教会之间的合一，正根植于对独一上帝的承认 —— 不仅是口头上的，更是心里的。
然而，那些只在口头上承认一位上帝、心里却信奉三位的人 —— 这在今日基督教中已屡见不鲜 —— 在他们那里，上帝不过是口中的一句空话；他们所有的神学知识，不过像一尊被封存在匣中的金偶像，而开匣的钥匙，只牢牢掌握在祭司长手中。当他们阅读圣经时，从中看不到任何属灵的亮光，甚至连上帝是独一的这一基本真理也视而不见。圣经在他们眼中，如同被涂抹过的文书，关于上帝独一性的真理被全然遮蔽。
这些人正是主在福音书中所描述的那类人：
你们听是要听见，却不明白；看是要看见，却不晓得；因为这百姓油蒙了心，耳朵发沉，眼睛闭着，恐怕眼睛看见，耳朵听见，心里明白，回转过来，我就医治他们。（太13:14，15）
他们全都像逃避光明、钻进无窗暗室的人，在墙壁间摸索，只为寻找食物与钱财。久而久之，他们竟练就了猫头鹰般的视力，只能在黑暗中视物。这些人好比一个拥有多位丈夫的女人 —— 她不是妻子，而是淫乱的娼妓。他们又好比一个同时接受多名求婚者戒指的女子，婚后只与其中一人同寝，却仍与其他人纠缠不清。
7# 众所周知，在基督教界，教会的教义都教导，神是一。他们教导这一点，是因为他们的一切教义都来自圣言；只要不仅嘴上，而且从心里承认一位神，这些教义都是一致的。对那些仅嘴上承认一位神，心里却接受或承认三位神的人来说，这是当今基督教界许多人的情况，神只是挂在嘴上的一个词或一个名而已。他们的整个神学就像封在神龛里的一个金偶像，唯有牧师或领袖拿着它的钥匙。此外，当这种人阅读圣言时，他们感知不到圣言里，或从圣言发出的任何光，甚至感知不到神是一。对他们来说，圣言可以说因污渍而模糊不清，在神的一体性方面则完全被污渍覆盖。主在马太福音中所描述的，正是这些人：
你们听是要听见，却不明白；看是要看见，却不领悟。他们闭了眼睛，免得眼睛看见，耳朵听见，心里明白，回转过来，我会医治他们。（马太福音13:14，15）
所有这些人都像那些躲开光，进入无窗内室的人，他们在墙上摸索，寻找食物或金钱，最后获得像夜鸟那样的视力，在黑暗中观看。他们就像一个有数位丈夫的妇人，她不是一个妻子，而是一个淫荡的妓女；或像一个接受数位追求者戒指的处女，婚礼过后，她不仅与一位过夜，还与其他人过夜。
7. The churches in the Christian world teach one God; this is common knowledge. They teach this because all their teachings come from the Word, and those teachings are all integrated as long as one God is acknowledged not only orally but also with the heart. It is common in Christianity today, however, for people to confess one God with their lips but three with their hearts. To such people God is no more than a verbal expression. To them theology as a whole is a kind of golden idol locked up in a case, and the key to unlock it is held by church leaders alone. When such people read the Word they do not detect any light in it or from it - not even the impression that there is one God. To them the Word is marred with blotches, and the oneness of God in it is obscured. The Lord described people like this in Matthew: "You will hear with your hearing but you will not understand; and you will see by seeing, but you will not perceive. They have closed their eyes to avoid ever seeing with their eyes, hearing with their ears, understanding with their hearts, turning themselves around, and being healed by me" (Matthew 13:14-15). All such Christians are like people who go into windowless rooms to avoid the light and who grope for food and coins by feeling their way along the walls. Eventually they develop eyesight like that of owls and see in the dark. They are like a woman who has many husbands - she is a promiscuous woman rather than a wife. They are like a young woman who accepts rings from multiple suitors, and after the wedding, rents out her nights not only to one of them but also to the rest.
7. It is well known that the doctrines of the Christian churches teach that God is one. This is because all their doctrines are taken from the Word, and they hold together so long as one God is acknowledged not only with the lips but also in the heart. For those who acknowledge one God only with their lips, while in their hearts they admit three, which is what happens with many people in Christendom to-day, God is nothing more than a verbal expression. Their whole theology is nothing but a golden idol locked in a case, to which only their leaders have the key. When they read the Word, they do not receive any enlightenment about it and from it, not even the perception that God is one. For them the Word is, as it were, blotted with erasures and obscured where it speaks of the oneness of God. These are the people described by the Lord in Matthew.
Hearing you will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not discern. They have closed their eyes, so that they should not risk seeing with their eyes, and hearing with their ears, and understanding in their hearts, and so that they should not turn again and let me heal them, Matthew 13:14-15.
All of these people are like those who run away from daylight, and shut themselves in windowless rooms, where they grope around the walls searching for food and money. Finally they are granted a power of sight like that of owls, so that they can see in the dark. They resemble a woman with several husbands, no true wife, but a wanton prostitute. They are like a girl who accepts rings from several suitors, and after she is married hires herself out for the night not just to one, but to the rest as well.
7. It is known that the doctrines of the churches in the Christian world teach that God is one. This they teach because all their doctrines are from the Word, and so far as one God is acknowledged both with the lips and the heart these doctrines are consistent. To those who confess one God with the lips only, but in heart accept three, as is true of many at this day in Christendom, God is nothing but a word on the lips; and all their theology is a mere idol of gold enclosed in a shrine, the key to which the priests alone hold; and when such read the Word they perceive no light in it or from it, not even that God is one. To such the Word appears blurred with blots, and in regard to the unity of God entirely covered with them. It is these who are described by the Lord in Matthew:
In hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see and not discern. Their eyes they have closed, lest haply they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart, and should turn themselves and I should heal them (Matthew 13:14, 15).
All these are like men shunning the light, and entering chambers without windows, and groping about the walls, searching for food or money, and at length acquiring a vision like that of birds of the night, seeing in darkness. They are like a woman having several husbands, who is not a wife but a lascivious courtesan; or they are like a virgin who accepts rings from several suitors, and after the nuptials bestows her favors not upon one only, but also upon the others.
7. It is well known that the doctrines of the Christian Churches teach that God is One. They do so because all their doctrines are derived from the Word, and they are consistent in so far as they acknowledge one God not only with their lips but also with the heart. To those, however, who confess one God with the lilts, but in heart acknowledge three, as is the case with many in Christendom at this day, God is merely a name. To them the whole of theology is like a golden idol enclosed in a shrine, of which the priests alone possess the key. Moreover when they read the Word they do not perceive any light in it or proceeding from it, not even the truth that God is one. To such persons the Word appears, as it were, covered with blots, which obscure the Unity of God. These are they whom the Lord thus describes in Matthew:
"By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive;... their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them" 13:14-15.
All these are like men who shun the light, and enter dark rooms where there are no windows, and grope about in search of food or money, till at length they acquire a vision like that of owls, and see in the dark. They are like a woman with several husbands, who is not a wife but a lascivious courtesan; or like a virgin who accepts rings from several suitors, and who after marriage with one continues to make assignations with the others.
7. Quod doctrinae Ecclesiarum in Christiano Orbe doceant, quod Deus unus sit, notum est; docent, quia ex Verbo sunt omnes doctrinae illarum, quae cohaerent, quantum unum Deum non solum ore, sed etiam corde agnoscunt: illi qui solum ore unum Deum, et tres corde confitentur, ut fit apud plures hodie in Christianismo, illis non aliud est Deus, quam duntaxat enuntiatum oris, et omne Theologicum illis non aliud est, quam sicut Idolum ex auro inclusum scrinio, ad quod clavis ad aperiendum est solum apud antistites, et illi quando legunt Verbum, non percipiunt aliquam lucem ibi et inde, et ne quidem quod Deus unus sit; Verbum illis est sicut lituris maculatum, et quoad unitatem Dei obtectum; hi sunt qui a Domino describuntur apud Matthaeum, "Auditu audietis, et non intelligetis, et videndo videbitis, et non cernetis: oculos suos occluserunt, ne forte videant oculis suis, et auribus audiant, et corde intelligant, et convertant se, et sanem illos," 13:14-15. Sunt omnes illi sicut qui lucem fugiunt, et intrant Cameras ubi non fenestrae 1 sunt, et palpitant circum parietes, et quaerunt ubi victus et ubi nummi; et tandem foenerantur visum noctuarum similem, et vident in tenebris: sunt hi similes mulieri, cui plures mariti sunt, quae non est uxor, sed lasciva meretrix: 2 suntque similes virgini, quae a pluribus procis annulos accipit, et post nuptias cum uno locat noctes; et quoque cum reliquis.
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