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40. per adventum Mediatoris lux sparsa. — Ipse quippe via est, qui ait: Ego sum via, veritas et vita ( Joan. XIV, 6). Per hanc ergo viam lux spargitur, quia per ejus præsentiam cuncta gentilitas illustratur. Spar gitur autem convenienter dixit, quia per apostolorum voces non angustata atque coarctata, sed late fulgens lux praedicationis emicuit. Quia vero, accepta luce conversionis, inardescit intrinsecus vis amoris, ut vel transacta mala anxie lugeantur, vel ventura bona flagraniissime requirantur, competenter adjungitur:
40. Through the coming of the Mediator light is scattered abroad. For He Himself is the Way, who says: 'I am the way, the truth, and the life' (John 14:6). Through this Way, then, light is scattered abroad, because through His presence all the Gentile world is illumined. And He fittingly said 'is scattered abroad,' because through the voices of the apostles the light of preaching, not narrowed and confined, but shining far and wide, flashed forth. But because, once the light of conversion is received, the force of love blazes within, so that either past evils may be anxiously bewailed, or good things to come may be most ardently sought, it is suitably added:
第四十節：藉中保的降臨，光被分散開來。因為祂自己就是道路，祂說：「我就是道路、真理、生命」（約十四6）。所以，藉這條道路，光被分散開來，因為藉祂的臨在，全部外邦世界都被光照。祂恰當地說「被分散開來」，因為藉眾使徒的聲音，那傳道的光並非狹窄侷限，而是廣遠照耀地閃現出來。但因為一旦領受了歸信之光，愛的力量便在內裡燃燒，以致或焦急地哀哭過去的惡，或極其熱切地尋求將來的善，於是適切地補上一句：