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七月十七日

「耶和華神使他沉睡，他就睡了，于是取下他的一條肋骨，又把肉合起來。耶和華神就用那人身上所取的肋骨，造成一個女人，領他到那人跟前。那人說：這是我骨中的骨，肉中的肉，可以稱她為女人，因為她是從男人身上取出來的。」（創   2:21   新國際版）

亞當所預表的，就是基督。從亞當身上造出夏娃，這是預表從基督身上造出教會。夏娃是用亞當的肋骨造的，夏娃乃是從亞當產生的。所以教會是什么？教會是基督的另一個樣子，因為夏娃就是亞當的另一個樣子。

必須是出于基督的，才是教會。人的才干、人的本事、人的思想、人的能力、人自己的一切，都是在教會外面的。只有從基督出來的才是在教會里面。夏娃不是用土做的，乃是用亞當做的，用那預表基督的亞當做的。寶貴就在這里。從亞當身上取出一根肋骨來造夏娃，從亞當出來的（不是從土出來的）才能叫做夏娃，從基督出來的才能叫作教會。凡不是從基督出來的，与教會一點關系都沒有。 

July 17

"The LORD God made him sleep, and he fell asleep, and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man, and brought him to the man. They said, "This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; you may call her woman, for she was taken out of man" (Genesis 2:21).

What Adam is the   typology   of   Christ. The creation of Eve from Adam is the typology  creation of the church from Christ. Eve was created from Adam's rib, and Eve was produced from Adam. What is the church? The Church is another form of Christ as Eve was another form of Adam. 

 The church   must be   the Christ Himself.      A person  with  ability,  thought, wisdom, and everything about him are outside the church. Only those who come out of Christ are in the church. Eve was not made of clay, but of Adam, who was the typology of Christ. Preciousness is here. A rib was taken from Adam to make Eve. Only what came out of Adam (not from the soil) could be called Eve, and what came out of Christ could be called the church. Anything that is not from Christ has nothing to do with the church.