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It is the purpose of this article to make as clear as possible the conception of the Person of Christ, in the technical sense of that term, which lies on—or, if we prefer to say so, beneath—the pages of the New Testament.

本文的目的是尽可能清楚地阐明新约圣经书页上——或者，如果我们更愿意这样说，书页之下——所蕴含的基督位格的概念，就该术语的专业意义而言。

Were it its purpose to trace out the process by which this great mystery has been revealed to men, a beginning would need to be taken from the intimations as to the nature of the person of the Messiah in Old Testament prophecy, and an attempt would require to be made to discriminate the exact contribution of each organ of revelation to our knowledge.

如果本文的目的是追溯这个伟大奥秘向人类启示的过程，就需要从旧约预言中关于弥赛亚位格本质的暗示开始，并且需要尝试区分每个启示器官对我们知识的确切贡献。

And were there added to this a desire to ascertain the progress of the apprehension of this mystery by men, there would be demanded a further inquiry into the exact degree of understanding which was brought to the truth revealed at each stage of its revelation.

如果再加上渴望确定人类对这个奥秘理解的进展，就需要进一步探究在启示的每个阶段对所启示真理所达到的确切理解程度。

The magnitudes with which such investigations deal, however, are very minute; and the profit to be derived from them is not, in a case like the present, very great.

然而，这类研究所处理的幅度非常微小；而且在像目前这样的情况下，从中获得的益处并不很大。

It is, of course, of importance to know how the person of the Messiah was represented in the predictions of the Old Testament; and it is a matter at least of interest to note, for example, the difficulty experienced by Our Lord’s immediate disciples in comprehending all that was involved in His manifestation.

当然，知道弥赛亚的位格在旧约预言中是如何被表述的是重要的；并且至少值得关注的是，例如，我们主的直接门徒在理解祂显现所涉及的一切方面所经历的困难。

But, after all, the constitution of Our Lord’s person is a matter of revelation, not of human thought; and it is preeminently a revelation of the New Testament, not of the Old Testament.

但是，归根结底，我们主位格的构成是一个启示的问题，而不是人类思想的问题；而且它卓越地是新约的启示，而不是旧约的启示。

And the New Testament is all the product of a single movement, at a single stage of its development, and therefore presents in its fundamental teaching a common character.

并且新约全部是单一运动在其发展的单一阶段的产物，因此在其基本教导中呈现出共同的特征。

The whole of the New Testament was written within the limits of about half a century; or, if we except the writings of John, within the narrow bounds of a couple of decades; and the entire body of writings which enter into it are so much of a piece that it may be plausibly represented that they all bear the stamp of a single mind.

整个新约是在大约半个世纪的范围内写成的；或者，如果我们除去约翰的著作，是在几十年的狭窄范围内；并且进入其中的全部著作是如此一致，以至于可以合理地认为它们都带有单一思想的印记。

In its fundamental teaching, the New Testament lends itself, therefore, more readily to what is called dogmatic than to what is called genetic treatment; and we shall penetrate most surely into its essential meaning if we take our start from its clearest and fullest statements, and permit their light to be thrown upon its more incidental allusions.

因此，在其基本教导中，新约更容易接受所谓的教义性处理，而不是所谓的发生学处理；如果我们从其最清晰和最完整的陈述开始，并允许它们的光照在其更偶然的暗示上，我们将最确实地深入其本质意义。

This is peculiarly the case with such a matter as the person of Christ, which is dealt with chiefly incidentally, as a thing already understood by all, and needing only to be alluded to rather than formally expounded.

这在基督位格这样的问题上尤其如此，这个问题主要是顺带处理的，作为一件所有人已经理解的事情，只需要提及而不需要正式阐述。

That we may interpret these allusions aright, it is requisite that we should recover from the first the common conception which underlies them all.

为了正确解释这些暗示，我们必须从一开始就恢复作为它们全部基础的共同概念。

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

目录：

Introduction

引言

I. The Teaching Of Paul

一、保罗的教导

II. Teaching Of The Epistle To The Hebrews

二、希伯来书的教导

III. Teaching Of Other Epistles

三、其他书信的教导

IV. Teaching Of John

四、约翰的教导

V. Teaching Of The Synoptic Gospels

五、符类福音的教导

VI. Teaching Of Jesus

六、耶稣的教导

VII. The Two Natures Everywhere Presupposed

七、处处预设的双重性情

VIII. Formulation Of The Doctrine

八、教义的表述