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Noli assumere unam loquendi familiaritatem, et declinare alias. Sed quod scire uni utile est, sciatur ab omnibus. Audi Dominum quid dicat: Quod dico vobis in tenebris, dicite in lumine; quod in aure auditis, praedicate super tecta (Matth. xvn). Hoc est, si quid vobis in secreto mentis fuerit revelatum, palam dicite: et quod corde concepistis, omnibus manifestate. Si bonum est quod loqueris, cur una tantum et non omnes potius informentur? Si turpe est, nec cogitare, nec loqui debes, quod alias erubesscis scire. Non jam de bono est, quod singulariter virgo loquitur. Omnis enim qui male agit, ait Dominus odit lucem (Joan. III). Unde et ille philosophorum prudentissimus dixit:
Do not adopt one familiarity of speech, and shun others. But what is useful for one to know, let it be known by all. Hear what the Lord says: 'What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light; what you hear in the ear, preach upon the housetops' (Matthew 10). That is, if anything has been revealed to you in the secret of the mind, say it openly: and what you have conceived in the heart, make manifest to all. If what you speak is good, why should one only, and not rather all, be informed? If it is base, you ought neither to think nor to speak what you would blush for others to know. It is no longer of the good, what a virgin speaks privately. For everyone who does evil, says the Lord, hates the light (John 3). Whence also that most prudent of philosophers said:
不要採取一種與某人親密的言談，而避開別人。乃要把對一人有益可知道的，讓眾人都知道。你聽主怎麼說：「我在暗中告訴你們的，要在明處說出來；你們耳中所聽的，要在房上宣揚出來」（馬太福音十章）。這就是說，若有甚麼在你心思隱密處向你顯明，就要公開地說：你心中所領會的，要向眾人顯明。你所說的若是善的，為何只叫一人、而不寧可叫眾人都得知？若是醜事，你就既不該思想、也不該說那你以為叫別人知道會羞愧的事。童貞女私下所說的，就不再是出於善的。因為主說，凡作惡的就恨光（約翰福音三章）。所以那最謹慎的哲士也說：
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« Omnia recte facta in luce se amant collocari. > 0 virgo ideo occulte loqueris, quia non est unde publice glorieris. Sed si aures et oculos humanos fallis, nunquid Dei cognitionem fallere poteris? Pulchre ei alius ait: « Quod vis Deum nescire, nec agas, nec cogites. » Sit ergo tibi conscientia innocua, sermo liber a culpa. Respuenda nec audire te, nec cogitare delectet; multo minus loqui, vel agere.
'All things rightly done love to be placed in the light.' O virgin, you speak secretly for this reason, because there is nothing whereof you might publicly glory. But if you deceive human ears and eyes, can you possibly deceive the knowledge of God? Beautifully does another say: 'What you wish God not to know, neither do nor think.' Let your conscience therefore be harmless, your speech free from fault. Let nothing worthy of rejection delight you either to hear or to think; much less to speak or to do.
「凡正當所行的事，都喜愛被擺在光中。」哦，童貞女啊，你私下說話的緣故，乃是因為沒有可公開誇耀的。但你縱然欺瞞人的耳目，豈能欺瞞神的鑒察麼？另一人說得美：「凡你願神不知道的，就不要行、也不要想。」所以願你的良心無虧，言語無過。凡當棄絕的，無論是聽是想，都不要以之為樂；更不要說、更不要行。