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V ers. 10,11.— Nonne sicut lac mulsisti me, et sicut caseum me coagulasti? Pelle et carnibus vestisti me, ossibus et nervis compegisti me. 78. Hominis ortus descriptio. — Plasmatus quippe homo sicut lutum factus est, propagatus autem et sicut lac mulgetur semine, et sicut caseus coagulatur in carne. Carnibus et pelle induitur, ossibus nervis- que solidatur. Per lutum ergo primae conditionis qualitas, per lac vero sequentis ordo conceptionis exprimitur, quia per coagulationis incrementa duci- tur, ut paulisper in ossa roboretur. Sei angusta Dei laus est descriptio creati corporis, nisi etiam subse- quenter exprimatur mira aspiratio vivificationis. Unde et subditur:
Verses 10-11. — 'Hast Thou not milked me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, Thou hast knit me together with bones and sinews.' 78. A description of man's coming to be. — Man, being fashioned, was made as clay; but, being propagated, he is both milked out as milk from the seed, and curdled as cheese in the flesh. He is clothed with flesh and skin, he is made solid with bones and sinews. By the clay, therefore, the quality of the first creation is expressed; but by the milk the order of the ensuing conception, because he is led on by the increments of the curdling, so that little by little he is strengthened into bones. But narrow is the praise of God in the description of the body created, unless there be also afterward expressed the wondrous inbreathing of the quickening. Whence it is added:
第十至十一節。——「你不是倒出我來好像奶，使我凝結如同乳酪嗎？你以皮和肉為衣給我穿上，用骨與筋把我編聯起來。」78. 人受孕成形的描述。——人被塑造時，是被造如泥；但被繁衍時，則既如奶從精中被倒出，又如乳酪在肉中凝結。他被以皮與肉為衣穿上，被以骨與筋固結。所以泥土表明起初受造的性質，而奶則表明隨後成孕的次序，因他是藉凝結的漸長被引領，好叫他漸漸堅固成骨。但單單描述受造的身體，對神的頌讚仍嫌狹窄，除非隨後也表明那使之活過來的奇妙吹氣。故此接著說：