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V ers. 13. — Parcet illi, et non derelinquet illud, et celabit 474 in gutture suo. 14. Hypocritae est perpetrata nunquam confiteri.— Malo enim quod diligit, parcit, quia non hoc in se- metipsum poenitendo persequitur. Unde el additur: Non derelinquet il(??)ud. Si enim vellet relinquere, ne- quaquam parceret, quia persequeretur. Sed hoc ce- lat in gutture, quia sic servat in cogitatione, ut nun- quam proferat in voce. Sequitur:
Verse 13. — 'He will spare it, and not forsake it, and will conceal it in his throat.' — It belongs to the hypocrite never to confess the things he has committed. — For he spares the evil which he loves, because he does not pursue it against himself by repenting of it. Whence it is added: 'He will not forsake it.' For if he wished to forsake it, he would in no way spare it, because he would pursue it. But he conceals it in his throat, because he so keeps it in thought that he never brings it forth in the voice. There follows:
第十三節。——「他必愛惜它，不肯放棄，把它藏在喉嚨裡。」——偽善者的特點是從不承認自己所犯的事。——因為他愛惜自己所喜愛的惡，因為他不藉著懊悔去攻擊己身而追討它。故此補充說：「他不肯放棄它。」因為他若肯放棄，就絕不愛惜它，因為他必追討它。但他把它藏在喉嚨裡，因為他把它存在思念中，卻從不用口說出來。接著說：