"If that seems unfair, then yes, it is unfair, but it fits with the rest of the way life works. God does not give everyone equal gifts, capacities, and lengths of life. God did not decide to make humanity equal. Life is not fair. The priority in God’s mind is not fairness but how we serve God and serve other people with the gifts, capacities, and lengths of life that God gives us. God shows us grace not for our own sake, but for other people’s." (J. Goldingay, Genesis for Everyone, p.100)
"Just because we believe does not mean that we are not afraid of what might happen to us; it just means that we believe we know who will be with us when it does. Some days we are as firm in our faith as apostles and some days we are like lost sheep, which means that we belong to the flock not because we are certain to God but because God is certain of us, and no one is able to snatch us out of God's hand." (B. B. Taylor, The Preaching Life, p.151)
「[這段在談論拉撒路的復活]……然而，征服死亡並不等於否定它，乃是於正面認識它和面對它。只有承認死亡的真實，才可以確認有克勝死亡的力量；只有承認死亡的事實，我們才認識生命的可貴，並且經歷豐盛生命的意思。……當人學會正視死亡的時候，才知道生命並不是必然的，洞悉生命寶貴就由此而生。」（孫寶玲，《約翰福音文學註釋》，pp.123-4）
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