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V ers. 3. Ego vidi stultum firma radice, et male- dixi pulchritudini ejus statim. A llegoricus sensus. 3. Judaei sunt stulti, etiam haereticorum maledictioni ob Christi repulsam obnoxii. Stultus quippe Judaeorum populus exstitit, quia ipsam in carne praesentiam aeternae Sapientiae sprevit. Qui quasi firma radice convaluit, quia electorum vi- tam temporaliter exstinguendo superavit. Sed hunc Eliphaz maledicendo despicit, quia nimirum omnes haeretici, quorum tenere speciem amicos beati Job diximus, cum de nomine Christi gloriantur, Judaeo- rum perfidiam ex auctoritate reprehendunt. De quo stulto protinus subditur:
Verse 3. 'I have seen the fool with a firm root, and I cursed his beauty forthwith.' The allegorical sense. 3. The Jews are the fools, also liable to the cursing of the heretics on account of their rejection of Christ. Indeed, the Jewish people showed itself a fool, because it despised the very presence of the eternal Wisdom in the flesh. This people grew strong as if with a firm root, because for a time it prevailed by extinguishing the life of the elect. But Eliphaz despises this fool by cursing him, because assuredly all heretics, whose likeness we said the friends of blessed Job held, while they glory in the name of Christ, reprove by authority the perfidy of the Jews. Of this fool it is immediately added:
第3節：「我曾見愚昧人扎下穩固的根，我隨即咒詛他的華美。」寓意的解釋。第三，猶太人就是那愚昧人，因著棄絕基督，也難逃異端的咒詛。猶太百姓確實顯為愚昧，因為它藐視了那永恆智慧在肉身中的親臨。這百姓彷彿扎下穩固的根而興旺起來，因為它藉著暫時撲滅蒙揀選者的生命而一度得勝。但以利法咒詛而藐視這愚昧人，因為我們所說帶有聖約伯朋友樣式的一切異端，儘管以基督的名為誇耀，卻憑權威責備猶太人的背信。論到這愚昧人，隨即補充說：