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1093 27. Satanas me per se, aive per membra sua, nimirum reprobos, Christo preces adhibllit. — Subaudis ut mihi. Si enim ad personam Filii haec verba referantur, incarnato ei mollia loquebatur cum diceret: b Scio quia sis sanctus Dei (Luc. IV, 54). Ad quem Leviathan iste multiplicavit preces, cnm per subditam sibi legionem di x it: Si ejicis nos, mille noa ill gregem porcorum (Matth,VIII, 31). Quamvis intelligi potest c apertius, quia ad Dominum preces multiplicat, cum extremi die judicii iniqui qui ejus corpus sunt sibi parci deprecantur, cum membra ejus, videlicet reprobi. sero clamantes dicunt: Domine, Domine, aperi nobis (Luc. XIII, 25). Quibus protinus dicitur: Nescio vos unde sitis.
1093. 27. Satan offered prayers to Christ, whether through himself or through his members, namely the reprobate. — Understand: as to Me. For if these words are referred to the person of the Son, he spoke soft words to Him when incarnate, saying: 'I know that Thou art the Holy One of God' (Luke IV, 34). To Him this Leviathan multiplied prayers, when through the legion subject to him he said: 'If Thou cast us out, send us into the herd of swine' (Matt. VIII, 31). Yet it can be understood more plainly that he multiplies prayers to the Lord when, on the last day of judgment, the wicked who are his body beg to be spared, when His members — that is, the reprobate — crying out too late say: 'Lord, Lord, open to us' (Luke XIII, 25). To whom it is at once said: 'I know not whence you are.'
1093。二七。撒但無論藉自己或藉牠的肢體——即棄絕之人——向基督獻上祈求。——當領會：如同向我。因為若把這些話歸於聖子的位格，那麼當祂道成肉身時，牠曾對祂說柔和的話，說：「我知道祢是神的聖者」（路四34）。這利未坦向祂多多祈求，就是牠藉著隸屬於牠的群鬼說：「若把我們趕出去，就打發我們進入豬群裡」（太八31）。不過更明白地可如此領會：牠向主多多祈求，乃是在末日審判之時，那作牠身體的惡人懇求得蒙寬免，就是祂的肢體——即棄絕之人——遲遲呼喊說：「主啊，主啊，給我們開門」（路十三25）。主立即對他們說：「我不曉得你們是從哪裡來的。」
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Tunc etiam Domino per membra sua mollia loquetur, quando mulli ex ejus corpore dicturi sunt: Domine, Domine. nonne ill nomine tuo prophetavimus, et in nomine tuo daemonia ejecimus, et ill nomine tuo virtutes multas fecimus (Jlallh. VII, 22)? Mollia quidem deprecantes dicunt, cum ejus nomine d replicant quae fecerunt, sed duro corde illa cum facerent, in suam laudem rapuerunt. Unde mox audiunt: Nescio qui estis (Ibid., 23). Sequitur:
Then also he will speak soft words to the Lord through his members, when many from his body are about to say: 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name, and cast out devils in Thy name, and in Thy name done many mighty works?' (Matt. VII, 22). They indeed speak as soft supplicants when they recount in His name the things they have done; yet with a hard heart, while they did them, they seized them for their own praise. Whence they presently hear: 'I know not who you are' (ibid., 23). There follows:
到那時，牠也要藉牠的肢體向主說柔和的話，就是當許多從牠身體而出的人將要說：「主啊，主啊，我們不是奉祢的名傳道，奉祢的名趕鬼，奉祢的名行許多異能嗎？」（太七22）。他們固然像柔和的懇求者，述說他們奉祂的名所行的事；然而他們行這些事時卻心懷剛硬，將這些事奪來歸於自己的稱讚。因此他們隨即聽見：「我不認識你們是誰」（同上23）。接下來說：