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17. Etsi gravia jam passa sit Ecclesia, longe graviora passura elt. — Multa enim talia sanct» Ecciesi doloribus pressa dictura est. Tantis quippe illam futurum est tribulationibus angustari, ut hæc tempora cum magno suspirio desideret quæ nos cum magno dolore toleramus. Dicat ergo, dicat per vocem beati Job: Quis mihi tribuat ut sim juxta menses pristinos ? Quia enim statutus dierum numerus menses vocantur, quid aliud nomine signat mensium, nisi c llectiones animarum ? Dies quippe dum colliguntur in mensibus, subtrahuntur, quia et in hoc tempre sancta Ecclesia, dum veritatis luce splendentes animas colligit, in intimis abscondit.
17. Though the Church has already suffered grievous things, it shall suffer far more grievous. — For the holy Church, pressed by griefs, is to speak many such things. For she is to be so straitened by such great tribulations that she shall long, with deep sighing, for these times which we now endure with great grief. Let her say, then, let her say through the voice of blessed Job: 'Who will grant me that I may be as in the former months?' For since the appointed number of days is called months, what else does she signify by the name of months but the gatherings of souls? For the days, while they are gathered into months, are withdrawn; because in this time also the holy Church, while she gathers the souls that shine with the light of truth, hides them within her inmost parts.
十七、教會雖已受過嚴重的苦難，卻要受更嚴重的苦難。——因為聖教會被憂傷所壓，要說許多這樣的話。因為她要被如此大的患難所困窘，以致她要深深歎息，切慕如今我們懷著大憂傷所忍受的這些時候。那麼，讓她說吧，讓她藉蒙福約伯的口說：「誰使我如往昔的月份？」既然所定的日數被稱為月份，她以月份之名所指的，豈不就是眾靈魂的聚集嗎？因為日子被聚集入月份之中時，便被收去了；因為在此時聖教會一面聚集那些以真理之光發光的靈魂，一面又將他們藏在她最深處。
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Aliquando etiam mensis pro perfectione ponitur, sicut propheta ait: Erit mensis ex mense (Isai. LXVI, 23); perfectio videlicet eis in requie, quibus nunc perfectio fuerit in operatione. [Vet. IX.] Reminiscatur ergo perfectionis priBtinae, reducat ad memoriam quanta a praedicalione sua collectis animabus reporlabat lucra, et angustata tribulationibus dicat: Quis mihi tribuat, ut sim juxta menses pristinos? In quibus profecto mensibus qualis fuerit, epumerando subjungit, dicens:
Sometimes also a month is put for perfection, as the prophet says: 'There shall be month from month' (Isa. 66:23); namely, perfection in rest for those who now have had perfection in labor. Let her therefore remember her former perfection, let her bring back to memory how great the gains were which she used to bring back from her preaching, from the souls gathered, and, straitened by tribulations, let her say: 'Who will grant me that I may be as in the former months?' In which months, indeed, she subjoins, enumerating what she was, saying:
有時月份也用來指完全，正如先知所說：「必有月與月」（賽六十六23）；就是那些如今在勞苦中得完全的人，將在安息中得完全。因此，讓她記念從前的完全，讓她回想她從前傳道時、從所聚集的靈魂中所帶回的收獲何等豐盛，並在患難的困窘中說：「誰使我如往昔的月份？」在那些月份中，她確實接著列舉自己從前的光景，說：