BE75.简要分析：从前文（n.73）可知，主在马太福音第二十四章预言和描述的是基督徒教会的衰落和败坏的连续阶段。在那里还讲到“好些假先知起来”并且“行毁坏可憎”之事（24:11，15）；他说：那时必有大灾难、从世界的起头直到如今、没有这样的灾难、后来也必没有（马太福音24:21）。由此可见，在圣经各处讲到的“大灾难”乃是象征真理被诸谬侵扰，直到从圣经得来的纯正真理无一不被歪曲，直至荡然无存。此事之所以发生，是因为众教会不承认上帝的“一”中有“三”以及他的“三”集于“一”所表达的其实是一个位格，而是三个位格；因此他们建立了这样的教会：嘴上承认一位上帝，但心智上持三位上帝的观念。因着如此行，他们使自己与主分离，并最终在某种程度上对主之人（theLord’sHuman）毫无神性的概念（参阅《揭开启示》AR249），但事实上，主之人（theLord’sHuman）是神性真理本身，是神性之光本身（正如他在圣经中明明教导的那样）。由此产生的“大灾难”在如今广泛流行，从接下来几节可以看出，这些事主要因着（以唯信为媒介的）称义和归算的教条而产生。
75. BRIEF ANALYSIS
It was seen above, 73, that the successive stages of decline and corruption of the Christian Church are foretold and described by the Lord in the 24th chapter of Matthew. There, also, after having spoken of false prophets that should arise, and of the abomination of desolation wrought by them, verses 11, 15, He says:
Then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. Matthew 24:21.
From this it is evident that by great affliction, in this and in other places in the Word, is meant the infestation of truth by falsities until there remains no genuine truth drawn from the Word which is not falsified, and so consummated. This has come to pass because the Churches have not acknowledged the Unity of God in the Trinity, and His Trinity in Unity, in one Person, but in three; hence they have founded a Church in the mind upon the idea of three Gods, and in the mouth upon the confession of one God. By so doing they have separated themselves from the Lord, and at length to such a degree that they have no idea left of the Divinity in His Human Nature (see THE APOCALYPSE REVEALED 249); when yet the Lord, as to His Human, is Divine Truth itself, and Divine Light itself, as He abundantly teaches in His Word. From this comes the great affliction so prevalent at this day; which, as will be seen in the following pages, has been brought about principally by the doctrine of justification and of imputation through the medium of faith alone.
75. Brief Analysis
That the successive decline and corruption of the Christian church is foretold and described by the Lord in Matthew 24 may be seen above (n. 73). After having spoken of false prophets that should arise, and of the abomination of desolation wrought by them (in Matthew 24:11, 15), He says:
Then shall be great affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be (verse Matthew 24:21).
Whence it is evident, that by "great affliction," in this as well as in other places throughout the Word, is meant the infestation of truth by falsities, until there remains no genuine truth derived from the Word which is not falsified, and thus consummated. This has come to pass, because the churches have not acknowledged the Unity of God in the Trinity, and His Trinity in Unity, in one Person, but in three, and hence have founded a church in the mind upon the idea of three Gods, and in the mouth upon the confession of one God; for by this means they have separated themselves from the Lord, and at length to such a degree, that they have no idea left of the Divinity in His Human nature (see The Apocalypse Revealed 294), when nevertheless the Lord as to His Human is the Divine truth itself, and the Divine light itself, as He fully teaches in the Word; hence is the great affliction at the present day. That this has been principally brought on by the doctrine of justification and imputation through the means of faith alone, will be shown in the following pages.
75. BREVIS ANALYSIS.
Quod successivae declinationes et corruptiones Ecclesiae Christianae in 1Cap. XXIV, apud Matthaeum a Domino praedictae et descriptae sint, videatur supra, n. 73; et postquam ibi loquutus est de futuris Pseudoprophetis 2et de Abominatione Desolationis per illas, Vers. 11, 15 dicit, Erit tunc Afflictio magna, qualis non fuit ab initio Mundi usque nunc, nec fiet, Vers. 21. inde patet, quod per Afflictionem magnam, sicut etiam passim in Verbo alibi, intelligatur infestatio veri a falsis, usque dum non aliquid genuini veri e Verbo deprompti, quod non falsificatum et sic consummatum est, supersit. Hoc effectum est, quia Ecclesiae Unitatem Dei in Trinitate, ac Trinitatem Ipsius in Unitate non agnoverunt in una Persona, sed in Tribus, ac inde fundaverunt Ecclesiam in Mente super idea trium Deorum, et in Ore super confessione unius Dei; sic etenim separaverunt se a Domino, tandem eo usque, ut nullam ideam Divinitatis in Humana Ipsius Natura residuam habuerint, videatur APOCALYPSIS REVELATA 294, cum tamen Dominus quoad Humanum suum est Ipsum Divinum Verum, et ipsa Divina Lux, ut in Verbo suo plene docet; inde est tanta afflictio hodie: quod haec principaliter inducta sit per Doctrinam Justificationis et Imputationis media sola fide illarum, in sequentibus videbitur.
Footnotes:
1. in pro in in.
2. Pseudoprophetis pro Pseudoprophetiis.