100:1
Abraham, Moysen et prophetas, non solum salvos, sed et beatissimos esse pronuntio, eosque non nisi per Christum salvatos esse convinco, dicente in Evangelio ipso Domino, Abraham pater rester concupivit ut videret diem meum;vidit et gavisus est (Joun. VIII, 56). De Moyse, Si crederetis Moysi, utique credaretis et mihi. De me enim ille scripsit (Ibid. v, 46). Etiam de prophetis similiter: Quanti prophetæ cur pierunt videre quæ videtis, et audire quæ auditis (Matth. XIII, 17)! Et alio Evangelii loco ipse Dominus, ista quæ singillatim memoravi cuncta perstringens, Ut impleantur omnia quæ scripta sunt in lege, et prophetis, et in psalmis de me (Luc. xxiv, 42).
I declare that Abraham, Moses, and the prophets are not only saved but most blessed, and I prove that they were saved by none but Christ, since the Lord Himself says in the Gospel: Abraham your father longed to see my day; he saw it and was glad (John VIII, 56). Of Moses: If you believed Moses, you would perhaps believe me also; for he wrote of me (Ibid. V, 46). Likewise of the prophets: How many prophets desired to see the things that you see, and to hear the things that you hear (Matt. XIII, 17)! And in another place of the Gospel the Lord Himself, embracing all these things which I have recounted one by one: That all things may be fulfilled which are written in the law, and the prophets, and in the psalms concerning me (Luke XXIV, 44).
我宣告亞伯拉罕、摩西和眾先知不僅得救，且極為蒙福，並且我證明他們惟獨藉基督得救，因為主自己在福音書中說：你們的祖宗亞伯拉罕歡歡喜喜地仰望我的日子，既看見了就快樂（約翰福音八章56節）。論摩西：你們若信摩西，也必信我，因為他寫的是指著我寫的（同上五章46節）。論眾先知亦然：有許多先知要看你們所看的，卻沒有看見，要聽你們所聽的，卻沒有聽見（馬太福音十三章17節）！在福音書另一處，主自己將我逐一列舉的這一切概括起來：使那指著我在律法、先知和詩篇上所記的一切都必應驗（路加福音二十四章44節）。
100:2
Vos porro conjicite utrum crediderint Christum, quos tam manifeste constat scripsisse de Christo. Nam et Paulus apostolus, qui ante ortum Christi salvati sunt, in Christo redemptos exponens, sic omnem causam definit: Sicut in Adam omnes moriuntur, sic in Christo omnes vivificantur (I Cor. xv, 22). Unde sicut nemo perit nisi per Adam veterem, ita nullus acquirilur nisi per novum.
You then, judge whether they believed in Christ, of whom it stands so manifest that they wrote about Christ. For Paul the Apostle also, expounding that those who were saved before Christ's birth were redeemed in Christ, thus defines the whole matter: As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive (I Cor. XV, 22). Whence, just as no one perishes except through the old Adam, so none is gained except through the new.
那麼你們自己判斷，這些如此明顯地寫論到基督的人，是否信了基督。因為使徒保羅也闡明那些在基督降生之前得救的人，是在基督裡得贖，他如此界定整個道理：在亞當裡眾人都死了，照樣，在基督裡眾人也都要復活（哥林多前書十五章22節）。因此，正如無人不藉那舊亞當而滅亡，照樣無人不藉那新亞當而得著。