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I bid. — Et praecipitabit eum consilium suum. 12. Suo unusquisque impius consilio in praeceps fuit. — Habet nunc consilium suum, omnis iniquus praesentia appetere, b aeterna deserere, injusta agere, justa deridere; sed cum judex justorum injustorum- que venerit, suo unusquisque impius consilio praeci- pitatur, quia per hoc quod hic appetere pravis cogi- tationibus elegit, in aeterni supplicii tenebras mergi- tur. Quem enim hic gloria temporalis extollit, illic sine termino poena premit. Qui hic in voluptate lae- tatus est, illic perpetua ultione cruciatur.
Same verse. — And his own counsel shall cast him down headlong. 12. Every wicked man is cast headlong by his own counsel. — Every unrighteous man has now his own counsel: to crave things present, to forsake things eternal, to do unjust things, to deride just things; but when the Judge of the righteous and the unrighteous shall come, every wicked man is cast headlong by his own counsel, because through the fact that he here chose to crave with depraved thoughts, he is plunged into the darkness of eternal punishment. For him whom temporal glory here exalts, there punishment presses down without end. He who here rejoiced in pleasure, there is tormented with perpetual vengeance.
同節。——他自己的計謀必使他仆倒。十二、各人被自己的計謀推入深淵。——每一個不義的人如今都有自己的計謀：貪求今世的事，撇棄永恆的事，行不義的事，譏笑公義的事；但當審判義人與不義人的審判者來到時，各人都被自己的計謀推入深淵，因為他在此以邪念揀選了貪求，便被投入永刑的黑暗中。今世被暫時榮耀所高舉的人，在那裏被刑罰無盡地壓下。在此以逸樂為樂的人，在那裏受永遠報應的折磨。
656:2
Et fit ple- rumque ut ipsa hujus mundi prosperitas, quae ab impiis inhianter appetitur, eorum gressus ita obliget, ut etiam cum ad bona opera voluerint redire, vix possint, quia recta agere non valent cum mundi hu- jus amatoribus 440 displicere timent. Unde agitur ut per gloriam quam impius ex peccato assequitur ejus adhuc peccata amplius multiplicentur, quod bene Baldad exprimit cum subjungit:
And it very often comes to pass that the very prosperity of this world, which is greedily craved by the wicked, so binds their steps that even when they wish to return to good works, they scarcely can, because they cannot act rightly while they fear to displease the lovers of this world. Whence it comes about that through the glory which the ungodly man attains from sin, his sins are still further multiplied — which Baldad well expresses when he subjoins:
並且常有這樣的事：這世界的亨通，就是惡人所貪婪追求的，竟如此束縛他們的腳步，以致他們縱然願意回轉行善，也幾乎不能，因為他們懼怕得罪這世界的愛好者，便不能行正道。故此便有這樣的結果：不敬虔的人藉罪所得的榮耀，反使他的罪更加增多——這正是比勒達接著所巧妙表達的：