歷史上的今天 —— 馬丁路德在1546年2月18日去世

歷史上的今天 —— 馬丁路德在1546年2月18日去世


我曾是那麼地熱心鑽研,渴望明白保羅寫給羅馬人們的書信,而其中遇到的困難,沒有別的,唯有「神的義」這句話使我困惑。因為我一直以來都以為,那「義」,是指神的「公義」,以及祂是如何地公義地刑罰我們這些不義之人。

我不斷地晝夜思想,直到我明白,這「神的義」,原來是指那完全透過豐盛的恩典、和純粹的憐憫、藉著信心稱我們為義的「義」。由那刻起,我感覺自己似乎得著了新生,也彷彿是邁開腳步踏進,並且是透過敞開的大門,進到了樂園、整本聖經因此對我有了全新寶貴的意義、而之前使我滿懷怨恨的「神的義」,如今開始以無法言喻的甜蜜之愛將我充滿。保羅的經文(又譯途徑),變成了叫我通往並進入天國的途徑。

——馬丁路德,論羅馬書。

“I greatly longed to understand Paul’s epistle to the Romans and nothing stood in the way but that one expression, “the righteousness of God.” Because I took it to mean that righteousness whereby God is righteous and deals righteously in punishing the unrighteous. Night and day I pondered until I grasped the truth that the righteousness of God is that righteousness whereby through grace and sheer mercy He justifies us by faith. There upon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise, the whole of Scripture took on a new meaning, and whereas before the righteousness of God had filled me with hate, it now began to fill me inexpressibly with a sweet love. The passage of Paul became to me the gateway to heaven.”

— Martin Luther on the Epistle to the Romans

翻譯:Joshua Bong / 講道翻譯團契 STF
摘自:The Reformed Society