On the Contemplative Life 47

Latin original · 3 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

47:1

Quamvis enim ex Adam simus carnaliler nati, non ipsum tamen debemus imitari, sed Chrislum, in quo 1 renati sumus et vivimus, quando veterem conversationem salubriter innovati deponimus. Quid est imitari Adam, nisi pro carnalibus g desideriis ac concupiscentiis morte mulctari ? Et quid e t imitari Christum, nisi carnalibus concupiscentiis ac desideriis crucifigi? Sicut aliud non est veterem conversationem deponere, quam non secundum carnem, quæ veterascit et moritur, sed secundum Deum vivere, qui solus potest perseverantes in se innovare perenniter et h beare. Quapropter, sicut quando in Adam fuimus omnes, ipso cadente i cecidimus;

For although we are born carnally from Adam, yet we ought not to imitate him, but Christ, in whom we are reborn and live, when we wholesomely, being renewed, lay aside our old manner of life. What is it to imitate Adam, but to be punished with death for carnal desires and concupiscences? And what is it to imitate Christ, but to be crucified to carnal concupiscences and desires? Just as to lay aside the old manner of life is nothing other than to live, not according to the flesh, which grows old and dies, but according to God, who alone can renew and bless eternally those who persevere in Him. Wherefore, just as, when we were all in Adam, we fell when he fell;

因為雖然我們在肉身上是從亞當所生，我們卻不當效法他，乃當效法基督；我們是在基督裡重生並活著，就是當我們得了更新、有益地脫去我們舊有的生活方式時。效法亞當是什麼呢？不就是因肉體的慾望和私慾而受死的刑罰麼？效法基督又是什麼呢？不就是向肉體的私慾和慾望被釘十字架麼？正如脫去舊有的生活方式，無非就是不照那衰老並死亡的肉體，乃照神而活；唯有神能將那些堅守於祂之人永遠更新並賜福。因此，正如當我們眾人都在亞當裡時，他跌倒，我們也就跌倒了；

47:2

ita i quia in Christo jam esse coepimus, qui pro nobis omnibus dignatus est mori; et nos peccatis nostris illi commorlui, cum illo spiritualiter resurgamus. In illo omnia bona quae potuimus habere, perdidimus, in hoc etiam majora, et sine fine habenda recepturi sumus, si perseveranter ejus vestigia teneamus. Adam nos k obnoxiavit malis omnibus per propriam culpam, a quibus nos liberavit adventus Christi per gratiam. Ilte in nos culpam suam transmisit et poenam; hic, 1 qui culpam nostram suscipere ut pote conceptus et natus sine peccato non potuit, de SUIceptione poenae nostræ culpam nostram simul m abolevit et poenam:

so, because we have now begun to be in Christ, who deigned to die for us all, let us also, having died together with Him to our sins, rise again spiritually with Him. In Adam we lost all the goods that we could have had; in Christ we are about to receive even greater goods, and goods to be possessed without end, if we perseveringly hold to His footsteps. Adam made us liable to all evils by his own fault, from which the coming of Christ delivered us through grace. The former transmitted to us his fault and his penalty; the latter, who could not take upon Himself our fault, inasmuch as He was conceived and born without sin, by the taking on of our penalty abolished at once both our fault and our penalty:

照樣，因我們如今已開始在基督裡——祂俯就為我們眾人受死——我們也就要與祂一同向我們的罪而死，並與祂一同在靈裡復活。在亞當裡，我們喪失了一切我們本可擁有的福分；在基督裡，我們將要領受更大的福分，且是要永遠擁有的福分，只要我們堅忍地持守祂的腳蹤。亞當因他自己的過犯使我們受制於一切災禍，基督的降臨卻藉著恩典救我們脫離這些災禍。前者把他的過犯與刑罰傳給了我們；後者既是無罪受孕並出生，不能將我們的過犯擔在自己身上，便藉著擔當我們的刑罰，一舉廢除了我們的過犯與刑罰：

47:3

et ut totum dicam, Adam nobis eripuit paradisum, Christus n donavit coelum.

and, to say all in a word, Adam snatched paradise from us, Christ bestowed heaven upon us.

而且，一言以蔽之，亞當從我們手中奪去了樂園，基督卻將天堂賜給了我們。

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