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194 V ers. 12. Qui dissipat cogitationes maligno- rum ne possint implere manus eorum quod coeperant. 27. Malorum saepe cassae sunt cogitationes, nec mi- nus rea conscientia. Reproborum mentes perversis cogitationibus semper invigilant, sed plerumque eis superna dispensatio obviat; et quamvis pravitatem consilii nec fracti adversitatibus corrigant, ne tamen contra bonos praevaleant, eorum vires refrenat. Quos contra miro judicio agitur, ut eflectu quidem pravi operis careant, et tamen justae sententiae judicis reos conscientia addicat. Quod ergo mala cogitant, quid ipsi faciant ostendunt; quod vero mala implere ne- queunt, hi contra quos cogitaverant, defenduntur, Unde et adhuc bene subditur:
Verse 12. Who dissipateth the thoughts of the malignant, that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun. 27. The thoughts of the wicked are often void, and no less is their guilty conscience. The minds of the reprobate always keep watch with perverse thoughts, but for the most part the supernal dispensation meets them; and although they do not correct the depravity of their counsel even when broken by adversities, yet lest they prevail against the good, He restrains their forces. Against them it is dealt with by a wondrous judgment, that they indeed lack the effect of their depraved work, and yet their conscience arraigns them as guilty before the just sentence of the Judge. In that they think evil things, they show what they themselves would do; but in that they cannot accomplish the evil, those against whom they had plotted are defended. Whence still it is well added:
第十二節：祂破壞惡人的計謀，使他們的手不能成就所起頭的事。27. 惡人的計謀往往落空，其負罪的良心也不亞於此。惡人的心靈總是以邪僻的計謀警醒，但那至高的安排大多阻擋他們；他們雖被逆境所擊碎仍不改正其計謀的邪僻，然而為免他們勝過善人，祂便約束他們的力量。祂以奇妙的審判對付他們，使他們固然缺乏邪惡工作的果效，然而他們的良心卻在審判者公義的判決前控告他們為有罪。他們既思想惡事，便顯出自己所要行的；而他們既不能成就惡事，那些他們所圖謀對付的人便得蒙保護。因此還恰當地補充道：