生，若是梦，那么死，可是睡眠？
幸福的场景可是如幻影逝去？
瞬间的欢乐如烟云过眼，
我们却认为死是最大的痛苦。

多么奇怪呀，人在世上要流浪，
要度过悲惨的一生，却不能抛开
一路的坎坷；也不敢大胆想一想
将来的死呵，只是从梦中醒来！

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by？
The transient pleasures as a vision seem,
And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.

How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.

约翰•济慈 (John Keats)
《死》 (On Death)
译者：屠岸｜外语教学与研究出版社

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Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
　　Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
　　Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
　　Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
　　Claspest the limits of mortality,
　　And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
　　Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore;
　　Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm

“…the preacher is not a chef. He’s a waiter. God doesn’t want you to make the meal. He just wants you to deliver it to the table without getting it messed up. That’s all. We are servants under divine commission. Now people, that’s a binding thing. I say to you that is a binding thing. I am bound to fulfill that commission before God. And I think that’s what Jesus was doing with these Twelve. I think it’s good that the Lord binds us, because there are so many days we’d like to get out. But we’re bound. And we all say, “Woe is me if I preach not the gospel.” All of us, I think, in some sense have been commissioned, some more officially commissioned as evangelists and teaching pastors, but all of us are bound to obey Christ’s call to go and represent Him in this world. I thank God for these folks who go down to Hollywood Boulevard and walk up and down the street and present Jesus to those people. Don’t you? You can do it anywhere, and I believe the call of God is binding on our lives in that regard.

So the effective missionary, the effective disciple, effective apostle realizes he’s under divine orders. Doesn’t have any options. He’s committed to obedience. He’s committed to follow the principles of the Word of God as commanded.”

—John MacArthur

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