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I bid. — Viam ejus custodivi, et non declinavi ex ea. 42. Justorum sollicitudo est vias veritatis obser- vare. — Custodit f et non declinat, qui hoc ubi intendit operatur. Custodire quippe per intentionem, est non declinare per operationem. Haec namque est sollicitudo justorum, ut actus suos quotidie juxta vias veritatis examinent, et, ea sibi in regulam pro- ponentes, a rectudinis earum tramite non declinent. Super semetipsos quippe quotidie ire contendunt, et quo in virtutum verticem provehuntur, cauta repre- hensione dijudicant, quidquid de eis ex semetipsis remanet infra semetipsos, et totos se illo festinant trahere, ubi se inveniunt ex parte pervenisse. Se- quitur:
Same verse. — I have kept His way, and have not turned aside from it. 42. It is the solicitude of the righteous to observe the ways of truth. — He keeps and does not turn aside who works where he directs his intention. To keep, indeed, through intention, is not to turn aside through operation. For this is the solicitude of the righteous: that they daily examine their acts according to the ways of truth, and, setting these before themselves as a rule, do not turn aside from the path of their uprightness. For daily they strive to advance beyond themselves, and, the higher they are borne toward the summit of virtues, they judge with wary reproof whatever of themselves remains beneath themselves out of their own nature, and they hasten to draw the whole of themselves thither, where they find that they have in part arrived. There follows:
同節。——「我遵守了祂的道，並未偏離。」四十二、遵守真理之道乃義人的殷勤。——凡在自己所定的方向上行事的人，就是遵守而不偏離。藉專注而遵守，就是藉行為而不偏離。因為義人的殷勤正在於此：他們天天照真理的道路查驗自己的行為，把這些立為自己的規則，就不偏離其正直的路徑。因為他們天天力求超越自己，越被高舉到德行的頂峰，就越以謹慎的責備裁斷自己裡面尚落在自己之下、出於本性殘存之物，並竭力把自己全人拉往那已在部分上抵達之處。接著說：