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V ers. 16. — Saccum consui super cutem meam, et operui cinere carnem meam. 22. Afflictione spontanea peccata mundare docet Ecclesia. Quid in sacco et cinere nisi poenitentia, quid in cute et carne nisi peccatum carnis debet in- telligi? Cum ergo quidam post lapsum carnis, ad poenitentiam redeunt, quasi saccus super cutem consuitur, et cinere caro operitur, quia culpa carnis per poenitentiam tegitur, ne in districti judicis exa- mine ad ultionem videatur.
Ver. 16.—'I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and I have covered my flesh with ashes.' 22. The Church teaches to cleanse sins by voluntary affliction. What ought to be understood by sackcloth and ashes but penance, and what by skin and flesh but the sin of the flesh? When therefore certain persons, after a fall of the flesh, return to penance, sackcloth is as it were sewed upon the skin, and the flesh is covered with ashes, because the guilt of the flesh is covered by penance, lest it should be seen unto vengeance at the examination of the strict Judge.
第十六節——「我把麻布縫在我的皮膚上，把灰塵蓋在我的肉體上。」二十二、教會教導藉甘心的苦修潔淨罪。麻布與灰塵當理解為何物，若非悔改？皮膚與肉體當理解為何物，若非肉體的罪？所以當某些人在肉體跌倒之後歸回悔改時，麻布彷彿縫在皮膚上，灰塵蓋住肉體，因為肉體的罪咎藉悔改被遮蓋，免得在那嚴厲審判者的察驗中被看見以致遭報應。
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Infirma autem membra sua sancta Ecclesia cum a peccatis retrahit, atque ad poenitentiae remedium ducit, haec procul dubio fletibus adjuvat, ut ad recipiendam auctoris sui gra- tiam convalescant, et per fortes plangit quod non fecit, quod in membris suis debilibus quasi ipsa fe- cit. Unde bene adhuc subditur:
But when holy Church draws her weak members back from sins and leads them to the remedy of penance, she without doubt aids them with weeping, that they may recover strength to receive the grace of their Author; and through the strong she laments what she did not do, that which in her weak members she as it were herself did. Whence it is well further subjoined:
但當聖教會把她軟弱的肢體從罪中拉回，並引領他們得著悔改的良藥時，她無疑以哀哭幫助他們，好使他們恢復力量，去領受他們創造主的恩典；她藉剛強者哀悼自己未曾行過、卻在她軟弱肢體中彷彿由她親自所行的事。故此美妙地又接著說：