四十九、死亡
84问：所有的人都会死吗？
答：死亡是罪的工价（罗6:23），所以，按照定命，人人都有一死（来9:27）；因为所有的人都犯了罪（罗5:12）。
Q. 84. Shall all men die?
A. Death being threatened as the wages of sin, it is appointed unto all men once to die; for that all have sinned.
85问：既然死亡是罪的工价，而义人的罪在基督里都蒙赦免，为什么他们没有脱离死亡呢？
答：义人在末日的时候就会脱离死亡，即使在死亡之时，也脱离了死亡的毒钩和咒诅（林前15:26，55－57；来2:15）；因此，虽然他们也死亡，但这是出于上帝的慈爱（赛57:1－2；王下22:20），使他们完全从罪和愁苦中释放出来（启14:13；弗5:27），进入荣耀里，与基督有更深的联合（路23:43；腓1:23）。
Q. 85. Death being the wages of sin, why are not the righteous delivered from death, seeing all their sins are forgiven in Christ?
A. The righteous shall be delivered from death itself at the last day, and even in death are delivered from the sting and curse of it; so that, although they die, yet it is out of God’s love, to free them perfectly from sin and misery, and to make them capable of further communion with Christ in glory, which they then enter upon.
86问：无形教会的成员死后在荣耀里所享有的与基督的交通是指什么？
答：无形教会的成员死后在荣耀里所享有的与基督的交通，是指：
- 那时他们的灵魂在圣洁上达于完全（来12:23），被接入高天（林后5:1，6，8；腓1:23，比较徒3:21；弗4:10），在光明和荣耀中得见上帝之面（约壹3:2；林前13:12），等候他们身体完全的得赎（罗8:23；诗16:9）。
- 他们的身体即使在死亡中也与基督继续联合（帖前4:14），安息在坟墓里，如同安息在床上（赛57:2），直到末日与他们的灵魂再次联合（伯19:26－27）。
- 而恶人的灵魂死时被抛进地狱之中，停留在痛苦和彻底的黑暗里，他们的身体则保留在坟墓里，如在监狱中，直到复活和审判的大日（路16:23－24；徒1:25；犹6－7）。
Q. 86. What is the communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death?
A. The communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death, is, in that their souls are then made perfect in holiness, and received into the highest heavens, where they behold the face of God in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption of their bodies, which even in death continue united to Christ, and rest in their graves as in their beds, till at the last day they be again united to their souls. Whereas the souls of the wicked are at their death cast into hell, where they remain in torments and utter darkness, and their bodies kept in their graves, as in their prisons, till the resurrection and judgment of the great day.
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