No prophecy was ever borne or carried along by the will of man, but men spoke from God, being borne by the Holy Spirit.

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在二十节彼得继续说，“第一要知道，经上所有的豫言，都不是人自己的见解。”这里的人，指说豫言的申言者，或写豫言的作者。见解，原文直译，松开，解开。因此是揭露、说明、解释。人自己的见解，指申言者或作者自己的说明或解释，并不是神藉着圣灵默示的。这里的思想乃是：经上所有的豫言，都不是出于申言者或作者自己的观念、意见或领会。没有豫言是出于人的源头，没有豫言是源于申言者或作者个人私自的想法。这可由下节得着证实并说明。

二十一节说，“因为豫言从来没有发自人的意思，乃是人被圣灵推动，从神说出来的。”“因为”是解释前节的话。经上所有的豫言，都不是出于申言者或作者的解释，因为豫言从来没有发自人的意思，乃是人被圣灵推动，从神说出来的。发自人的意思，或，被人的意思带动。被圣灵推动，或，被圣灵带动。“发自”与“推动”，原文与十七、十八节之“发出”同字。豫言从来没有被人的意思带动的。人的意思、意愿和盼望，同他的思想、解释，都不是任何豫言的源头；那源头乃是神。人是被神的圣灵推动，好像船被风带动，而说出神的旨意、意愿和盼望。

因为申言者被圣灵带动，他们所发表的就不是出于自己的解释或意思。反之，他们所说的是神的旨意，是被圣灵带动的申言者所发表的神的观念。

In verse 20 Peter continues, "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of one's own interpretation." Here "one's" refers to the prophet who spoke the prophecy or the writer who wrote the prophecy. Literally, the Greek word for "interpretation" means loosening, untying; hence, disclosure, exposition, solution. One's own interpretation means the prophet's or writer's own exposition or solution, which is not inspired by God through the Holy Spirit. Peter's thought here is that no prophecy of Scripture is of the prophet's or writer's own concept, idea, or understanding; that no prophecy comes from that source, the source of man; that no prophecy originates from the private and personal thought of any prophet or writer. This is confirmed and explained by the following verse.

Verse 21 says, "For no prophecy was ever borne by the will of man, but men spoke from God, being borne by the Holy Spirit." "For" gives the explanation of the preceding verse. No prophecy of Scripture is of the prophet's or writer's solution, for no prophecy was ever borne or carried along by the will of man, but men spoke from God, being borne by the Holy Spirit.

The Greek word translated "borne" also means carried along. The same word is used in verses 17 and 18. No prophecy was ever carried along by the will of man. Man's will, desire, and wish, with his thought and solution, are not the source from which any prophecy came. The source is God, by whose Holy Spirit men were carried along, as a ship by the wind, to speak out the will, desire, and wish of God. Because the prophets were carried along by the Holy Spirit, what they uttered was not of their own interpretation or will. On the contrary, what they spoke was the will of God, the concept of God uttered by a prophet who was carried along by the Holy Spirit.