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五十五、道德律的功用

94问：堕落之后，道德律对人还有什么作用呢？

答：堕落之后，没有人能靠道德律臻达公义和生命（罗8:3；加2:16）；但道德律仍然大有用处，不管是未重生的人，还是已重生的人，对所有的人都是如此（提前1:8）。

Q. 94. Is there any use of the moral law since the fall?

A. Although no man, since the fall, can attain to righteousness and life by the moral law; yet there is great use thereof, as well common to all men, as peculiar either to the unregenerate, or the regenerate.

95问：道德律对所有的人有什么用处？

答：道德律对所有的人都有用处，

  1. 告诉他们上帝圣洁的属性和旨意（利11:44－45；利20:7－8；罗7:12）；
  2. 告诉他们当尽的责任，并约束他们必须遵行（弥6:8；雅2:10－11）；
  3. 使他们知道自己没有能力遵行，认识到自己的性情、心灵和生命都受到了罪的污染（诗19:11－12；罗3:20；7:7）；
  4. 使他们意识到自己的罪和痛苦，从而谦卑自己（罗3:9，23）；
  5. 由此帮助他们更加清楚地认识到对基督的需要（加3:21－22），对基督的完全顺服的需要（罗10:4）。

Q. 95. Of what use is the moral law to all men?

A. The moral law is of use to all men, to inform them of the holy nature and will of God, and of their duty, binding them to walk accordingly; to convince them of their disability to keep it, and of the sinful pollution of their nature, hearts, and lives: to humble them in the sense of their sin and misery, and thereby help them to a clearer sight of the need they have of Christ, and of the perfection of his obedience.

96问：对未重生的人，道德律有什么特别的用处？

答：对未重生的人，道德律的用处，是在于：

  1. 唤醒他们的良知，使他们逃离将来的愤怒（提前1:9－10）；
  2. 促使他们归向基督（加3:24）；
  3. 如果他们继续处于罪境之中，继续行罪路，就使他们无可推诿（罗1:20，比较罗2:15）；
  4. 并处于罪所带来的咒诅之下（加3:10）。

Q. 96. What particular use is there of the moral law to unregenerate men?

A. The moral law is of use to unregenerate men, to awaken their consciences to flee from the wrath to come, and to drive them to Christ; or, upon the continuance in the estate and way of sin, to leave them inexcusable, and under the curse thereof.

97问：对已重生的人，道德律有什么特别的用处？

答：对于已经重生、归信基督之人，虽然道德律对他们已经不再是行为之约（罗6:14；罗7:4，6；加4:4－5），他们既不因之称义（罗3:20），也不因之定罪（加5:23；罗8:1）；但是，除了与所有人共同的用处之外，道德律还有特别的用处，就在于向他们显明：

  1. 因为基督为他们的益处成全了道德律，替他们承受了咒诅，所以他们对基督有何等的亏欠（罗7:24－25；加3:13－14；罗8:3－4）；
  2. 由此激发他们更有感恩之心，并且使他们更加谨守，以道德律为顺服的标准加以遵行，从而表达出感恩之心（罗7:22；12:2；多2:11－14）。

Q. 97. What special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate?

A. Although they that are regenerate, and believe in Christ, be delivered from the moral law as a covenant of works, so as thereby they are neither justified nor condemned; yet besides the general uses thereof common to them with all men, it is of special use, to show them how much they are bound to Christ for his fulfilling it, and enduring the curse thereof in their stead, and for their good; and thereby to provoke them to more thankfulness, and to express the same in their greater care to conform themselves thereunto as the rule of their obedience.

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