Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles

大公教會書信注釋

By John Calvin

約翰加爾文著

2 Peter 1:1--4

彼後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.

因此我們必須從神將我們提升達到之尊榮的高度來思考。我們知道我們的本性是如何的低賤；而神卻讓祂自己成為我們的，好叫祂所有的一切能夠成為我們的，祂恩典的味道無法被我們的心思所完全參透。故此，這個觀念本身就足以讓我們捨棄世界，並將我們提升到天使。讓我們這麼說，福音的總結就是，至終將我們模成神的形像，或者我們能夠說，神化我們。（that the end of the gospel is, to render us eventually conformable to God, and, if we may so speak, to deify us.）