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The Apostle [Paul] is asking in Philippians 1 which is most worthwhile for him, to live or to die. Often has that question presented itself to us, and perhaps we like the Apostle, have answered that “we are in a strait.” But I fear we may have used the words in a sense far different from Paul's. When we have wished for death, we meant to say, “I know not which alternative I ought most to dread, the afflictions of life, from which death would release me, or the terrors of death, from which life protects me.” In other words, life and death look to us like two evils of which we know not which is the less. As for the Apostle, they look to him like two immense blessings of which he knows not which is the better (Adolphe Monod).

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Post published:December 20, 2022

书卷和羔羊

1 我看见坐宝座的右手中有书卷，里外都写着字，用七印封严了。
2 我又看见一位大力的天使大声宣传说：「有谁配展开那书卷，揭开那七印呢？」
3 在天上、地上、地底下，没有能展开、能观看那书卷的。
4 因为没有配展开、配观看那书卷的，我就大哭。
5 长老中有一位对我说：「不要哭！看哪，犹大支派中的狮子，大卫的根，他已得胜，能以展开那书卷，揭开那七印。」

6 我又看见宝座与四活物，并长老之中有羔羊站立，像是被杀过的，有七角七眼，就是　神的七灵，奉差遣往普天下去的。
7 这羔羊前来，从坐宝座的右手里拿了书卷。
8 他既拿了书卷，四活物和二十四位长老就俯伏在羔羊面前，各拿着琴和盛满了香的金炉；这香就是众圣徒的祈祷。
9 他们唱新歌，说：

你配拿书卷，

配揭开七印；

因为你曾被杀，

用自己的血

从各族、各方、各民、各国中买了人来，

叫他们归于　神，

10 又叫他们成为国民，

作祭司归于　神，

在地上执掌王权。

11 我又看见且听见，宝座与活物并长老的周围有许多天使的声音；他们的数目有千千万万，
12 大声说：

曾被杀的羔羊是配得

权柄、丰富、智慧、能力、

尊贵、荣耀、颂赞的。

13 我又听见在天上、地上、地底下、沧海里，和天地间一切所有被造之物，都说：

但愿颂赞、尊贵、荣耀、权势

都归给坐宝座的和羔羊，

直到永永远远！

14 四活物就说：「阿们！」众长老也俯伏敬拜。