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25. Ecclesia leæna eat, cujus catuli fuerunt apostoli. — Ista nimirum illa leæna est de qua Job dicebat, cum superbientem Judaeam cerneret praedicante Ecclesia praetermissam: Non calcaverunt eam filii institorum, nec pertransivit per eamlecena (Job. XXVIII, 8). Huic ergo leaenae Dominus praedam capit, ut animam eatulorum ejus impleat, quia ad augmentum hujus Ecclesiæ innumeros de gentilitate diripuit, et per animarum lucrum esurientia apostolorum vota satiavit. Ipsi quippe catuli pro mentis teneritudine et formidinis infirmitate vocati sunt, quia, passo Domino, clausis foribus residebant, sicut de illis scriptum est:
25. The Church is a lioness whose cubs were the apostles. — This indeed is that lioness of whom Job spoke, when he beheld proud Judea passed over while the Church preached: 'The children of the traders have not trodden it, nor has the lioness passed through it' (Job 28:8). For this lioness, then, the Lord takes prey, that He may fill the soul of her cubs, because for the increase of this Church He plundered countless souls from the heathen world, and by the gain of souls He satisfied the hungering desires of the apostles. For those cubs were called on account of the tenderness of their minds and the weakness of their fearfulness, because, when the Lord had suffered, they sat behind closed doors, as it is written of them:
二十五、教會是母獅，其幼獅乃是眾使徒。——這正是約伯所論到的那母獅，當他看見驕傲的猶大在教會傳道時被越過：「販賣者的兒女未曾踏過牠，母獅也未曾經過牠」（約伯記二十八8）。因此，主為這母獅擄取獵物，好使牠幼獅的靈魂得飽足，因為為使這教會增長，祂從外邦世界擄獲了無數靈魂，並藉靈魂的收穫滿足了眾使徒飢渴的心願。因為那些幼獅之所以蒙召，乃是因他們心思的稚嫩與膽怯的軟弱，因為當主受難後，他們坐在緊閉的門後，正如經上論到他們所記的：
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Cum esset sero die illo una Sabbatorum, et fores essent clausæ ubi erant discipuli congregati propter melum Judæorum, venit Jesus, et stetit in medio eorum (Joan. xx, 19). Unde hic quoque de eisdem catulis apte subjungitur:
'When it was late on that day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut where the disciples were gathered for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst' (John 20:19). Whence here also concerning these same cubs it is fitly added:
「那日，就是七日的第一日晚上，門徒所在的地方，因怕猶太人，門都關了，耶穌來站在他們中間」（約翰福音二十19）。因此在此處也就這些幼獅恰當地接著說：