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Eusebius
Church History X 7
Greek original · 2 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss
7:1
Ἀντίγραφον βασιλικῆς ἐπιστολῆς, δι ἧς τοὺς προεστῶτας τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν πάσης ἀπολελύσθαι τῆς περὶ τὰ πολιτικὰ λειτουργίας προστάττει. Χαῖρε, Ἀνυλῖνε, τιμιώτατε ἡμῖν ἐπειδὴ ἐκ πλειόνων πραγμάτων φαίνεται, παρεξουθενηθεῖσαν τὴν θρησκείαν, ἐν ᾗ ἡ κορυφαία τῆς ἁγιωτάτης ἐπουρανίου αἰδὼς φυλάττεται, μεγάλους κινδύνους ἐνηνοχέναι τοῖς δημοσίοις πράγμασιν, αὐτήν τε ταύτην ἐνθέσμως ἀναληφθεῖσαν καὶ φυλαττομένην μέγίστην εὐτυχίαν τῷ Ῥωμαϊκῷ ὀνόματι, καὶ σύμπασι τοῖς τῶν ἀνθρώπων πράγμασιν ἐξαίρετον εὐδαιμονίαν παρεσχηκέναι, τῶν θείων εὐεργεσιῶν τοῦτο παρεχουσῶν, ἔδοξεν ἐκείνους τοὺς ἄνδρας τοὺς τῇ ὀφειλομένη ἁγιότητι καὶ τῇ τοῦ νόμου τούτου παρεδρίᾳ τὰς ὑπηρεσίας τὰς ἐξ ἑαυτῶν τῇ τῆς θείας θρησκείας θεραπείᾳ παρ ἔχοντ ἃς, τῶν καμάτων τῶν ἰδίων τὰ ἔπαθλα κομίσασθαι, Ἀνυλῖνε τιμιώτατε.
A copy of an imperial letter by which he commands that those who preside over the churches be released from all civic public service. Greeting, Anulinus, most honoured by us. Since it appears from many matters that the worship in which the supreme reverence of the most holy heavenly Power is preserved, when set at nought, has brought great dangers upon the public affairs, and that this same worship, lawfully taken up and observed, has afforded the greatest prosperity to the Roman name and a singular felicity to all the affairs of men—these things being granted by the divine benefactions—it has seemed good that those men who, with the holiness that is due and with attendance upon this law, render the services that are from themselves to the ministry of the divine worship, should receive the rewards of their own labours, most honoured Anulinus.
一道皇帝書信的副本，藉此書信他吩咐使那些主領眾教會的人得免一切公民的公役。問候你，我們所極敬重的阿努利努斯。既然從許多事上看出：那保有對至聖屬天權能至高敬畏的崇拜，一被輕忽，便給公眾的事務帶來極大的危險；而這同一崇拜，一被合法地擔負並奉行，便給羅馬之名帶來最大的興盛，並給人一切的事務帶來特出的福樂──這些都是神聖恩惠所賜的──因此看為美的是：那些以當有的聖潔、並以對此律法的服事，把出於自己的服事獻給屬神崇拜之事奉的人，當得著他們自己勞苦的賞報，極敬重的阿努利努斯。
7:2
διόπερ ἐκείνους τοὺς εἴσω τῆς ἐπαρχίας τῆς σοι πεπιστευμένης ἐν τῇ καθολικῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ, ᾗ Καικιλιανὸς ἐφέστηκε, τὴν ἐξ ἑαυτῶν ὑπηρεσίαν τῇ ἁγίᾳ ταύτῃ θρησκείᾳ παρέχοντας, οὕσπερ κληρικοὺς ἐπονομάξειν εἰώθασιν, ἀπὸ πάντων ἁπαξαπλῶς τῶν λειτουργιῶν βούλομαι ἀλειτουργήτους διαφυλαχθῆναι, ὅπως μὴ διά τινος πλάνης ἢ ἐξολισθήσεως ἱεροσύλου ἀπὸ τῆς θεραπείας τῆς τῇ θειότητι ὀφειλομένης ἀφέλκωνται, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἄνευ τινὸς ἐνοχλήσεως τῷ ἰδίῳ νόμῳ ἐξυπηρετῶνται, ὧνπερ μεγίστην περὶ τὸ θεῖον λατρείαν ποιουμένων πλεῖστον ὅσον τοῖς κοινοῖς πράγμασι συνοίσειν δοκεῖ. ἔρρωσο, Ἀνυλῖνε, τιμιώτατε καὶ ποθεινότατε ἡμῖν.
Wherefore those within the province entrusted to you, in the Catholic Church over which Caecilian presides, who render the service that is from themselves to this holy worship—those whom they are accustomed to call clergy—I will that they be kept altogether exempt from all public services whatsoever, lest by any error or sacrilegious lapse they be drawn away from the ministry that is owed to the Divinity; but rather that they serve their own law without any molestation; for, since they render the greatest worship toward the Divine, it seems that it will profit the common affairs in the highest degree. Farewell, Anulinus, most honoured and most longed for by us.
因此，在託付給你的省份之內，在該基連所主領的大公教會中，凡把出於自己的服事獻給這聖潔崇拜的人──就是他們慣常稱為教士的──我的旨意是：要使他們得以全然免去一切公役，免得他們因任何錯誤或瀆聖的偏離被引離那當向神性所獻的事奉；乃要使他們毫無攪擾地服事自己的律法；因為他們既向神明獻上至大的崇拜，看來這必使公眾的事務得著最大的益處。願你安好，我們所極敬重、極切唸的阿努利努斯。