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I bid. — Et erat vir ille simplex et rectus. 16. Simplicitatem et rectitudinem tenuit. — In rectitudine justitia, in simplicitate autem mansuetu- do signatur. Plerumque nos cum rectitudinem ju- stitiae exsequimur, mansuetudinem relinquimus; et cum mansuetudinem servare cupimus, justitiae recti- tudinem declinamus. Incarnatus 22 vero Dominus simplicitatem cum rectitudine tenuit: quia nec in mansuetudine districtionem justitiae, nec rursum in districtione justitiae virtutem mansuetudinis amisit. Unde cum quidam, deducta adultera, hunc tentare voluissent, ut in culpam aut immansuetudinis aut in- justitiae laberetur, ad utraque respondit dicens:
The same place. — And that man was simple and upright. 16. He held simplicity and uprightness. — In uprightness justice, but in simplicity meekness, is signified. Very often, when we pursue the uprightness of justice, we forsake meekness; and when we desire to keep meekness, we turn aside from the uprightness of justice. But the incarnate Lord held simplicity together with uprightness: because neither in meekness did He lose the strictness of justice, nor again in the strictness of justice the virtue of meekness. Whence, when certain men, having brought forward the adulteress, wished to tempt Him, that He might fall into the fault either of unmeekness or of injustice, He answered to both, saying:
同處。——那人完全、正直。十六、他持守純樸與正直。——在正直中表明公義，在純樸中則表明溫柔。往往當我們追求公義的正直時，就撇棄溫柔；當我們渴望持守溫柔時，就偏離公義的正直。然而道成肉身的主同時持守純樸與正直：因為祂既不在溫柔中失去公義的嚴謹，也不在公義的嚴謹中失去溫柔之德。故此，當有些人帶著行淫的婦人前來，想要試探祂，好使祂陷入或不溫柔或不公義的過失時，祂對二者回答說：
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Qui sine peccalo e t vestrum, primus in illam lapidem mit· tat ( Joan., viii, 7). Dat simplicitatem mansuetudinis qui sine peccato est vestrum; dat zelum justitiae, pri- mus in illam lapidem mittat. Unde et ei propheta dicit: Intende, prospere procede, et regna propter veritatem et mansuetudinem et justitiam ( Psal xliv, 5). Veri- tatem quippe exsequens, mansuetudinem cum justi- tia conservavit; ut nec zelum rectitudinis in mansue- tudinis pondere amitteret, nec rursum pondus man- suetudinis zelo rectitudinis perturbaret. Sequitur:
'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her' (John viii, 7). He gives the simplicity of meekness who says, 'He that is without sin among you'; He gives the zeal of justice, 'let him first cast a stone at her.' Whence also the prophet says to Him: 'Attend, prosper, proceed, and reign for the sake of truth and meekness and justice' (Ps. xliv, 5). For, pursuing truth, He preserved meekness together with justice; so that neither did He lose the zeal of uprightness in the weight of meekness, nor again disturb the weight of meekness by the zeal of uprightness. There follows:
「你們中間誰是沒有罪的，誰就可以先拿石頭打她」（約翰福音八章7節）。祂賜下溫柔的純樸，就是那說「你們中間誰是沒有罪的」；祂賜下公義的熱心，就是那「誰就可以先拿石頭打她」。故此，先知也對祂說：「留意，亨通，前進，為真理、謙德、公義掌權」（詩篇四十四篇5節，按拉丁本）。因為祂追求真理，就將溫柔與公義一同保守；以致祂既不在溫柔的分量中失去正直的熱心，也不因正直的熱心而擾亂溫柔的分量。接下來說：