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I bid. Operi manuum tuarum porriges dexteram. 19. Quod ex seipso homo consequi non valet. — Ac si patenter dicat: Idcirco creatura tua corruptibilis persistere ad incorruptionem potest, quia tuae potes- tatis manu erigitur, et tui respectus gratia, ut persistat, tenetur. Humana namque creatura, eo ipso quod crea- tura est, in semetipsa habet sub se defluere, sed a con- ditore suo homo accepit, c ut et super se contempla- tione rapiatur, et in seipso incorruptione teneatur. Creatura ergo ne sub se defluat, sed in incorruptione persistat, d ad incommutabilitatis statum auctoris sui dextera levatur. Potest quoque dexterae nomine Filius (??)esignari: Quia omnia per ipsum facta sunt ( Joan.
Same place. — To the work of your hands you will stretch out your right hand. 19. That which man cannot attain from himself. — As if he plainly said: For this reason your corruptible creature is able to persist unto incorruption, because it is raised up by the hand of your power, and by the grace of your regard it is held fast so that it may persist. For the human creature, by the very fact that it is a creature, has within itself a tendency to slip away beneath itself; but from its Creator man has received that he may both be caught up above himself in contemplation, and be held fast within himself in incorruption. Therefore, that the creature may not slip away beneath itself, but persist in incorruption, it is lifted to the state of unchangeableness by the right hand of its Author. By the name of 'right hand' the Son also can be signified: For all things were made through him (John
同節。——「祢必向祢手所造的伸出右手。」19. 這是人憑自己所不能得的。——彷彿他明說：正因如此，祢那必朽壞的受造之物才能持守以至於不朽壞，因為它被祢權能的手扶起，並藉祢眷顧的恩典得以持守存立。因為人這受造之物，正因是受造之物，本身便有沉墜於己下的傾向；但人從他的創造主領受了：既能在默觀中被提升於己之上，又能在不朽壞中持守於己之內。所以，為使受造之物不沉墜於己下，乃在不朽壞中存立，它便被其創造者的右手舉入不變的境界。「右手」之名也可指子：「萬物是藉著他造的」（約
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i, 3). Operi igitur manuum suarum porrexit omnipotens Deus dexteram suam, quia ut abjectum atque in infimis jacens ad sumina erigeret genus humanum, incarnatum ad hoc unigenitum misit. Ex cujus nobis incarnatione datum est ut qui ex voluntate propria in corruptionem cecidimus, vocanti nos Deo quan- doque ad incorruptionis gloriam respondere valea- mus. Qua in re largitatem divinae misericordiae pen- sare quis valeat, quod ad tantam perducit gloriam hominem post culpam? Pensat Deus mala quae faci- mus, et tamen per benignitatis suae gratiam ea mise- ricorditer relaxat. Unde et subditur:
i, 3). To the work of his hands, therefore, Almighty God stretched out his right hand, because, in order to raise up to the heights the human race that was cast down and lying in the lowest depths, he sent his only-begotten, made flesh, for this purpose. From whose Incarnation it is given to us that we, who by our own will fell into corruption, may at some time be able to answer God who calls us unto the glory of incorruption. In which matter, who can weigh the bountifulness of the divine mercy, that it leads man to so great a glory after his fault? God weighs the evils we do, and yet through the grace of his kindness mercifully remits them. Hence too it is added:
約一3）。所以，全能之神向他手所造的伸出右手，因為他為要將那被拋棄、臥在最低深處的人類提升到高處，便為此差遣他的獨生子成了肉身。從他道成肉身，我們得著恩典：就是我們這憑己意墮入敗壞的人，終能回應那呼喚我們進入不朽壞榮耀的神。在此事上，誰能衡量神憐憫的豐盛，竟在人犯罪之後領他進入如此偉大的榮耀？神權衡我們所行的惡，卻藉他慈愛的恩典憐憫地赦免。因此接著說：