洗礼是我们领受的第一个圣事，这个圣事引导我们进入一系 列圣事，通过这些圣事，耶稣基督将他的救恩延伸给我们。 Baptism is the very first sacrament that we receive, the sacrament that launches us into a whole series of sacraments through which Jesus Christ extends His salvation to us.
洗礼解决了疏离这个根本问题：与神疏离，与他人疏离，甚至与我们自己疏离。 Baptism addresses the fundamental problem of alienation: alienation from God, alienation from each other, alienation even from our very selves.
所有这些疏离和随之而来的自我毁灭都是由罪造成的，包括我们祖先的罪和我们自己的罪。 All of this alienation and the self-destruction that comes with it is caused by sin, both the sins of our ancestors and our own personal sins.
在这一集中，我们将探讨洗礼是什么，以及我们如何受洗归入基督的死和复活。 In this episode, we will examine what baptism is and how we are baptized into Christ's death and resurrection.
亚当和夏娃的堕落向我们展示了罪在灵性和身体上的后果。 The fall of Adam and Eve shows us the consequences of sin, both spiritually and physically.
起初，主神用地上的尘土造人，将生气吹在他的鼻孔里。 Originally, the Lord God formed a man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
但当亚当和夏娃犯罪时，他们使这生气从我们身上消失了。 But when Adam and Eve sinned, they knocked that breath of life out of us.
死亡是其结果，甚至在我们肉体死亡之前，罪就 已玷污我们，使我们沾满尘土，使我们污秽。 Death is the result, and even before we physically die, sin mars us, makes us dusty, makes us dirty.
我们是尘土，也要归于尘土。 We are dust, and to dust we shall return.
基督教的洗礼是一种身体的洗涤，它洁净我们并带来灵性的更新。 The Christian practice of baptism is a physical washing that cleanses us and brings about spiritual rejuvenation.
洗礼在身体上洗净我们，在灵性上给我们注入新的生命。 Baptism physically washes us and spiritually breathes new life into us.
耶稣在两千年前他在世传道期间通过三个阶段建立了基督教的洗礼。 Jesus brought about the Christian practice of baptism in three stages over the course of His earthly ministry 2000 years ago.
在耶稣来临之前，一些犹太人实行某些仪式性的洗涤以获得礼仪上的洁净。 Before Jesus came, some Jews practiced certain ritual washings to bring about ritual purity.
施洗约翰敦促人们接受一种称为洗礼的仪式性洗涤，以表明他们远离罪恶的悔改。 John the Baptist urged people to undergo a ritual washing called baptism in order to signify their conversion away from sin.
耶稣自己也接受了约翰的洗礼，但与其他人不同， 他接受洗礼并不是为了表明他远离罪恶的悔改。 Jesus Himself received this baptism from John, but unlike everyone else, He did not receive it in order to signify His conversion away from sin.
毕竟，耶稣没有继承原罪，耶稣也从未犯罪。 After all, Jesus did not inherit original sin, and Jesus never sinned.
相反，耶稣接受洗礼是为了表明他与我们罪人同在，也是为了表明他 使地上的水成圣，用于一个更大的标记：就是他将要赐予的洗礼。 Rather, Jesus received baptism as a sign of His solidarity with us sinners and as a sign that He was sanctifying the earth's water to be used in a greater sign: the baptism that He would give.
基督设立洗礼的第二个阶段是基督的受难和复活。 The second stage in Christ's institution of baptism was Christ's passion and resurrection.
在主的十字架和空坟墓中，我们找到了洗礼救赎力量的基础。 It is in the Lord's cross and empty tomb that we find the foundation of power by which baptism saves.
受难与洗礼之间的联系在约翰福音中有所描述。 The link between the passion and baptism is described in St. John's Gospel.
有一个兵拿枪扎耶稣的肋旁，随即有血和水流出来。 One of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.
水与血一起流出来这件事相当奇特。 It's rather strange that water would come out with blood.
这是一个标记，表明基督牺牲的宝血将其救赎的力量赐给了水。 That was a sign that Christ's sacrificed blood gives its salvific power to the water.
因此，圣保罗在罗马书第六章说：「岂不知我们这 受洗归入基督耶稣的人，是受洗归入他的死吗？」 Thus, St. Paul says in his letter to the Romans, chapter 6: Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
「所以我们藉着洗礼归入死，和他一同埋葬，原是叫我们一举 一动有新生的样式，像基督藉着父的荣耀从死里复活一样。」 We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
「我们若在他死的形状上与他联合，也要在他复活的形状上与他联合。」 For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His.
基督的死亡和复活为我们从死亡到生命的转变奠定了基础。 Christ's death and resurrection form the foundation for our own transformation from death to life.
洗礼圣事就像坟墓，我们在其中象征性地与基督 同死，然后从坟墓中复活进入基督的新生命。 The sacrament of baptism is the grave by which we symbolically die with Christ and then rise from the grave to Christ's new life.
基督教洗礼历史的第三个阶段是基督命令所有人都要受洗。 The third stage in the history of Christian baptism is Christ's command that all be baptized.
在马太福音第二十八章，耶稣对使徒们说：「天上地下所有的权柄都赐给我了。」 In St. Matthew's Gospel, chapter 28, Jesus tells the apostles, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
「所以你们要去，使万民作我的门徒，奉父、子、圣灵的名给他们施洗。」 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
耶稣希望洗礼延伸至所有人类的意愿也体现在约翰福音第三章他对尼哥底母说的 话中：「我实实在在地告诉你，人若不是从水和圣灵生的，就不能进神的国。」 The desired extension of baptism to all human beings is also found in the statement of Jesus to Nicodemus in St. John's Gospel, chapter 3: Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
这个基督教洗礼的圣经历史在基督的大公教会历史中一直延续到今天，从未间断。 This biblical history of Christian baptism has been continued without interruption in the history of Christ's Catholic Church down to the present day.
我们甚至在圣经中就能看到这种圣经与教会传统的统一。 We see this union between Scripture and the Church's tradition even in the Bible.
在五旬节那天，圣彼得向聚集的众人讲道说：「你们要悔改，受洗。」 On the day of Pentecost, St. Peter preached to the assembled multitude and said, Repent and be baptized.
从基督时代起，信徒们就回应这个呼召，远离他们的罪 ，走向洗礼的水，在自己里面接受复活主的新生命。 And since the time of Christ, believers have responded to this call to turn away from their sins, approach the waters of baptism, and receive within themselves the new life of the risen Lord.
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