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368 5. Quid per jumenta et coeli volatilia, quid per terram et pisces maris significetur. — Quid per jumenta, nisi sensu pigriores, quid per coeli volatilia nisi summa atque sublimia sapientes intelligere de- bemus? De j(??)mentis quippe, id est sensu pigrio- ribus, scriptum est: Animalia tua habitabunt in ea ( Psal. lxvii; 11). Et quia sublimia sapientes, in verbis nostri Redemptoris evolant, scriptum est: Ita ut volucres coeli veniant, et habitent in ramis ejus ( Matth. xiii, 32). Quid vero per terram, nisi terrena sapientes? Unde et primo homini coelestia deserenti dictum eat, Terra es, et in terram ibis ( Genes. iii, 19).
5. What is signified by the beasts and the birds of heaven, what by the earth and the fishes of the sea. — What by the beasts should we understand, save the duller in sense; what by the birds of heaven, save those who savour of the highest and most sublime things? For of the beasts, that is, of those duller in sense, it is written: Thy animals shall dwell therein (Ps. lxvii, 11). And because those who savour of sublime things fly up amid the words of our Redeemer, it is written: So that the birds of heaven come and dwell in its branches (Matt. xiii, 32). But what by the earth, save those who savour of earthly things? Whence also to the first man, forsaking heavenly things, it was said: Earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou go (Gen. iii, 19).
五、走獸與空中飛鳥所表明的是甚麼，大地與海中的魚所表明的又是甚麼。——藉走獸我們當明白甚麼，豈不是那些心思較遲鈍的人；藉空中的飛鳥豈不是那些愛慕至高至崇之事的人嗎？因為論到走獸，就是那些心思遲鈍的人，經上記著說：你的群畜必住在其中（詩篇六十八10）。因為那些愛慕崇高之事的人，在我們救贖主的話語中飛翔而上，經上記著說：以致天上的飛鳥來宿在它的枝上（馬太福音十三32）。至於藉大地，豈不是指那些愛慕屬地之事的人嗎？因此，向那離棄屬天之事的始祖也說：你本是塵土，仍要歸於塵土（創世記三19）。
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Quid per pisces maris nisi curiosos hujus saeculi de- bemus accipere? a De quibus Psalmista ait: Pisces maris, qui perambulant semitas maris ( Psal. viii, 9). Qui in magnis rerum inquisitionibus quasi in abdit(??)s fluctibus latent. Quid autem cuncta haec inquisita do- ceant, adjungit, dicens:
What by the fishes of the sea should we take, save the curious of this age? Of whom the Psalmist says: The fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea (Ps. viii, 9). Who in the great searchings-out of things lie hidden as it were in hidden waves. But what all these things, when questioned, may teach, he adds, saying:
藉海中的魚我們當領會甚麼，豈不是指這世代好奇之人嗎？論到他們，詩人說：海中的魚，就是經行海道的（詩篇八8）。這等人在對事物的巨大探究中，如同隱藏在幽暗的波濤裡。至於這一切被詢問時所能教導的是甚麼，他接著說：