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46. Deo permittente, licet occulto judicis, mala se perpeti novit. — Quid per pharetram Dei, nisi occultum consilium designatur ? Sagittam vern de pharetra Dominus jacit, quando de occulto consilio apertam sententiam emittit. Quia enim flagellatur quisque, cognoscimus; sed qua ei causa flagellum veniat, ignoramus. Cum vero post flagella vitae cor-, rectio sequitur, etiam ipsa consilii virtus aperitur. Puaretra igitur clausa est consilium occultum. Sed aperta pharetra affligimur, quando per id quod post flagellum sequitur quo consilio flagellamur videmus.
46. She knows that she suffers evils by God's permission, though by the hidden judgement of the Judge. — What is designated by the quiver of God, if not his hidden counsel? The Lord shoots an arrow from the quiver when from his hidden counsel he sends forth an open sentence. For that anyone is scourged, we know; but for what cause the scourge comes upon him, we know not. But when after the scourges there follows an amendment of life, then the very power of the counsel is laid open. The quiver closed, therefore, is the hidden counsel. But we are afflicted with the quiver open, when through that which follows after the scourge we see by what counsel we are scourged.
四十六。她曉得自己是照著神的許可承受患難，儘管是憑審判者隱密的判斷。——神的箭袋所表明的是甚麼，若不是他隱密的旨意？主從箭袋射出一支箭，就是當他從隱密的旨意中發出公開的判決。因為某人被責打，我們是知道的；但那責打為何緣故臨到他，我們卻不知道。但當責打之後隨著生命的改正而來時，那旨意的能力便顯明了。所以，箭袋緊閉，就是隱密的旨意。但當我們藉著責打之後所隨來的事，看出自己是按著甚麼旨意被責打時，我們便是在箭袋敞開的情形下受苦。
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Cum peccata Dominus videt, et tamen manum ad vindictam non commovet, quasi clausam pbaretram tenet, sed feriendo indicat quantum ei in nobis displicuit hoc quod diu videndo toleravit. Sancta itaque electorum Ecclesia tribulationibus pressa dicat: Pharetram enini suam aperuit, et afflixit me. Quæ adversariorum voces insolentes sustinens, dum cernit quod ejus praedlcatio non admittitur, quorumdam duritiam deserens, pradicationis suæ verba moderatur. Perpendens etenim perseculores suos ad exhorlationis suæ vocem deteriores existere, magis eligit tacere. Cumque indignos qui audiant conspicit, praedicationem suam obducio silentio astringit. Unde apte subjungit:
When the Lord sees sins, and yet does not move his hand to punishment, he holds, as it were, the quiver closed; but by striking he shows how greatly that displeased him in us which he long tolerated by seeing it. Thus the holy Church of the elect, pressed down by tribulations, may say: For he hath opened his quiver, and afflicted me. And she, bearing the insolent voices of her adversaries, when she perceives that her preaching is not received, forsaking the hardness of certain ones, tempers the words of her preaching. For perceiving that her persecutors become worse at the voice of her exhortation, she rather chooses to be silent. And when she beholds those who hear to be unworthy, she binds her preaching with a veil of silence. Whence she fitly subjoins:
當主看見罪惡，卻仍不舉手施行刑罰時，他彷彿把箭袋緊閉著；但藉著擊打，他顯明他長久容忍看在眼中的那事，是何等使他在我們身上不悅。因此，選民的聖教會被患難壓制，便可說：因為他敞開了他的箭袋，苦害了我。她既擔當仇敵狂傲的言語，當她看出她的宣講不被接受時，便撇下某些人的剛硬，節制她宣講的言語。因為她看出她的逼迫者在她勸勉的聲音下反倒更壞，便寧可選擇緘默。當她看見聽者不配時，就用緘默的帷幕約束她的宣講。因此她恰當地接著說：