结尾的警告与劝勉

13 这是我第三次到你们那里去。“任何事,凭两个或三个见证人的口,才能成立。”[a] 我先前说过了,现在虽然我不在你们那里,还要像第二次在你们那里的时候一样,预先警告那些从前犯了罪的人和所有其余的人:我如果再来,不会顾惜! 这是因为你们寻找基督在我里面说话的凭证。基督对你们并不是软弱的;相反,他在你们中间是有大能的。 实际上,基督虽然在软弱中被钉十字架,但他却在神的大能中活着。的确,我们虽然在基督里也软弱,但为了你们,我们却在神的大能中,将要与基督一同活着。

你们要察验自己是否在信仰中,要考验自己。难道你们不了解耶稣基督在你们里面吗?除非你们是经不起考验的。 但是我希望你们明白,我们不是经不起考验的。 我们祈求神,使你们不做任何恶事。这不是要显明我们是经过考验的,而是要你们行美善的事,就算我们可能像是经不起考验的。 因为我们做任何事都不能抵挡真理,只能拥护真理。 实际上,当我们软弱而你们刚强的时候,我们就欢喜;我们还祈求这一点:就是你们得以完全。 10 为此,我不在你们那里的时候写了这些事,好让我来到的时候,不必用主所赐给我的权柄严厉地对待你们。这权柄是为了造就人,并不是为了拆毁人。

11 最后,弟兄们,你们要欢喜!愿你们得以完全,愿你们得到安慰!你们要同心合意,要彼此和睦。这样,慈爱与平安的神就会与你们同在。 12 你们要用圣洁的亲吻礼彼此问候。所有的圣徒都问候你们。

13 愿主耶稣基督的恩典、神的慈爱、圣灵的契合[b]与你们大家同在![c][d]

Footnotes

  1. 哥林多后书 13:1 《申命记》17:6;19:15。
  2. 哥林多后书 13:13 契合——或译作“沟通”或“相通”。
  3. 哥林多后书 13:13 有古抄本附“阿们。”
  4. 哥林多后书 13:13 有译本把12-13节的经文分成三节“12 你们要用圣洁的亲吻礼彼此问候。13 所有的圣徒都问候你们。14 愿主耶稣基督的恩典、神的慈爱、圣灵的契合与你们大家同在!”

13 This is the pa’am hashlishit I am coming to you; [2C 12:14] by the PI SHNAYIM SHLOSHAH EDIM (‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses, DEVARIM 19:15) every dvar shall be established.

I warned those who committed averos before and all the rest, and, now absent, I warn them again, as I did when I made pakad (visit) the pa’am hashenit, that if I come again, I will not spare, I will not be lenient,

Als (since) you seek to test if Moshiach is speaking in me. Moshiach is not weak toward you, but is GIBBOR in you [YESHAYAH 9:5].

For indeed he was talui al HaEtz (“being hanged on the Tree,” DEVARIM 21:23) out of weakness, [Pp 2:7-8] but Moshiach lives by the gevurat Hashem. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet we will live with him by the gevurat Hashem (the power of G-d) toward you.

Perform a bedikah (examination) on yourselves to see if you are in the [Orthodox Jewish] emunah (faith). Test and prove yourselves [1C 11:28]. Or do you yourselves not have da’as that Moshiach is in you? Unless you are reprobate and unapproved. [EKHAH 3:40]

But I have tikvah that you will have da’as that we are not unapproved.

Now we daven (pray) to Hashem that you do not do any rah (evil), not that we Shlichim may appear to have stood the test, but that you may do hatov (the good), though we may seem to have failed.

For we are not able to do anything against HaEmes, but only for HaEmes. [1C 13:6]

For we have lev same’ach when we are megareia (weakened) and you are strong, for this also we daven (pray), that is, for your shelemut (perfection), your tikkun (restoration repair).

10 Therefore, while I am absent I write this iggeret so that when I am present I may not treat you with severity, according to the samchut (authority) which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu gave me for your chozek (strength) and not for your churban. [2C 2:3; 10:8,11]

11 For the rest, Achim b’Moshiach, rejoice with simcha. [Pp 4:4] Come to order and chazzak (be strong)! Have achdus (unity) in your machshavot (thoughts). Live in shalom. And the G-d of ahavah and shalom will be with you. [Ro 15:33]

12 Greet one another with a neshikat hakodesh.

13 All the Kadoshim say, "Shalom!"

14 The Chen v’Chesed Adoneinu Moshiach and the ahavat Hashem and the hitkhabrut HaRuach Hakodesh be with you all. [Zohar: telat rishin khad hu, three heads are one, Zohar vol iii p.288 versa Amsterdam edition]