12 能听的耳,能看的眼,都是耶和华所造的。

12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye,
the LORD has made them both.

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收到客户感谢信:

……I have been meaning to write you, but I am just now getting a chance to do so. Eddy I want to express my deepest appreciation for your translation work. I thank the Lord for connecting you to IRC. I know this translation work is extremely difficult, but you have somehow been able to master it. With the quality of the translation you are giving back, we do not need to do another English edit and so after some formatting and editing by Du Laoshi, we are able to put it online……

另一位客户:

Comments from Client to us:

On behalf of Merrikay and myself, we are pleased with the translation. I think that it is going well and the translator’s ability and speed are such a blessing! Overall, this translation is better than anything we’ve worked with previously……

The director of the organization is back from a medical leave and share these comments with me:

I am starting to ease back to work. Just wanted to thank you for your work. It is so good to work with such a committed and professional group. We appreciate the way you and your translator are handling this course.

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一年以前,我父亲生病住院的时候,我在医院里一边陪着父亲,一边翻译。那时刚开始使用CAT,还不是太熟练,质量比较不好,客户的反应是这样的:

We have to have your best effort on this translation. If our editors can’t trust your translation then it can introduce additional errors as they edit it. I am not real supportive of you using the software to help you translate, however if it help the end product to be better, then it is fine. If it just helps you to be faster, but the end product not as good, then I would ask you to reconsider the use of it. I am not going to lesson your salary or stop you from continuing this time, but please don’t let it happen again.

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感谢神的恩典,让我悔改,在小事上忠心,在大的合作上也会比较顺利。

谈到最近一些事情的进展,这一年的时间学到的很好的功课。我发现自己居然有灵光一闪、圣灵带领的先知恩赐。去年这个时候我给朋友们说,某件事大约1年之内会见分晓,刚好一年,事情有了进展。不过结果也许并不是我所期望的,只能祷告神的带领了。

但是我学到两个重要的功课:

1、圣经是最终权威。任何事情都需要用圣经为标准去衡量,不需要惧怕人的意见和压力。我按照圣经做出的决定,最终看来没有错。保护了家人,也保护了我在神国里的事工。感谢神的信实,一切与救恩和敬虔有关的事情,都已经通过圣经告诉我。

2、需要坚持采用合乎圣经的释经学,坚持按照所学到的流程来释经。CIU的四年学习,最宝贵的财富就是学到了对神话语的认识和解释的方法。

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昨天给Emma交流,说到从前刚信主的时候,就敢自己带一个查经班,还用英文。但是圣灵保守我,虽然解释很浅,但是我总是严格按照圣经来解释,因此那几年居然没有出现什么解释上的偏差。

Emma说,她从前喜欢听一些触动情感的讲道,但是每次来参加我的查经班,我都很理性,从来不诉诸情感,让大家觉得很High。可是,她不知为什么,居然每周都坚持来参加我的查经班。后来她发现,尽管我带领的查经没有太多让人兴奋激动的地方,但是参加以后可以带来平安。

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昨天礼拜开始前,遇到Al和Linda,一对服侍30多年后退休的宣教士。

Linda说,牧师,我们期待着听你今天要说的话。

我说,今天没准备好,我准备就读一遍圣经。

Al说,好呀!这就是我们在穆迪神学院学到的第一课:如果你不知道说什么,就说圣经吧,这是不会出错的。

后来礼拜结束,Al取笑我说,你不是说只是读一遍圣经吗?

然后他鼓励我说,我参加过很多教会,很少看到你这样用释经法讲道这样好的牧师。

我说,这是我唯一学会的技巧,就是按照圣经来讲解。

谢谢神借着Al和Linda给我鼓励,让我知道自己的方向没问题。

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释经法讲道很辛苦,有的时候不知道如何着手,我就祷告,如果没有别的亮光,就干净地解释经文好了,让圣灵来工作吧。

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最近一个月进入到耶稣受难的故事,叙事部分经文很长,有两次偷懒没有用希腊文解析。上周祷告后想起,无论如何也要先做机械分层,不是为了得到结构,也可以通过这个过程更详细的反思经文的含义。

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生日快乐,Eddy!孩子们祝福你!

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