SANCTIFICATION ｜ 成圣

ENSANCTIFICATION. Gr., hagiazo, hagiasmos—setting apart, separation, for God's inhabitation, control and service. Regeneration is the Divine implanting of a new spiritual life; sanctification is the Divine continuance, increase and development of that new life, in face of the persistent resistance of the previously controlling old, self-seeking and self-indulging nature. The former is an act of the Divine Spirit; the latter a process carried on through life, and perfected thereafter. Other Scriptural terms, partially equivalent or closely related. Renewing: Ps. 51:10. Renew a right spirit within me. Isa. 40:31. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. 2 Cor. 4:16. Yet the inward man is renewed day by day. Transformation: Rom. 12:2. But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. 2 Cor. 3:18. Are changed into the same image from glory to glory. Perfecting, perfection (Gr. katartismos, complete adjustment; teleiotes, completeness): Eph. 4:12. For the perfecting of the saints. 1 John 4:12. God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us. Heb. 6:1. Let us go on unto perfection. Sanctification, or renewal, is the will of God and the work of the Holy Spirit: 1 Thes. 4:3, 7. For this is the will of God, even your sanctification . . . God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 2 Thes. 2:13. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. 1 Pet. 1:2. Through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience. Rom. 15:16. Being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. 1 Cor. 6:11. But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified . . . by the Spirit of our God. Eph. 3:16. To be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man. Titus 3:5. The renewing of the Holy Ghost. 1 Thes. 5:23. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

BSB1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

中成圣。希腊文 hagiazo、hagiasmos，意为分别出来、分离出来，为着神的内住、掌管与使用。重生是神把一个新的属灵生命植入人里面；成圣则是神使那新生命得以延续、增长、发展——而这是在那先前作主的旧性情（自我寻求、自我放纵）持续抵抗之下进行的。前者是神的灵的一个举动；后者是贯穿一生、并在此生之后才臻于完全的一个过程。其他部分相当或密切相关的圣经用语。更新（renewing）：诗篇 51:10 —— 使我里面重新有正直的灵。以赛亚书 40:31 —— 但那等候耶和华的必从新得力。哥林多后书 4:16 —— 然而我们内心却一天新似一天。变化（transformation）：罗马书 12:2 —— 只要心意更新而变化。哥林多后书 3:18 —— 就变成主的形状，荣上加荣。成全、完全（希腊文 katartismos，完全的调校归位；teleiotes，完备）：以弗所书 4:12 —— 为要成全圣徒。约翰一书 4:12 —— 神就住在我们里面，爱他的心在我们里面得以完全。希伯来书 6:1 —— 竭力进到完全的地步。成圣（更新）是神的旨意，也是圣灵的工作：帖撒罗尼迦前书 4:3, 7 —— 神的旨意就是要你们成为圣洁……神召我们，本不是要我们沾染污秽，乃是要我们成为圣洁。帖撒罗尼迦后书 2:13 —— 神从起初拣选了你们，叫你们因信真道，又被圣灵感动成为圣洁，能以得救。彼得前书 1:2 —— 藉着圣灵得成圣洁，以致顺服。罗马书 15:16 —— 因着圣灵成为圣洁。哥林多前书 6:11 —— 但如今你们奉主耶稣基督的名，并藉着我们神的灵，已经洗净、成圣、称义了。以弗所书 3:16 —— 藉着他的灵，叫你们心里的力量刚强起来。提多书 3:5 —— 圣灵的更新。帖撒罗尼迦前书 5:23 —— 愿赐平安的神亲自使你们全然成圣！又愿你们的灵与魂与身子得蒙保守，在我主耶稣基督降临的时候完全无可指摘。

ENSanctification through Christ's sacrificial offering: 1 Cor. 1:2. To them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus. 1 Cor. 1:30. Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. Heb. 13:12. Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate. Heb. 10:10, 14. We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Eph. 5:26, 27. That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious church. Sanctification through belief in the truth: John 17:17. Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth. 2 Thes. 2:13. Through . . . belief of the truth. 1 Pet. 1:22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit. 2 Pet. 1:4. That by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature. The process of Divine sanctification from the human side. As we have seen throughout, every form of Divine acting in man's behalf has a side of demanded responsive human action. Here, as everywhere, we read a command of God to desire, to purpose, and to endeavor to do that which God alone can do; and here too the desire, the purpose and the attempt to fulfill His command is assured of His interposing help, to make fulfillment possible and certain. The command of God, in manifold forms of expression: 1 Pet. 3:15. But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Eph. 4:23, 24. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man. Rom. 12:2. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Matt. 5:48. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. 1 Thes. 3:10. And might perfect that which is lacking in your faith. 2 Cor. 7:1. Perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 1 Pet. 1:16. Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

BSBJohn 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

中成圣藉基督献祭之工而来：哥林多前书 1:2 —— 就是在基督耶稣里成圣、蒙召作圣徒的众人。1:30 —— 基督耶稣……神又使他成为我们的智慧、公义、圣洁、救赎。希伯来书 13:12 —— 所以耶稣要用自己的血叫百姓成圣，也就在城门外受苦。10:10, 14 —— 我们凭这旨意，靠耶稣基督只一次献上他的身体，就得以成圣。因为他一次献祭，便叫那得以成圣的人永远完全。以弗所书 5:26-27 —— 要用水藉着道把教会洗净，成为圣洁，可以献给自己，作个荣耀的教会。成圣藉着信从真理而来：约翰福音 17:17 —— 求你用真理使他们成圣；你的道就是真理。帖撒罗尼迦后书 2:13 —— 因信真道……成为圣洁。彼得前书 1:22 —— 你们既因顺从真理，洁净了自己的心。彼得后书 1:4 —— 叫你们……得与神的性情有分。神施行成圣之工的过程，就人的一面而言。正如我们通篇所见：神为人所行的每一种作为，都有一面是要求人以行动回应的。此处也如别处一样，我们读到神的命令：要人去愿、去立志、去竭力做那惟有神才能做成的事；而此处同样有保证：人这愿望、这立志、这为遵行他命令所作的尝试，必有他插手相助，使遵行成为可能、成为确定。神的命令，以多种形式表达出来：彼得前书 3:15 —— 只要心里尊主基督为圣。以弗所书 4:23-24 —— 又要将你们的心志改换一新，并且穿上新人。罗马书 12:2 —— 不要效法这个世界，只要心意更新而变化。马太福音 5:48 —— 所以你们要完全，像你们的天父完全一样。帖撒罗尼迦前书 3:10 —— 并且补满你们信心的不足。哥林多后书 7:1 —— 敬畏神，得以成圣。彼得前书 1:16 —— 因为经上记着说：你们要圣洁，因为我是圣洁的。

ENThe command obeyed: by the exercise of faith in Christ, and the unremitting practice of fellowship and communion with God. Acts 26:18. Sanctified by faith that is in Me. More particularly, by the daily habitual offering of an open mind and a consecrated heart and will to the sole guidance and absolute control of the Spirit of God. The unceasing recognition, by the ignorant, weak and tempted believer, of the sublime and precious fact of the actual indwelling of the Holy Spirit—together with the glad, restful submission of every thought and feeling, desire and motive, aim and purpose, plan and word and deed to the Spirit's prompting, ordering and actuating, and this alone—assures the believer's steadfast progress in the Divine process of sanctification. As sanctification is a progressive Divine process, carrying onward, deepening and expanding the spiritual life, so an increasing measure of holiness is the sole evidence of spiritual growth, as it is the sole source and energy of enlarging fruitfulness in the Christian life. Yet it should ever be borne in mind that the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit is always vitally connected with the truth revealed, and conditioned upon the believer's heartfelt reception of, and obedience to, the truth unfolded by the Spirit. To the growing and fruitful believer, who habitually welcomes and earnestly searches the Word, and heartily accepts the guidance and teaching of the Spirit, are uttered the strong, sweet, encouraging and assuring pledges of the Divine indwelling: John 14:21, 23. He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me . . . and I will manifest Myself to him. If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him. John 15:3, 4. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in Me, and I in you. Rom. 8:9. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. 1 Cor. 3:16. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? Eph. 3:17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. Col. 1:27. Christ in you, the hope of glory. To realize this indwelling of God—the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost—to rest upon it, and responsively to desire and seek the inworking of the Holy Spirit day by day and hour by hour, is the simple but assured method of unceasing progress in sanctification, that is, in holy and fruitful living.

BSBJohn 15:4 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.

中如何遵行这命令：靠着运用对基督的信心，并不间断地实行与神的相交往来。使徒行传 26:18 —— 又因信我，得蒙圣别（成圣）。更具体地说，就是天天习惯性地把敞开的心思、分别为圣的心与意志献上，交给神的灵单独引导、绝对掌管。一个无知、软弱、受试探的信徒，若不断认取『圣灵实实在在内住』这一崇高宝贵的事实；并且欢欢喜喜、安然无扰地把每一个思想与感受、每一样欲望与动机、每一个目标与心志、每一项计划、每一句话、每一件事，都顺服在圣灵的催促、安排与推动之下——惟有如此，才能确保信徒在神成圣的过程中稳步前进。成圣既是神一个渐进的过程，推动、加深、扩展着属灵的生命；那么，圣洁的分量与日俱增，就是属灵长进唯一的凭据，正如它也是基督徒生命中结果日丰唯一的源头与动力。然而必须始终记得：圣灵成圣的工作，总是与所启示的真理紧密相连，并以信徒发自内心地接受并顺服圣灵所展开的真理为条件。对于那些不断长进、多结果子的信徒——他们习惯性地欢迎并恳切查考神的话，诚心接受圣灵的引导与教导——神内住的应许便向他们发出，何等有力、何等甘美、何等激励人、何等使人笃定：约翰福音 14:21, 23 —— 有了我的命令又遵守的，这人就是爱我的……我要向他显现。人若爱我，就必遵守我的道；我父也必爱他，并且我们要到他那里去，与他同住。15:3-4 —— 现在你们因我讲给你们的道，已经干净了。你们要常在我里面，我也常在你们里面。罗马书 8:9 —— 如果神的灵住在你们心里，你们就不属肉体，乃属圣灵了。哥林多前书 3:16 —— 岂不知你们是神的殿，神的灵住在你们里头吗？以弗所书 3:17 —— 使基督因你们的信，住在你们心里。歌罗西书 1:27 —— 基督在你们心里成了有荣耀的盼望。认取神——父、子、圣灵——这样的内住，安息在其上，并且天天时时以回应的心渴慕、寻求圣灵在里面的运行：这就是在成圣（即圣洁而多结果子的生活）上不断长进的方法，简单，却确实可靠。

ENPerfection, or complete sanctification. Manifestly this includes: an unfailing regard and obedience to the Divine law of love in its utmost detail; an unintermitting exercise of the graces of the Spirit, and a never-ceasing fruitage from those graces in daily living; and an attained character of likeness to Christ—that is, a perfect responsiveness and unison of thought, desire, affection and will with Him. Manifestly, too, according to the testimony of Scripture, such perfected union of the believer with Christ has never been realized on earth. "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect," is the confession of the most intelligent and saintly apostle of the Lord; "but," he adds, "I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." To make the confession more clear and impressive he repeats it: "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." And then he invites all saints to like experience and godly living: "Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded" (Phil. 3:12-15). Thus Paul interprets the one command of God in the whole Scripture: be holy, be perfect, be renewed, be transformed by the renewing of your mind, go on unto perfection. According to his plain testimony and teaching—in harmony with that of the wisest and purest examples of saintly character in both Testaments—this great and oft-repeated command is obeyed by the believer's supreme aim and unceasing effort to press onward and upward toward the perfect life. So it is that, while we may not say that perfection is unattainable in this life, the trend of the entire Scripture teaching produces and strongly emphasizes the positive conviction that it never has been attained. And the Scripture assigns and deals largely with one insuperable reason why it is not attained: namely, the uneradicated power of the remaining "old" nature, and its continued conflict with the "new," so long as the believer abides in the flesh. In complete accord with this Scriptural meaning of perfection should be interpreted the Old and New Testament assertions of integrity and blameless living made by, and in behalf of, a few individuals: there is here no claim of sinless character and life, but of a believer's true and honest purpose and endeavor to honor the law of God and to meet the demands of duty to man. Ps. 26:11. But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity. Ps. 41:12. And as for me, Thou upholdest me in mine integrity. Job 27:5, 6. Till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. Note: as life, in its every form, finds its only definition and evidence in energy and movement, advance and progress, so pre-eminently is spiritual life disclosed by its unceasing energy and fruitfulness, by the unremitting exercise of every faculty in its appropriate spiritual work.

BSBPhilippians 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

中完全，或曰全备的成圣。这显然包括：对神那爱的律法，在其最细微处都毫无缺失地看重并遵行；不间断地运用圣灵的各样恩德，并在日常生活中由这些恩德不断结出果子；以及已然达成的、与基督相似的品格——就是思想、愿望、情感、意志与他完全的呼应与合一。同样显然的是，按圣经的见证，信徒与基督这样完全的合一在地上从未实现过。『这不是说我已经得着了，已经完全了』——这是主门下最有见识、最圣洁的使徒所作的自白；『我乃是竭力追求，』他接着说，『或者可以得着基督耶稣所以得着我的。』为使这一自白更清楚、更有力，他又重复一遍：『弟兄们，我不是以为自己已经得着了；我只有一件事，就是忘记背后，努力面前的，向着标竿直跑，要得神在基督耶稣里从上面召我来得的奖赏。』然后他邀请所有圣徒都进入同样的经历与敬虔生活：『所以我们中间凡是完全人，总要存这样的心。』（腓立比书 3:12-15）保罗就是这样解释神在整本圣经中那一条命令的：要圣洁，要完全，要更新，要心意更新而变化，要竭力进到完全的地步。按照他明白的见证与教训——这也与两约中最有智慧、最纯洁的圣徒榜样相一致——信徒遵行这条重大而屡屡重申的命令的方式，就是以最高的目标与不停的努力，向前、向上，朝着那完全的生命奋力前行。因此，我们虽不可断言今生绝无可能达到完全，但整本圣经教训的走向，却产生并有力强调了这样一个正面的确信：完全从来不曾被达到过。而圣经也指出并大量论及一个无法逾越的原因，说明它为何未被达到：就是那残留的『旧』性情尚未被根除的力量，以及只要信徒还活在肉身之中，它与『新』性情之间就持续不断的争战。两约中由少数人自述、或他人为其作证的『正直』『无可指摘』之言，应当完全按上述圣经中『完全』的含义来解释：这里并不是宣称自己品格与生活无罪，而是宣称一个信徒真实诚恳的心志与努力——要尊崇神的律法，并尽到对人当尽的本分。诗篇 26:11 —— 至于我，却要行事纯全。41:12 —— 你因我纯正就扶持我。约伯记 27:5-6 —— 我至死必不以自己为不正！按语：正如生命无论以何种形式存在，都只能以能力与运动、前进与长进来界定、来印证；属灵生命尤其如此——它是靠其不停的活力与结果、靠每一样官能在其相应属灵工作上的不懈运用而显明出来的。