6他叫我們能承當這新約的執事。不是憑着字句,乃是憑着精意。因為那字句是叫人死,精意是叫人活。(精意或作聖靈)。Who also hath made us able
ministers of the new testament;
not of the letter, but of the
spirit: for the letter killeth, butthe spirit giveth life.
即來自神的靈,泛指出於神的靈!可以是基督的靈,或父的靈
約翰一書 - 第 4 章 第 2 節
凡靈認耶穌基督是成了肉身來的,就是出於神的。從此你們可以認出神的靈來。This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
約翰福音 - 第 4 章 第 24 節
神是個靈(或無個字)所以拜他的,必須用心靈和誠實拜他。God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
同一章上面的
3你們明顯是基督的信,借着我們修成的。不是用墨寫的,乃是用永生神的靈寫的。不是寫在石版上,乃是寫在心版上。
NIV: You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
KJV: Forasmuch as ye are]
manifestly declared to be the
epistle of Christ ministered by
us, written not with ink, but
with the Spirit of the living
God; not in tables of stone, but
in fleshy tables of the heart.
大寫,指聖靈,即父的靈。