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V ers. 6. — Posuit me quasi in proverbium vulgi: d et exemplum sum coram eis. 40. De electorum flagellis stulta vulgi opinio. — Haec beatus Job dicat ex se, dicat ex vocibus omnium electorum. Omnis quippe qui flagello percutitur quasi in proverbium ponitur vulgi, quia 431 stultus quis- que dum cuiquam maledicere appetit, ex illius simi- litudine maledictionem sumit, quem percussum tem- poraliter videt, eamque poenam suo optat adversario quam evenisse conspicit justo. Sicque fit ut non recte sapientibus in exemplum deducatur rectus, dum et poena justi esse damnatio creditur, et quae illi maneat gloria nulla spe fidei praevidetur. Sequitur:
Verse 6.—'He hath made me as it were a byword of the vulgar, and I am an example before them.' 40. The foolish opinion of the crowd concerning the scourges of the elect.—These things blessed Job may say of himself, and may say in the voice of all the elect. For everyone who is smitten with a scourge is set, as it were, as a byword of the crowd, because whenever some foolish person wishes to curse another, he takes his curse from the likeness of him whom he sees temporally afflicted, and wishes upon his adversary that punishment which he beholds to have befallen the just. And so it comes to pass that the upright man is held up as an example to those who are not rightly wise, since the punishment of the just is believed to be a condemnation, while the glory that awaits him is foreseen by no hope of faith. There follows:
第六節——「他使我成為眾人的笑柄，我在他們面前作了鑑戒。」40. 論眾人對選民所受鞭打的愚昧看法。——這些話有福的約伯既可就自己而說，也可以一切選民的口吻而說。因為凡被鞭打所擊打的人，都被眾人當作笑柄；因為每逢有愚昧的人想咒罵別人時，就從他所見在今世遭擊打之人的樣式取來咒詛，並將他所見臨到義人身上的刑罰願加在自己的仇敵身上。於是就有這樣的事：義人在那些不真有智慧的人面前竟被當作鑑戒，因為義人所受的刑罰被視為定罪，而那存留給他的榮耀卻無人憑信德的盼望預先看見。接著說：