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45. Deus electis calliditatem ejus revelat. — Subaudis nisi eRo, qui per discretas electorum mentes auggestionum ejus verba discutio, et non ita haec esse ut sonuerunt manifesto. Bonum namque vldentur promilLere, sed ad perditum finem trahunt. In medium igitur oris ejus intrare est calliditatis ejus verba proe. trare, ut neqnaquam pensetur quid resonant, sed quo intendant. Intrare Adam in medium oris ejus r noluit, quando intentionem persuasionis illius caute pensare neglexit; divinitatem quippe 8 se per illum acci per credidit, et h immortalitatem amisit (Genes. III). Unde ergo ab Intellectu verborum ejus incaute exterius stetit, inde se uri illius devorandum funditus præbuit. Sequitur:
45. God reveals his cunning to the elect. — Understand: none but I, who through the discerning minds of the elect examine the words of his suggestions, and make it manifest that these things are not as they sounded. For they seem to promise good, but they draw to a ruinous end. To enter into the midst of his mouth, therefore, is to search through the words of his cunning, so that in no wise is it weighed what they sound forth, but whither they tend. Adam refused to enter into the midst of his mouth, when he neglected to weigh cautiously the intention of that persuasion; for he believed that he received divinity through him, and lost immortality (Genesis 3). Whence therefore he stood incautiously outside the understanding of his words, thence he offered himself wholly to be devoured by his burning. It follows:
45. 上帝向選民揭露他的詭詐。——當如此領會：唯有我，就是那藉著選民有分辨的心思、察驗他慫恿之言語的，並顯明這些事並非如它們所聽起來的那樣。因為它們似乎應許美善，實則引向敗壞的結局。所以，進入他口的中央，就是搜查他詭詐的言語，以致絕不衡量它們所發出的聲音，乃衡量它們所趨向之處。亞當不肯進入他口的中央，因他疏忽了謹慎衡量那勸誘的意圖；因他信自己藉著那蛇領受了神性，卻失去了不朽（創世記三章）。所以，他既輕率地站在其言語的了悟之外，就把自己整個交出去，被他的火焰所吞噬。接著說：