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5. Quantum Job per flagella ill Dei et aui cognitione profecerit. — His nimerum verbis aperte indicat quia quanto visus superior est auditu, tanto differt ab eo quod prius exstitit, et hoc quod postmodum per flagella profecit. Et quia interno oculo veritatis Jumen magis conspexerat, humanitatis suae tenebras dijudicans plus videbat. Unde et sequitur:
5. How much Job profited through the scourges in the knowledge of God and of himself. — By these words verily he plainly indicates that, as much as sight is superior to hearing, so much does he differ from that which he was before, and this which he afterwards attained through the scourges. And because with the inward eye he had beheld more the light of truth, judging the darkness of his humanity, he saw more. Whence also there follows:
五、約伯藉鞭打在認識神與認識自己上長進了多少。——他以這些話確實清楚指明：正如看見勝過聽見多少，他就與先前的自己相差多少，這是他其後藉鞭打所達到的。又因為他以內在之眼更多地觀看了真理之光，便判斷自己人性的黑暗，看得更多。故此接著寫道：