哥林多後書講道集 第 4 章 第 2/2 段

Count up, therefore, the remedies that heal your wounds, and apply them all continually: humility, confession, the not bearing of grudges, the giving of thanks when suffering ill, showing mercy through money and through deeds, and praying with perseverance.

Thus the widow appeased the harsh and unfeeling judge.

But if she appeased the unjust one, much more will you appease the gentle One.

There is with these yet another way: to stand up for those who are wronged.

For 'Judge,' He says, 'for the orphan, and do justice to the widow;

and come, let us reason together, and though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow.'

What defense, then, would we be worthy of, if, having so many ways leading up to heaven, and such remedies to heal our wounds, we yet persist in the same faults even after the washing? Let us not, then, persist; but let those who have not yet fallen abide in their own beauty—or rather, let them practice it the more.

For even if one find no sins, these good deeds make one's comeliness greater;

and let us who have committed many faults use what has been said for the correction of our sins, that we may stand before the tribunal of Christ with great boldness;

which may it be granted us all to attain, by the grace and love toward mankind of our Lord Jesus Christ, with whom to the Father together with the Holy Spirit be glory, might, and honor, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.