THE STRANGE MATH OF JESUS: EMPTYING HIMSELF BY ADDING HUMAN NATURE
耶稣的常识:借由加入人性而倒空自己
BRUCE WARE
PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY/基督教神学教授
SBTS/南浸信会大学
Dr. Ware is a highly esteemed theologian and author in the evangelical world. He came to Southern Seminary from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where he served as Chairman of the Department of Biblical and Systematic Theology. Prior to this, he taught at Western Conservative Baptist Seminary and Bethel Theological Seminary.
在福音派的世界中，Ware博士是一位倍受尊重的神学家与作者。在加入南浸前，他原先为三一神学院圣经与系统神学部门的主任。之前，他任教于西保守浸信会神学院和伯特利神学院。
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
你们当以基督耶稣的心思为你们的心思：他本有神的形像，不以自己与神同等为强夺的；反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式；既有人的样子，就自己卑微，存心顺服，以至於死，且死在十字架上。（根据英文修改）
Philippians 2:5-8/腓利比二5-8
Whereas the eternal Son of the Father, the second person of the Trinity, had no beginning and will have no end, the incarnate Son—the son of David, the son of Mary, the Messiah—had a beginning in time and space. This Son,（1） Jesus the Christ, was brought into being through the power of the Holy Spirit, as the divine nature of the eternal Son was miraculously joined together with a created human nature in the womb of the Virgin Mary. Luke’s account of this miracle—the grand miracle, as C. S. Lewis rightly called it—is riveting. Luke writes:
是否父永恒的儿子，三一神的第二位，无始无终，道成肉身的儿子—大卫的儿子，玛利亚的儿子，弥赛亚—在时间与空间中有一个起始。这位子，耶稣基督，借由圣灵的大能而诞生，永恒之子的神性以一种神迹性的方式，在童女马里亚的腹中，与一个被造的人性联合。路加对于这个神迹的记载—就如同鲁易士（C. S. Lewis）所称之为伟大的奥秘—是非常精彩的。路加写到：
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?” And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
到了第六个月，天使加百列奉神的差遣往加利利的一座城去（这城名叫拿撒勒），到一个童女那里，是已经许配大卫家的一个人，名叫约瑟。童女的名字叫马利亚；天使进去，对他说：「蒙大恩的女子，我问你安，主和你同在了！」 马利亚因这话就很惊慌，又反复思想这样问安是什麽意思。天使对他说：「马利亚，不要怕！你在神面前已经蒙恩了。你要怀孕生子，可以给他起名叫耶稣。他要为大，称为至高者的儿子；主神要把他祖大卫的位给他。他要作雅各家的王，直到永远；他的国也没有穷尽。」马利亚对天使说：「我没有出嫁，怎麽有这事呢？」天使回答说：「圣灵要临到你身上，至高者的能力要荫庇你，因此所要生的圣者必称为神的儿子（或作：所要生的，必称为圣，称为神的儿子）。
(Luke 1:26-35/路加福音一26-35)
The conception of Jesus in the Virgin Mary was unique in the history of humankind. Not only did the Holy Spirit supernaturally bring about conception within her apart from the involvement of any human father, but even more remarkable was the uniting of the divine and human natures in Jesus, such that this one would be born the son of Mary (Luke 1:31) and the son of “his father David” (Luke 1:32) while also being “the Son of the Most High” (Luke 1:32), “the Son of God” (Luke 1:35). That is, he would be fully human (son of Mary) while also being fully divine (Son of the Most High). The miracle the Holy Spirit brought to pass, then, was to conceive in Mary none other than the God-man, the theanthropic person, Jesus Christ, son of David and Son of God.
耶稣在玛丽亚腹中成孕这件事在人类历史中是独一无二的事件。不单单圣灵以超自然的方式在缺乏任何人类父亲参与的情况下，使其成孕，更为令人印象深刻的是在耶稣身上神性与人性的联合，使得这位生为马里亚的儿子（路加一31）和“祂祖大卫”的儿子（路加一32）的这位，同时也是“至高者的儿子”（路加一32），与“神的儿子”（路加一35）。也就是说，祂是个完全的人（玛丽亚的儿子），同时也是完全的神（至高者的儿子）。圣灵所带来的这个神迹，无非就是这位神—人，一个同时是神又人的位格，耶稣基督，大卫的儿子，且是神的儿子。