APPENDIX: THE PSALMS; THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY ｜ 附录：诗篇・身体的复活（全书终篇）

ENTHE PSALMS. [The book of Psalms contains the whole music of the heart of man, swept by the hand of his Maker. In it are gathered the lyrical burst of his tenderness, the moan of his penitence, the pathetic accent of his sorrow, the triumphant shout of his victory, the despairing sob of his defeat, the firm tone of his confidence, the rapturous note of his assured hope. In it is presented the anatomy of all parts of the human soul; in it, as Heine says, are collected "sunrise and sunset, birth and death, promise and fulfillment—the whole drama of humanity." In the Psalms is painted, for all time, in fresh, unfading colors, the picture of the moral welfare of man—often baffled, yet never wholly defeated; struggling upward to all that is best and highest in his nature; always aware how short of the aim the practice falls, how great is the abyss that severs the aspiration from the achievement. In them we find the revelation of a soul deeply conscious of sin, seeking, in broken accents of shame and penitence and hope, to renew personal communication with God—heart to heart, thought to thought, and face to face. It is this which gives to the Psalms their eternal truth. Here are gathered not only pregnant statements of the principles of religion and condensed maxims of the spiritual life, but a summary of devotion, a manual of prayer and praise; and all this is clothed in language which is as rich in poetic beauty as it is universal and enduring in poetic verity. The Psalms, then, are a mirror in which each man may see the motions of his own soul: they express in exquisite words the affinity which every thoughtful human heart craves to find with a supreme, unchanging, loving God, who will be to him a protector, guardian and friend. Quarterly Review, April, 1897.]

BSBPsalm 42:1 For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

中诗篇。〔诗篇这卷书里，收着人心被造他之主的手拨动时所发出的全副音乐。其中汇集了他柔情迸发的抒唱，他痛悔的呻吟，他忧伤中那种凄恻的语调，他得胜时凯旋的呼喊，他战败时绝望的啜泣，他笃信时坚定的声气，他确知有望时那种狂喜的音符。其中呈现出人类灵魂各个部分的解剖图；正如海涅（Heine）所说，其中收着『日出与日落，出生与死亡，应许与应验——人性的整幕戏剧』。诗篇以永不褪色的鲜活色彩，为万世画下了人在道德上求福的图景——他屡屡受挫，却从未全然战败；他向上挣扎，要够着自己本性中一切最好最高的东西；而他始终自知：实际所行离目标何等之远，那把志向与成就分隔开的深渊何等之大。在诗篇中，我们看见一个深知己罪之灵魂的自我披露：它以羞愧、痛悔与盼望所发出的断续声调，寻求重新与神有位格间的往来——心对心，念对念，面对面。正是这一点，赋予诗篇以永恒的真实。这里所汇集的，不只是关于宗教原理的凝练陈述、属灵生活的浓缩箴言，更是一部虔敬的总纲，一本祷告与赞美的手册；而这一切所披的语言，其诗意之美何等丰富，其诗意之真实便何等普世而恒久。因此，诗篇是一面镜子，人人都可以在其中看见自己灵魂的种种动静：它以精妙的言辞，说出了每一颗善思的人心所渴望与神建立的那种亲缘——与一位至高、不变、慈爱的神；而他必作那人的保护者、看顾者与朋友。《季刊评论》，1897 年 4 月号〕

ENTHE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY. [God was in Jesus Christ, reconciling the world to Himself; and this work of reconciliation fell into three parts. The first was the Life: in this we had the teaching, by example and by precept, and also a full revelation of the character of God and of His disposition toward man. The second was the Death: in this we had the marvelous act of Divine self-sacrifice for man. It so transcends the Life in impressiveness and importance that—wonderful in its moral and spiritual beauty as that Life was—it is almost shut off from the view of many minds by the cross. When our Lord said, "It is finished," He evidently alluded to His sacrificial work; but His full task was not yet complete. What remained was of such importance that Paul made all that had been done before depend upon it: without the Resurrection, the Life and the Death—though they were fraught with verities of transcendent importance to man—would have been meaningless to him; without the Resurrection, man could have seen no purpose in, nor reason for, the Life and the Death. That these might be understood, it was necessary that He should bring immortality to light.]

BSB2 Corinthians 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

中身体的复活。〔神在基督里叫世人与自己和好；而这和好之工分为三个部分。第一部分是那『生』：其中我们得着了教导——藉着榜样，也藉着训诲；并且得着了对神之品格、以及他对人所存之心意的完整启示。第二部分是那『死』：其中我们得着了神为人舍己那件奇妙的作为。它在感人的分量与重要性上远远超过那『生』，以致那『生』——尽管在道德与属灵之美上是何等奇妙——在许多人的视野中几乎被十字架挡住了。我们的主说『成了』的时候，他显然是指他献祭之工；但他全部的任务还没有完成。所余下的那一部分何等重要，以致保罗把此前所成就的一切都系于其上：若没有复活，那『生』与那『死』——纵然满载着对人有着超绝重要性的种种真实——对人也就毫无意义了；若没有复活，人就看不出那『生』与那『死』有什么目的、有什么理由。为要使这两者能被人明白，他就必须把不朽彰显出来。〕

EN[The Resurrection was the outbreak of the Eternal Sun, filling not only the Life and Death of Christ with its effulgence, but all the past also, and all the future. In it man attained the vision of an angel: his eyes pierced the heavens, and could look down along the eternities. The Resurrection was a revelation transcending all other revelations; in no aspect did any former revelation compare with it. The foreboding question of all time—"If a man die, shall he live again?"—was answered by Christ's triumph over death. And that the answer might be so complete as to satisfy every other longing for knowledge of the future, we were shown not only that we shall live again, but what that life shall be: it shall be the life of the glorified Redeemer; we shall be, and we shall live, like Him. It is not for us to inquire which of the three is the most important—the Life, the Death, or the Resurrection: the three are one. As we behold the completed mission of our Lord, we can only wonder at its Divine love, wisdom and glory. W. C. Gray.]

BSBJob 14:14 When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

中〔复活是那永恒之太阳的破晓；它的光辉所充满的，不只是基督的生与死，也充满了整个过去，与整个将来。在复活中，人得着了天使般的视野：他的眼目穿透诸天，能沿着永世向下俯瞰。复活是一次超越其他一切启示的启示；从任何一个方面看，先前的启示都不能与之相比。那贯穿万古、令人不安的问题——『人若死了，岂能再活呢？』——已经被基督胜过死亡这件事回答了。并且，为使这答案完整到足以满足人对将来一切别样的求知之渴，我们所被指示的，不只是『我们将要再活』，更是『那生命将是怎样的』：那将是那位得了荣耀之救赎主的生命；我们要像他，也要像他那样活着。这三者——生、死、复活——究竟哪一样最重要，并不该由我们来追问：这三者原是一。当我们注视我们主已完成的使命时，我们只能惊叹于其中神圣的爱、智慧与荣耀。格雷（W. C. Gray）〕【全书至此终。】