CHARLES SPURGEON
查尔斯•司布真
"My beloved." — Song of Songs 2:8
“我的良人。” （雅歌 2:8）2：8
This was a golden name which the ancient Church in her most joyous moments was accustomed to give to the Anointed of the Lord. When the time of the singing of birds was come, and the voice of the turtle-dove was heard in her land, her love-note was sweeter than either, as she sang, "My beloved is mine—and I am His!" Ever in her song of songs, does she call Him by that delightful name, "My beloved!" Even in the long winter, when idolatry had withered the garden of the Lord, her prophets found space to lay aside their burden for a little season, and to say, as Elijah did, "Now will I sing to my well-beloved, a song of my beloved." Though the saints had never seen His face, though as yet He was not made flesh, nor had dwelt among us, nor had man beheld His glory—yet He was the consolation of Israel, the hope and joy of all the chosen, the "beloved" of all those who were upright before the Most High God.
这个金贵的称呼，是古代教会在其最鼎盛的时候惯于授予主的受膏者的称号。当到了鸟儿歌唱的时候，斑鸠的叫声遍布四周，她的求偶叫声比前者更甜美，因为她唱的是“我的良人是我的，我是他的！”在她的雅歌中，有一个令人愉快的称呼，“我的良人”。即使在漫长的冬天，当偶像崇拜使上帝的乐园凋零时，先知们找到了这个称呼，可以暂时放下他们的负担，就像以利亚所说的那样，“我现在可以向我的良人歌唱，献给我的良人的歌“。虽然圣徒从未见过神的脸，虽然他没有肉身，没有居住在我们中间，也没有人看见他的荣耀 - 但他是以色列的安慰，是被拣选之人的希望和喜乐，是那些在最高神面前正直的人的“良人”。
We, in the summer days of the Church, are also accustomed to speak of Christ as the best beloved of our soul, and to feel that He is very precious, the "chief among ten thousand, and the altogether lovely one." So true is it, that the Church loves Jesus, and claims Him as her beloved, that the apostle dares to defy the whole universe to separate her from the love of Christ, and declares that neither persecutions, distress, affliction, peril, or the sword have been able to do it! Nay, he joyously boasts, "In all these things—we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us!"
我们在教会的鼎盛时期，也习惯于说基督是我们灵魂的最佳良人，感到他是非常宝贵的，“万人之中的首领，总是可爱的人”。真的是这样，教会爱耶稣，并且称他作良人，使徒们敢于藐视整个宇宙，整个 宇宙也不能将教会与基督的爱相分离，并且宣告，无论是迫害，痛苦，苦难，危险，或刀剑均不能逼教会与基督的爱分离！不，他高兴地夸耀说，“靠着爱我们的主，在这一切的事上已经得胜有余了。“（罗马书 8:37）
O that we knew more of You, O ever precious one! My sole possession is Your love! In earth beneath, or heaven above—I have no other treasure! I ask for nothing more.
噢，让我们更认识你，永远珍贵的主！我唯一拥有的是你的爱！不论在地下，还是在天上，我没有其他的宝藏！我也别无所求。
