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How many people will be saved?
有多少人将会得救？
How many people will be left?
有多少人将会被留下？
The answers to these questions often constitute an objection to the goodness of God.
这些问题的答案经常构成对神的良善的反对。
Why doesn’t God save everyone?
为什么神不拯救每一个人？
Warfield’s essay on the subject addresses these issues relating to the doctrine of salvation.
华菲德关于这一主题的论文探讨了这些与救恩教义有关的问题。
It also includes a biblical study of election and reprobation, and comprehensively addresses and important theological objection to Christianity.
它还包括对拣选和弃绝的圣经研究，并全面地探讨了对基督教的重要神学反对意见。
B. B. Warfield held a very optimistic view of the number of the saved on the last day.
华菲德对末日得救人数持有一种非常乐观的观点。
“The dicta probantia, relied upon for the establishment of this dogma of the fewness of the saved, are, as will have been observed from the instances cited, ordinarily these four: Mat. 7:14f; Luke 13:23f; Mat. 20:16; 22:14.”
“用于确立得救者稀少这一教义所依赖的证明性论断，正如从所引用的例子中可以观察到的，通常是这四处经文：马太福音七章十四节以下；路加福音十三章二十三节以下；马太福音二十章十六节；二十二章十四节。”
But “a scrutiny of these passages will make it sufficiently apparent that they do not form an adequate basis for the tremendous conclusion which has been founded on them.”
但”对这些经文的仔细审查将充分表明，它们并不构成建立在它们之上的这一重大结论的充分基础。”
Warfield explains:
华菲德解释道：
What [Jesus] says is directed to inciting His hearers to strenuous effort to make their calling and election sure, rather than to revealing to them the final issue of His saving work in the world….
耶稣所说的是为了激励祂的听众竭力使他们所蒙的恩召和拣选坚定不移，而不是为了向他们启示祂在世界上拯救工作的最终结果……
We can always learn from these passages that salvation is difficult and that it is our duty to address ourselves to obtaining it with diligence and earnest effort.
我们总是可以从这些经文中了解到，救恩是艰难的，我们有责任以勤勉和认真的努力致力于获得它。
We can never learn from them how many are saved.
我们永远无法从这些经文中得知有多少人得救。