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V ers. 4. — Cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina. 36. Pravorum cor longe esse a disciplina Deus tan- tum permittendo facit. — Si enim disciplinae custo- diam nossent, et nequaquam Redemptoris nostri praecepta contemnerent, ipsa eos carnis suae morta- litas ad amorem vitae immortalis excitasset. Hoc ipsum namque in hac vita corruptioni nos esse subjectos, jam de flagello disciplinae est. Aestu enim et frigore, fame sitique turbari, morbis affici, quandoque etiam exstingui, quid sunt haec aliud quam flagella peccati? Sed sunt nonnulli qui et flagella tolerant, et tamen mentem ad flagellantis metum minime reformant. Unde recte nunc dicitur. Cor eorum longe fecisti a disciplina.
Ver. 4.—'Their heart hast thou set far from discipline.' 36. God makes the heart of the wicked to be far from discipline only by permitting it.—For if they had kept the custody of discipline, and had by no means despised the precepts of our Redeemer, the very mortality of their flesh would have roused them to the love of immortal life. For this very thing, that we are in this life subject to corruption, already belongs to the scourge of discipline. For to be troubled by heat and cold, by hunger and thirst, to be afflicted with diseases, and at length even to be extinguished—what are these but the scourges of sin? But there are some who both endure the scourges, and yet by no means reform their mind to the fear of him who scourges. Whence it is now rightly said: 'Their heart hast thou set far from discipline.'
第四節——「你使他們的心遠離管教。」三十六、神使惡人的心遠離管教，僅僅是藉著容許。——因為他們若曾持守管教的看守，並絕不藐視我們救贖主的命令，那麼他們肉體本身的必死性便會激動他們去愛慕不死的生命。因為我們在今生受敗壞轄制這事本身，已屬於管教的鞭打。原來受冷熱、飢渴的困擾，被疾病所折磨，末後甚至被消滅——這些若非罪的鞭打，還能是什麼呢？但有些人既忍受鞭打，卻絕不把自己的心思改造成敬畏那鞭打者。故此如今恰當地說：「你使他們的心遠離管教。」
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Quia etsi corpus sub disciplina est, cor sub disciplina non est, dum et flagellatur quisque, et tamen ad humilitatem mentis non reducitur. Neque ita hoc dicitur ac si omnipotens et misericors Deus longe cor hominis a disciplina faciat, sed quod sponte delapsum ibi remanere ubi cecidit judicando per- mittat, sicut ei in oratione quoque dicimus. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem ( Matth. vi, 13); id est, induci minime permittas. Sequitur:
For although the body is under discipline, the heart is not under discipline, while a man is both scourged and yet not brought back to humility of mind. Nor is this said as if the almighty and merciful God set the heart of man far from discipline, but that he by his judgment permits it, having fallen away of its own accord, to remain where it fell—just as we also say to him in prayer: 'And lead us not into temptation' (Matt. vi, 13); that is, permit us by no means to be led. There follows:
因為雖然身體在管教之下，心卻不在管教之下，就是當人既被鞭打、卻仍不被帶回心思的謙卑之時。這話並非說那全能而慈悲的神使人的心遠離管教，而是說他藉自己的判斷，容許那出於自願而墮落的心，停留在它跌倒之處——正如我們在禱告中也對他說：「不叫我們遇見試探」（馬太福音六13）；也就是說，求你絕不容許我們被引入。接著說：