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VERS. 12. — Quæ lustrant cuncta per circuitum, quocunque eas voluntas gubernantis duxerit. 56. Universa lustrant, Deo eorum cursus guber nante. — Saepe enim praedicatores sancti exhortari quosdam volunt, sed nequeunt. Saepe quosdam declinare appetunt, sed tamen internae instigationis impulsu exhortari eos instantissime compelluntur. Videamus nubem Dei quomodo gubernantis manu, et ad ea quæ non appetit, ducitur, atque ab impulsu auo iterum gubernantis manu retinetur. Certe Paulus cum vestimenta sua excutiens a Corinthiis discedere veHet, audivit:
VERSE 12. — 'Which go round about whithersoever the will of Him that governeth them shall lead them.' 56. They traverse all things, God governing their course. — For often the holy preachers wish to exhort certain persons, but cannot. Often they desire to turn aside from certain persons, and yet, by the impulse of an inward instigation, they are most urgently compelled to exhort them. Let us see how the cloud of God is both led by the hand of Him that governeth to those things it does not desire, and again restrained from its own impulse by the hand of Him that governeth. Certainly Paul, when, shaking out his garments, he wished to depart from the Corinthians, heard:
第12節。——「這雲彩隨著管理者的意旨所引導的，周流遍地。」56。它們遍歷萬事，是神管理它們的行程。——因為聖潔的宣講者常想勸勉某些人，卻不能。他們常渴望避開某些人，然而卻藉一種內在激勵的衝動，被極其迫切地驅使去勸勉他們。讓我們看，神的雲彩如何一面被那管理者的手引到它所不願的事上，一面又被那管理者的手從自己的衝動中攔住。保羅確實如此，當他抖著衣裳想離開哥林多人時，他聽見：
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Noli timere, sed loquere, et ne taceas, e propter quod ego tecum sum, et nemo,oppone- tur tibi ut noceat te, quoniam multus est mihi populus in hac civitate (Act. XVIII, 9). Rursum cum ad TbesSaLonicenses voluisset ire, retentus est, dicens: t Vo- lui veni,; ad nos ego quidem Paulus, et semel et ite rum, sod impedivit me Satanas (1 Thess. II, ł8). Neque enim per semetipsum Satan praepedire tanti apostoli vias potuit, sed occultae dispensationis usibus, 880 dum adversatur, nesciens deservivit; u1 nimirum Paulus dum ad alios vellet accedere, nec valeret, eis a quibus recedere non poterat aptius prodesset.
'Fear not, but speak, and hold not thy peace, because I am with thee, and no man shall be set upon thee to hurt thee, for I have much people in this city' (Acts XVIII, 9-10). Again, when he had wished to go to the Thessalonians, he was held back, saying: 'We would have come to you, even I Paul, once and again, but Satan hindered us' (1 Thess. II, 18). For Satan could not of himself hinder the ways of so great an apostle, but for the uses of a hidden dispensation, while he opposes, unknowingly he serves; so that indeed Paul, while he wished to go to others and was not able, might more fitly profit those from whom he could not withdraw.
「不要怕，只管講，不要閉口，因為我與你同在，必沒有人下手害你，因為在這城裡我有許多的百姓」（使徒行傳十八章9-10節）。又，當他想往帖撒羅尼迦人那裡去時，他被攔阻了，說：「我保羅有一兩次要往你們那裡去，只是撒但阻擋了我們」（帖撒羅尼迦前書二章18節）。因為撒但憑自己不能阻擋如此偉大之使徒的道路，但為著一個隱藏之安排的用途，牠一面敵擋，一面卻不自知地服事；好使保羅雖想往別人那裡去卻不能夠，反倒更合宜地造就了那些他不能離開的人。
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Nubes igitur Dei cuncta per circuitum lustrant, quia praedicationis luce mundi fines illuminant. Sed quia divinis nutibus subditae nequeunt explere quod volunt, ire non possunt, nisi quo eas voluntas gubernantisduxerit. Unde et adhuc lobjungitur:
The clouds of God, therefore, go round about through all things, because by the light of preaching they illuminate the ends of the world. But because, being subject to the divine biddings, they cannot accomplish what they will, they cannot go except whither the will of Him that governeth shall lead them. Whence it is also further added:
所以，神的雲彩周流遍歷萬事，因為藉著宣講之光，它們光照世界的極處。但因它們順服神的旨意，不能成就自己所願的，便不能前往，除非到那管理者的意旨所引導之處。所以又進一步補充說：