希伯来书 2
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
忽略偉大的救恩不能逃罪
2 因此，我們必須更加密切注意所聽過的道理，免得我們隨流失去。 2 那透過天使所傳講的信息既然是確定的，所有干犯和不聽從的，都受了應得的報應。 3 如果我們忽略了這麼大的救恩，怎麼能逃罪呢？這救恩起初是由主親自宣講的，後來聽見的人給我們證實了。 4 神又照著自己的旨意，用神蹟、奇事和各樣異能，以及聖靈的恩賜，與他們一同作見證。
耶穌因受死得了榮耀尊貴
5 神並沒有把我們所說的“將來的世界”，交給天使管轄； 6 但是有人在聖經上某一處證實說：
“人算甚麼，你竟記念他？
世人算甚麼，你竟眷顧他？
7 你使他暫時成了比天使卑微（“暫時成了比天使卑微”或譯：“比天使稍低微一點”），
卻賜給他榮耀尊貴作冠冕，（有些古卷在此有“並立他統管你手所造的一切”一句）
8 使萬物都服在他的腳下。”
既然萬有都服了他，就沒有剩下一樣不服他的了。但是現在我們還沒有看見萬有都服他。 9 不過，我們看見那位暫時成了比天使卑微（“暫時成了比天使卑微”或譯：“比天使稍低微一點”）的耶穌，因為受了死的痛苦，就得了榮耀尊貴作冠冕，好叫他因著 神的恩典，為萬人嘗了死味。
救恩的元首耶穌
10 萬有因他而有、藉他而造的那位，為了要帶領許多兒子進入榮耀裡去，使救他們的元首藉著受苦而得到成全，本是合適的。 11 因為那位使人成聖的，和那些得到成聖的，同是出於一個源頭；所以他稱他們為弟兄也不以為恥。 12 他說：
“我要向我的弟兄宣揚你的名，
我要在聚會中歌頌你。”
13 又說：
“我要信靠他。”
又說：
“看哪，我和 神所賜給我的孩子們。”
14 孩子們既然同有血肉之體，他自己也照樣成為血肉之體，為要藉著死，消滅那掌握死權的魔鬼， 15 並且要釋放那些因為怕死而終身作奴僕的人。 16 其實，他並沒有救援天使，只救援亞伯拉罕的後裔。 17 所以，他必須在各方面和他的弟兄們相同，為了要在 神的事上，成為仁慈忠信的大祭司，好為人民贖罪。 18 因為他自己既然經過試探，受了苦，就能夠幫助那些被試探的人。
Hebrews 2
The Message
2 1-4 It’s crucial that we keep a firm grip on what we’ve heard so that we don’t drift off. If the old message delivered by the angels was valid and nobody got away with anything, do you think we can risk neglecting this latest message, this magnificent salvation? First of all, it was delivered in person by the Master, then accurately passed on to us by those who heard it from him. All the while God was validating it with gifts through the Holy Spirit, all sorts of signs and miracles, as he saw fit.
The Salvation Pioneer
5-9 God didn’t put angels in charge of this business of salvation that we’re dealing with here. It says in Scripture,
What is man and woman that you bother with them;
why take a second look their way?
You made them not quite as high as angels,
bright with Eden’s dawn light;
Then you put them in charge
of your entire handcrafted world.
When God put them in charge of everything, nothing was excluded. But we don’t see it yet, don’t see everything under human jurisdiction. What we do see is Jesus, made “not quite as high as angels,” and then, through the experience of death, crowned so much higher than any angel, with a glory “bright with Eden’s dawn light.” In that death, by God’s grace, he fully experienced death in every person’s place.
10-13 It makes good sense that the God who got everything started and keeps everything going now completes the work by making the Salvation Pioneer perfect through suffering as he leads all these people to glory. Since the One who saves and those who are saved have a common origin, Jesus doesn’t hesitate to treat them as family, saying,
I’ll tell my good friends, my brothers and sisters, all I know
about you;
I’ll join them in worship and praise to you.
Again, he puts himself in the same family circle when he says,
Even I live by placing my trust in God.
And yet again,
I’m here with the children God gave me.
14-15 Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it’s logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by his death. By embracing death, taking it into himself, he destroyed the Devil’s hold on death and freed all who cower through life, scared to death of death.
16-18 It’s obvious, of course, that he didn’t go to all this trouble for angels. It was for people like us, children of Abraham. That’s why he had to enter into every detail of human life. Then, when he came before God as high priest to get rid of the people’s sins, he would have already experienced it all himself—all the pain, all the testing—and would be able to help where help was needed.
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