1) Q. One of the main features of the Recovery Version are its footnotes. When were they written?
A. In 1974, Witness Lee began to write the notes for the Recovery Version of the Bible. The notes
were written to expound the Bible. The main purpose of the notes was to bring the readers into the
truth.
问:恢复版圣经最大的特点之一就是它的注解。他们是何时写的?
答:1974年李弟兄开始写恢复版圣经的注解,注解是为了解释圣经,注解主要的目的是要带领读者进入真理。
2) Q. The footnotes in the Recovery Version seem to be extensive. Will they help me get into the
truth?
A. I do not believe you can find as many basic truths in other books as you have found in the
Recovery Version. Other expositions and commentaries, for example, do not correctly point out what
the main truth in the book of Matthew is.
问:恢复版圣经的注解好像很丰富。它们会帮助我进入真理吗?
答:我不相信你在其他书籍中,能找着像在恢复译本里这么多的基本真理。例如,其他的解经和注释并没有正确的指出,马太福音的基本真理是什么。
3) Q. Commentaries that I have don’t explain what Matthew is about. What about the Recovery Version?
A. The Recovery Version clearly points out that this is a book on the kingdom of the heavens and it
gives you a proper definition of the truths concerning the kingdom of the heavens.
问:我所有的注释没有解释马太福音是说什么的。恢复译本是怎么说的?
答:恢复译本清楚的指出,这是一卷论到诸天之国的书,它告诉你关于诸天之国这些真理的正确定义。
4) Q. When the footnotes were written, what were their main purpose?
A. The first purpose of the notes is to present to you the truth, and the second purpose is to
minister to you the life supply.
问:写注解时,其最主要的目的是什么?
答:注解的头一个目的是向人陈明真理,第二个目的是将生命的供应服事给人。
5) Q. There are many difficult verses to understand in the Bible. How do the footnotes help?
A. The third purpose of the notes is to help us to solve the common and hard problems in the New
Testament.
问:在圣经里有很多难懂的经文。注解如何帮助我们?
答:注解的第三个目的,是要帮助我们解决新约中一般和困难的问题。
6) Q. I have only read part of the New Testament and have come across some problems. Is this normal?
A. In nearly every book of the New Testament there are some questions which are hard to answer and
some problems and points which are hard to understand.
问:我只读了新约的一部分,就遇到了一些问题。这正常吗?
答:新约几乎每一卷书都有一些难以解答的问题,也有一些难以领会的问题和要点。
7) Q. Sometimes when reading the Bible I run into problems. Will the footnotes help me?
A. The notes in the Recovery Version are also an attempt to solve the hard problems in the Bible to
help the readers to get through them.
问:我有时读圣经时会遇到问题。注解会帮助我吗?
答:恢复译本的注解也设法解决圣经中的难题,帮助读者将它们搞通。
8) Q. There are some passages in the Bible that give me problems. Can the Recovery Version help me?
A. In the Recovery Version, there are adequate notes to help on problems. A lot of time was spent
going into the original Greek, to the lexicons, to the concordances, and to others’ expositions in
order to get a proper understanding.
问:圣经有些段落困扰我。恢复译本能帮助我吗?
答:在恢复译本里有足够的注解,在这类问题上帮助人。我花了许多工夫去查原文、辞典、汇编和其他的解经书,要得着正确的领会。
9) Q. In addition to solving problems, in what other way is the Recovery Version helpful?
A. The fourth purpose of the Recovery Version with the notes is to open up the books of the Bible.
After the Recovery Version of a book had been published, that particular book of the Bible was opened
to us.
问:除了解决问题之外,恢复译本在别的方面有什么益处?
答:恢复译本带注解的第四个目的,是要解开圣经的各卷书。一卷书的恢复译本出版以后,圣经的那一卷就向我们解开了。
10) Q. The Bible has existed for a long time. How has its interpretation been built up through the
years?
A. The interpretation of the Bible has been built up by the entire Body of Christ through the past
nineteen centuries. We inherit all the interpretation of the past centuries and stand on the
shoulders of the foregoing teachers.
问:圣经已经存在很长时间。在已过的这些年间,圣经的解释是如何建立起来的?
答:在已过的十九世纪,圣经的解释已经借着整个基督的身体得以建立起来了。我们承受了已过世纪里一切的解经,并且站在前面教师们的肩头上。
References: The World Situation and the Direction of the Lord’s Move, chapter 2; Elders’ Training,
book 3, chapter 9; The Recovery Version of the New Testament; How to Study the Bible (vol. 54 of The
Collected Works of Watchman Nee), chapter 5. (96 Lessons, L2-19 Footnotes)
参考书目:世界局势与主行动的方向,第二章;长老训练第3册,第9章;新约圣经恢复版;读经之路(倪柝声文集
第三辑第08册),第5章(健康话语规范,第二系列,第19课,附注)。