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I bid. — Qui respondens ait: Circuivi terram, et per- ambulavi eum. 65. Qui insidias ejus Deus nobis detegat. — Satanae terram circuire, est carnalia corda perscrutari, et un- de occasionem accusationis invenire possit, exquire- re. Terram circuit, quia humana corda circumvenit, ut bona tollat, ut mala mentibus inserat, ut inserta cumulet, ut cumulata perficiat, ut perfectos in ini- quitatibus ad poenam socios acquirat. Et notandum quod non transvolasse, sed perambulasse se asserit, quia nimirum nequaquam quem tentat velociter de- serit;
Ibid. — Who answering said: I have gone round the earth, and walked through it. 65. May God uncover his snares to us. — For Satan to go round the earth is to search through carnal hearts, and to seek out whence he may find occasion of accusation. He goes round the earth, because he compasses human hearts, that he may take away good things, that he may insert evil things into minds, that he may heap up what is inserted, that he may perfect what is heaped up, that he may acquire those perfected in iniquities as companions unto punishment. And it is to be noted that he asserts himself not to have flown over, but to have walked through, because assuredly he by no means quickly forsakes him whom he tempts;
同上。——他回答說:我從地上走遍巡遊。六十五、願神向我們揭露他的圈套。——撒但走遍地上,就是搜索屬肉體的心,並探尋他從何處可以找到控告的把柄。他走遍地上,因為他圍繞人心,要奪去善事,要把惡事插入人的意念,要把所插入的堆積,要把所堆積的成全,要獲得那些在罪孽中成全的人作受刑罰的同伴。要注意的是,他斷言自己不是飛越,乃是走遍,因為他無疑絕不迅速地離棄他所試探的人;
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sed ubi molle cor invenit, ibi pedem miserae persuasionis figit, ut immorando actionis pravae ve- stigia imprimat, et ex suae iniquitatis similitudine, quos valet, reprobos reddat. Sed contra hunc beatus Job laudatur, et dicitur:
but where he finds a soft heart, there he fixes the foot of his wretched persuasion, that by tarrying he may imprint the traces of a depraved action, and out of the likeness of his own iniquity may render reprobate those whom he can. But against him blessed Job is praised, and it is said:
但他在哪裡找到柔軟的心,就在那裡踏定他那可悲的勸誘之足,好使他藉著逗留而印下敗壞行為的足跡,並從他自己罪孽的樣式中,把他所能的人變為被棄絕者。但對抗他,蒙福的約伯得了稱讚,並說: