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V ers. 10.— Et haec mihi sit consolatio, ut affligens me dolore, non parcat. 22. Sancti timent prospera, cupiunt flagella. Electi qui cum perpetrasse se illicita noverunt, sed perscrutantes inveniunt quia nulla pro illicitis adversa perpessi sunt, vi immensae formidinis 221 tabe- scunt, pavore aestuant, sinistris agitati suspicionibus laborant, ne in aeternum se gratia deseruerit, quos in praesenti vita mali sui retributio nulla custodit; ti- ment ne ultio quae suspenditur gravior in fine serve- tur; feriri paterna correptione desiderant, et dolorem vulneris medicamina salutis putant. Recte ergo nunc dicitur: Haec mihi sit consolatio, ut affligens me dolore non parcat.
Verse 10. — And let this be my consolation, that afflicting me with pain, He spare not. 22. The saints fear prosperity, they long for scourges. The elect, who, though they know they have committed unlawful things, yet, searching, find that they have suffered no adversities for those unlawful things, waste away with the corruption of an immense dread, burn with fear, labor troubled by sinister suspicions, lest grace should have forsaken them for eternity — those whom in the present life no retribution of their evil keeps in check; they fear lest the vengeance which is suspended should be kept the more grievous in the end; they desire to be smitten with fatherly correction, and reckon the pain of the wound to be the remedies of salvation. Rightly, therefore, it is now said: Let this be my consolation, that afflicting me with pain, He spare not.
第十節：——願這成為我的安慰，就是祂以痛苦折磨我，卻不憐惜。二十二、聖者懼怕亨通，切慕鞭撻。蒙揀選者雖知自己犯了不法之事，卻在省察時發覺自己並未因那不法而受任何逆境，便因巨大恐懼的腐蝕而消瘦，因恐懼而焦灼，被不祥的疑慮攪擾而困苦，惟恐恩典已永遠離棄了他們——因今生沒有任何對其罪惡的報應加以管束；他們懼怕那被延緩的刑罰，或許在末了被存留得更沉重；他們渴望受父般的懲治，並將傷口之痛視為救恩的良藥。所以如今說得恰切：願這成為我的安慰，就是祂以痛苦折磨我，卻不憐惜。
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Ac si aperte diceretur: Qui ideo hic qui- busdam parcit, ut eos in perpetuum feriat; ideo hic me feriat, ut non parcendo, in perpetuum parcat. Ex afflictione enim me consolor, quia corruptionis hu- manae putredinem sciens, ad spem salutis ex vulnere certus reddor. Quod quia non tumenti sed humi'i mente edidit, subjungendo, ut praediximus, patefacit, dicens:
As if it were plainly said: He who here spares certain ones, that He may strike them in perpetuity — let Him therefore here strike me, that by not sparing, He may spare in perpetuity. For out of affliction I am consoled, because, knowing the putrefaction of human corruption, I am made certain of the hope of salvation out of the wound. And because he uttered this not with a swelling but with a humble mind, by subjoining, as we have said before, he makes it plain, saying:
彷彿明明地說：那在此憐惜某些人、以致永遠擊打他們的主——願祂在此擊打我，好叫祂藉不憐惜，反倒永遠憐惜。因為我從苦難中得安慰，既知人性敗壞的膿毒，便從傷口中確信救恩的盼望。而因他發此言不是懷著自高，乃是懷著謙卑的心，正如我們先前所說，他藉隨後的補述使之顯明，說：