司布真:The Canon Is Closed 正典已结束(小草译)

"The Canon Is Closed" by Charles Spurgeon

"The canon of revelation is closed; there is no more to be added; God does not give a fresh revelation, but He rivets the old one. When it has been forgotten and laid in the dusty closet of our memory, He grabs it out and cleans the picture, but does not paint a new one. There are no new doctrines, but the old ones are often revived.It is not, I say, by any new revelation that the Holy Spirit comforts. He does so by telling us old things over and over again; He brings a bright light to manifest the treasures hidden in Scripture; He unlocks the vaults in which the truth has long lain, and He points to secret rooms filled with untold riches; but He coins no more, for enough is done.Believer! There is enough in the Bible for you to live on forever. If you should outnumber the years of Methuselah, there would be no need for a fresh revelation; if you should live until Christ returns, there would be no necessity for the addition of one single word; if you should go down as deep as Jonah, or even descend as David said he did, into the depths of hell, still there would be enough in the Bible to comfort you without one extra sentence."

Excerpt from "The Comforter" a sermon delivered January 21, 1855 at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.

正典已结束

译:小草

启示的正典已结束,没有更多的添加,上帝没有给新的启示,但他坚固旧的启示。当神的启示被遗忘在我们尘封的记忆里时,神不是绘制新的图画,乃是把旧的取出使其清晰。没有新的教义,而是旧的被复兴。

我是说,圣灵不是借着任何新的启示来安慰,而是借着一再地告诉我们旧的启示。圣灵以亮光彰显出隐藏在圣经里的宝藏,以显示圣经中隐藏的珍宝,祂开启了长久存放真理的宝库,祂指向充满了数不清的财富的密室,祂没有再添加金币,因为已完成的已充足。。

信徒,圣经中所有的已足够让你永远活着。如果你的年数超过玛土撒拉,你不需要新的启示,如果你会活到基督再来,那也没必要增加一个字,如果你会下到像约拿那样的深处,或者甚至像大卫所说的那样下降到地狱的深处,同样的,圣经无需添加一句也足够安慰你。