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V ers. 10. — Nudis et incedentibus absque ve titu, et esurientibus tulerunt spicas 66. Haeretici sanctorum Patrum doctrinam auferunt otiosis et incautis.—Quod ait nudis, hoc replicat, absque vestitu; sed aliud est nudum esse, aliud nudum ince- dere. Omnis enim qui nec bona nec mala operatur, nudus est et otiosus; qui autem mala agit, nudus in- cedit, quia sine velamine boni operis per iter c pra- vitatis pergit. Sunt vero nonnulli qui, malum suae nequitiae cognoscentes, d satiari pane justitiae festi nant, percipere sacri eloquii dicta desiderant. Qui quoties Patrum sententias pro aedificandis men(??)b(??)s in cogitatione versant, quasi de bona segete spicas portant.
Verse 10. — From the naked and those going about without clothing, and from the hungry, they took away the ears of grain. 66. Heretics take away the doctrine of the holy Fathers from the idle and the incautious. — What he said, 'from the naked,' this he repeats, 'without clothing'; but it is one thing to be naked, another to go about naked. For everyone who works neither good nor evil is naked and idle; but he who does evil goes about naked, because he proceeds without the covering of good work along the path of depravity. But there are some who, recognizing the evil of their wickedness, hasten to be satisfied with the bread of righteousness, and desire to receive the words of the sacred utterance. These, as often as they turn over the sentences of the Fathers in their thought for the building up of their minds, carry, as it were, ears of grain from a good field.
第十節——他們從赤身者、無衣行走者、飢餓者身上奪去麥穗。六十六、異端者從懶惰無防備的人身上奪去眾聖教父的道理。——他所說的「從赤身者」，又以「無衣」重述；但「赤身」是一回事，「赤身行走」又是另一回事。因為凡既不行善也不作惡的，是赤身而閒懶的；而作惡的，卻是赤身行走，因為他沒有善行的遮蓋，便沿邪惡之路而行。但有些人認清自己邪惡之惡，便急切要以公義之餅得飽足，渴望領受聖言的話語。這等人每當在思念中翻閱眾教父的話語以造就己心時，便彷彿從美田中攜帶麥穗。
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Haeretici igitur nudis et incedentibus absque ve titu et esurientibus spicas tollunt, quia sive qui- dam otiosi sint, et in nullis se e bonis exerceant, seu per iter impudentiae absque velamine boni operis pergant, etiam si quando jam ad poenitentiam redire cupiunt, et pabulum verbi concupiscunt, eis esu- rientibus spicas tollunt, quia in eorum mente perni- ciosis persuasionibus Patrum sententias destruunt. Nec immerito spicas signare Patrum sententias dici- mus, quia sae,e dum per figurata eloquia pruferun- tur, 526 ab eis tegmen litterae quasi aristarum paleas subtrahimus, ut medulla spiritus reficiamur. Sequitur:
The heretics, therefore, take away the ears of grain from the naked and those going about without clothing and from the hungry, because whether certain persons are idle and exercise themselves in no good works, or proceed along the path of shamelessness without the covering of good work — even if at some time they now desire to return to penitence and long for the food of the word — the heretics take away the ears of grain from them as they hunger, because in their mind they destroy the sentences of the Fathers by pernicious persuasions. And not undeservedly do we say that ears of grain signify the sentences of the Fathers, because often, when they are brought forth through figurative expressions, we strip from them the covering of the letter as though it were the chaff of the husks, that we may be refreshed by the marrow of the spirit. There follows:
所以異端者從赤身者、無衣行走者和飢餓者身上奪去麥穗，因為無論某些人是懶惰、不在任何善事上操練自己，或是沒有善行的遮蓋、沿無恥之路而行——縱使他們如今有時渴望回轉悔改、切慕聖言之糧——異端者仍在他們飢餓時奪去麥穗，因為他們以害人的勸誘在這些人心中毀壞眾教父的話語。我們說麥穗表明眾教父的話語，並非無理，因為當這些話語藉比喻的言辭表達出來時，我們往往從其中剝去字面的外皮，如同麥芒的糠秕，好使我們得靈之精髓的滋養。接著說：