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V ers. 9.— Quis ignorat quod omnia haec manus Do· mini fecerit? 6. Deum omnium creatorem cuncta praedicant. — Ac si aperte dicat: Sive sensu tardiores, seu subli- mia sapientes, sive terrenis actibus deditos, seu hujus mundi occupatos inquisitionibus requiras, cuncta haec creatorem omnium Deum fatentur, et de pote- state ejus concorditer sentiunt, b quamvis sub ea non concorditer vivant. Quod enim justus quisque etiam vivendo loquitur, hoc injustus plerumque de Deo vel sola voce compellitur fateri; fitque ut mali, auctori omnium, cui operibus resistunt, c attestatione famu- lentur, quia quem impugnare moribus ausi sunt, creatorem omnium negare non possunt.
Verse 9. — Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord has made all these things? 6. All things proclaim God the Creator of all. — As if he openly said: Whether you seek out those slower in sense, or those who savour of sublime things, or those given to earthly deeds, or those occupied with the searchings-out of this world, all these confess God the Creator of all, and concerning His power they think concordantly, although under it they do not live concordantly. For that which every just man declares even by living, this the unjust man for the most part is compelled to confess of God even by voice alone; and it comes to pass that the wicked, by their attestation, serve the Author of all, whom they resist by their works, because Him whom they have dared to assail by their morals, they cannot deny to be the Creator of all.
第九節。——誰不知這一切都是耶和華的手所造的呢？六、萬物都宣揚神是萬有的創造主。——如同他公然說：無論你尋究那些心思較遲鈍的，或愛慕崇高之事的，或沉溺於屬地作為的，或忙於探究這世界的，這一切都承認神是萬有的創造主，並且對祂的權能存著一致的看法，雖然他們在其權能之下並不一致地生活。因為每個義人甚至藉生活所宣告的，那不義之人多半連藉口舌也被迫承認關乎神；於是那惡人以其見證，服事那萬有的創造主——就是他們以行為所抗拒的；因為他們雖膽敢以其品行攻擊祂，卻不能否認祂是萬有的創造主。
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Quod tamen intelligi etiam juxta solam speciem litterae utiliter potest, quia omnis respecta creatura quasi dat vocem attestationis propriae, ipsam quam habet speciem suam. Jumenta, vel volatilia, terram, vel pisces re- quirimus, dum consideramus quae nobis concorditer respondent, quod cuncta Dominus fecerit; quia dum nostris oculis suas species ingerunt, se a semetipsis non esse testantur. d Eo ipso enim quod creata sunt, per ostensam speciem creatori suo quasi vocem confessionis reddunt, qui quia omnia condidit, qua- liter etiam debeant administrari disposuit. Undo subditur:
Which nevertheless can also usefully be understood according to the mere letter, because every created thing, when regarded, as it were gives the voice of its own attestation — namely that very form which it possesses. We inquire of the beasts, or the birds, the earth, or the fishes, while we consider what things concordantly answer us, that the Lord has made all things; because, while they present their forms to our eyes, they testify that they are not from themselves. For by this very fact, that they are created, through the form they display they render, as it were, a voice of confession to their Creator, who, because He founded all things, disposed also how they ought to be governed. Whence it is subjoined:
這話也可按純粹的字義來理解，同樣有益，因為每一受造之物，當被察看時，彷彿發出自己見證的聲音——就是它所具有的那形態。我們一面察看有甚麼一致地回答我們——即主造了萬物——一面就等於在向走獸、飛鳥、大地或魚查問；因為它們一面把自己的形態呈現在我們眼前，一面就見證它們並非出於自己。因為單憑它們是被造的這一事實，它們就藉所顯出的形態，彷彿向它們的創造主獻上認信的聲音——祂既創立了萬物，也就安排了它們當如何被治理。因此接著說：