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Gregory the Great

Moralia in Job 1453

Latin original · 20 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

← ch. 1452ch. 1454 →
1453:1
In illo tempore, dixit Jesus discipulis suis parabolam hanc: Homo quidam peregre proficiscens, vocavit servos suos, et tradidit illis bona sua. Et uni dedit quinque talenta, alii autem duo, alii vero unum, unicuique secundum propriam virtutem, et profectus eat statim. Abiit autem qui quinque talenta acceperat, et operatus est in eis, et lucratus eat alia quinque. Similiter et qui duo acceperat, lucratus eat alia duo. Qui autem unum acceperat, abiens fodit in terram, et abscondit pecuniam domini aui. Post multum vero. temporis venit Dominus servorum illorum, et posuit rationem cum eia. Et accedeas qui quinque talenta acceperat, obtulit alia quinque talenta, dicens: Domine.
At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to his disciples: A certain man, going abroad, called his servants and delivered to them his goods. And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability, and immediately he set out. And he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained another five. Likewise he who had received the two, gained another two. But he who had received the one, going away, dug in the earth and hid his lord's money. But after a long time the lord of those servants came and reckoned accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came and offered another five talents, saying: Lord,
那時候，耶穌向他的門徒講了這個比喻：有一個人要出外遠行，就叫了他的僕人來，把財產託付給他們。他按照各人的才能，給了一個五個「塔冷通」，一個兩個，一個一個，然後立刻出發。那領了五個「塔冷通」的，就去用來營業，另外賺了五個。同樣，那領了兩個的，也另外賺了兩個。但那領了一個的，卻去在地裡挖了個坑，把主人的銀子藏了起來。過了許久，那些僕人的主人回來，同他們算賬。那領了五個「塔冷通」的前來，另外呈上五個「塔冷通」，說：主人，
1453:2
quinque talenta tradidisti mihi, ecce alia quinque superlucratus sum. Ait illi Dominus ejus: Euge serve bone et fidelis, quia super pauca fuisti fidelis, super multa te constituam; intra in gaudium domini tui. Accessit autem et qui duo talenta acceperat, et ait: Domine, duo talenta tradidisti mihi, ecce alia duo d superlucratus sum. Ait illi Dominus ejus: Euge, serve bone et fidelis, quia super pauca fuisti fidelis, stiper multa te constituam; intra in gaudium domini tui. Accedens autem et qui unum talentum acceperat, ait: Domine, scio quia homo durus es, metis ubi non seminasti, et congregas ubi non sparsisti; et timens abii et abscondi talentum tuum in terra, ecce habes quod tuum eat.
you delivered to me five talents; behold, I have gained another five. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant; because you have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many; enter into the joy of your lord. And he also who had received the two talents came and said: Lord, you delivered to me two talents; behold, I have gained another two. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant; because you have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many; enter into the joy of your lord. And he also who had received the one talent came and said: Lord, I know that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter; and being afraid, I went and hid your talent in the earth; behold, here you have what is yours.
你交給了我五個「塔冷通」，看，我另外賺了五個。他的主人對他說：好，善良忠信的僕人！你既在少許事上忠信，我要委派你管理許多大事；進入你主人的福樂吧。那領了兩個「塔冷通」的也前來說：主人，你交給了我兩個「塔冷通」，看，我另外賺了兩個。他的主人對他說：好，善良忠信的僕人！你既在少許事上忠信，我要委派你管理許多大事；進入你主人的福樂吧。那領了一個「塔冷通」的也前來說：主人，我知道你是個刻薄的人，在你沒有下種的地方收割，在你沒有散播的地方聚斂；因此我害怕，就去把你的「塔冷通」藏在地裡；看，你的仍還給你。
1453:3
Respondens autem dominus ejus, dixit ei: Serve male et piger, sciebas quia meto ubi non semino, et congrego ubi non sparsi; oportuit ergo te * dare pecuniam meam nummulariis, et ego veniens recepissem utique quod meum eat cum usura. Tollite itoque ab eo talentum, et date ei qui habet decem talenta. Omni enim habenti dabitur, et abundabit; ei autem qui non habet, et quod videtur habere auferetur ab eo. Et inutilem ser vum ejicite in tenebras exteriores; illic erit fletus et stridor dentium i. Lectio sancti Evangelii, fratres charissimi, sollicite considerare nos admonet, ne nos, qui plus cæteris in hoc mundo accepisse aliquid cernimur ab auctore mundi, gravius inde judicemur.
But his lord answering said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I do not sow, and gather where I did not scatter; you ought therefore to have given my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. Take therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. For to everyone who has, it shall be given, and he shall abound; but from him who has not, even that which he seems to have shall be taken away from him. And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. The reading of the holy Gospel, dearly beloved brethren, admonishes us to consider solicitously, lest we, who seem to have received from the Author of the world something more than others in this world, be more grievously judged for it.
但他的主人回答他說：又惡又懶的僕人！你既知道我在沒有下種的地方收割，在沒有散播的地方聚斂，那麼你就該把我的銀子交給錢莊，等我回來時，可以連本帶利收回我的。所以你們把他那個「塔冷通」奪過來，給那有十個「塔冷通」的。因為凡有的，還要給他，叫他富裕；但那沒有的，連他自以為有的，也要從他手中奪去。至於這無用的僕人，你們把他丟在外面的黑暗中；在那裡必有哀號和切齒。最親愛的弟兄們，這篇聖福音的經課勸誡我們殷勤思量，免得我們這些在此世似乎從世界的創造者領受得比別人多的人，反而因此受更嚴厲的審判。
1453:4
Cum enim augentur dona, rationes etiam crescunt donorum. Tanto ergo esse humilior atque ad serviendum 1464 promptior quisque debet ex munere, quanto se obligatiorem esse conspicit in reddenda ratione. Ecce homo qui peregre proficiscitur, servos suos vocat, eisque ad negotium talenta partitur. Post multum vero temporis positurus rationem revertitur, bene operantes pro apportato lucro remunerat, servum vero a bono opere torpentem damnat. Quis itaque iste homo est qui peregre proficiscitur, nisi Redemptor noster, qui in ea carne quam assumpserat abiit in cælum? Carnis enim locus proprius terra est, quae f quasi ad peregrina ducitur, dum per Redemptorem nostrum in caelo collocatur.
For when gifts are increased, the reckonings of the gifts also grow. Each one therefore ought to be so much the more humble and readier to serve because of the gift, the more he sees himself the more bound in rendering an account. Behold, a man who goes abroad calls his servants and distributes talents to them for business. But after a long time he returns to settle accounts, rewards those who have worked well according to the profit brought in, but condemns the servant grown torpid from good work. Who then is this man who goes abroad, but our Redeemer, who in the flesh He had assumed went away into heaven? For the proper place of the flesh is the earth, which is led as it were to a foreign land when through our Redeemer it is set in heaven.
因為當恩賜增加時，恩賜的賬目也隨之增長。所以各人越看見自己在交賬上負有越重的責任，就越當因這恩賜而更加謙卑、更加樂於服事。看，一個人出外遠行，召了他的僕人來，把「塔冷通」分給他們去營業。但過了許久，他回來結賬，按帶回的盈利獎賞那些善於工作的人，卻定那因善工而怠惰的僕人的罪。那麼，這個出外遠行的人是誰呢？無非是我們的救主，祂在所取的肉身中升到天上去了。因為肉身本來的地方是大地，當它藉我們的救主被置於天上時，就彷彿被帶往異鄉。
1453:5
Sed homo iste peregre proftciscens servis suis bona sua tradidit, quia fidelibus suis spiritalia dona concessit. Et uni quidem quinque talenta, alii duo, alii vero commisit unum. Quinque etenim sunt corporis sensus. videlicet visus, auditus, gustus, odoratus et tactus. Quinque ergo talentis donum quinque sensuum, id est exteriorum scientia, exprimitur. Duobus vcro intellectus et operatio designatur. Unius autem talenti nomine intellectus tantummodo designatur. Sed is qui quinque talenta acceperat alia quinque lucratus est, quia sunt nonnulli qui, etsi interna ac mystica penetrare nesciunt, pro intentione tameh supernae patriæ docent recta quos possunt de ipsis exterioribus quæ s acceperunt;
But this man going abroad delivered his goods to his servants, because to his faithful ones he granted spiritual gifts. And to one indeed five talents, to another two, and to another he committed one. For the senses of the body are five, namely sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. By the five talents, therefore, the gift of the five senses, that is, the knowledge of external things, is expressed. By the two, understanding and action are designated. But by the name of the one talent, understanding alone is designated. But he who had received the five talents gained another five, because there are some who, even if they know not how to penetrate inward and mystical things, yet out of intent for the heavenly homeland teach right things to those whom they can, from those very external matters which they have received;
但這出外遠行的人把他的財產交給他的僕人，因為他把屬靈的恩賜賜給了他的信徒。給一個五個「塔冷通」，給一個兩個，給一個委託了一個。因為身體的官能有五，就是視覺、聽覺、味覺、嗅覺和觸覺。所以五個「塔冷通」表徵五官的恩賜，即對外在事物的知識。兩個「塔冷通」表徵理解與行動。而「一個塔冷通」之名則單單表徵理解。但那領了五個「塔冷通」的另外賺了五個，因為有些人即使不懂得洞悉內在與奧祕的事，卻出於對天鄉的嚮往，用他們所領受的那些外在事物，把正道教導給他們所能教導的人；
1453:6
dumque se a carnis petulantia et a terrenarum rerum ambitu, atque a visibilium voluptate, custodiunt, ab his etiam alios admonendo compescunt. Et sunt nonnulli qui, quasi duobus talentis die tati, intellectum atque operationem percipiunt, subtilia de internis intelligunt, mira in exterioribus operantur; cumque et intelligendo et operando aliis praedicant, quasi duplicatum de negotio lucrum reportant. Bene autem alia quinque vel alia duo in lucrum venisse referuntur, quia dum h utrique sexui praedicatio impenditur, quasi accepta talenta Gend... nantur. Sed is qui unum talentum acceperat, abiens, fodit in terram, et abscondit pecuniam domini sui.
and while they guard themselves from the wantonness of the flesh, from the ambition for earthly things, and from the pleasure of visible things, they by admonishing restrain others also from these. And there are some who, as it were enriched with two talents, receive understanding and action, understand subtle things concerning inward matters, work wondrous things in external affairs; and while by both understanding and working they preach to others, they bring back as it were a doubled gain from the business. And it is well that another five or another two are said to have come into gain, because while preaching is bestowed upon both sexes, the talents received are as it were doubled. But he who had received the one talent, going away, dug in the earth and hid his lord's money.
當他們保守自己遠離肉體的放縱、遠離對屬世事物的野心、遠離對可見之物的享樂時，他們藉勸誡也約束別人遠離這些。又有些人彷彿以兩個「塔冷通」致富，領受了理解與行動，明白關於內在事物的精微之理，在外在事務上行奇妙的事；當他們既以理解又以行動向別人宣講時，便彷彿從營業中帶回加倍的盈利。那另外的五個或另外的兩個被說成有所盈利，這是恰當的，因為當宣講施於兩性時，所領受的「塔冷通」便彷彿加倍。但那領了一個「塔冷通」的，卻去在地裡挖坑，把主人的銀子藏了起來。
1453:7
Talentum in terra absc.ndere est acceptum ingenium, in terrenis actibus implicare, lucrum spiritale non quærere, cor a terrenis cogitationibus nunquam levare. Sunt namque nonnulli qui donum intelligentiae perceperunt, sed tamen sola quæ carnis sunt sapiunt. De quibus per prophetam dicitur: Sapicntes sunt ut faciant mala, bene autem facere nescierunt (Jerem. IV, 22). Sed Dominus, qui talenta contulit, rationem po. siturus redit, quia is qui nunc.pie spiritalia dona tribuit districte in judicio merita exquirit, quid quisque accepitconsiderat, et quod lucrum de acceptis reportet pensat. 2.
To hide the talent in the earth is to employ the received ability in earthly deeds, not to seek spiritual gain, never to lift the heart from earthly thoughts. For there are some who have received the gift of understanding, yet savor only the things that are of the flesh. Concerning whom it is said through the prophet: 'They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have not known' (Jeremiah 4:22). But the Lord, who bestowed the talents, returns to settle accounts, because He who now dutifully bestows spiritual gifts strictly requires the merits at the judgment, considers what each has received, and weighs what gain he brings back from what he has received.
把「塔冷通」藏在地裡，就是把所領受的才幹用於屬世的行為，不尋求屬靈的盈利，從不把心從屬世的思慮中提升起來。因為有些人領受了理解的恩賜，卻只體味屬肉體的事。論到他們，藉先知說：「他們有智慧去行惡，卻不知道行善。」（耶肋米亞四章22節）但那賜下「塔冷通」的主回來結賬，因為那如今慈愛地賜下屬靈恩賜的主，在審判時嚴格追討功績，察看各人領受了什麼，並衡量他從所領受的帶回了什麼盈利。
1453:8
Servus qui geminata talenta retulit a domino laudatur, atque ad aeternam remunerationem a perducitur, cum ei voce dominica dicitur: Euge serve bone et fidelis, quia super pauca fuisti fidelis, super multa te constituam, intra in gaudium domini tui. Panca quippe bona sunt omnia præsentis vitæ, quamlibet multa esse videantur, b comparatione retributionis aeternae. Sed tunc fidelis servus super multa constituitur quando, devicta omni corruptionis moreslia, de a ternis gaudiis in illa cælesti sede gloriatur.
The servant who brought back the doubled talents is praised by his lord and is led to eternal recompense, when it is said to him by the Lord's voice: 'Well done, good and faithful servant; because you have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many; enter into the joy of your lord.' For all the things of the present life are few, however many they may seem, in comparison with the eternal retribution. But then the faithful servant is set over many things when, all the mortality of corruption being overcome, he glories in eternal joys in that heavenly seat.
那帶回加倍「塔冷通」的僕人受到主人的稱讚，並被引入永恆的賞報，因為主親口對他說：「好，善良忠信的僕人！你既在少許事上忠信，我要委派你管理許多大事；進入你主人的福樂吧。」因為與永恆的賞報相比，今生的一切事物無論看似多麼繁多，其實都是少許。但那時忠信的僕人被委派管理許多大事，就是當敗壞的一切必朽性被戰勝、他在那天上的寶座上因永恆的福樂而歡欣時。
1453:9
Tunc ad domini sui gaudium perfecte 1465 intromittitur, quando in aeterna illa patria assumptus, atque angelorum coetibus admistus, sic interius g iudet de munere, ut non sit jam quod exterius doleat de corruptione. ' 3. Servus autem qui operari de talento noluit, ad dominum cum verbis excusationis redit, dicens: Domine, scio quia homo durus es, metis ubi non semi nasti, et congregai ubi non sparsisti; et timens abii et abscondi talentum tuum in terra, ecce habes quod tuum est. Notandum quod inutilis servus durum dominum vocat, cui tamen ad.lucrum deservire dissimulat, et timuisse se dicit in lucrum talentum expendere, qui hoc solum timere debuerat, ne hoc sine lucro ad dominum reportaret.
He is then perfectly admitted into the joy of his lord, when, taken up into that eternal homeland and mingled with the companies of angels, he so inwardly rejoices in the gift that there is nothing left for him to grieve over outwardly concerning corruption. But the servant who would not work with his talent returns to his lord with words of excuse, saying: Lord, I know that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter; and being afraid, I went and hid your talent in the earth; behold, here you have what is yours. It is to be noted that the unprofitable servant calls his lord hard, whom nevertheless he neglects to serve for profit, and says that he feared to spend the talent for gain, who ought to have feared this alone: to bring it back to his lord without gain.
當他被接入那永恆的家鄉、與天使的行列相混，如此在內心因這恩賜而歡欣，以致外面再沒有什麼可為敗壞而哀傷時，他便完全被接入他主人的福樂中。但那不肯用「塔冷通」營業的僕人，帶著推諉的話回到主人那裡，說：主人，我知道你是個刻薄的人，在你沒有下種的地方收割，在你沒有散播的地方聚斂；因此我害怕，就去把你的「塔冷通」藏在地裡；看，你的仍還給你。要注意的是：這無用的僕人稱他的主人為刻薄，卻又疏忽為盈利而服事他，並說他害怕用「塔冷通」去營利，其實他惟一該害怕的，是把它毫無盈利地帶回給主人。
1453:10
Sunt enim plerique intra sanctam Ecclesiam, quorum iste servus imaginem tenet, qui melioris vitae vias aggredi metuunt, et tamen jacere in sui torporis ignavia non pertimescunt; cumque se peccatores considerant, sanctitatis vias arripere trepidant, et remanere in Ruis iniquitatibus non formidant. Quorum bene Petrus adhuc in infirmitate positus speciem tenet cum, viso miraculo piscium, dixii: Exi a met Domine, quia homo peccator sum (Luc. v, 8). Imo si te peccatorem consideras, Q oportet ut a te Dominum non repellas.
For there are very many within holy Church, whose image this servant holds, who fear to enter upon the ways of a better life, and yet do not dread to lie in the sloth of their own torpor; and while they consider themselves sinners, they tremble to seize the ways of holiness, and are not afraid to remain in their own iniquities. Of whom Peter, while still placed in weakness, holds the likeness, when, having seen the miracle of the fishes, he said: 'Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man' (Luke 5:8). Nay rather, if you consider yourself a sinner, it behooves you not to repel the Lord from you.
因為在聖教會內有極多的人，正是這僕人的寫照：他們害怕踏上更美善生命的道路，卻不懼怕躺臥在自己怠惰的懶散中；當他們認自己為罪人時，就戰慄不敢奔向聖德的道路，卻不畏懼停留在自己的罪惡中。伯多祿在仍處於軟弱時就是他們的寫照，當他見了捕魚的奇蹟後說：「主，請你離開我，因為我是個罪人。」（路加福音五章8節）不然，你若認自己為罪人，就更該不把主從你身邊推開。
1453:11
Sed qui idcirco melioris Iabitus vias, et rectioris vitae apprehendere arcem nolunt, quia infirmos se esse conspiciunt, quasi et peccatores se fatentur, et Dominum repellunt eumque d quem in se sanclificare debuerant, fugiunt, et velut in perturbatione consilium non habent, dum moriuntur, et vitam timent. Unde et huic servo protinu> respondetur: Serve male et piger, sciebas quia meto ubi A non semino, et congrego ubi non e sparsi; oportuit ergo te dare pecuniam meam nummulariis, et ego veniens recepissem utique quod meum eat cum usura. Ex verbis suis servus constringitur cum dominus dicit: Meto ubi non semino, et congrego ubi non sparsi. Ac si aperte dicat:
But those who therefore refuse to lay hold of the ways of a better condition and the citadel of a more upright life, because they perceive themselves to be weak, as it were both confess themselves sinners and repel the Lord, and flee Him whom they ought to have sanctified within themselves, and as though in confusion they have no counsel, since they die and yet fear life. Whence to this servant it is at once answered: Wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I do not sow, and gather where I did not scatter; you ought therefore to have given my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. By his own words the servant is bound fast when the lord says: I reap where I do not sow, and gather where I did not scatter. As if he plainly said:
但那些因自覺軟弱而拒絕把握更美善境況的道路、拒絕攀登更正直生命之堡壘的人，彷彿既承認自己是罪人，又推開主，逃避那位他們本該在自己裡面尊為聖的主，並彷彿在慌亂中毫無主見，因為他們既死去，卻又懼怕生命。因此立刻回答這僕人說：又惡又懶的僕人！你既知道我在沒有下種的地方收割，在沒有散播的地方聚斂，那麼你就該把我的銀子交給錢莊，等我回來時，可以連本帶利收回我的。當主人說「我在沒有下種的地方收割，在沒有散播的地方聚斂」時，這僕人便被自己的話捆住了。彷彿他明白地說：
1453:12
Si juxta tuam sententiam et illud exquiro quod non dedi, quanto magis a te exquiro quod ad erogandum r dedi; oportuerat ergo te dare pecuniam meam nummurariis; et ego veniens recepissem utique quod meum est cum usura. Pecuniam vero dare nummulariis est eis scientiam praedicationis impendere qui hunc valeant exercere. 4. Sed sicut nostrum periculum aspicitis si dominicam pecuniam teneamus, ita vestrum, fratres charissimi, sollicite pensate, quia a vobis cum usura exigitur quod auditis. In usura quippe pecunia etiam non data recipitur. Cum enim hoc redditur quod acceptum fuerat, illud etiam superimpenditur quod acceptum non est.
If, according to your own sentence, I even require that which I did not give, how much more do I require from you what I gave to be paid out? You ought therefore to have given my money to the bankers; and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. Now to give money to the bankers is to bestow the knowledge of preaching upon those who are able to exercise it. But just as you see our peril if we hold back the Lord's money, so, dearly beloved brethren, weigh solicitously your own, because it is required of you with interest what you hear. For in interest, even money not given is received. For when that which had been received is repaid, that also is added over which was not received.
倘若按你自己的判詞，連我沒有給的我尚且追討，那麼我給了你去放出的，我豈不更要向你追討嗎？所以你就該把我的銀子交給錢莊；等我回來時，可以連本帶利收回我的。如今把銀子交給錢莊，就是把宣講的知識授予那些能運用它的人。但正如你們看見：我們若扣住主的銀子便有危險，同樣，最親愛的弟兄們，也要殷勤衡量你們自己的危險，因為你們所聽見的，要向你們連本帶利索取。因為在利息中，連未給出的銀子也被收回。因為當所領受的被償還時，那未曾領受的也被額外加上。
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Pen"ate ergo, fratres charissimi, quia de accepta hac verbi pecunia usuras solvetis, et curate ut ex eo quod auditis etiam alia studeatis intelligere quae non auditis, quatenus alia ex aliis colligenles, etiam illa discatis ex vobismetipsis agere quæ necdum ex praedicatoris ore didicistis. Pigrum vero servum qua sententia feriat audiamus: Tollite ab eo talentum, et date ei qui habet decem talenta. 5. Opportunum valde videbatur ut cum malo servo mum talentum tollitur, ei potius qui duo quam qui quinque talenta acceperat daretur. Illi enim 1468 E dari debuit qui minus quam qui plus habuit.
Weigh therefore, dearly beloved brethren, that from this received money of the word you will pay interest, and take care that from what you hear you may also strive to understand other things which you do not hear, so that, gathering some things from others, you may learn also to do of yourselves those things which you have not yet learned from the preacher's mouth. But let us hear with what sentence He strikes the slothful servant: Take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. It seemed very fitting that when the one talent is taken from the wicked servant, it should be given rather to him who had received two than to him who had received five. For it ought to have been given to him who had less than to him who had more.
最親愛的弟兄們，所以要衡量：從這所領受的「言語之銀」，你們將要償付利息，並要留心，好使你們從所聽見的，也努力去理解那些你們沒有聽見的別的事，好叫你們從一事推及另一事，也學會憑自己去做那些你們尚未從宣講者口中學到的事。但讓我們聽祂用什麼判詞責打那懶惰的僕人：你們把他那個「塔冷通」奪過來，給那有十個「塔冷通」的。這似乎很合宜：當那個「塔冷通」從惡僕手中奪去時，該給那領了兩個的，而非那領了五個的。因為理應給那有較少的，而非那有較多的。
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Sed, sicut superius diximus, per quinque talenta, quinque videlicet sensus, id est exteriorum scientia designatur, per duo autem intellectus ct operatio exprimitur. Plus ergo habuit qui duo quam qui quinque talenta perceperat, quia qui per quinque talenta exteriorum administrationem meruit, ab intellectu interioru:n adhuc vacuus fuit. Unum ergo talentum, quod intellectum siguilicare diximus, illi dari debuit qui bene exteriora quæ acceperat ministravit.
But, as we said above, by the five talents, namely the five senses, that is, the knowledge of external things is designated; but by the two, understanding and action are expressed. He therefore had more who received the two than he who received the five talents, because he who by the five talents merited the administration of external things was still empty of the understanding of inward things. The one talent, therefore, which we said signifies understanding, ought to have been given to him who well ministered the external things which he had received.
但正如我們上面所說的，五個「塔冷通」，即五官，表徵對外在事物的知識；而兩個則表徵理解與行動。所以那領了兩個的比那領了五個「塔冷通」的擁有得更多，因為那藉五個「塔冷通」配得管理外在事物的人，仍缺乏對內在事物的理解。所以那個我們說表徵理解的「塔冷通」，理應給那善於管理他所領受之外在事物的人。
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Quod quotidie in sancta Ecclesia cernimus, quia plerique dum bene ministrant ex eriora quæ accipiunt, per adjunctam gratiam ad intellectum quoque mysticum perducuntur, ut etiam de interna intelligentia polleant qui exteriora fideliter adrninistrant. 6. Generalis etiam mox sententia subditur, qua dicitur: Omni enim habenti dabitur, et abundabit; ci autem qui nun habet, et quod videtur habere auferetur ab eo. Habenti namque dabitur, et abundabit, quia quisquis charit.tem habet eliam dona alia percipit. Quisquis charitantem non habet etiain dona que percepisse videbatur amittit. Unde necesse est, fratres mei, ut per omne quod agitis erga charitatis custodiam vigiletis.
Which we behold daily in holy Church, that very many, while they minister well the external things they receive, are through added grace led also to mystical understanding, so that those who faithfully administer external things may also be strong in inward understanding. A general sentence is then soon subjoined, in which it is said: For to everyone who has, it shall be given, and he shall abound; but from him who has not, even that which he seems to have shall be taken away from him. For to him who has it shall be given, and he shall abound, because whoever has charity receives the other gifts also. Whoever has not charity loses even the gifts which he seemed to have received. Whence it is necessary, my brethren, that in everything you do you watch over the keeping of charity.
這是我們在聖教會內每天所見的：極多的人在善於管理他們所領受的外在事物時，便藉加添的恩寵也被引至奧祕的理解，好使那些忠信管理外在事物的人，在內在的理解上也有能力。接著隨即補上一句普遍的判詞，說：因為凡有的，還要給他，叫他富裕；但那沒有的，連他自以為有的，也要從他手中奪去。因為凡有的，還要給他，叫他富裕，因為凡有愛德的，也領受其他的恩賜。凡沒有愛德的，連他自以為已領受的恩賜也要失去。因此，我的弟兄們，你們在所行的一切事上，必須警醒保守愛德。
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Charitas auteiu vera est amicum diligere in Deo, ct inimicum diligere propter Demn. Quam quisquis non habet omne bonum amittit quod habet, talento quod acceperat privatur, et juxta Dominicam sententiam in exteriores tenebras mittitur. Per poenam quippe in exteriores tenebras cadit, qui per culpam suam sponte in interiores te. nebras cecidit; et illic coactus patitur tenebras ultionis, qui hic libenter sustinuit a tenebras voluptatis. 7. Sciendum vero est quod nullus piger ab hac talenti acceptioDe securus est. Nullus namque est qui veraciter dicat: Talentum minime accepi, non est unde rationes ponere cogar.
Now true charity is to love a friend in God, and to love an enemy for the sake of God. Whoever does not have this loses every good that he has, is deprived of the talent he had received, and, according to the Lord's sentence, is cast into the outer darkness. For by punishment he falls into the outer darkness who by his own fault willingly fell into the inner darkness; and there he suffers, compelled, the darkness of vengeance, who here willingly endured the darkness of pleasure. But it is to be known that no slothful man is secure from this receiving of a talent. For there is no one who can truly say: I received no talent at all; there is no reason why I should be compelled to render an account.
如今真正的愛德，是在天主內愛朋友，並為天主的緣故愛仇敵。凡沒有這愛德的，便失去他所有的一切善，被剝奪他所領受的「塔冷通」，並按主的判詞被丟在外面的黑暗中。因為那藉自己的過失甘願墮入內在黑暗的人，藉刑罰墮入外面的黑暗；那在此世甘願忍受享樂之黑暗的人，在那裡被迫忍受懲罰之黑暗。但要知道：沒有一個懶惰的人能在這「塔冷通」的領受上安然無事。因為沒有人能真實地說：我根本沒有領受「塔冷通」，沒有理由要我被迫交賬。
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Talenti enim nomine cuilibet pauperi etiam hoc ipsum reputabitur, quod vel minimum accepit. Alius namque 1467 accepit intelligentiam, praedicationis ministerium debet ex talentd. Alius terrenam substantiam accepit, erogationem taient! debet ex rebus. Alius nec internorum intelligentiam, nec rerum affluentiam accepit, sed tamen didicit artem qua pascitur, ipsa ars ei in talenti acceptione reputatur. Alius nihil horum assecutus est, sed tamen fortasse familiaritatis locum apud divitem meruit, talentum profecto familiaritatis accepit. Si ergo nibil ei pro indigentibus loquitur, pro talenti retentione damnatur.
For under the name of a talent, even this very thing shall be reckoned to any poor man, that he received even the least. For one has received understanding: he owes the ministry of preaching from his talent. Another has received earthly substance: he owes the giving out of his talent from his goods. Another has received neither the understanding of inward things nor the abundance of goods, yet has learned a craft by which he is fed: that very craft is reckoned to him in the receiving of a talent. Another has attained none of these things, yet perhaps has merited a place of familiarity with a rich man: he has assuredly received the talent of familiarity. If, therefore, he speaks nothing to him on behalf of the needy, he is condemned for the withholding of his talent.
因為在「塔冷通」的名下，即使是這一點也要算在任何窮人的賬上，就是他至少領受了最小的一份。因為有人領受了理解：他就當從他的「塔冷通」盡宣講的職事。另一人領受了屬世的財物：他就當從他的財物盡「塔冷通」的施捨。又有人既沒有領受對內在事物的理解，也沒有領受財物的豐盈，卻學會了一門賴以糊口的技藝：那技藝本身就算作他所領受的「塔冷通」。又有人這一切都沒有得到，卻或許蒙准與一位富人親近：他確實領受了「親近」這個「塔冷通」。所以，他若不為窮乏者向富人說一句話，就要因扣住他的「塔冷通」而被定罪。
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Habens ergo intellectum curet omnino ne taceat, habens rerum affluentiam vigilet ne a misericordiæ largitate torpescat, habens artem qua regitur magnopere studeat ut usum atque utilitatem illius cum proximo partiatur, habens loquendi locum apud divitem damnationem pro retento talento timeat, si, cum valet, non apud eum pro pauperibus intercedit. Tantum quippe ab unoquoque nostrum venturus judex exiget quantum dedit. Ut ergo de talenti sui rationibus, redeunte Domino, quisque securus sit, cum trenlore penset quotidie quid accepit. Ecce namque jam juxta est ut ille qui peregre profectus est redeat. Quasi quippe peregre abiit qui de hac terra in qua natus est longe discessit;
Therefore let him who has understanding take all care that he not keep silent; let him who has abundance of goods be watchful lest he grow sluggish in the bounty of mercy; let him who possesses an art by which men are governed strive earnestly to share its use and benefit with his neighbour; let him who has a place to speak in the presence of the rich man fear damnation for the talent he has held back, if, when he is able, he does not intercede before him on behalf of the poor. For the Judge who is to come will exact from each one of us just as much as He has given. Therefore, that each may be secure concerning the reckoning of his talent when the Lord returns, let him weigh trembling each day what he has received. For behold, it is now near that He who has departed into a far country should return. For He as it were went abroad who departed far from this earth on which He was born;
所以，凡有悟性的人，務要小心切勿緘默；凡有豐盛財物的人，要儆醒，免得在憐憫的施捨上懈怠遲鈍；凡擁有治理眾人之技藝的人，要竭力使這技藝的用處與益處與鄰舍分享；凡在富人面前有進言之地的人，要為所扣留的一他連得懼怕定罪，若他有能力卻不在那人面前為窮人代求。因為將要來的審判者，必按祂所賜給的，向我們各人索取多少。所以，為使各人在主回來時，對自己一他連得的交帳能夠安穩，就當每日戰兢地衡量自己領受了甚麼。因為看哪，那往遠方去的主歸來的時候已經臨近了。祂彷彿往遠方去了，因為祂遠離了自己所生的這地；
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aed profecto revertitur, ut de talentis rationes ponat, quia si a bona actione torpescimus, v de ipsis donis quae contulit nos dislrictius judicat. Considere nus ergo quæ accepimus, atque in eorum erogatione vigilemus. Nulla nos a spiritali opere terrena cura impediat, ne si in terra talentum absconditur, talenti dominus ad iracundiam provocetur. Piger etenim servus, cum jam culpas judex examinat, talentum de terra levat, quia sunt plerique qui tunc se c a terrenis desideriis vel operibus subtrahunt, quando jam per animadversionem judicis ad aeternum supplicium trahuntur.
but assuredly He returns, that He may render the reckoning of the talents; for if we grow sluggish in good action, He judges us the more strictly concerning those very gifts which He bestowed. Let us therefore consider what we have received, and be watchful in the dispensing of it. Let no earthly care hinder us from the spiritual work, lest, if the talent be hidden in the earth, the lord of the talent be provoked to wrath. For the slothful servant, when the Judge is now examining faults, lifts the talent from the earth; for there are very many who then withdraw themselves from earthly desires or works when they are already being dragged by the Judge's chastisement to eternal punishment.
然而祂確實要回來，好結算眾他連得的帳；因為我們若在善行上懈怠，祂就要為祂所賜的那些恩賜更嚴厲地審判我們。所以我們當思想自己所領受的，並在施用上儆醒。不要讓任何屬地的憂慮攔阻我們去作屬靈的工作，免得那一他連得被埋在地裡，以致這他連得的主被激動發怒。因為那懶惰的僕人，當審判者正查究過犯之時，才把他連得從地裡取出；因為有許多人，正當他們已被審判者的懲罰拖向永刑之時，那時才從屬地的私慾和作為中抽身。
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Ante ergo de talenti nostri ponenda ratione vigilemus, ut cum jam judex ad feriendum imminet, lucrum nos quod fecimus excuset. Quod præstet nobis Deus, qui vivit, etc.
Let us therefore be watchful in rendering beforehand the reckoning of our talent, so that when the Judge now stands ready to strike, the gain which we have made may excuse us. Which may God grant us, who lives, etc.
所以我們當儆醒，預先交出我們一他連得的帳，好使當審判者正舉手要擊打之時，我們所賺得的利益能為我們辯護。願那永活的上帝將此賜給我們，云云。
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