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V ers. 22.— Terram miseriae et tenebrarum. 96. Quos tenet, foris cruciantur, intus caecantur. Miseria ad dolorem pertinet, tenebrae ad caecitatem. Ea ergo quae a conspectu districti judicis expulses tenet, miseriae et tenebrarum terra perhibetur, quia foris dolor cruciat quos divisos a vero lumine intus caecitas obscurat. Quamvis miseriae et tenebrarum terra intelligi et aliter potest. 332 Nam haec quo- que terra in qua nascimur est quidem miseriae, sed tenebrarum non est, quia multa hic corruptionis no- strae mala patimur, sed tamen adhuc in ea per conver- sionis gratiam ad lucem redimus, Veritate suadente, quae ait: Ambulate dum lucem habetis, ne vos tenebror comprehendant ( Joan.
Verse 22. — A land of misery and of darkness. 96. Those whom it holds are tormented without and blinded within. Misery pertains to pain, darkness to blindness. — That which holds those expelled from the sight of the strict Judge is called a land of misery and of darkness, because without, pain torments those whom, within, blindness darkens, separated as they are from the true light. Although a land of misery and of darkness can also be understood otherwise. For this land too, in which we are born, is indeed one of misery, but not of darkness, because we suffer here many evils of our corruption, yet still in it, through the grace of conversion, we return to the light, Truth urging us, who says: Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness overtake you (John 12:35).
第二十二節。——「就是那愁苦和黑暗之地。」九十六。它所拘留之人，外受折磨，內被弄瞎。愁苦關乎痛苦，黑暗關乎盲目。——那拘留被逐離嚴厲審判者面前之人的地方，被稱為愁苦和黑暗之地，因為外面痛苦折磨這些人，而裡面盲目使這些與真光隔絕的人黑暗。雖然「愁苦和黑暗之地」也可有別的理解。因為我們出生於其中的這地，固然是愁苦之地，卻非黑暗之地，因為我們在此忍受敗壞的許多惡，然而在其中我們仍藉悔改的恩典回到光中，因真理勸勉我們說：「趁著有光，應當行走，免得黑暗臨到你們」（約翰福音十二章三十五節）。
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xii, 35). Illa vero simul mise- riae et tenebrarum terra est, quia quisquis ad tole- randa ejus mala descenderit, nequaquam ulterius ad lucem redit. In cujus adhuc descriptione subjungitur:
But that other is at once a land of misery and of darkness, because whosoever has descended to endure its evils in no way ever after returns to the light. In whose description it is still further subjoined:
但那另一個卻同時是愁苦和黑暗之地，因為凡下去忍受其諸惡之人，此後絕不再回到光中。在描述那地時，下文又進一步補充說：