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V ers. 4.— Dies illa vertatur in tenebras. 26. Delectationis initium poenitentioe lamentis casti- gandum. — Dies quippe in tenebras vertitur, cum culpa in ipso delectationis exordio, ad quem perdi- tionis finem rapiat, videtur. In tenebras diem verti- mus, cum nosmetipsos districte punientes, ipsa de- lectationis pravae blandimenta per districta poeniten- tiae lamenta cruciamus, cum flendo insequimur quid- quid in corde taciti ex delectatione peccamus. Quia enim fidelis quisque cogitationes in judicio exquiri subtiliter non ignorat,Paulo attestante, qui ait: In- ter se invicem cogitationum accusantium, aut etiam de- fendentium ( Rom. ii, 15);
Verse 4.— Let that day be turned into darkness. 26. The beginning of delight must be chastised by the laments of penance. — For the day is turned into darkness when the fault is seen, in the very outset of delight, into what end of perdition it may carry us off. We turn the day into darkness when, punishing ourselves strictly, we torment the very allurements of depraved delight through the strict laments of penance, when by weeping we pursue whatever we secretly sin in the heart out of delight. For since every faithful person is not ignorant that thoughts are subtly examined in the judgment, as Paul testifies, who says: 'Their thoughts among themselves accusing, or also defending one another' (Romans 2:15);
第四節——願那日變為黑暗。二十六、歡愉的起頭必須用悔改的哀哭來責罰。——因為當那過犯在歡愉的初起之時，便被看出它要把我們擄入何等的滅亡之終局，那日便變為黑暗。我們把那日變為黑暗，乃是當我們嚴厲地懲罰自己、藉著悔改的嚴厲哀哭來折磨邪僻歡愉的種種諂媚之時，當我們藉著哭泣追討我們在心中因歡愉而暗自所犯的一切之時。因為每個信徒都不是不知道，思念要在審判中被細察，正如保羅所見證的，他說：「他們的思念互相較量，或以為是，或以為非」（羅馬書二15）；
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semetipsum introrsus dis- cutiens, ante judicium vehementer examinat, ut di- strictus judex eo jam tranquillius veniat, quod b rea- tum suum, quem discutere appetit, jam pro culpa punitum cernit. Unde et recte subjungitur.
discussing himself inwardly, he vehemently examines himself before the judgment, so that the strict judge may then come the more tranquilly, in that He already perceives punished for its fault the guilt which He desires to scrutinize. Whence it is also rightly subjoined:
人向內審查自己，在審判之前猛烈地察驗自己，好叫那嚴厲的審判者可以更平靜地來到，因為祂已看見那祂所要審查的罪責，已因其過犯而受了懲罰。因此經上也恰當地接著說：