Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles

大公教会书信注释

By John Calvin

约翰加尔文著

2 Peter 1:1--4

彼后1:1--4

For we must consider from whence it is that God raises us up to such a height of honor. We knowhow abject is the condition of our nature; that God, then, should make himself ours, so that all his things should in a manner become our things, the greatness of his grace cannot be sufficiently conceived by our minds. Therefore this consideration alone ought to be abundantly sufficient to make us to renounce the world and to carry us aloft to heaven. Let us then mark, that the end of the gospel is, to render us eventually conformable to God, and, if we may so speak, to deify us.

因此我们必须从神将我们提升达到之尊荣的高度来思考。我们知道我们的本性是如何的低贱；而神却让祂自己成为我们的，好叫祂所有的一切能够成为我们的，祂恩典的味道无法被我们的心思所完全参透。故此，这个观念本身就足以让我们舍弃世界，并将我们提升到天使。让我们这么说，福音的总结就是，至终将我们模成神的形像，或者我们能够说，神化我们。（that the end of the gospel is, to render us eventually conformable to God, and, if we may so speak, to deify us.）