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65. Super ventum sedet, qui transitoriis successibus lætatur. Adversitas non dejicit, quem prosperitas non corrumpit. — Quia praesentis vitae gloria quasi in alto cernitur, sed nulla stabilitate solidalur, velut elevatus super ventum ponitur, qui prosperitate transitoria lactatur, a quoniam ad hoc solum hunc fugitivæ felicitatis aura sublevat, ut repente deterius in infimis sternat. Quia enim sancta Ecclesia cunctis in honore est, infirmi quique in ea qui transitoriis b successionibus lætantur, quo nisi super ventum positi videntur elevati?
65. He sits upon the wind who rejoices in transitory successes. Adversity does not cast down him whom prosperity does not corrupt. — Because the glory of the present life is beheld as it were on high, but is made firm by no stability, he who is gladdened by transitory prosperity is set as one lifted up upon the wind — since the breeze of fleeting felicity raises him for this end alone, that suddenly it may lay him lower among the lowest. For because holy Church is in honour with all men, those weak ones within her who are gladdened by transitory successes — as what else are they seen but lifted up, set upon the wind?
六十五、那因短暫成就而歡喜的，坐在風上。逆境不能傾覆那不被順境敗壞的人。——因為今生的榮耀彷彿在高處被人瞻望，卻沒有任何穩固的根基，那因短暫順境而快樂的人，就如同被高舉、置於風上——因為那飄忽福樂的微風把他升高，唯獨為要突然把他摔落到最卑下之處。因為聖教會既在眾人中間受尊崇，她裡面那些因短暫成就而歡喜的軟弱之人——他們除了顯為被高舉、置於風上之外，還能是什麼呢？
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quia subsequente persecuLionis tempore, dum prosperitatis aura pertransit, eorum protinus elevatio corruit, et repente cadentes discunt, quia elevati prius e in ventum sederunt. Que videlicet verba etiam sancti viri personæ specialiter congruunt, non ad id quod erat, sed ad id quod esse videbatur. Neque enim mentem illius prosperitas fugitiva levaverat, quam inter tot rerum affluentias miro semper virtutis pondere premebat; sed juxta hoc quod videri exterius potuit, qui in suis humilis, in alienis oculis elevatus fuit, ei quasi super ventum positus, elisus est valide, quia rebus exterioribus fultus, unde æstimabatur surgere, videbatur inde cecidisse.
For, in the following time of persecution, while the breeze of prosperity passes by, their exaltation forthwith collapses, and, falling suddenly, they learn that, being first exalted, they had sat upon the wind. These words indeed agree in a special way also with the person of the holy man — not as regards that which he was, but that which he seemed to be. For fleeting prosperity had not lifted up his mind, which amid so great an affluence of things he ever pressed down with a wondrous weight of virtue; but according to that which could appear outwardly, he who was humble in his own eyes, but exalted in the eyes of others, was, as one set upon the wind, dashed down mightily — because, propped up by outward things, he seemed to have fallen from that whence he was thought to rise.
因為，在隨後逼迫的時候，當順境的微風掠過時，他們的高升立即崩塌，並且突然墜落，就學到自己起初被高舉時，原是坐在風上。這些話確實也以特殊的方式與聖人的位格相合——不是就他實際所是的而言，乃是就他所顯為的而言。因為飄忽的順境並未高抬他的心；他在如此豐盛的產業之中，總以奇妙的德行之重壓制他的心；但按外表所能顯出的，他在自己眼中卑微、在別人眼中卻被高舉，就如置於風上的人，被猛烈摔下——因為他既倚靠外物，就顯得從那被人以為上升之處墜落了。
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Quem videlicet casum sanctus vir in mente non pertulit, quia nulla adversitas dejicit, quem prosperitas nulla corrumpit. Qui enim veritati inhæret, vanitali nullo modo succumbit, quia dum forti pede cogitationis intus intentionem flerit, omne quod foras mutabiliter agitur, ad arcem mentis minime pertingit. Sequitur:
This fall, indeed, the holy man did not suffer in his mind, because no adversity casts down him whom no prosperity corrupts. For he who cleaves to truth in no way succumbs to vanity, because while with the strong foot of thought he fixes his intention within, everything that is transacted mutably without in no way reaches the citadel of the mind. There follows:
這墜落，聖人的確在心裡並未經受，因為凡不被順境敗壞的人，逆境絕不能傾覆。因為那依附真理的人，絕不屈服於虛空，因為當他以思想的堅穩腳步在內裡固定他的心志時，凡在外面變幻不定所行的一切，絲毫觸不到他心靈的堡壘。接著說：