水在圣经中象征什么?生命、洁净、圣灵



  • 在圣经中,水代表上帝赐予的生命、洗去罪孽以及圣灵,而深水则代表危险和死亡。
  • 上帝在耶利米书 2:13 中称自己为“活水的泉源”,这个希伯来语短语意指从泉眼中流出的流动水。
  • 在雅各井旁,耶稣向一位撒马利亚妇人提供了活水,这水将成为“直涌到永生”的泉源(约翰福音 4:14)。
  • 约翰明确指出,耶稣所应许的活水江河就是圣灵(约翰福音 7:39)。
  • 律法中的洗礼、大卫在诗篇 51 篇中的祈祷以及以西结关于洁净水的应许,都指向内心的洁净,基督徒在洗礼中看到了这一点。
  • 天主教徒、路德宗信徒和浸信会信徒都用水施洗,但各自在教义中对洗礼的意义有不同的解释。
  • 圣经以一个公开的邀请结束:“愿意的,都可以白白取生命的水喝”(启示录 22:17)。

Water means life in the Bible, the life only God can give. It also means washing from sin, which is why Christians baptize with it, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus called living water. Deep water and the flood mean the opposite, danger and death, and Scripture shows God ruling over them. Most of those meanings meet in one complaint God makes through Jeremiah. He speaks of his people with grief: “they have forsaken me the fountain…

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