276:1
I bid. Et ipsum rapiet armatus. 11. Diabolus saepe scientiam permittit, ut corrumpat vitam. —Antiquus namque hostis quasi inermis a vin- citur, cum mala aperte suggerens humanae menti, bona omnia simul destruere conatur. Sed armatus venit, quando bona alia intacta deserens, latenter alia corrumpit. Nam saepe quosdam in intellectu non tentat, eisque in sacri eloquii meditatione non obviat; sed tamen eorum vitam in operatione supplantat, qui dum de scientiae virtute laudantur, nequaquam suorum operum damna respiciunt; cumque in favoris b delectationem animus ducitur, vitae suae vulneribus non medetur.
Same verse. 'And the armed man shall snatch him away.' 11. The devil often permits knowledge, in order to corrupt the life. For the ancient enemy is as it were unarmed when he is overcome, when, openly suggesting evils to the human mind, he attempts to destroy all good things at once. But he comes armed, when, leaving other good things untouched, he secretly corrupts others. For often he does not tempt certain men in the understanding, nor stand against them in the meditation of the sacred oracle; but yet he supplants their life in action, who, while they are praised for the virtue of knowledge, in no way regard the losses of their own works; and while the mind is led into the delight of favor, it does not heal the wounds of its own life.
同節：「帶兵器的人搶奪他本身。」第十一，魔鬼常容讓知識，為要敗壞人的生命。因為那古蛇的仇敵在被勝過時，彷彿是未帶兵器的，就是當牠公然向人心暗示惡事、企圖一舉毀滅一切善事之時。但牠帶著兵器而來，就是當牠不觸動其他善事，卻暗中敗壞另一些善事之時。因為牠往往不在理解上試探某些人，也不在對聖言的默想上與他們作對；卻在行為上絆倒他們的生命；這些人在因知識的德性受稱讚時，絕不顧念自己行為的虧損；當心思被引入受人青睞的喜樂時，卻不醫治自己生命的傷痕。
276:2
Hunc ergo armatus hostis rapuit, quem fraude tectus in alia deserens, ex alia parte supera- vit. Sequitur:
This man, therefore, the armed enemy snatched away, whom, cloaked in fraud, leaving him in one part, he overcame from another part. There follows:
因此那全副武裝的仇敵搶奪了這人；牠以詭詐為蔽，在一方面放過他，卻從另一方面勝過了他。接著說：