The gatekeepers at each gate did not need to leave their posts, because their fellow Levites made the preparations for them.
守门的看守各门,不用离开他们的职事,因为他们的弟兄利未人给他们预备祭物。When he began his ministry, the people in his hometown took offense at him ( Mark 6: 3).
当他开始他的职事的时候,他家乡的人攻击他。(马可福音书6:3)。But ministers are called to be ministers of the Word.
但是,牧师是被呼召出来,要成为神话语的职事。And having greeted them, he related one by one the things which God did among the Gentiles through his ministry.
保罗问候了他们,便将神藉著他的职事,在外邦人中所行的事,都一一述说出来。25 To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.
徒一25叫他得这职事与使徒职分的地位。这一分犹大已经离弃,往自己的地方去了。For he was numbered among us and was allotted his portion of this ministry.
他本来列在我们数中,并且在这职事上得了一分。For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
若是定罪的职事有荣光,那称义的职事,荣光就越发大了。God gave that ministry to a prophet even greater than Moses: Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith (see Hebrews 12: 2).
于是,神把这职事交给比摩西更伟大的先知,就是为我们的信心创始成终的耶稣基督(参希伯来书12:2)。How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
何况那属灵的职事、岂不更有荣光麽。