REGENERATION 重生

Becoming a Christian is not making a new start in life; it is receiving a new life to start with.

成為基督徒可不是在生命中來個新的開始；而是得到一個能重新開始的新生命。

Take away the mystery from the new birth and you have taken away its majesty.

挪去新生命的奧秘不啻除去它的尊貴莊嚴。

Repentance is a change of the mind and regeneration is a change of the man.

Thomas Adams

悔改是心智的變化，重生是人的變化。

Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.

J. Sidlow Baxter

重生是泉源，成聖是河流。

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

Stephen Charnock

成為上帝後裔給我們兒子的權利，重生讓我們得到兒子的本質。

If you are never born again, you will wish you had never been born at all.

Derek Cleave

如果你沒有重生，你將會希望根本未曾出生過。

Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion.

Matthew Henry

重生是一個屬靈變化；歸正則是一個屬靈行動。

If the second birth hath no place in you, the second death shall have power over you.

William Dyer

如果你未曾第二次出生，那第二次死亡就會臨到你。

Regeneration is a single act, complete in itself, and never repeated; conversion, as the beginning of holy living, is the commencement of a series, constant, endless and progressive.

A. A. Hodge

重生是一次單一的行動，自己能完成且從不重複；歸正，是聖潔生活的開始，是一連串、持續、無止盡進步生活的開始。

Spiritual life is the consequence of spiritual quickening. The baby cries because it is born; it is not born because it cries.

Erroll Hulse

屬靈生命是屬靈活力的結果。新生兒的哭聲是因為他的出生；而不是因為哭才出生。

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

Martin Luther

當上帝在我們裡面動工，我們藉著上帝聖靈得著更新及安舒的歇息，我們的盼望及動作不是出於自己衝動而是對上帝的回應。

Just as in the beginning 'God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light' so, at the moment he appointed for our new birth, he said, 'Let there be life' and there was life.

J. A. Motyer

就像太初之時，上帝說「要有光」就有了光；因此，在我們重生那一刻，祂說：「要有生命」就有生命。

We are helpless to co-operate in our regeneration as we are to co-operate in the work of Calvary.

Iain H. Murray

我們在自己的重生上根本無能為力，就如我們在加略山的救恩大工上同樣無能為力。

Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life.

John Owen

讓那些人假裝他們樂在其中，他們輕視新生的真正原因只因為他們恨惡新生。

Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

J. I. Packer

罪人沒有更新的心不可能聽從福音，更遑論順服律法。

There are no still-born children in the family of grace.

William Secker

在上帝恩典的家庭中沒有仍在出生的嬰兒。

A dead man cannot assist in his own resurrection.

W. G. T. Shedd

死人對自己的復活毫無助益。

Regeneration is essentially a changing of the fundamental taste of the soul. By taste we mean the direction of man's love, the bent of his affections, the trend of his will.

Augustus H. Strong

基本上，重生就是靈魂基本品味的變化。所謂的品味我們指的是人們愛的方向，情感的傾向以及意志的趨向。

Mere outward reformation differs as much from regeneration as white-washing and old rotten house differs from pulling it down building a new one in its place.

Augustus M. Toplady

光是外在的改革迥異於重生，這就像把老舊、朽壞的房子重新漆白迥異於推倒房子重新建造。