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经文: 给我作见证的就是这经。（约翰福音五：39）
耶稣是圣经的阿拉法和俄梅戛。是每一圣洁之页中不断出现之主题。从第一页至末了的一页都见证了祂。在创造之时，我们能分办出祂是三一真神中的一位。在女人的后裔这一应许中，我们对祂惊鸿一瞥。在挪亚的方舟中，我们看到祂的象微。当亚伯拉罕见到弥赛亚之日，我们与祂同行。我们住在以撒和雅各的帐棚中，获得恩典应许之喂养。我们听到年老的以色列谈论示罗。在众多的律法中，我们发现救赎者的预兆。先知、君王、祭司和传道者皆仰望耶稣。他们像约柜上的基路伯在旁侍立，渴望看透并明白上帝对人的伟大拯救奥秘。在新约中，我们发现主是那遍满各页的主题。新约的全部内容是被钉的耶稣。即使圣经的结语也以救赎者之名点缀。我们应该用这个亮光来读圣经。我们应当视上帝的话如一面镜子，反映出基督从天上俯视我们。映像可能并不清晰，但仍然是祝福的预备，有一天我们将面对面见到祂。圣经中包含了耶稣基督写给我们的信，充满了祂大爱的香气。圣经又如包里圣婴耶稣的襁褓，当你把它解开时，就能找到你的救主。上帝的话之精粹就是基督。
Evening, June 10
Scripture: “They are they which testify of me.”(John 5:39)
Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Bible. He is the constant theme of its sacred pages; from first to last they testify of him. At the creation we at once discern him as one of the sacred Trinity; we catch a glimpse of him in the promise of the woman’s seed; we see him typified in the ark of Noah; we walk with Abraham, as he sees Messiah’s day; we dwell in the tents of Isaac and Jacob, feeding upon the gracious promise; we hear the venerable Israel talking of Shiloh; and in the numerous types of the law, we find the Redeemer abundantly foreshadowed. Prophets and kings, priests and preachers, all look one way－they all stand as the cherubs did over the ark, desiring to look within, and to read the mystery of God’s great propitiation. Still more manifestly in the New Testament we find our Lord the one pervading subject. It is not an ingot here and there, or dust of gold thinly scattered, but here you stand upon a solid floor of gold; for the whole substance of the New Testament is Jesus crucified, and even its closing sentence is bejewelled with the Redeemer’s name. We should always read Scripture in this light; we should consider the word to be as a mirror into which Christ looks down from heaven; and then we, looking into it, see his face reflected as in a glass－darkly, it is true, but still in such a way as to be a blessed preparation for seeing him as we shall see him face to face. This volume contains Jesus Christ’s letters to us, perfumed by his love. These pages are the garments of our King, and they all smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia. Scripture is the royal chariot in which Jesus rides, and it is paved with love for the daughters of Jerusalem. The Scriptures are the swaddling bands of the holy child Jesus; unroll them and you find your Saviour. The quintessence of the word of God is Christ.
