On the Holy Spirit 2

Latin original · 5 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

2:1

PASCHASII EPISTOLA AD EUGIPIUM. Domino sancto semperque carissimo Eugipio pres bytero Paschasius diaconus frater in Christo caris- IUS. Dum sanctos peritiæ tuæ facundia ct otii felici late, perpendens amaritudines,occupationesque mul tiplices peccatorum, te tractare contemnis : pudoris jacturarn dilect onis contemplatione sustineo. Di rexisti commemoratorium,cui nihil possit adjicere facundia peritor m;

THE EPISTLE OF PASCHASIUS TO EUGIPIUS. To the holy lord, ever most dear, Eugipius the presbyter, Paschasius the deacon, a brother in Christ most dear. While, with the eloquence of your skill and the felicity of your leisure, weighing the bitternesses and the manifold occupations of sinners, you scorn to treat [this matter] yourself, I endure the loss of modesty out of regard for love. You have directed a memorandum, to which the eloquence of the skilled could add nothing;

帕斯卡西烏斯致尤吉皮烏斯的書信。聖潔的主，永遠最親愛的尤吉皮烏斯長老，在基督裡最親愛的弟兄、執事帕斯卡西烏斯〔謹啟〕。你以你才學的口才和閒暇的福分，衡量罪人的苦楚與種種繁忙，竟不屑親自著手處理此事；為著愛的緣故，我便甘願承受失了謙退之名。你已寄來一份備忘錄，連有學問之人的口才也無可增添；

2:2

et opus quod Ecclesiæ possit universitas recensere, brevi reserasti compendio, dnm beati Severini finitimas Pannoniorum provin cias incolentis vitam moresque verius explicasti, et quæ per illum divina virtus est opcrata miracula diu turnis mansura temporibus tra :fidisti memoriæ poste rorum. Nesciunt facta pinnum perire cum sæculo : ut omnes præsentem hab aut, et secumquodammodo sentiant commorari, quilus cum relatio pervexerit lectionis. Et ideo quia tu haec quæ a ine narranda poscebas, elocutus es simplicius, explicasti facilius: nihit adjiciendum labori vestro, studio nostro credi- dimus. Siquidem aliter audita narramus, aliter ex perta depromimus.

and you have unlocked in a brief compendium a work which the whole Church might review, when you most truly set forth the life and character of blessed Severinus, who dwelt in the provinces of the Pannonians on their borders, and you handed down to the memory of posterity, to last for enduring times, the miracles which the divine power wrought through him. They know not that deeds perish along with the age, so that all may hold him present, and in a manner feel him to be dwelling among them, to whom the account of the reading shall reach. And therefore, because you have uttered more simply, and unfolded more easily, these things which you asked to be narrated by me, we have believed that nothing is to be added to your labor or to our zeal. For we narrate things heard in one way, but set forth things experienced in another.

你以簡短的提要展開了一部全教會都可審閱的著作，因你極其真實地陳明了那居住在潘諾尼亞人邊境諸省、有福的塞維利努斯的生平與品行，又將神能藉他所行、必存到久遠時代的神蹟，傳給後人記念。他們不知道，事蹟並非隨著時代消逝，乃要使凡那段記述所傳到的人，都能把他當作仍在眼前，並彷彿感到他住在他們中間。所以，因你已將你所求我敘述的這些事，說得更為樸實，展開得更為容易，我們便認定，你的勞苦與我們的熱忱都無需再加添甚麼。因為我們敘述所聽見的事是一回事，陳明所經歷的事又是一回事。

2:3

Facilius virtutes magistrorum a discipulis exponuntur (quæ suggeruntur crebrius conversatione docentium.) divinis charismatibus inspi ratis sanctis honorum mentihus excolendis. Quantum gesta sanctorum utilitatis impertiant, quantum fervoris attribuant, quantum puritatis in fundant : de hac re apostolicae vocis auctoritas latius innotescens (/ Petr. v) : Forma, inquit, facti gregi, et beatus Paulus Timotheo præcipit ( II Tim. II), formam esse fidetibus. Unde idem apostolus (Hebr. XIII) justorum catalogum summa b: evitate contexens, ab Abel incip ens, insignium virorum pergit narrare virtutes.

The virtues of masters are more easily expounded by disciples (which are suggested more frequently by the conversation of teachers), [the hearts of saints] inspired by divine charisms being to be cultivated for honors. How much benefit the deeds of the saints impart, how much fervor they bestow, how much purity they instill—on this matter the authority of the apostolic voice, making it more widely known (I Pet. V): 'A pattern,' he says, 'of the flock'; and blessed Paul instructs Timothy (II Tim. II) to be a pattern to the faithful. Whence the same apostle (Heb. XI), weaving together with the greatest brevity a catalogue of the righteous, beginning from Abel, proceeds to recount the virtues of distinguished men.

師傅的美德，由門徒來陳述更為容易（這些美德藉著教師日常的交往而更頻繁地被傳達），那些被神聖恩賜所感的〔聖徒之心〕當被栽培，以致得尊榮。聖徒的事蹟賜下何等的益處，激發何等的熱忱，注入何等的純潔——論到這事，使徒之言的權柄更廣為人知（彼前五）：他說「作群羊的榜樣」；有福的保羅也囑咐提摩太（提後二）作信徒的榜樣。因此，同一位使徒（來十一）以極大的簡潔，編織出義人的名錄，從亞伯起首，繼續述說那些卓越之人的美德。

2:4

Sic et ille fidelissimus Mathathias morti gloriosissimæ jam propinquans, filiis suis hæreditario jere sanctorum exempla distribuit : quorum certami- nibus admirandis celebrius excitati, animas suas pro legibus sempiternis sanctitatis fervore contemnerent. Nec paterna liberos fefellit instructio. Tantum enim profuerunt memoratis facta majorum, ut aperta fide armatos principes deterrerent, castra sacrilega supe rarent, cultus arasque dxmoniacas longe lateque di rucrent, civicamque coronam, gestis decorati peren nibus, splendenti patrine providerent. Unde et nos ornamentis sponsæ Christi quiddam fraterno mini sterio provideri gaudemus :

Thus also that most faithful Mathathias, now drawing near to a most glorious death, distributed to his sons, by a hereditary right, the examples of the saints: that, stirred up more famously by their admirable contests, they might despise their own souls for the everlasting laws, with the fervor of holiness. Nor did the paternal instruction deceive the children. For so greatly did the deeds of the elders profit those who remembered them, that, armed with open faith, they deterred princes, overcame sacrilegious camps, far and wide tore down sacrilegious worship and the altars of demons, and, adorned with everlasting deeds, provided a civic crown for their splendid fatherland. Whence we too rejoice that something is provided by our brotherly ministry for the adornments of the bride of Christ:

照樣，那極其忠信的瑪他提亞，當他臨近極其榮耀的死亡時，便照承繼的權利，把眾聖徒的榜樣分給他的眾子：好叫他們因那些可欽佩的爭戰而更出名地被激勵，以聖潔的熱忱，為著永遠的律法而輕看自己的性命。父親的教導並沒有叫眾子失望。因為先祖的事蹟對那些記念之人大有益處，以致他們以公開的信心為軍裝，使君王畏懼，勝過褻瀆的營壘，將褻瀆的敬拜和鬼魔的祭壇四圍遠近拆毀，並以永存的事蹟為裝飾，為他們光輝的祖國贏得了公民的冠冕。因此，我們也歡喜，藉著弟兄的服事，有些東西被預備來裝飾基督的新婦：

2:5

non quo ullis, ut credo, temporibus defuerit clarior vita majorum, sed quod domum magni Regis plurimorum vexilla tropaeorurn habere convenat. Non enim vera virtus excluditur numerositate victorum, sed optatis successibus eate nus ampliatur.

not as though, I believe, in any times the more illustrious life of the elders has been lacking, but because it is fitting that the house of the great King should have the standards of very many trophies. For true virtue is not excluded by the multitude of the victorious, but is the more enlarged by desired successes.

我相信，這並非因為先祖那更為光輝的生命在任何時代曾經缺乏，乃是因為大君王的家理當擁有眾多戰利品的旌旗。因為真正的美德並不因得勝者眾多而被排除，反倒因所盼望的成就而更加擴增。

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