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Minorasti eum paulo minus ab angelis (Psal. VIII, G). Quod Apostolus de Christo exponit dictum, cum in natura divinitatis suæ major esse angelis a nemine dubitetur. De quo dicit Apostolus ad Tilum scribens, ut abnegantes impietatem, et sæcularia desideria, prudenter et juste et pie vivamus in hoc sæculo, exspectante. beatam spem, et adventum gloriæ magni Dei et Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi, qui dedit pro nobis semetipsum (Tit. II, 12). De quo alio loco Scriptura nostra dicit: Qui est, qui erat, quique venturus est omnipotens (Apoc. xi, 17). Si omnipolens, unde minor?
Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels (Ps. viii, 6). This the Apostle expounds as spoken of Christ, since in the nature of his divinity no one doubts that he is greater than the angels. Of him the Apostle says, writing to Titus, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live prudently and justly and piously in this world, looking for that blessed hope and the coming of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us (Titus ii, 12). Of whom in another place our Scripture says: 'He who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty' (Rev. xi, 17). If Almighty, how is he lesser?
你叫他比天使微小一點（詩八 6）。使徒把這話解作論到基督說的，因為在他神性的本質上，無人懷疑他大於天使。使徒寫信給提多，論到他說：我們要棄絕不敬虔的心和世俗的情慾，在今世自守、公義、敬虔度日，等候所盼望的福，並等候至大的神和我們救主耶穌基督的榮耀顯現，他為我們捨了自己（多二 12）。我們的聖經在別處論到他說：「昔在、今在、以後永在的全能者」（啟十一 17）。他若是全能者，怎會是較小的呢？
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Nam et illud omnipotens dicit jam post resurrectionem suam secundum Matthaeum, Data est mihi omnia potestas in cœlo et in terra (Matth. XVIII, 28). Quod si quis minorem putat accipientem eo qui dat, legat et de Christo per Apostolum dici: Cum tradiderit regnum Deo et Patri (II Cor. xv, 24); cum sic non possi' esse pater sine regno, quod ei filius dicitur esse traditurus, sicut nec filius sine omni potestate quam sibi dicit datam in coelo et in terra. De quo S. Paulus ad Colossenses, prohibens ne credamus secundum tradilionem hominum, secundum elementa hujus mundi, et non secundum Christum: Quoniam, inquit, in ipso habitat omnis plenitudo divinitatis corporaliter (Coloss. II, 9).
For that Almighty one also says, after his resurrection, according to Matthew: 'All power is given to me in heaven and in earth' (Matt. xxviii, 18). But if anyone thinks the receiver lesser than the giver, let him read that it is also said of Christ through the Apostle: 'When he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father' (1 Cor. xv, 24); since thus the Father cannot be without the kingdom which the Son is said to be about to deliver up to him, just as neither can the Son be without all the power which he says is given to him in heaven and in earth. Of whom St. Paul to the Colossians, forbidding that we believe according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of this world, and not according to Christ: 'For,' he says, 'in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily' (Col. ii, 9).
因為那全能者在復活之後，照馬太所記也說：「天上地下所有的權柄都賜給我了」（太二十八 18）。但若有人以為領受者小於賜予者，就讓他讀使徒論到基督也說的：「等到他把國交與神，就是父」（林前十五 24）；因為這樣，父就不能沒有那子據說要交給他的國，正如子也不能沒有那他所說天上地下賜給他的一切權柄。保羅論到他，在寫給歌羅西人的信中，禁止我們照著人的傳統、照著世上的小學、而不照著基督去信，他說：「因為神本性一切的豐盛，都有形有體地居住在他裡面」（西二 9）。