SS111.由于没有圣言，就没有对主的认识，因而没有拯救，所以当圣言在犹太民族当中被完全歪曲和玷污，因而几乎无效，甚至化为乌有时，主乐意从天而降，来到世间，应验圣言，由此使它重新完整并复原，再度将光明赋予地上的居民，正如主所说的：
那坐在黑暗里的百姓，看见了大光；有光向那些坐在死荫之地的人出现。（马太福音4:16；以赛亚书9:2）
111. Because without the Word there is no recognition of the Lord and therefore no salvation, when the Word was utterly distorted and corrupted by the Jewish nation and therefore made virtually null and void, it pleased the Lord to come down from heaven, come into the world, fulfill the Word, and thereby make it whole again, restore it, and give light again to us who live on earth. That is the intent of the Lord’s words:
The people who were sitting in darkness have seen a great light; the light has risen for those who were sitting in the region and shadow of death. (Matthew 4:16; Isaiah 9:2)
111. Since without the Word no concept of the Lord is possible, thus no salvation, therefore when the Word in the Jewish nation was completely falsified and adulterated, and so made virtually non-existent, it pleased the Lord to descend from heaven, come into the world and fulfill the Word, and by doing so repair and restore it, so as to give light again to the inhabitants of the earth. In the Lord’s words:
The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light has arisen. (Matthew 4:16, cf. Isaiah 9:2)
111. As without the Word there is no rational conception of the Lord, and thus no salvation, and when the Word with the Jewish nation was entirely falsified and defiled, and made as of none effect, it therefore pleased the Lord to descend from heaven; and, coming into the world, to fulfil the Word, and thus to renew and restore it, giving light again to the inhabitants of the earth, according to His own words:
The people which sat in darkness saw a great light (lumen); and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light (lux) is sprung up. Matthew 4:16; Isaiah 9:2.
111. As without the Word there is no knowledge of the Lord, and therefore no salvation, it pleased the Lord that when the Word had been wholly falsified and adulterated among the Jewish nation and thus as it were brought to nothingness, that He should descend from heaven and come into the world, and fulfill the Word, and thereby repair and restore it, and again give light to the earth's inhabitants, in accordance with His declaration:
The people that sat in darkness have seen a great light; and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up (Matthew 4:16; Isaiah 9:2).
111. Quoniam absque Verbo non est cognitio Domini, ita non salvatio, ideo quando Verbum apud gentem Judaicam prorsus falsificatum et adulteratum erat, et inde quasi nullum factum est, tunc placuit Domino e caelo descendere, et venire in mundum, ac implere Verbum, et per id redintegrare et restituere illud, ac iterum dare lucem incolis telluris: secundum Domini verba,
"Populus sedens in tenebris vidit lumen magnum; ... sedentibus in regione et umbra mortis, lux exorta illis est" (Matthaeus 4:16; Esaias 9:1). 1
Footnotes:
1. B. A. habet Esaias 9:2 pro "Esaias 9:1"