8按照约伯记三十八章七节，当神立大地根基的时候，神的天使（神的众子）都欢呼。这些天使可能不明白神造大地和造人的定旨是什么。亚当自己也不知道，神为什么按着自己的形像，照着自己的样式造他（创一26）。……创造主在祂的创造中作了许多，但在新约时代以前，没有向任何人揭示祂的定旨。……这隐藏的奥秘乃是神渴望在祂神圣的三一里，将祂自己分赐并作到祂所创造的人里面，使人成为祂的复制，成为祂的彰显。约伯不知道这点，所以误会了神，以为神向他发怒，正在审判并惩罚他。神的目的不是要审判或惩罚约伯，乃是要把他拆毁，然后以神自己重新建造约伯。神知道约伯经过一段受苦的时间，就会重新建造起来，成为另一个人—神新造里的新人。这是给约伯、约伯记和约伯之表白的答案。圣经……只为着一件事：神在基督里借着那灵，将祂自己分赐到我们里面，作我们的生命、性情和一切，使我们活基督并彰显基督。这该是管制我们生活的原则。在实际一面，这该是今天作我们享受的生命树。……圣经主要不是一本预言、教训或预表的书；圣经乃是一本神经纶的书。……圣经乃是论到在神经纶里的基督。神的经纶是要将祂自己在祂神圣的三一里，在基督里借着那灵，分赐到我们里面，使我们得着祂作我们的生命、性情和一切。当我们经历这个，现在活着的，就不再是我们，乃是基督在我们里面活着（加二20）。这就是生命树。 8According to Job 38:7, the angels of God (the sons of God) shouted for joy when God laid the foundations of the earth. The angels might have wondered what God’s purpose was in creating the earth and man. Adam himself did not know why God created him in His image, according to His likeness (Gen. 1:26)…The Creator did a lot in His creation, but before the New Testament time He did not unveil to anyone what His purpose was. The hidden mystery is that God in His Divine Trinity desires to be dispensed and wrought into His creation, man, to make man His duplication, to make man His expression. Not knowing this, Job misunderstood God and thought that God was angry with him and was judging him and punishing him. God’s intention was not to judge Job or to punish him but to tear him down and then rebuild him with Himself. God knew that after Job had passed through a time of suffering, he would be rebuilt and become another person—a new man in God’s new creation. This is the answer to Job, to the book of Job, and to Job’s vindication. The Bible…is for only one thing: for God in Christ by the Spirit to dispense Himself into us to be our life, our nature, and our everything that we may live Christ and express Christ. This should be the principle that governs our life. In a practical way, it should be today’s tree of life for our enjoyment. The Bible is not mainly a book of prophecy, teaching, or types. The Bible is a book of God’s economy…The Bible is on Christ in God’s economy. God’s economy is to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity in Christ by the Spirit into us that we may have Him as our life, nature, and everything. When we experience this, it is no longer we who live, but it is Christ who lives in us (Gal. 2:20). This is the tree of life.