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V ers. 20. — Roborasti eum paululum, ut in verpe- tuum transiret. 24. Vita brevi succedit aeternitas. — Paululum ro- boratus est homo, quia hic vivendi vires ad modicum accepit ut in perpetuum transeat ubi ejus vitam ter- minus non concludat. Sed in hac brevitate ubi robo- ratus est a colligit unde b in perpetuitate inveniat, vel ut semper gaudeat, vel ut suscepta supplicia non evadat. Qui pro eo quod paululum roboratus est ut in perpetuum transeat, apte mox subditur:
Verse 20. — You have strengthened him for a little while, that he might pass on forever. 24. Upon a brief life eternity succeeds. — Man is strengthened for a little while, because here he receives the strengths of living for a short time, that he may pass on forever where no term concludes his life. But in this brevity, in which he is strengthened, he gathers whence in eternity he may find either that he should ever rejoice, or that he should not escape the punishments he has taken on. Since he is strengthened for a little while that he may pass on forever, fittingly it is presently added:
第二十節。——「祢使他剛強片時，好叫他過渡到永遠。」24. 短暫的今生之後接續著永恆。——人被剛強片時，因為他在此領受了短暫活著的力量，好叫他過渡到永遠，在那裡沒有終局結束他的生命。然而在他被剛強的這短暫之中，他積蓄了那在永遠裡要尋見的：或使他永遠歡樂，或使他不能逃脫自己所招致的刑罰。因為他被剛強片時，好叫他過渡到永遠，故此恰當地接著說：