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VERSe 11. — Frumentum desiderat nubes. 54. Electi frumentum sunt, cui Verbi divini imber neceasarius. — Quid enim electi quique sunt, nisi frumenta Dei coelestibus horreis recondenda?Quae nunc in tritura areae paleas tolerant,quia in hac purgatione sanctae Ecclesiae mores contrarios reproborum portant, e quousque haec internus agricola ventilabro judicii dirimat, et in superna habitacula electos suos, quasi munda jam granasuscipiens, aeternis paleas ignibus tradat. Unde bene per Joannem dicitur:Cujus ventilabrum in manu sua,et permundabit aream suam, et congregabit triticum in hor- reum suum, pateas autem comburet igni inexstingui bili (Matth.
VERSE 11. — 'The grain desireth the clouds.' 54. The elect are the grain, for which the rain of the divine Word is necessary. — For what else are all the elect, but the grains of God, to be stored up in the heavenly barns? Which now in the threshing of the floor endure the chaff, because in this purging of holy Church they bear the contrary ways of the reprobate, until the inward husbandman separate them with the winnowing-fan of judgment, and, receiving His elect into the supernal dwellings as grains now clean, deliver the chaff to the eternal fires. Whence it is well said through John: 'Whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly cleanse His floor, and gather the wheat into His barn, but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire' (Matt.
第11節。——「五穀渴慕雲彩。」54。被揀選者就是五穀，神聖之道的雨對它是必需的。——因為一切被揀選者豈不正是神的五穀，要收藏在天上的倉裡麼？如今它們在禾場的打穀中忍受糠秕，因為在聖潔教會的這潔淨過程中，它們擔負被棄絕者相反的品行，直到那內在的農夫用審判的簸箕把它們分開，並接納祂的選民進入屬天的居所——如同已潔淨的麥粒——而把糠秕交給永火。所以藉著約翰恰當地說：「祂手裡拿著簸箕，要揚淨祂的場，把麥子收在倉裡，把糠用不滅的火燒盡」（馬太福音三章12節）。
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III, 12).Sed hoc frumentum quousque ad perfectionem fructum veniat, nubium pluvias eispectat ut crescat, quia bonorum mena prædicantium verbis infunditur, ne ab humore charitatis desideriorum carnalium sole siccetur. Hoc frumentum supernus agricola in mundo surgere ac nubes desi derare conspexerat, cum dicebat: Messis quidem multa, operarii autem pauci. Rogate autem Dominum messis, ut mittat operano, ill messem suam (Jlalth. IX, 37). Qui igitur hic frumentum, illic messis, qui vero hic nubes, illic operarii vocantur, quia praed!catores sancti et nubes sunt, et operarii; nubes videlicet per doctrinam, operarii per vitam;
III, 12). But this grain, until it comes to the perfection of its fruit, awaits the rains of the clouds that it may grow, because the mind of the good is watered by the words of preachers, lest it be dried up by the sun of carnal desires away from the moisture of charity. This grain the supernal husbandman had beheld rising up in the world and desiring the clouds, when He said: 'The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He send laborers into His harvest' (Matt. IX, 37-38). Those, therefore, who are here the grain are there the harvest; and those who are here the clouds are there the laborers, because the holy preachers are both clouds and laborers: clouds, namely, through doctrine; laborers, through life;
但這五穀，直到它結出完全的果實之前，要等候雲彩的雨好使它生長，因為善人的心思是藉宣講者的話語得澆灌，免得它被肉體私慾的日頭曬乾，離了仁愛的滋潤。這五穀，那屬天的農夫曾看見它在世上興起、渴慕雲彩，就是當祂說：「要收的莊稼多，做工的人少。所以你們當求莊稼的主，打發工人出去收祂的莊稼」（馬太福音九章37-38節）。所以那些在此為五穀的，在彼便是莊稼；那些在此為雲彩的，在彼便是工人，因為聖潔的宣講者既是雲彩，又是工人：作雲彩，是藉教義；作工人，是藉生活；
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nubes quia verbis influunt, operarii quia non desinunt agere quod loquuntur. Unde et subditur:
clouds, because they flow forth in words; laborers, because they cease not to do what they speak. Whence it is also added:
作雲彩，因為他們以話語傾流；作工人，因為他們不停止去行自己所講的。所以也補充說：