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4 Esdras (2 Esdras) 7

Latin original · 69 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

7:1

Et factum est, cum finissem loqui verba hæc, missus est ad me angelus qui missus fuerat ad me primis noctibus,

And it came to pass, when I had finished speaking these words, that the angel was sent to me, who had been sent to me on the former nights,

我說完了這些話，那天使便奉差到我這裡，就是前幾夜曾奉差來見我的，

7:2

et dixit ad me, Surge Esdra, et audi sermones, quos veni loqui ad te.

and he said to me: Rise up, Esdras, and hear the words which I have come to speak to you.

他對我說：以斯得拉啊，你起來，聽我所來要向你說的話。

7:3

Et dixi, Loquere Deus meus. Et dixit ad me, Mare positum est in spatioso loco, ut esset altum et immensum :

And I said: Speak, my God. And he said to me: The sea was set in a spacious place, so that it was deep and immense;

我說：我的神，請說。他對我說：海被安置在寬廣之處，故此又深又大；

7:4

erit autem ei introitus in angusto loco positus, ut esset similis fluminibus.

but its entrance was set in a narrow place, so that it was like a river.

它的入口卻設在狹窄之處，以致像河流一般。

7:5

Quis enim volens voluerit ingredi mare, et videre eum, vel dominari ejus : si non transierit angustum, in latitudinem quomodo venire poterit ?

For who that wished to enter the sea, and to behold it, or to be master of it, if he did not pass through the narrow place, how could he come to the breadth?

凡願意進入海中、觀看它、或駕馭它的人，若不經過那狹窄之處，怎能到達寬闊之地呢？

7:6

Item aliud, Civitas est ædificata, et posita in loco campestri : est autem plena omnium bonorum.

Again another likeness: a city is built and set in a level place, and it is full of all good things.

還有另一個比喻：有一座城建造在平原之地，城中滿了各樣的美物。

7:7

Introitus ejus angustus et in præcipiti positus, ut esset a dextris quidem ignis, a sinistris aqua alta :

Its entrance is narrow and set in a steep place, so that there is fire on the right hand, and deep water on the left;

它的入口又窄又設在險峻之處，右邊是火，左邊是深水；

7:8

semita autem est una sola inter eos posita, hoc est, inter ignem et aquam, ut non capiat semita, nisi solummodo vestigium hominis.

and there is but one single path set between them, that is, between the fire and the water, so narrow that the path can hold only the footstep of a man.

在二者中間，就是火與水之間，只設有一條路，窄得僅容一人的足跡。

7:9

Si autem dabitur civitas homini in hereditatem, si numquam antepositum periculum pertransierit, quomodo accipiet hereditatem suam ?

But if the city is given to a man for an inheritance, how shall he receive his inheritance, if he has never passed through the danger set before it?

這城若賜給人為產業，他若從未經過那擺在面前的危險，怎能承受他的產業呢？