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V ers. 5. — Ut sciam verba quae mihi respondeat, et intelligam quid loquatur mihi. 36. Occulta Dei judicia, dum metuunt, evadunt electi. — Tunc enim culpas plangimus cum pensare coeperimus. Sed tunc subtilius pensamus, cum sol- licitius plangimus, atque ex lamentis in corde no- stro f plenius nascitur quid peccantibus divina distri- ctio minatur, quae erunt illa reproborum imprope- ria, qui terror, quae implacabilis a Majestatis aversio. Tanta enim tunc Dominus reprobis iratus dicet; b quanta eos pati ex aequitate permiserit. Quae nimi- rum c verba animadversionis illius justi, dum modo sollicite metuunt, evadunt.
Verse 5. — That I may know the words which He shall answer me, and understand what He shall say unto me. 36. The elect, while they fear God's hidden judgments, escape them. — For then do we bewail our faults, when we begin to weigh them. But we weigh them the more subtly, the more solicitously we bewail them; and out of the laments in our heart is more fully born the knowledge of what the divine strictness threatens against sinners: what shall be those reproaches of the reprobate, what the terror, what the implacable turning-away of the Majesty. For so much shall the Lord, angered, then say to the reprobate as He shall in equity have permitted them to suffer. Which words of that reproof the righteous, while they now solicitously fear them, escape.
第五節。——「使我知道祂要回答我的話，明白祂要對我所說的。」三十六、選民既懼怕神隱密的審判，就得以逃脫。——因為惟有當我們開始衡量自己的過犯時，才會哀哭。但我們越殷勤地哀哭，就越精細地衡量；並且從我們心中的哀哭裡，更充分地生出這樣的認識：神的嚴厲對罪人所發的威嚇是何等的——被棄者所受的辱罵將是何等，那恐怖、那威嚴無可挽回的離棄將是何等。因為主向被棄者發怒所要說的，正是照公義所容許他們所受的那般沉重。而義人如今既殷勤地懼怕那斥責的話，就得以逃脫。
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Sed quis in illo examine inveniri justus valeat, si secundum suae fortitudinis Majestatem vitam hominum 515 discutiat Deus? Apte ergo subjungitur:
But who could be found righteous in that examination, if God should scrutinize the life of men according to the Majesty of His might? Fittingly therefore it is subjoined:
但在那查究之中，若神照祂大能的威嚴審察世人的生命，誰能被查出為義呢？因此恰當地接著說：