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I bid. — Et adhuc retinens innocentiam suam. 2. Job innocentiam gloriosius servavit in verbere. — Ac si aperte dicat: Tu quidem exercuisti malitiam, sed ille innocentiam non amisit; et unde te aestima sti provectum ejus imminuere, inde compulsus es ejus provectui deservire, quia mentis innocentiam, quam gloriose tenuit in tranquillitate, gloriosius servavit in verbere. Sequitur:
Ibid. — And still he holdeth fast his innocence. 2. Job more gloriously preserved his innocence under the scourge. — As if He plainly said: Thou indeed hast exercised thy malice, but he hath not lost his innocence; and whence thou didst think to lessen his advancement, thence thou hast been compelled to serve his advancement, because the innocence of mind which he gloriously held in tranquility, he hath more gloriously preserved under the scourge. There follows:
同上——「他仍然持守他的純全。」二、約伯在鞭打之下更榮耀地保守了他的純全。——彷彿祂明明地說：你固然施展了你的惡毒，他卻沒有喪失他的純全；你原以為要藉此削減他的長進，反倒被迫服事了他的長進，因為他在平安中榮耀地持守的那心靈的純全，在鞭打之下更榮耀地保守了。接著說：