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Gregory the Great

Moralia in Job 798

Latin original · 5 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

← ch. 797ch. 799 →
798:1
V ers. 8, 9. — Si ad Orientem iero, non apparet; si ad Occidentem, non intelligam eum; si ad sinistram, quid agam? non apprehendam eum; si me vertam ad dexteram, non videbo illum. 38. Deus invisibilis et incomprehensibilis, non in parte sed ubique quaerendus. — Creator quippe om- nium in parte non est, quia ubique est. Et tunc mi- nus invenitur, quando is qui totus ubique est in parte quaeritur. Incircumscriptus namque spiritus omnia intra semetipsum habet, quae tamen et im- plendo circumdat, et circumdando implet, et susti- nendo transcendit, et transcendendo sustinet. Bene autem postquam dictum est: Si ad Orientem iero, non apparet; si ad Occidentem, non intelligam eum;
Verses 8, 9. — If I go to the East, He appears not; if to the West, I shall not understand Him; if to the left, what shall I do? I shall not lay hold of Him; if I turn to the right, I shall not see Him. 38. God, invisible and incomprehensible, is to be sought not in one place but everywhere. — For the Creator of all is not in a part, because He is everywhere. And He is the less found when He, who is wholly everywhere, is sought in a part. For the uncircumscribed Spirit holds all things within Himself, which yet He both surrounds by filling and fills by surrounding, and transcends by sustaining and sustains by transcending. And well, after it was said: If I go to the East, He appears not; if to the West, I shall not understand Him;
第八、九節。——「我若往東去，祂不顯現；往西去，我卻不能明白祂；往左去，我當怎樣行呢？我不能把握祂；我若轉向右邊，也不得見祂。」三十八、神既不可見、不可測度，就當在各處而非只在一處尋求祂。——因為萬有的創造主不在某一部分之內，因為祂無處不在。當那全然無處不在的主被人在某一部分中尋求時，反倒越發尋不見。因為那無邊界的靈將萬有都容在自己裡面，然而祂既藉充滿而環繞，又藉環繞而充滿；既藉扶持而超越，又藉超越而扶持。在說了「我若往東去，祂不顯現；往西去，我卻不能明白祂」之後，恰當地——
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si ad sinistram quid agam? non apprehendam eum; si me vertam ad dexteram, non videbo illum; illico adjunxit: Ipse vero scit viam meam. Ac si aperte dicat: Videre non valeo videntem me, et eum qui me subti(??)iter intuetur intueri non possum; ut videlicet ostendat g quia tanto cautius formidandus est, quanto conspi- cabilis non est. Qui enim ita nos aspicit, ut a nobis aspici nequeat, eo magis timendus est, quo cuncta videns minime videtur. Cum enim contra nos latere quempiam in insidiis credimus, eo illum amplius metuimus, quo minime videmus. 516 Cumque ejus insidias nequaquam deprehendimus ubi sunt, et ibi eas meiuimus ubi non sunt.
if to the left, what shall I do? I shall not lay hold of Him; if I turn to the right, I shall not see Him — he straightway added: But He indeed knows my way. As if he openly said: I cannot see Him who sees me, and I cannot behold Him who beholds me subtly; so that plainly he may show that He is to be feared the more cautiously, the more He is not to be looked upon. For He who so regards us that He cannot be regarded by us, is the more to be feared, in that, seeing all things, He is Himself least seen. For when we believe that someone lies hidden in ambush against us, we fear him the more, the less we see him. And when we do not at all detect his snares where they are, we fear them even there where they are not.
「往左去，我當怎樣行呢？我不能把握祂；我若轉向右邊，也不得見祂」——他立即又加上說：「惟有祂知道我所行的路。」彷彿明白地說：我不能看見那看見我的，也不能觀看那精細鑒察我的；如此他要清楚顯明：祂越是不可被人看見，就越當謹慎地被人敬畏。因為那如此鑒察我們、卻不能被我們鑒察的主，越發可畏，因祂鑒察萬事，自己卻絕少被見。因為當我們相信有人埋伏暗算我們時，我們越看不見他，就越懼怕他。而當我們完全察覺不出他的詭計在何處時，我們甚至在他並不在的地方也懼怕他的詭計。
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Creator autem noster, qui ubique totus est, et cernens cuncta non cerni- tur, tanto magis metuendus est, quanto invisibilis permanens, de nostris actibus quando et quid de- cernat ignoratur. Quae tamen verba intelligi et aliter possunt. Ad Orientem quippe imus, cum mentem in consideratione majestatis ejus attollimus. Sed non apparet, quia qualis in natura sua est h a cogitatione mortali videri non praevalet. Si ad Occidentem non intelligam i eum. [ Vet.
But our Creator, who is wholly everywhere, and beholding all things is not beheld, is so much the more to be feared, in that, remaining invisible, it is unknown when and what He decrees concerning our deeds. Yet these words can also be understood otherwise. For we go to the East when we lift up the mind in the consideration of His Majesty. But He appears not, because such as He is in His own nature He cannot prevail to be seen by mortal thought. If to the West, I shall not understand Him. [Old Reading,
但我們的創造主既全然無處不在，鑒察萬事而不被鑒察，就越發可畏，因祂既仍舊不可見，人便不知祂幾時、要對我們的行為決定甚麼。然而這些話也可以另作解釋。因為當我們在思想祂的威嚴中提升心靈時，就是往東去。但祂不顯現，因祂本性中的所是，非必死的思念所能得見。「往西去，我卻不能明白祂。」〔舊譯，
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XVI.] Ad Occidentem imus cum sublevatum in Deo cordis oculum, sed ipsa im- mensitate luminis reverberatum, ad nosmetipsos re- ducimus, et lassati discimus valde super nos esse quod quaerebamus, nostramque mortalitatem consi- derantes, indignos nos adhuc esse deprehendimus qui immortalem j videre valeamus. Si ad sinistram, quid'agam non apprehendam eum. Ad sinistram ire est peccatorum delectationibus consentire. Et nimi- rum constat quia Deum apprehendere non valet qui adhuc in delectatione peccati per sinistram jacet. Si me vertam ad dexteram, non videbo illum. In dexte- ram procul dubio v(??)titur qui de virtutibus elevatur.
chapter 16.] We go to the West when we bring back to ourselves the eye of the heart that had been lifted up in God but was beaten back by the very immensity of the light; and wearied, we learn that what we were seeking is far above us; and considering our own mortality, we discover that we are as yet unworthy to be able to see the Immortal One. If to the left, what shall I do? I shall not lay hold of Him. To go to the left is to consent to the delights of sins. And assuredly it is manifest that he cannot lay hold of God who still lies on the left in the delight of sin. If I turn to the right, I shall not see Him. To the right, without doubt, he turns who is exalted by his virtues.
第十六章。〕當我們把在神裡被高舉、卻被那浩瀚之光擊退的心眼收回自己身上時，就是往西去；我們既已疲乏，就學到所尋求的遠在我們之上；並思量自己必死的境況，就發覺自己至今仍不配得見那不死的主。「往左去，我當怎樣行呢？我不能把握祂。」往左去，就是順從罪中之樂。無疑，那仍臥在罪樂之左的人，斷不能把握神。「我若轉向右邊，也不得見祂。」毫無疑問，那因自己的德行而自高的人，就是轉向右邊。
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S(??)d Deum videre non valet qui privata laetitia de bonis actibus gaudet, quia in eo cordis oculum tu- mor elationis premit. Unde bene alias dicitur: k Non declines ad dexteram, aut ad sinistram ( Deut. x (??), 11). In quibus cunctis plerumque se anima discutit, (??)ec tamen plene deprehendere semetipsam valet. Unde hic apte subditur:
But he cannot see God who rejoices in a private gladness over his good deeds, because in him the swelling of self-exaltation presses down the eye of the heart. Whence it is well said elsewhere: Turn not aside to the right hand, nor to the left (Deut. 5:32). In all which things the soul very often examines itself, and yet cannot fully discern its own self. Whence here it is aptly subjoined:
但那因自己善行而自享私喜的人，斷不能見神，因為在他裡面，自高的膨脹壓住了心眼。因此別處恰當地說：「不可偏離左右」（申五32）。在這一切事上，靈魂常常審察自己，卻仍不能完全識透自己。因此這裡恰當地接著說：
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