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V ers. 15. — Concidit me vulnere super vulnus. 425 20. Ut vulnere super vulnus nos concidat.— In infirmis suis sancta Ecclesia vulnere super vulnus Conciditur quando peccatum peccalo additur, ut culpa vehementius exaggeretur. Quem enim avaritia pertrahit ad rapinam, rapina ducit ad fallaciam, ut, perpetrata culpa, ex falsitate etiam defendatur, quid iste nisi super vulnus concisus est vulnere? Unde bene quoque per prophetam dicitur: Maledictum, et mendactum, et homicidium, et furtum, et adu(??)terium inundaverunt, et sanguis sanguinem tetigit ( Osee iv, 2). Solet enim sanguinis nomine signari peccatum. Unde is qui a peccatis liberari desiderat per poeni- tentiam clamat:
Ver. 15.—'He hath broken me with wound upon wound.' 20. That he may break us with wound upon wound.—Holy Church in her weak members is broken with wound upon wound when sin is added to sin, so that the guilt is more vehemently heaped up. For him whom avarice drags to plunder, plunder leads on to deceit, so that, the guilt once perpetrated, it is even defended by falsehood: what is such a man but broken with wound upon wound? Whence it is also well said through the prophet: 'Cursing and lying and murder and theft and adultery have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood' (Hosea iv, 2). For sin is wont to be signified by the name of blood. Whence he who desires to be freed from sins cries out through penance:
第十五節——「他以傷加傷地擊破我。」二十、論他如何以傷加傷地擊破我們。——聖教會在她軟弱的肢體中被以傷加傷地擊破，就是當罪加上罪，使罪咎更劇烈地堆積之時。因為那被貪婪拖向搶奪的人，搶奪又引他走向欺詐，以致罪一旦犯下，還要用虛謊來遮掩：這樣的人豈不是以傷加傷地被擊破嗎？故此藉先知也美妙地說：「咒詛、謊言、兇殺、偷盜、姦淫泛濫了，殺人流血接連不斷」（何西阿書四2）。因為罪常以血為名而被表明。因此那渴望脫離罪的人藉悔改呼求說：
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Libera me de sanguinibus ( Psal. l, 16). Sanguis ergo sanguinem tangit a cum culpa culpam cumulaverit. Et quia cum vulnus vul(??)eri additur vires contra nos antiqui hostis vehementius excrescunt, recte subjungitur:
'Deliver me from bloods' (Ps. l, 16). Blood therefore touches blood when one has heaped guilt upon guilt. And because, when wound is added to wound, the ancient enemy's strength against us grows the more vehemently, it is rightly added:
「求你救我脫離流血的罪」（詩篇五十16）。所以當人罪上加罪時，血便接觸血。又因為當傷加上傷時，那古老仇敵敵擋我們的力量便更加劇烈地增長，故此貼切地接著說：