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V ers. 4. Longe fiant filii ejus a salute, et con- terentur in porta, et non erit qui eripiat. 4. Horum filii omnes perfidi. In Christo, qui est porta, conteruntur. Filii hujus stulti sunt omnes qui perfidiae illius praedicatione generantur. Qui sci- licet a salute longe sunt, quia etsi temporalem vitam sine afflictione percipiunt, aeterna gravius ultione feriuntur, sicut de eisdem filiis illius Dominus dicit: Vae vobis, Scribae et Pharisaei hypocritae, qui circuitis mare et aridam, ut faciatis unum proselytum,et cum fuerit factus, facitis eum filium gehennae 183 duplo quam vos ( Matth. xxiii, 15). Sequitur: Et conteren- tur in porta, et non erit qui eripiat.
Verse 4. 'Let his children be far from safety, and let them be crushed in the gate, and there be none to deliver them.' 4. All their children are perfidious. They are crushed in Christ, who is the gate. The children of this fool are all who are begotten by the preaching of his perfidy. They, indeed, are far from salvation, because although they receive temporal life without affliction, they are more grievously struck by eternal vengeance, as the Lord says of those same children of his: 'Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves' (Matthew xxiii, 15). There follows: 'And they shall be crushed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.'
第4節：「願他的兒女遠離平安，在城門口被壓碎，無人搭救。」第四，他們的兒女全都背信。他們在那作門的基督裡被壓碎。這愚昧人的兒女，就是一切因他背信的傳講而生的人。他們確實遠離救恩，因為他們雖然享有暫時的生命而不受苦難，卻要更嚴重地受永刑的擊打，正如主論到他這些兒女所說：「你們這假冒為善的文士和法利賽人有禍了！因為你們走遍海洋陸地，勾引一個人入教，既入了教，卻使他作地獄之子，比你們還加倍」（馬太福音二十三章15節）。接著說：「他們必在城門口被壓碎，無人搭救。」
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Quis alius portae nomine, nisi mediator Dei et hominum debet intel- ligi, qui ait: Ego sum ostium, per me si quis introie- rit, sulvabitur ( Joann. x, 9)? Filii igitur hujus stulti extra portam proficiunt, et in porta conteruntur, quia pravae Judaeorum soboles ante Mediatoris ad- ventum in legis observatione floruerunt; sed in ipsa Redemptoris nostri praesentia a Divinitatis obsequio, perfidiae suae meritis repulsi ceciderunt. Quos nimi- rum non est qui eripiat, quia scilicet dum ipsum Redemptorem exstinguere persequendo conati sunt, oblata sibi ereptionis remedia absciderunt; de quo bene subditur:
Who else ought to be understood by the name of the gate, but the Mediator of God and men, who says: 'I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved' (John x, 9)? The children, therefore, of this fool advance outside the gate, and are crushed in the gate, because the depraved offspring of the Jews flourished in the observance of the Law before the coming of the Mediator; but in the very presence of our Redeemer, cast off from the service of the Divinity by the deserts of their own perfidy, they fell. And there is indeed none to deliver them, because, that is, while by persecuting they strove to extinguish the Redeemer Himself, they cut off from themselves the remedies of deliverance offered to them; of which it is well added:
除了神與人之間的中保，還有誰該以這門的名稱來理解呢？祂說：「我就是門；凡從我進來的，必然得救」（約翰福音十章9節）。因此這愚昧人的兒女在門外前進，卻在門口被壓碎，因為猶太人敗壞的後裔在中保降臨之前，在遵守律法上曾一度興盛；但在我們救贖主親臨之際，卻因自己背信的罪報，被逐出神性的事奉之外而跌倒。的確無人搭救他們，也就是說，當他們藉逼迫力圖撲滅救贖主本身時，便為自己斷絕了那賜給他們的拯救之藥；論到此，經上又美妙地補充說：