Latin original · 2 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss · long chapter, split into parts; this part covers 1:112–1:113 (113 verses in all)
1:112
Additur conscribentium et praedicantium qualitas, quod diuina homines, excelsa uiles, infacundi subtilia non, nisi diuino repleti spiritu, tradidissent; tum praedicationis uirtus, quae mundum, licet a paucis despectis praedicaretur, obtinuit. 2. Accedunt his testificatio contrariorum, ut sibyllarum uel philosophorum, expulsio aduersariorum, utilitas consequentium, exitus eorum quae per acceptiones et figuras praedictionesque praedicta sunt; ad postremum miracula iugiter facta, donec scriptura ipsa susciperetur a gentibus, de qua hoc nunc ad maximum miraculum sufficit, quod ab omnibus suscepta cognoscitur. 30. Vbi sit fides religioni necessaria.
There is added the character of those who wrote and preached, in that men would not have delivered divine things, lofty things being themselves lowly, and subtle things being themselves uneloquent, unless they had been filled with the divine Spirit; then the power of the preaching, which, though preached by a few despised men, took possession of the world. 2. To these are added the testimony of opposites, such as of the Sibyls or the philosophers; the casting-out of adversaries; the usefulness of those who follow; the outcome of those things which were foretold through the receptions and figures and predictions; and lastly the miracles continually wrought, until the Scripture itself was received by the nations—concerning which it now suffices to count this as the greatest miracle, that it is known to have been received by all. 30. Where faith is necessary to religion.
此外還有那些書寫並傳講之人的品格，因為這些人本是卑微的，卻傳講崇高的事；本是不善言辭的，卻傳講精深的事；若非被神的靈充滿，他們斷不能傳講這些神聖的事；再者是傳道的能力，這道雖由少數被人輕看的人所傳，卻得著了全世界。2. 此外還要加上反對者的見證，如西比拉或哲士的見證；敵對者的被逐；隨從者的得益；那些藉領受、預表和預言所預先說明之事的結局；末了還有不斷所行的神蹟，直到聖經本身被列邦所接受——關於這一點，如今只需將此事算為最大的神蹟就夠了，就是它被眾人所接受乃是眾所周知的。30. 信德在何處對宗教是必須的。
1:113
[Delta] Quodsi diuinae scripturae probationibus sufficiunt, quid necessaria est religioni fides? [Mu] Fides nostra super rationem quidem est; non tamen temerarie et irrationabiliter assumitur: ea enim quae ratio edocet fides intellegit, et ubi ratio defecerit, fides praecurrit. Non enim utcumque audita credimus, sed ea quae ratio non improbat. Quae uero consequi ad plenum non potest fideli prudentia confitemur.
[The Student] But if the proofs of the divine Scriptures are sufficient, what need is there of faith for religion? [The Master] Our faith is indeed above reason; yet it is not taken up rashly and without reason: for those things which reason teaches, faith understands; and where reason fails, faith runs on ahead. For we do not believe whatever we have heard in any manner, but those things which reason does not disprove. But those things which we cannot fully attain by reason, we confess with a believing prudence.
〔學生〕但若神聖經書的明證已經足夠，宗教又何必需要信德呢？〔教師〕我們的信德誠然超乎理性之上；然而它並非鹵莽、無理性地被接受：因為凡理性所教導的，信德便領會；理性所不及之處，信德便先行。因為我們並非把所聽見的一概都信，乃是信那理性所不否定的。至於那些我們無法藉理性完全達到的事，我們便以信徒的明智來承認。