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要理講辭第 1 章第 22/23 段

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1:3097

Ὥσπερ γάρ τό πῦρ προθύμως τῆς ὕλης, ἵν εἴπω, καί φυσικῶς ταύτης ἐπιλαμβάνεται, οὕτω και ἡ χάρις τοῦ Παναγίου καί προσκυνητοῦ Πνεύματος τῶν ἡμετέρων ψυχῶν ζητεῖ ἅψασθαι, ἵνα καί τοῖς ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ λάμψῃ καί κατευθύνῃ δι ὧν λάμπει τά τῶν πολλῶν δαβήματα, ὡς ἄν καλῶς ὁδεύοντες καί αὐτοί πλησιάσωσι τῷ πυρί καί εἷς καθ εἷςἤ καί πάντες, εἰ οἷόν τε, ὁμοῦ, ἀναφθῶσι καί ὡς θεοί λάμψωσιν ἐν μέσῳ ἡμῶν, ἵνα ἐπευλογῆται καί πληθύνηται τό σπέρμα τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἰακώβ καί μή ἐκλείψῃ θεοειδής ἄνθρωπος, λάμπων ὡς φῶς ἐπί γῆς

因為正如火熱切地、可以說是本能地抓住它的燃料，照樣，至聖可敬之靈的恩典也尋求抓住我們的魂，好叫它向世上的人發光，並藉著那些被它照亮的人，引導眾人的腳步，使他們也能行走正路，親近這火，一個一個地──甚至若可能，全都一同地──被點著，如同神一般在我們中間發光，好叫雅各之神的種子蒙福繁增，使那如光照耀地上、有神形象的人永不斷絕。

For just as fire eagerly and, so to speak, by nature lays hold of its fuel, so also the grace of the all-holy and adorable Spirit seeks to take hold of our souls, that it may shine forth to those in the world and may direct, through those in whom it shines, the steps of the many, so that they too, walking rightly, may draw near to the fire, and one by one — or even all together, if it be possible — may be kindled and shine like gods in our midst, so that the seed of the God of Jacob may be blessed and multiplied, and the God-like man may not fail, shining as a light upon the earth.

1:3098

Ἐγώ μέν οὖν οὕτως οἴομαι τήν ἀλήθειαν ἔχειν καί εἶναι τό βούλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰς ἡμᾶς, οὕς αὐτός ἔπλασε καί ἐτίμησε καί ἐδόξασε πάλαι τῇ δόξῃ τῆς εἰκόνος αὐτοῦ·

因此就我而言，我認為真理正是如此，這也是神向我們所存的旨意──我們是祂親自塑造、尊榮，並早已用祂形象的榮耀所榮耀的。

For my part, then, I hold that the truth is thus, and that this is the will of God toward us, whom He Himself fashioned and honored and glorified of old with the glory of His own image;

1:3099

ὑμεῖς δέ ἴδετε καί δοκιμάσατε τά λεγόμενα παρ ἡμῶν

但你們要察看並試驗我們所說的話。

but do you look into and test the things that are spoken by us.

1:3100

Καί εἰ μή τά αὐτά τοῖς ἀποστόλοις καί τοῖς ἁγίοις καί θεοφόροις πατράσι φρονοῦμεν καί λέγομεν κατά τά εἰρημένα, καί τά τῶν ἁγίων Εὐαγγελίων ῥηθέντα παρά τοῦ Θεοῦ καί ἡμεῖς δευτεροῦμεν, εἰ μή τήν ἐν αὐτοῖς οὖσαν, κακῶς δέ ἀποσβεσθεῖσαν ὑπό συλλογισμῶν ἀσυνέτων, ὅσον τό ἐπ αὐτοῖς, ζωοποιόν ἐνέργειάν τε καί δωρεάν διά ἀποδείξεων ἐν πᾶσι τρανῶς ἀνάπτομεν καί τό φῶς ἤδη λάμπον ὑποδεικνύομεν, ἐξ αὐτῶν δηλονότι τῶν ἁγίων Γραφῶν πάντα καί συνιστῶντες καί λέγοντες, () ἔστω μέν ἐμοί ἀνάθεμα ἀπό Κυρίου Θεοῦ καί Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ διά Πνεύματος Ἁγίου, ὡς διδάσκοντι παρ ὅ οἱ θεῖοι ἀπόστολοι ἐδίδαξαν καί εὐηγγελίσαντο, ὑμεῖς δέ μή μόνον τά ὦτα πρός τήν ἀκρόασιν ἀποφράξητε, ἀλλά κἀμέ λίθοις βαλόντες ὡς ἀσεβῆ καί ἄθεον ἀποκτείνατε

倘若我們所思所言與眾使徒、與那些聖潔且屬神的教父不同，不合乎前面所說的話，倘若我們對神在聖福音書中所說的話不加以承接印證──就是說，倘若我們不藉著證明，向眾人清楚地重新點燃那存在於聖經之中、卻被無知的推論所惡意撲滅（就其所能而言）之賜生命的動能與恩賜，並且不指出那已在照耀的光，不從聖經本身將一切事都建立並宣講出來──那麼就讓我從主神並藉著聖靈從耶穌基督受咒詛，如同一個所教導的與眾神聖使徒所教導所傳講的相違背之人；而你們不僅要塞住耳朵不聽，還當用石頭打我，把我當作不虔不敬神的人治死。

And if we do not think and speak the same things as the apostles and as the holy and God-bearing fathers, according to what has been said, and if we do not second the sayings uttered by God in the holy Gospels — that is, if we do not clearly kindle in all men, by demonstrations, the life-giving energy and gift that is present in them but has been wickedly quenched by senseless syllogisms, as far as depends upon them, and do not point out the light already shining, establishing and speaking everything plainly out of the holy Scriptures themselves — then let me be anathema from the Lord God and Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit, as one teaching contrary to what the divine apostles taught and preached; and do you not only stop your ears against the hearing, but also stone me and put me to death as an impious and godless man.

1:3101

Εἰ δέ τά Δεσποτικά καί ἀποστολικά δόγματα, διαστρεφόμενα παρά τινων, ἀνορθοῦμεν, ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν θείων πάλιν Γραφῶν τά ὑποστηρίζοντα καί διορθοῦντα τήν ἐκείνων καί τῶν πειθομένων αὐτοῖς διάνοιαν συλλεγόμενοι, τήν ἀνάστασίν τε καί τήν ἄφθαρσίαν καί τήν ζωήν καί τήν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν καί αὐτά τά αἰώνια ἀγαθά μή ἐν ἐλπίσιν αὐτοῖς ἅπαντα προσδοκᾶν παραινοῦμεν, ἀλλά τά μέν προκείμενα καί ἀποκαλυπτόμενα, φαινόμενά τε καί ὁρώμενα καί ὡς ἀρραβῶνας τοῖς ἐκλεκτοῖς καί σωθῆναι μέλλουσιν ἀπεντεῦθεν ἤδη διδόμενα ἐκδιδάσκομεν, τά δέ μετά θάνατον καί τήν ἀνάστασιν εἰς αὐτούς προτιθέμενα ἀποδεῖξαι καί βεβαιῶσαι προτεθυμήμεθα, οὐχί μᾶλλον ἀποδεκτοί αὐτοῖς καί πᾶσιν εἶναι ὀφείλομεν καί λίαν ἀγαπητοί, ὡς τῆς τελείας ἀγάπης ἔργον ἐπιδεικνύμενοι;

但我們若是在糾正主與眾使徒的教訓（這些教訓被某些人所歪曲），並再次從聖經本身收集那些支持並校正他們以及那些受他們說服之人心思的話語，並且勸勉他們不要單單在指望中盼望復活、不朽壞、生命、諸天的國，以及那些永遠的美善之物，反倒教導說：其中有些是已擺在我們面前、被顯明、可見可觀、且如今已作為憑質賜給選民和那些將要得救之人的，而我們又熱心致力於向他們證明並確認那些將在死後和復活之時為他們所預備之物──那麼，我們作為顯出完全之愛之工的人，豈不更當被他們並被眾人所接納、且被大大喜愛嗎？

But if we are setting straight the dogmas of the Master and of the apostles, which are being perverted by certain men — gathering again from the divine Scriptures themselves the things that support and correct their understanding and that of those persuaded by them — and if we exhort them not to expect the resurrection, and incorruption, and life, and the kingdom of the heavens, and the eternal good things themselves, all merely in hope, but teach that some of these things are set before us and revealed, appearing and being seen, and are given even now as pledges to the elect and to those about to be saved, while we have zealously undertaken to demonstrate and confirm to them those things which are set forth for them after death and the resurrection — then ought we not rather to be accepted by them and by all, and greatly beloved, as ones displaying the work of perfect love?

1:3102

Ὥσπερ γάρ ὁ κεκρυμμένον εὑρών θησαυρόν καί ἑαυτῷ μόνῳ τηρήσας αὐτόν, ψεκτός παρά πάντων καί ὡς φιλάργυρος κατακρίνεται, ὁ δέ μή ἑαυτῷ κρύπτων, ἀλλά τοῖς πᾶσιν ὑποκεικνύων καί φανερῶν καί ἀφιείς ἕκαστον λαβεῖν ὅσον βούλεται, πάντως ἐπαινετός καί Θεῷ καί ἀνθρώποις ἀποδεκτέος, οὕτω κἀγώ ἐν τοῖς πνευματικοῖς ἔσομαι παραφρονῶν, λαλῶν Θεοῦ χάριτι

因為正如那尋得隱藏之寶而只為自己保留的人，被眾人責備，被定為貪愛錢財之人；而那不為自己隱藏、反倒向眾人顯露、公開，並容許各人隨意取用的人，就全然值得稱讚，且蒙神與人所悅納──照樣，我在屬靈的事上也要作那「癲狂」的人，靠著神的恩典說話。

For just as one who finds a hidden treasure and keeps it for himself alone is blamed by all and condemned as a lover of money, but one who does not hide it for himself but discloses it to all and makes it manifest and lets each take as much as he wishes is altogether praiseworthy and to be received by God and men — so also I, in spiritual matters, will be one who is 'beside himself,' speaking by the grace of God.

1:3103

Καί γάρ θησαυρόν ἀποκεκρυμμένον () ὑπό τῶν θείων Γραφῶν ὄντα, μηνυθέντα μοι ὑπό ἁγίου ἀνδρός ἐν τόπῳ τινί, οὐ κατώκνησα διεγερθῆναι καί τοῦτον ἐρευνῆσαι καί ἰδεῖν, ἀλλά κἀκεῖνόν μοι βοηθόν γενέσθαι ἐξαιτησάμενον καί συνεργόν καί λαβών, πᾶσαν ἄλλην ἐργασίαν καί πρᾶξιν τοῦ βίου καταλιπών καί τῷ τόπῳ, ἐν ᾧ μοι εἶναι τόν θησαυρόν ὁ ἀγαθός ἐκεῖνος ἀνήρ διά γραμμάτων ἐδήλωσεν, ἐπιστάς, κόπῳ πολλῷ καί μόχθῳ νυκτός καί ἡμέρας ὀρρύσειν, σκάπτειν, τόν χοῦν ἔξω βάλλειν καί εἰς βάθος ποιεῖν οὐκ ἐπαυσάμην τό ὄρυγμα, ἕως ὁ θησαυρός διαυγάζειν σύν τῷ χοΐ ἄνωθεν ἤρξατο

因為當那藏在聖經之下的寶藏──有一位聖潔之人在某處向我指明的──向我顯明時，我實在沒有懶惰，反倒奮起去搜尋、去察看；並且求那人作我的幫助者和同工，得著了他之後，就撇下今生一切別的職業和事務，站在那位良善之人藉信函向我指明藏寶之處，晝夜辛勞費力，不停地挖掘、鏟土、把泥土拋出，把坑挖深，直到那寶藏連同上面的泥土開始閃出光來。

For indeed, when a treasure hidden under the divine Scriptures — pointed out to me by a holy man in a certain place — was made known to me, I did not shrink from rousing myself to search it out and to see it; but having asked that man to become my helper and fellow-worker, and having taken him, I abandoned every other occupation and work of life, and standing at the place where that good man had indicated to me by letters that the treasure was, with much toil and labor, night and day, I did not cease to dig, to shovel, to cast out the earth, and to make the excavation deep, until the treasure began to gleam through together with the soil from above.

1:3104

Ἐπί πολύ οὖν κοπιάσας ἐξορύττων καί τόν χοῦν ἀπορρίπτων, ὅλον τόν κάτω που κείμενον θησαυρόν ἔνωθεν, ὡς οἴομαι, πάσης τῆς γῆς καί ἀμιγῆ καί παντός ῥύπου καθαρόν ἐφηπλωμένον τεθέαμαι, καί ὁρῶν ἀεί κράζω καί οὕτω τοῖς διαπιστοῦσι καί κοπιᾶν καί ὀρύσσειν μή θέλουσιν ἐκβοῶ·

於是我大大勞苦，挖掘拋土之後，便看見那整個寶藏躺臥在某處下面──我想是在全地的底下──毫無攙雜、潔淨無任何污穢地舖展開來；我一看見它，就不住地呼喊，如此向那些不信、又不肯勞苦挖掘的人大聲宣告：

Having therefore labored greatly, digging out and casting away the earth, I beheld the whole treasure lying somewhere below — beneath, as I suppose, all the earth — spread out unmixed and pure from all defilement; and beholding it, I cry out continually, and thus I proclaim aloud to those who disbelieve and are unwilling to labor and to dig:

1:3105

Δεῦτε ἴδετε πάντες οἱ τάς θείας διαπιστοῦντες Γραφάς

來看哪，凡你們這些不信聖經的人！

Come and see, all you who disbelieve the divine Scriptures!

1:3106

Ἀδόλως τε ἔμαθον, ἀφθόνως τε μεταδίδωμι, διό δή τοῦτο οὕτω βοῶ τοῖς πᾶσιν, ὡς εἴρηται·

我毫無詭詐地學得，也毫不吝惜地傳授；因此我正如所說的，這樣向眾人呼喊：

Guilelessly I learned it, and ungrudgingly I impart it; wherefore indeed I thus cry out to all, as has been said:

1:3107

Δεῦτε μάθετε ὅτι οὐκ ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι μόνον, ἀλλ ἤδη που πρόκειται πρό τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν καί χειρῶν καί ποδῶν ὑμῶν ὁ ὑπεράνω πάσης ἀρχῆς καί ἐξουσίας ἀνεκλάλητος θησαυρός

來罷，要知道那超乎一切執政掌權者、無可言喻的寶藏，不僅在將來的世代，乃是如今就已擺在此處，就在你們的眼前、手邊、腳下！

Come, learn that not in the age to come only, but already, somewhere here, there lies before your eyes and hands and feet the unspeakable treasure that is above every rule and authority!

1:3108

Δεῦτε πιστώθητε ὅτι τό φῶς τοῦ κόσμου ὁ θησαυρός οὗτος, ὅν ὑμῖν λέγω, ἐστί

來罷，要深信我向你們所說的這寶藏，就是世界的光。

Come, be assured that this treasure, of which I speak to you, is the light of the world.

1:3109

Καί οὐκ ἐγώ ἀπ ἐμαυτοῦ τοῦτο λαλῶ, ἀλλ αὐτός εἶπε καί λέγει ὁ θησαυρός·

說這話的並不是我自己憑己意說的，乃是那寶藏自己曾說、也在說：

And it is not I who speak this of myself, but the treasure itself has said and says:

1:3110

Ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ἀνάστασις καί ἡ ζωή, ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ κόκκος τοῦ σινάπεως ὁ κατακρυπτόμενος ἐν τῇ γῇ, ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ μαργαρίτης ὁ ὠνούμενος, () ὑπό τῶν πιστῶν, ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἡ ἐν μέσῳ ὑμῶν κρυπτομένη, καί καθώς ὁρῶμαι ὑπό τῶν ζητησάντων καί εὑρόντων με νῦν, οὕτω λάμψω καί ἐν αὐτοῖς καί ἐπάνω πάντων αὐτῶν, ὡς νῦν εἰμι λάμπων ἀποκεκρυμμένος ὤν ὑπεράνω πάντων τῶν οὐρανῶν

我就是復活，就是生命；我就是那藏在地裡的芥菜種；我就是信徒所買的那顆珍珠；我就是那藏在你們中間、諸天的國；正如我如今被那些尋見我的人所看見，照樣我也要在他們裡面、並在他們眾人之上發光，正如我如今雖藏於諸天之上，卻仍在發光。

I am the resurrection and the life; I am the grain of mustard seed hidden in the earth; I am the pearl bought by the faithful; I am the kingdom of the heavens hidden in your midst; and just as I am now seen by those who have sought and found Me, so also will I shine in them and above all of them, as I now am, shining while hidden above all the heavens.

1:3111

Ἐγώ καί ἐνταῦθα, ὁ ἀχώρητος κατά φύσιν, ἐν ὑμῖν κατά χάριν γίνομαι χωρητός καί ὁ ἀόρατος ὁρατός, οὐχ ὅσος εἰμί δεικνύμενος, εἰ καί ὅλος μένω ὁρώμενος, ἀλλ ὅσον ἡ τῶν ὁρώντων με φύσις καί δύναμις ἐπιδέχεται

我雖按本性是不可容納的，就是在這裡，我也藉著恩典在你們裡面成為可被容納的；我這不可見的，也成為可見的──並非顯出我全然的浩大（雖然我全然被看見），乃是照著那看見我之人本性和能力所能承受的程度。

Even here I, who by nature am uncontainable, become containable in you by grace; and I, the invisible, become visible — not shown as great as I am, though I remain wholly seen, but only in so far as the nature and power of those who see Me can receive.

1:3112

Ἐγώ εἰ μι ἡ ζύμη, ἥν λαβοῦσα ψυχή καί βάλουσα ἐν τῷ τριμερεῖ αὐτῆς, ἀναζυμοῦται καί ὅλῃ ἐμοί ὁμοία καθίσταται·

我就是那麵酵，魂一取了它，藏在魂三分的部分裡，就全發起來，變得全然與我相似；

I am the leaven which, when a soul takes it and hides it in its threefold part, it is leavened and becomes wholly like Me;

1:3113

οἵα γάρ ἡ ζύμη, τοιοῦτος γίνεται καί ὁ ταύτῃ ἀναφυρόμενος σύν τῷ ὕδατι καί τῷ ἅλατι ἄλευρος·

因為麵酵怎樣，那與它並同水和鹽一起揉和的麵粉，也就變成怎樣。

for such as the leaven is, such also becomes the flour that is kneaded with it, together with the water and the salt.

1:3114

σύν ἐμοί γάρ, φησί, τῷ Υἱῷ ὑπάρχων ὁ ὁμοφυής μου Πατήρ καί ὁ τούτου Παράκλητος, αὐτοί ἀντί ὕδατος καί ἁλός πεφύκασι γίνεσθαι

祂說，因為與我子同在的，有那與我同一本性的父，並祂的保惠師，這幾位就好比作那水和鹽。

For, He says, together with Me the Son, My Father who is of the same nature, and His Paraclete, these have become, as it were, in place of the water and the salt.

1:3115

Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ἀντί τοῦ αἰσθητοῦ παραδείσου νοητός τοῖς ἐμοῖς δούλοις παράδεισος γεγονώς, ἐν ᾧ τιθῶ πάντας τούς πιστεύοντας εἰς ἐμέ καί ἀναγεννωμένους διά τοῦ Πνεύματος, οἵ οὐκέτι δύνανται ἁμαρτάνειν, οὐδέ ὁ τοῦ κόσμου ἄρχων ἰσχύει τι κατ αὐτῶν·

我就是那樂園，向我的僕人成了屬靈的樂園，代替那可感知的樂園；我把凡信入我、並藉聖靈重生的人都安置在其中，他們不再能犯罪，這世界的執政者對他們也毫無能力；

I am the paradise, become spiritual to My servants in place of the sensible paradise, in which I place all who believe in Me and are born again through the Spirit, who can no longer sin, nor has the ruler of this world any power against them;

1:3116

ἐγώ εἰμι ἐν αὐτοῖς καί αὐτοί ἐν ἐμοί καί νικῶσι τόν κόσμον, διά τό εἶναι αὐτούς ἔξω τοῦ κόσμου καί τόν ἰσχυρότερον πάντων ἐμέ μεθ ἑαυτῶν ἔχειν

我在他們裡面，他們也在我裡面，他們就勝過世界，因為他們是在世界之外，且有那比萬有更強的我與他們同在。

I am in them and they in Me, and they overcome the world, because they are outside the world and have Me, who am mightier than all, with themselves.

1:3117

Ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ φωτοειδής πηγή τοῦ ἀθανάτου ῥείθρου καί ποταμοῦ, ἐν ᾗ οὐ μετά θάνατον, ἀλλά καθ ὥραν οἱ ἐμέ φιλοῦντες ἀπό ψυχῆς λούονται () τῷ ἀπορρέοντι ὕδατι ἐξ ἐμοῦ καί παντός ῥύπου καθαίρονται τό σῶμα καί τήν ψυχήν καί ἀπαστράπτουσιν ὅλοι, ὥσπερ λαμπάς καί ὡς εἶδος ἀκτῖνος ἡλιακῆς

我就是那不死之泉源與河流的、發光如光的源頭，凡從心裡愛我的人，不是在死後，乃是時時刻刻，被那從我流出的水沖洗，身體和魂脫去一切污穢得潔淨，全然發光，如同燈盞，如同一道日光的形狀。

I am the light-formed fountain of the immortal stream and river, in which those who love Me from their soul are washed, not after death, but at every hour, by the water flowing out from Me, and are cleansed of all defilement in body and soul, and shine all over, like a lamp and like the form of a ray of the sun.

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Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ἀντανίσχων καθ ὥραν ἐν τούτοις ὡς ἐν πρωΐ καί ὁρώμενος ἥλιος νοερῶς, καθώς καί πρῴην ἐν τοῖς προφήταις ἐνεφάνιζον ἐμαυτόν καί αὐτοί ὁρῶντες ἀνύμνουν, ἐπικαλούμενοί με ἀεί·

我就是那時時刻刻在這些人裡面如清晨升起、以心思之眼可見的太陽，正如我從前也在眾申言者裡面顯現我自己，他們看見了，就歌頌讚美，不住地呼求我。

I am He who rises in these men at every hour as in the morning, the intelligibly seen sun, just as of old I also manifested Myself in the prophets, and they, beholding, sang praises, calling upon Me continually.

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Καί τί πάντα λέγειν πρός τήν ὑμετέραν ἀγάπην οὕτω καταναγκάζομαι, ὅσα ὁ Θεός διψῶν τήν σωτηρίαν ἡμῶν πρός ἡμᾶς φθέγγεται, ἀλλἤ πάντως, ἵνα διά πάντων μαθόντες πεισθήσησθε ὅτι οἱ καθήμενοι ἐν σκότει τό μέγα φῶς λάμπον βλέπειν ὀφείλουσιν, εἴπερ ὅλως ἐμβλέπουσι, καί ἵνα μή τινες ἐξ ὑμῶν λογίζωνται ὅτι ἔλαμψε μέν, ἀδύνατον δέ τούς ἔτι ὄντας ἀνθρώπους ἐν σώματι καθορᾶν αὐτό

我又為何如此被迫向你們的愛心說出這一切、就是神渴慕我們得救而向我們所發的一切話語呢？無非全是為此：好叫你們藉著這一切明白之後，就能信服那些坐在黑暗中的人，若他們真肯定睛觀看，就當看見那照耀的大光；也免得你們中間有人以為，那光雖已照耀，但那些仍在身體裡作人的卻不可能清楚看見它。

And why am I thus constrained to speak to your love all these things which God, thirsting for our salvation, utters to us — save altogether for this: that through all of them you, having learned, may be persuaded that those who sit in darkness ought to behold the great light shining, if indeed they look at all; and that none of you may reckon that, though it has shone, it is impossible for those still being men in the body to see it clearly.

1:3120

Εἰ γάρ μή ἦν δυνατόν, τί καί ἔλαμψε καί λάμπει μή καθορώμενον ὑπ αὐτῶν;

因為若這是不可能的，那麼它為何照耀、也仍在照耀，卻不被他們清楚看見呢？

For if it were not possible, why has it shone and does it shine, if it is not to be seen clearly by them?

1:3121

Μᾶλλον δέ τό μέν φῶς ἀεί ἦν καί ἀεί ἔλαμπε καί λάμπει ἐν τοῖς κεκαθαρμένοις, καί ἐν τῷ σκότει ἔφαινε καί ἡ σκοτία αὐτό οὐ κατέλαβε, καί νῦν λάμπει καί ἡ σκοτία αὐτό οὐ καταλαμβάνει εἴτ οὖν οὐχ ἅπτεται αὐτοῦ

其實，這光是常存的，也常在那些已被潔淨的人裡面照耀，並且照在黑暗裡，黑暗卻不領會它；如今它也照耀，黑暗仍不領會它──也就是抓不住它。

Rather, the light always was and always shone and shines in those who have been purified, and shone in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it; and now it shines, and the darkness does not comprehend it — that is, does not lay hold of it.

1:3122

Τό δέ νῦν εἰπεῖν, ὅτι ἀνέτειλε τῷ ἐν σκότει καθημένῳ λαῷ, τό ἄρτι εὐδοκῆσαι ἀποκαλυφθῆναί ἐστιν εἰς οὕς καί ἐμφανίζεται·

但如今說它已向那坐在黑暗中的百姓升起，意思乃是它此刻樂意向那些人顯示，並向他們顯現；

But to say now that it has arisen for the people sitting in darkness, means that it has just now been well-pleased to be revealed to those to whom it also manifests itself;

1:3123

οἱ γάρ ἄλλοι ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ ὄντες οὐ καταλαμβάνουσιν αὐτό

因為其餘的人既在黑暗裡，就不領會它。

for the others, being in the darkness, do not comprehend it.

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()Ὁ γάρ ἀόρατος ὤφθη, τό μέν διά τοῦ σώματος τοῖς αἰσθητοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς πᾶσι τοῖς θεασαμένοις αὐτόν ἀπίστοις τε καί πιστοῖς, ἐγνώσθη δέ καί τό φῶς αὐτοῦ τῆς Θεότητος ἀπεκαλύφθη μόνοις ἐκείνοις τοῖς διά τῶν ἔργων πιστοῖς, οἵτινες καί ἔλεγον πρός αὐτόν·

因為那不可見的一位被看見了：一面是藉著身體、用肉眼被凡看見祂的人所見，無論是不信的或信的；但祂神性的光，卻只向那些藉行為顯為忠信的人被認識、被揭示，這些人也曾對祂說：

For the Invisible One was seen, on the one hand through the body, with the bodily eyes, by all who beheld Him, both unbelievers and believers; but the light of His Godhead was made known and revealed only to those who were faithful through their works, who also said to Him:

1:3125

Ἰδού ἡμεῖς, Κύριε, ἀφήκαμεν πάντα καί ἠκολουθήσαμέν σοι·

主啊，看哪，我們已經撇下一切跟從了你；

Behold, we, Lord, have left all and followed You;

1:3126

τῷ δέ εἰπεῖν πάντα συνέκλεισε τά τε κτήματα καί χρήματα καί θελήματα καί τό καταφρονῆσαι καί αὐτῆς τῆς προσκαίρου ζωῆς καί βδελύξασθαι ταύτην διά τό γεύσασθαι αὐτῆς ἐκείνης τῆς ἐνυποστάτου καί αἰωνίου ζωῆς, τό γάρ ἡδύτερόν ἐστι πάντως καί προτιμότερον, ὅπερ ἐστίν αὐτός ὁ Θεός

祂說「一切」時，就把產業、錢財、自己的意願都包括在內，連同輕看甚至今生這暫時的生命、並厭棄它──都是因為嘗到了那另一位、實質而永遠的生命；因為那全然更甘美、更當寶愛的，正是神自己。

and by saying 'all,' He included possessions and money and self-wills, and the despising even of this temporal life and the loathing of it, on account of the tasting of that other, substantial and eternal life; for that which is altogether sweeter and more to be preferred is that very thing which is God Himself.

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Ἀλλά παρακαλῶ πάντας ὑμᾶς, ὦ πατέρες καί ἀδελφοί, σπουδάσαι μετασχεῖν τῆς τοιαύτης ζωῆς ἥτις τό φῶς ἐστι τοῦ Θεοῦ, αὐτό τό Πνεῦμα τό Ἅγιον, τό τούς μετέχοντας αὐτοῦ ἁγιάζον καί θεούς τῇ θέσει ἀπεργαζόμενον

但眾父老弟兄們，我懇求你們眾人，要熱切地渴慕有分於這樣的生命，這生命就是神的光，就是那聖靈自己，祂使凡有分於祂的人得聖別，並使他們藉恩賜成為神。

But I beseech you all, O fathers and brothers, to be zealous to partake of such a life, which is the light of God, the very Holy Spirit Himself, who sanctifies those who partake of Him and makes them gods by adoption.

1:3128

Καί τῶν τοσούτων λόγων, ὧν λελάληκα πρός ὑμᾶς, μή ἐπιλάθησθε, ἀλλά πρῶτον μέν αὐτοί μάθετε πράσσειν ἀεί τό καλόν καί οὕτω διδάξατε ἄλλους τοῦτο ποιεῖν, ἵνα ὅ λόγος τῆς διδασκαλίας ὑμῶν ἔμπρακτος ὑπάρχῃ καί εὐπαράδεκτος τοῖς ἀκούουσιν

我向你們所說的許多話語，你們不要忘記；乃要首先自己學習常常行善，如此才去教導別人也這樣行，好叫你們教訓的話成為實際可行的，並為聽的人所樂於接受。

And of the many words which I have spoken to you, do not be forgetful; but first learn yourselves always to practice the good, and thus teach others to do this also, so that the word of your teaching may be operative and readily received by those who hear.

1:3129

Εἰδ οὖν, ἐγώ ἀθῷος ἐκ πάντων ὑμῶν εἰμι, οὐ γάρ ὑπεστειλάμην τοῦ μή ἀναγγεῖλαι ὑμῖν τά λαληθέντα μοι καί γνωρισθέντα καί προσταχθέντα ὑπό τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ διά τοῦ προσκυνητοῦ καί ἁγίου αὐτοῦ Πνεύματος περί τῶν ὑψηλῶν δωρεῶν καί χαρισμάτων τοῦ συνανάρχου () Θεοῦ καί Πατρός αὐτοῦ, ὧν τοῖς ἐμπόνως ζητοῦσι τήν μέθεξιν διά πίστεως δίδωσιν ἀεί καί μέχρι τοῦ νῦν ὁ αὐτός ἀγαθός καί εὐεργέτης Θεός ἡμῶν, ᾧ πρέπει πᾶσα δόξα, τιμή καί προσκύνησις νῦν καί ἀεί καί εἰς τούς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων

既然確是如此，我對你們眾人的血就無罪了；因為我並沒有退縮，不把主耶穌基督藉著祂可敬的聖靈向我所說、所曉諭、所吩咐的話向你們宣告出來，就是有關祂那與祂同為無始之神並父的至高恩賜與恩典之事──這些恩賜，是我們這同一位良善施恩的神，直到如今，仍不斷賜給那些藉著信、勤苦尋求有分於它們的人；願一切榮耀、尊貴、敬拜都歸與祂，從今直到永永遠遠。

If indeed it be so, I am guiltless of the blood of you all; for I have not shrunk from declaring to you the things spoken to me, made known to me, and commanded me by our Lord Jesus Christ, through His adorable and Holy Spirit, concerning the exalted gifts and graces of His co-eternal God and Father — which the same good God and benefactor of ours ever, even until now, gives to those who laboriously seek participation in them through faith; to whom belongs all glory, honor, and worship, now and ever, and unto the ages of the ages.

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Εὐχαριστία πρός Θεόν ὑπέρ ὧν ἠξίωται δωρεῶν

為所蒙賜恩賜向神獻上的感恩。

Thanksgiving to God for the gifts of which he had been deemed worthy.

1:3131

Καί εἰσήγησις ὅπως τοῖς κεκαθαρμένοις τῇ καρδίᾳ Θεός ἀεί ἐπιφαίνεται, καί ἐν ποίοις τοῖς πράγμασι καί γνωρίσμασι

並闡明神如何常向那些心裡潔淨的人顯現，又是在何等的事上與憑據上顯現。

And an exposition of how God ever manifests Himself to those who are purified in heart, and in what deeds and tokens.

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() Εὐχαριστῶ καί προσκυνῶ καί προσπίπτω σοι, Κύριε τοῦ παντός καί πανάγιε Βασιλεῦ, ὅτι ἐλέησας ἀνάξιον ὄντα με καί ἐτίμησας καί ἐδάξασας, ὡς αὐτός ἠθέλησας ἄνωθεν, ἐπειδή καί πρό τοῦ τόν κόσμον γενέσθαι παρά σοῦ, ὅλον ἔχων με ἐν ἑαυτῷ, λόγῳ καί εἰκόνι με τῇ σῇ δοξάσας ἐτίμησας

萬有之主、至聖的君王啊，我感謝、敬拜、俯伏在你面前，因為你憐憫了我這不配的人，尊榮了我，榮耀了我，正如你自己從上頭所願意的；因為早在世界從你而有之先，你已將我全然存於你自己裡面，用你的話語和你的形象榮耀、尊榮了我。

I give thanks and worship and fall down before You, Lord of all and all-holy King, because You have had mercy on me, who am unworthy, and have honored me and glorified me, as You Yourself willed from above; since even before the world came into being from You, having me wholly in Yourself, You honored me, glorifying me with Your Word and image.

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Οὐδέ γάρ δι ἄλλο τιἤ δι ἐμέ τόν κατ εἰκόνα σύν καί καθ ὁμοίωσιν πάντα ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων παρήγαγες, βασιλέα με τῶν ἐπιγείων πάντων πεποιηκώς εἰς δόξαν τῆς σῆς μεγαλουργίας καί ἀγαθότητος

因為你使萬有從無中而出，無非是為著我這照你形象、並按你樣式所造的人；你立我作地上萬物的君王，為要彰顯你偉大作為與良善的榮耀。

For it was for no other reason than for me — made after Your image and likeness — that You brought all things forth from non-being, having made me king of all earthly things, unto the glory of Your great work and goodness.

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Εὐχαριστῶ σοι, ὅτι πᾶσάν μου τήν αἴτησιν καί ἐπιθυμίαν εἰς ἀγαθόν ἐξεπλήρωσας κατά τάς πρός ἡμᾶς τούς δούλους σου ὑποσχέσεις, καί ὑπέρἅ ἤλπιζον καί ἐπεθύμουν ἐχαρίσω μᾶλλον τῷ ἀναξίῳ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καί τῆς γῆς

我感謝你，因為你照著你向我們作你僕人所應許的，成就了我一切求告與渴望，使其歸於美善，並且將天地、以及超過我所盼望所渴慕的，都恩賜給我這不配的人。

I give thanks to You, because You have fulfilled unto good all my request and desire, according to Your promises to us Your servants, and have graciously bestowed on me, the unworthy, more than heaven and earth, and beyond what I hoped for and desired.

1:3135

Πᾶν ὅ ἐάν αἰτήσητε ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί μου () πιστεύοντες λήψεσθε

「你們奉我的名，凡所求的，只要信，就必得著。」

'Whatever you ask in My name, believing, you shall receive.'

1:3136

Εὐχαριστῶ σοι, ὅτι ἕνα τῶν ἁγίων σου ἐπιποθήσαντά με ἰδεῖν καί δι αὐτοῦ πιστεύσαντα εὑρεῖν ἔλεος παρά σοι, αὐτός οὐ μόνον τοῦτο πεποίηκας, ἀγαθέ, καί δοῦλόν σου γνήσιον, τόν μακάριον λέγω καί ἅγιον Συμεών, καθυπέδειξας καί παρ ἐκείνου με ἀγαπηθῆναι ηὐδόκησας, ἀλλά καί μυρία ἄλλα,ἅ οὐκ ἤλπιζον, ἐδωρήσω μοι ἀγαθά

我感謝你，因為當我切慕見你的一位聖徒，並藉著他，憑信在你面前尋得憐憫時，良善者啊，你不僅成就了這事，向我指明你一位真實的僕人──我是說那有福且聖潔的西面──又樂意使我蒙他所愛，並且還將我所未曾盼望的、無數別樣的美善之物賜給了我。

I give thanks to You, because when I longed to see one of Your saints and, through him, believing, to find mercy with You, You Yourself, O Good One, not only did this, and showed me a genuine servant of Yours — I mean the blessed and holy Symeon — and were well-pleased that I should be loved by him, but also bestowed on me countless other good things which I had not hoped for.

1:3137

Πόθεν γάρ που ἐγίνωσκον ὁ τάλας ἐγώ ὅτι τοιοῦτος ὑπάρχεις ὁ καλός Δεσπότης ἡμῶν, ἵνα ἐπιθυμίαν λάβω τήν περί σοῦ;

因為我這可憐人，究竟從何處能得知你這位我們良善的主宰竟是這樣的一位，以致我竟能生出對你的渴慕呢？

For whence indeed could I, wretched man, ever have known that You, our good Master, are such a One, that I might conceive a longing concerning You?

1:3138

Πόθεν που ᾔδειν ὅτι φανεροῖς σεαυτόν τοῖς ἐρχομένοις πρός σέ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἔτι διάγουσιν, ἵνα καί θεάσασθαί σε ἐξεζήτησα;

我又從何處能得知，你竟向那些歸向你、卻仍在世上度日的人顯示你自己，以致我竟尋求要瞻仰你呢？

Whence could I have known that You manifest Yourself to those who come to You while still passing their life in the world, that I might seek even to behold You?

1:3139

Πόθεν που ἐγίνωσκον ὅτι χαρᾶς τοιαύτης καί ἀνέσεως καταξιοῦνται οἱ τῆς χάριτός σου τό φῶς ἐν ἑαυτοῖς εἰσδεχόμενοι;

我又從何處能得知，那些將你恩典之光接受在自己裡面的人，竟被算為配得這樣的喜樂與安息呢？

Whence could I have known that those who receive within themselves the light of Your grace are deemed worthy of such joy and repose?

1:3140

Πόθεν δέἤ πῶς ὁ τάλας ἐγίνωσκον ὅτι τό Πνεῦμά σου τό Ἅγιον οἱ σέ πεπιστευκότες λαμβάνουσι;

我這可憐人，又從何處、或怎能得知，那些信入你的人竟領受你的聖靈──

Whence, or how, could I, wretched man, have known that those who have believed in You receive Your Holy Spirit —

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ἔχων, ὡς ὕστερον ἔργῳ τοῦτο μεμάθηκα

領受了祂，正如我後來親身在實際中所學到的？

receiving Him, as afterward I learned by deed itself?

1:3142

Πόθεν που ἐγίνωσκον, Δέσποτα, ὅτι σύ ἀόρατος ὤν καί ἀχώρητος, ὁρᾶσαι καί χωρῆσαι ἐντός ἡμῶν;

主宰啊，我從何處能得知，你這不可見、不可容納的一位，竟被看見、又被容納在我們裡面呢？

Whence could I have known, Master, that You, being invisible and uncontainable, are seen and are contained within us?

1:3143

Πόθεν που εἶχόν ποτε λογίσασθαι ὅτι ὁ κτίσας Δεσπότης τά σύμπαντα ἀνθρώποις ἑνοῦσαι, οὕς αὐτός ἔπλασας, καί θεοφόρους τούτους ἐργάζῃ καί υἱούς σου ποιεῖς, ἵνα καί εἰς πόθον τούτων ἦλθον καί ταῦτα λαβεῖν ἐζήτησα παρά σοί;

我又何嘗能想到，你這創造萬有的主宰，竟與你親手所造的人聯合，使他們成為屬神、負載神的人，使他們成為你的兒子──以致我也竟起了對這些事的渴慕，並尋求從你領受它們呢？

Whence could I ever have been able to reckon that You, the Master who created all things, unite Yourself to men whom You Yourself fashioned, and make them God-bearing, and make them Your sons — so that I too might come to a longing for these things and seek to receive them from You?

1:3144

() Ὄντως, Δέσποτά μου φιλάνθρωπε, οὐδέν οὐδαμῶς τούτων ἁπάντων ἐγίνωσκον

我那愛人的主宰啊，我實在對這一切事全然一無所知。

Truly, my Master who loves mankind, I knew none of all these things in any way at all.

1:3145

Εἰ γάρ καί ἐν ταῖς θείαις Γραφαῖς, ἅς οἱ ἅγιοί σου ἐξέθεντο, ἐγκύψας ἀνέγνων περί τούτων ποτέ, ἀλλ ὡς περί ἄλλων τινῶνἤ πρός τινας ἄλλους λεγομένων ἤκουον καί ἀναισθήτως πρός πάντα διεκείμην τά γεγραμμένα, μηδέ ἔννοιάν ποτε περί τούτων δυνηθείς λαβεῖν

因為我縱然曾俯身於你眾聖徒所寫下的聖經，並且曾一度讀到有關這些事，我卻聽之如同是論到別人、或是對別人所說的，對一切所記載的都麻木無感，全然無法對它們生出半點領悟。

For even if, bending over the divine Scriptures which Your saints set forth, I once read concerning these things, yet I heard them as though they were spoken concerning certain others, or to certain other people, and I was insensibly disposed toward all that was written, never being able to grasp any conception at all concerning them.

1:3146

Ἅ ὀφθαλμός οὐκ εἶδε καί οὖς οὐκ ἤκουσε καί ἐπί καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἀνέβη,ἅ ἡτοίμασεν ὁ Θεός τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτον, ἀδύνατον εἶναι ἐπειθόμην τοῦ ἐν σαρκί ὄντα τινά ἐκείνων ἐν θεωρίᾳ γενέσθαι

「神為愛祂的人所預備的，是眼睛未曾看見，耳朵未曾聽見，人心也未曾想到的」──我曾深信，凡仍在肉體中的人，都不可能達到對這些事物的觀看。

'The things which eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and which have not come up upon the heart of man — the things which God has prepared for those who love Him' — I was persuaded that it was impossible for anyone still in the flesh to come to the contemplation of them.

1:3147

Ἐνόμιζον δέ ὅτι ἐκείνῳ μόνῳ κατά φιλοτιμίαν ταῦτα ὑπέδειξας καί οὐκ ᾔδειν ὁ ἄθλιος ὅτι καί ἐπί πάντας τούς ἀγαπῶντάς σε τοῦτο γίνεται παρά σοῦ

我倒以為你只是出於特別的眷愛，單單向他一人顯明了這些事；我這可憐人卻不知道，這事乃是從你臨到凡愛你的人身上。

But I thought that You had shown these things to him alone, out of special favor; and I, wretched man, did not know that this comes from You upon all who love You.

1:3148

Πόθεν δέἤ πῶς ἠδυνάμην εἰδέναι ὅτι πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων εἰς σέ μέλος σόν γίνεται, χάριτι ἀπαστράπτων Θεότητα – τίς δέ τοῦτο πιστεύσει;

我又從何處、或怎能得知，凡信入你的人都成為你的肢體，藉著恩典閃射出神性──而這事誰肯信呢？

Whence, or how, was I able to know that everyone who believes in You becomes Your member, flashing forth Godhead by grace — and who will believe this?

1:3149

Πόθεν που ἐγίνωσκον ὅτι σύ ἀντί τροφῆς αἰσθητῆς ἀθάνατος καί ἄφθαρτος ἄρτος τοῖς διά σέ πεινῶσιν ἀκόρεστος γίνῃ καί πηγή τοῖς διψῶσιν ἀθάνατος καί χιτών ἀπαστράπτων τοῖς εὐτελῆ διά σέ περιβεβλημένοις ἱμάτια;

我又從何處能得知，你竟代替可感知的食物，成為那不死不朽的糧食，向那些為你緣故饑餓的人成為飽嘗不盡的糧食，向饑渴的人成為不死的泉源，向那些為你緣故披戴粗劣衣裳的人成為閃耀的衣袍呢？

Whence could I have known that You, in place of sensible food, become the immortal and incorruptible bread, insatiable to those who hunger for Your sake, and an immortal fountain to those who thirst, and a resplendent robe to those who for Your sake are clothed in mean garments?

1:3150

Ταῦτα γάρ ἀκούων διά τῶν σῶν κηρύκων λεγόμενα, ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι αἰῶνι καί μετά τήν ἀνάστασιν μόνον ὑπελάμβανον γίνεσθαι καί οὐκ ᾔδειν ὅτι καί νῦν μᾶλλον ἐπιτελοῦνται, ὅτε καί τούτων ἐν χρείᾳ πλείονι καθεστήκαμεν

因為我聽見這些事藉你的傳令者被說出來時，就以為它們唯有在來世、在復活之後才會發生，卻不知道它們反倒如今就在成就，正當我們對它們有更大需要的時候。

For hearing these things spoken through Your heralds, I supposed that they came to pass only in the age to come and after the resurrection, and I did not know that they are rather being accomplished even now, when we stand in still greater need of them.

1:3151

Ταῦτα οὔτε ᾔδειν, πανάγιε Βασιλεῦ, οὔτε ἐν ἐπιθυμίᾳ τούτων ποτέ γέγονα, οὔτε ᾐτησάμην τι ἐκ τούτων λαβεῖν παρά σοῦ, () ἀλλἤ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν μου μιμνησκόμενος, τήν ἐκείνων συγχώρησιν μόνον ἐζήτουν μεσίτην καί πρεσβευτήν εὑρεῖν, ὡς ἄνωθεν εἶπον, Δέσποτα, ἐπεθύμησα, ἵνα διά τῆς ἐκείνου ἐντεύξεως καί τῆς πρός ἐκεῖνόν μου δουλώσεως κἄν ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι εὕροιμι τῶν πολλῶν μου ἁμαρτημάτων τήν ἄφεσιν

至聖的君王啊，這些事我從未知曉，也從未渴慕過它們，更未曾向祢求討要從中得著甚麼；我只是記念自己的罪，唯求尋得一位為它們求赦免的中保與代求者。主啊，正如我先前所說，我切慕藉著他的代求、並我對他的服事，好叫我至少在來世能得著我眾多過犯的赦免。

These things I neither knew, all-holy King, nor was I ever seized with desire for them, nor did I ask to receive any of them from You; but, mindful of my sins, I sought only to find an intercessor and advocate for their forgiveness. As I said before, Master, I longed that, through his intercession and through my servitude to him, I might at least in the age to come obtain the remission of my many transgressions.

1:3152

Ὡς δέ ἤκουον ὁμοθυμαδόν ἅπαντας λέγοντας μή εἶναι τοιοῦτον ἐπί τῆς ἄρτι ἅγιον, εἰς πλείονα λύπην ἔπιπτον

然而當我聽見眾人異口同聲地說，當今之世並無這樣的聖者時，我便陷入更深的憂傷之中。

But when I heard everyone with one accord declaring that there was no such saint in the present age, I fell into still greater sorrow.

1:3153

Πλήν ὅμως οὐδέποτε τοῦτο ἐπίστευσα, ἀλλά πρός τούς τοιούτους ἀπεκρινάμην, Δέσποτα Χριστέ, καθώς οἶδας, καί ἔλεγον·

但我始終不信此言，反倒回答那些人說——主基督啊，正如祢所知——我說道：

Nevertheless I never believed this, but answered such people—O Master Christ, as You know—and I said:

1:3154

Καί τοσοῦτον ὁ διάβολος τοῦ Δεσπότου Θεοῦ ἐγένετο δυνατώτερος, ἵνα πάντας ἐφελκύσῃ πρός ἑαυτόν καί εἰς τήν αὐτοῦ μερίδα ποιήσηται, ὥστε μή καταληφθῆναί τινα εἰς τό μέρος τοῦ Θεοῦ;

難道魔鬼竟比主神更為強大，以致能將萬人都吸引歸向自己、納入他的份中，甚至無一人得存留在神的份上麼？

Has the devil become so much mightier than the Master God, that he should draw all men to himself and make them his own portion, so that not one is left over for God's portion?

1:3155

Διά τοῦτο, ὡς οἶμαι, φιλάνθρωπε βασιλεῦ, ἐν τῷ τοῦ βίου σκότει καί ἐν μέσῳ τῶν κακῶν καθημένῳ μοι τό φῶς σου τό ἅγιον ἔλαμψας καί ἐν αὐτῷ τόν σόν μοι καθυπέδειξας ἅγιον

所以，愛人的君王啊，依我看來，正因如此，祢便在我這坐在今生黑暗中、身處諸惡之間的人身上，使祢聖潔的光照耀出來，並在那光中向我顯明了祢的聖者。

Therefore, as I think, O King who loves mankind, upon me, seated in the darkness of this life and in the midst of evils, You caused Your holy light to shine, and in that light You showed me Your saint.

1:3156

Καί ὅν τρόπον ἐπί τοῦ δούλου σου Παύλου ἐποίησας, διώκοντά σε καλέσας αὐτόν διά τῆς θεϊκῆς ἐμφανείας σου – καί γάρ ἐκείνου θεασαμένου σε καί εἰπόντος·

正如祢待祢的僕人保羅一樣——在他逼迫祢的時候，藉著祢神聖的顯現呼召了他——因為當他見了祢，就說：

And in the same manner as You dealt with Your servant Paul—calling him while he persecuted You, through Your divine manifestation—for indeed, when he beheld You and said,

1:3157

Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ποιήσας τόν οὐρανόν καί τήν γῆν

「主啊，祢是誰？」——祢並沒有對他說：「我是那造天地的，」

'Who are You, Lord?'—You did not say to him, 'I am He who made heaven and earth,'

1:3158

Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ἐκ τοῦ μή ὄντος εἰς τό εἶναι τά πάντα παραγαγών, οὐδέ εἶπας·

「我是那將萬有從無有中帶入實有的」；祢也沒有說：

'I am He who brought all things from non-being into being'; nor did You say,

1:3159

ὁ Θεός τῶν πατέρων σου, οὐδέ ἕτερόν τι ἐκ τῶν τῆς δόξης σου προσηγοριῶν, ἀλλἤ τοῦτο μόνον πρός αὐτόν εἴρηκας·

「我是你列祖的神，」也沒有用祢榮耀的任何別的稱號，而只對他說了這一句：

'the God of your fathers,' nor any other of the titles of Your glory, but You spoke to him this alone:

1:3160

Ἐγώ εἰμι Ἰησοῦς ὁ Ναζωραῖος, ὅν σύ διώκεις, ἵνα γνῷ σαφῶς ὅτι σύ ὑπάρχεις () ὁ σαρκωθείς Θεός δι ἡμᾶς, ὅν ἐκεῖνος ἐδίωκεν , οὕτω καί ἐπ ἐμοί ἐποίησας, Δέσποτα, ὅτε μοι τόν ἅγιόν σου Συμεών καθυποδεῖξαι εὐδόκησας

「我就是你所逼迫的拿撒勒人耶穌」——好叫他清楚知道，祢就是那為我們成了肉身的神，正是他所逼迫的那一位。主啊，祢也照樣待了我，那時祢喜悅將祢聖潔的西面指示給我。

'I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you persecute'—so that he might clearly know that You are the God who was made flesh for our sake, the very One whom he was persecuting. Even so did You deal with me also, Master, when You were pleased to point out to me Your holy Symeon.

1:3161

Τοῦ φωτός σου γάρ τοῦ θεϊκοῦ τά πάντα κἀμέ τόν τάλανα καταφωτίσαντος καί τήν νύκτα ὡς ἡμέραν φαεινοτάτην ποιήσαντος, ἐν αὐτῷ με τῷ ὕψει τῆς σῆς Θεότητος ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ φρικτῶς ἰδεῖν αὐτόν κατηξίωσας, τῆς θεϊκῆς σου δόξης πλησίον ἱστάμενον, οὐ στεφάνῳ τινί, οὐκ ἐνδύματι φαεινῷ, οὐκ ἐνηλλαγμένη θεωρίᾳ κοσμήσας αὐτόν, ἀλλ οἷος ἦν συνδιάγων ἡμῖν καί ὁρώμενος καθ ἑκάστην ἐπί τῆς γῆς, τοιοῦτόν μοι αὐτόν καθυπέδειξας ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ

因為當祢神聖的光照亮了萬物、也照亮了我這卑微的人，並將黑夜化為最明亮的白晝時，就在那光中，祢使我得以懷著敬畏，如同在天上、在祢神性的至高處，得見他——他站在祢神聖的榮耀近旁，既沒有戴甚麼冠冕，也沒有穿發光的衣袍，更沒有改變過的樣貌，乃是像他從前與我們同住、每日在地上被人看見時的那個樣子：祢就這樣在天上把他指示給我。

For when Your divine light had illumined all things and me, the wretched one, and had turned the night into brightest day, in that very light You deemed me worthy to behold him with awe, as though in heaven, in the very height of Your Godhead—standing near to Your divine glory, adorned neither with any crown, nor with a radiant garment, nor with a transfigured appearance, but such as he was when he lived among us and was seen daily upon the earth: even so did You show him to me in heaven.

1:3162

Ἵνα μή ἕτερον εἶναι τοῦτον, τόν σύν ἡμῖν, καί ἄλλον τόν ἐκεῖ μοι ὀφθέντα λογίσωμαι καί ἀποπλανηθείς τοῦ καλοῦ ποιμένος ἀστοχήσω, τό ἀπολωλός ἐγώ πρόβατον

這樣行，是免得我把那與我們同在的、和那在天上向我顯現的，當作兩個不同的人，以致我這隻迷失的羊偏離了那美善的牧人而走迷了路。

This was so that I might not reckon him who was with us to be one person, and him who appeared to me there to be another, and, going astray from the good shepherd, wander off—I, the lost sheep.

1:3163

Ἀλλά γάρ οὐδέ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ γεγονότι θαύματι συνῆκα ὁ ἄθλιος, ῥᾳθυμίᾳ δέ καί ὀλιγωρίᾳ κατ ὀλίγον κλαπείς, τοῖς προτέροις κακοῖςἤ καί χείροσι περιέπεσον

然而我這可憐的人，連藉著這已成就的奇事也未能領悟；反倒因懶惰與輕忽，漸漸被偷去了那恩典，重新陷入從前的諸惡，甚至更壞的境地。

Yet even by this wonder that had come to pass I, the miserable one, did not understand; but, little by little robbed of it through sloth and negligence, I fell back into my former evils, or into worse ones still.

1:3164

Σύ δέ, Βασιλεῦ εὔσπλαχνε καί μακρόθυμε, οὐδέ οὔτω με ἀπεστράφης, ἀλλά δι αὐτοῦ με τοῦ ἁγίου ἐπέστρεψας καί εἰς τούς ἁγίους αὐτοῦ προσπεσεῖν πόδας με κατηξίωσας, τῇ κραταιᾷ σου χειρί καί τῷ βραχίονί σου τῷ ὑψηλῷ ἐξάξας ἀπό τοῦ πλάνου κόσμου καί τῶν τοῦ κόσμου πραγμάτων καί ἡδονῶν καί ἀποχωρήσας με πάντων σωματικῶς τε ἅμα καί ψυχικῶς,ὤ τοῦ θαύματος,ὤ τῆς πρός ἡμᾶς ἀγάπης καί συμπαθείας σου τοῦ φιλανθρώπου Θεοῦ, ἔστησας ἐν τῇ τάξει τῶν δουλευόντων σοι

然而，滿有憐憫、又恆久忍耐的君王啊，祢連那時也沒有轉臉離棄我；反倒藉著同一位聖者將我領回，並使我配得俯伏在他聖潔的腳前。祢用大能的手和伸出來的膀臂，將我從詭詐的世界、從世上的事務與宴樂中領出來，使我全然脫離這一切，無論身體或靈魂——何等的奇事！愛人的神啊，何等是祢向我們所懷的慈愛與同情！祢竟將我安置在事奉祢之人的行列中。

But You, compassionate and long-suffering King, did not even then turn away from me; rather, through that same saint You brought me back and deemed me worthy to fall down at his holy feet. With Your mighty hand and Your uplifted arm You led me out of the deceitful world and from the affairs and pleasures of the world, and separated me from them all, both in body and in soul. O the wonder! O Your love and compassion toward us, O God who loves mankind! You set me in the rank of those who serve You.

1:3165

Μετά ταῦτα οὖν, Δέσποτα, οὐ μόνον τῶν ἀμυθήτων () μου κακῶν τήν συγχώρησιν, ἀλλά καί τά προειρημένα ἅπαντα ἀγαθά ταῖς τοῦ ἁγίου σου πρεσβείαις μοι δέδωκας, μᾶλλον δέ αὐτός πάντα μοι γέγονας

主啊，此後藉著祢聖者的代求，祢不但賜給我那不可勝數之惡行的赦免，也將前面所說的一切美善都賜給了我——或說得更確切些，祢自己就成了我的一切。

After these things, then, Master, You granted me through the intercessions of Your saint not only the forgiveness of my unspeakable evils, but also all the aforesaid good things—or rather, You Yourself became all things to me.

1:3166

Προσκηνώσαντός σου γάρ ἐν ἐκείνῳ καί τῷ φωτί τῆς θεϊκῆς δόξης ἐκλάμποντος, πλησιάσας αὐτῷ ἐν μετανοίᾳ καί πίστει τούς ἐκείνου πόδας κρατήσας, ἐγώ εὐθύς θείας ᾐσθόμην θερμότητος, εἶτα μικρᾶς αὐγαζούσης λαμπρότητος, εἶτα θείου ἀπό τῶν ἐκείνου λόγων ἐμφυσήματος, εἶτα πυρός ἐκ τούτου ἐγκαρδίου διά δακρύων βλύζοντος ῥεῖθρα ἀένναα, εἶτα ἀκτῖνος ἐν τῷ νοΐ μου λεπτῆς ταχύτερον ἀστραπῆς διελθούσης, εἶτα ὡς φῶς ἐν νυκτί καί ὡς νεφέλη ἐφάνη μοι μικρά καί φλογοειδής ἐπί τῆς κεφαλῆς μου καθίσασα, κειμένου μου ἐπί πρόσωπον καί ποιουμένου τήν δέησιν

因為當祢在他裏面安了居所、又以祢神聖榮耀的光照耀出來時，我懷著悔改與信心親近他、握住他的腳，立時就覺出一股神聖的溫暖；隨後是一縷微微初現的光輝；隨後是從他話語而來、神聖的吹拂；隨後是心中的火，由此湧出，藉著我的眼淚化為長流不息的江河；隨後是一道比閃電更快穿過我心思的光線；隨後，如同黑夜中的光，有一小片火焰般的雲彩向我顯現，停在我頭上，那時我正俯伏在地、獻上我的祈求。

For when You had taken up Your dwelling in him and were shining forth with the light of Your divine glory, and I had drawn near to him in repentance and faith and taken hold of his feet, I straightway perceived a divine warmth; then a small dawning radiance; then a divine inbreathing from his words; then a fire within the heart, springing therefrom into ever-flowing streams through my tears; then a ray passing through my mind swifter than lightning; then, like a light in the night, there appeared to me a small and flame-like cloud, resting upon my head, while I lay prostrate on my face and made my supplication.

1:3167

Εἶτα ἀπέπτη καί μετ οὐ πολύ ὤφθη μοι ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ

隨後它飛去了，過了不多時，又被我在天上看見。

Then it flew away, and after a little while was seen by me in heaven.

1:3168

Εἶτα ἀναλογιζόμενος τό ὁρώμενον εἶναι, ἕτερόν τι ὑπέρ ταῦτα πάντα παραδοξότερον γίνεται

隨後，當我正在思想這所見的究竟是甚麼時，另有一件比這一切更為奇異的事發生了。

Then, as I was pondering what this thing seen might be, something else, more marvelous than all these, took place.

1:3169

Κατά τούς ὕπνους γάρ ὑπό τῶν πονηρῶν δαιμόνων πειραζομένου μου καί πρός πάθος ῥεύσεως διά μηχανῆς ἑλκομένου μου καί ἀνθισταμένου μου εἰς βοήθειαν, ἔξυπνος γέγονα, τῶν πειραζόντων τάς χεῖρας ἀβλαβής ἐκφυγών

因為當我睡著時，被那些邪惡的鬼魔試探，藉著他們的詭計被拉向遺精之欲的情慾，我便抗拒並呼求幫助，於是就醒了過來，毫髮無損地逃脫了那些試探我者的手。

For while in my sleep I was being tempted by the wicked demons and, by their contrivance, was being dragged toward the passion of a nocturnal emission, and was resisting and calling out for help, I awoke, having escaped the hands of my tempters unharmed.

1:3170

Ὡς δέ καθ ἑαυτόν τήν ἔνστασιν καί τήν ἀνδρείαν, μᾶλλον δέ τήν ἀκινησίαν μου πρός τό πάθος ἐθαύμαζον, καί Πόθεν τοῦτο ἀσυνήθωςμοῦ λογιζομένου, τό τρόπαιον γέγονεν, ἵνα καί κοιμώμενος ἀντιμάχωμαι καί ἰσχυρότερος τῶν ἀντιπάλων καί ἐχθρῶν μου γίνωμαι καί κατά κράτος αὐτούς νίκην νικῶ παραδόξως διά Χριστοῦ;

當我心裏正驚奇於自己的堅定與剛強——或說得更確切些，是驚奇於自己面對情慾竟能如此不動——並在思想：「這樣一場如此不合我常態的凱旋，究竟從何而來，以致我連睡著時也能爭戰，變得比我的仇敵與對頭更強，且藉著基督奇妙地大大勝過他們？」——

And as I was marveling within myself at my firmness and manliness—or rather at my immovability against the passion—and was reasoning, 'Whence, in a manner so unaccustomed to me, has this triumph come about, that even in sleep I do battle and become stronger than my adversaries and enemies, and mightily and marvelously gain the victory over them through Christ?'—

1:3171

ὤ τοῦ θαύματος, εὐθύς ὅν ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ εἶναι ἐνόμιζον ἐντός μου τοῦτον εἶδον, σέ λέγω τόν ἐμόν Δημιουργόν καί Βασιλέα Χριστόν, () καί τότε ἔγνων εἶναι σήν τήν νίκην, ἥν με νενικηκέναι ἐποίησας τόν διάβολον

何等的奇事！我隨即在自己裏面看見了那位我原以為在天上的——我是說祢，我的創造者、我的君王基督——那時我才曉得，那勝利乃是屬祢的，是祢使我勝過了魔鬼。

O the wonder! Straightway I saw within me Him whom I had supposed to be in heaven—I mean You, my Maker and King Christ—and then I knew that the victory was Yours, by which You caused me to conquer the devil.

1:3172

Ἀλλ ὅμως οὔπω ἐγίνωσκον, Δέσποτα, ὅτι σύ ᾖς, ὁ ἀπό πηλοῦ πλάσας με, ταῦτά μοι πάντα χαρισάμενος τά καλά

然而，主啊，我那時仍未曉得，那用泥土塑造了我、又將這一切美善賜給我的，原來就是祢。

But even so I did not yet know, Master, that it was You who had fashioned me from clay, and who had bestowed on me all these good things.

1:3173

Οὔπω ἔγνων ὅτι αὐτός σύ ὑπῆρχες ὁ ἀνυπερήφανος Θεός μου καί Κύριος

我那時仍未曉得，祢自己就是我那毫無驕傲的神與主。

I did not yet know that You Yourself were my God and Lord, who art without arrogance.

1:3174

Οὔπω γάρ φωνῆς σου ἠξιώθην ἀκοῦσαι, ἵνα γνωρίσω σε, οὔπω ᾖς εἰπών μοι μυστικῶς ὅτι Ἐγώ εἰμι

因為我那時還不配聽見祢的聲音，好叫我能認出祢來；祢那時還未曾奧祕地對我說：「是我。」

For I had not yet been deemed worthy to hear Your voice, so that I might recognize You; You had not yet said to me mystically, 'It is I.'

1:3175

Ἀνάξιος γάρ ἐτύγχανον καί ἀκάθαρτος, ἔτι τά ὦτα τῆς ψυχῆς ἐμπεφραγμένα τῷ τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἔχων πηλῷ καί τούς ὀφθαλμούς μου κεκρατημένους ὑπό ἀπιστίας καί ἀγνοίας καί τῆς τῶν παθῶν αἰσθήσεως καί ἀχλύος

因為我原是不配的、不潔的，我魂的耳朵仍被罪的泥污塞住，我的眼睛仍被不信、無知，以及情慾的感覺與昏霧所轄制。

For I was unworthy and unclean, still having the ears of my soul stopped up with the clay of sin, and my eyes held fast by unbelief and ignorance, and by the perception and mist of the passions.

1:3176

ποτέ μεν οὕτω μοι ποτέ δέ ἄλλως δεικνύμενον, ἀλλά τό μέν ἀσύνηθες κατέπληττέ με τοῦ θαύματος, χαρᾶς δέ ὅλην μου τήν ψυχήν ἐπλήρου καί τήν καρδίαν, ὡς καί αὐτό μου οἴεσθαί με τό σῶμα μεταλαμβάνειν τῆς χάριτος τῆς ἀφάτου ἐκείνης

——它向我顯現時而如此、時而又是別樣；但那不尋常的樣式，使我對此奇事驚異不已，同時又叫我全魂全心充滿喜樂，以致我以為連我的身體也在有分於那不可言喻的恩典。

—being shown to me now in this way, now in another; but its unwonted character struck me with amazement at the wonder, while it filled my whole soul and heart with joy, so that I supposed my very body too was partaking of that ineffable grace.

1:3177

Οὔπω δέ τό τίς ᾖς ὁ ὁρώμενος τρανῶς τότε ἐγίνωσκον

然而那位如此被我看見的究竟是誰，我那時仍未清楚知曉。

But who He was that was thus seen, I did not yet then clearly know.

1:3178

Τέως ἑώρων συχνότερον φῶς, ποτέ μέν ἔνδον, ὅτε γαλήνης καί εἰρήνης ἡ ψυχή μου ἀπήλαυε, ποτέ δέ ἔξω που μακράν ἐφαίνετοἤ καί τελείως ἐκρύπτετο καί κρυπτόμενον θλῖψίν μοι ἐνεποίει ἀφόρητον, λογιζομένου μου ὡς οὐκέτι πάντως φανήσεται

與此同時，我更加頻繁地看見那光——有時是在裏面，就是當我的魂正享受寧靜與平安之際；有時它顯現在外面某處遙遠之地，或竟全然隱藏；每當它隱藏時，就在我裏面造成難以忍受的憂傷，因為我以為它斷斷不會再顯現了。

Meanwhile I saw the light more frequently—sometimes within, when my soul was enjoying calm and peace; sometimes it appeared far off, somewhere outside, or else was wholly hidden; and when hidden it wrought in me unbearable grief, for I reckoned that it would surely never appear again.

1:3179

Οὕτως οὖν ὁ ἄφραστος σύ, ὁ ἀόρατος, () ὁ ἀναφής, ὁ ἀκίνητος, ὁ πανταχοῦ ἀεί καί ἐν πᾶσι παρών καί τά πάντα πληρῶν, καθ ὥραν, ἵν εἴπω, ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τε καί νυκτί ὁρώμενος καί κρυπτόμενος, ἀπιών καί ἐρχόμενος, γινόμενος ἀφανής καί αἴφνης φαινόμενος, κατά μικρόν μικρόν τό σκότος ἐν ἐμοί ἀπεδίωξας, τό νέφος ἀπήλασας, τό πάχος ἐλέπτυνας, τήν λήμην τῶν νοερῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ἀπεκάθηρας, τά ὦτα τῆς διανοίας ἀπέφραξας καί διήνοιξας, τῆς ἀναισθησίας περιῆρας τό κάλυμμα, σύν τούτοις πᾶν πάθος και πᾶσαν σαρκικήν ἡδονήν κατεκοίμησας καί τέλεον ἀπ ἐμοῦ ἐξώρισας

如此，祢這不可言喻的、不可見的、不可觸摸的、不動的、無處不在、常在萬有中臨在、充滿萬有的主——可以說，時時刻刻，晝夜之間，時而被看見、時而隱藏，時而離去、時而又來，時而變為不見、忽然又顯現——祢便漸漸地驅散了我裏面的黑暗，趕開了雲霧，稀薄了那濃厚，洗淨了我屬靈眼睛的眵目，疏通並開啟了我悟性的耳朵，除去了麻木的帕子，並隨之使一切情慾與一切肉體的宴樂都沉睡，將它們從我這裏全然驅逐了。

Thus, then, You—the ineffable, the invisible, the intangible, the immovable, who art everywhere and always present in all things and fillest all things—being, so to speak, seen and hidden hour by hour, day and night, going away and coming, becoming unseen and suddenly appearing—little by little drove away the darkness within me, dispelled the cloud, thinned the density, cleansed away the rheum of my spiritual eyes, unstopped and opened the ears of my understanding, stripped off the veil of insensibility, and along with these lulled to sleep every passion and every fleshly pleasure, and banished it utterly from me.

1:3180

οὐρανόν δέ λέγω τήν καθαρθεῖσαν ψυχήν ἐν ᾗ ἀοράτως, οὐκ οἶδ ὅπωςἤ πόθεν ἐρχόμενος, ὁ πανταχοῦ παρών αἴφνης εὑρίσκῃ καί ὡς ἄλλος ἥλιος ἀναδείκνυσαι

我所說的天，乃是指那已被潔淨的魂；祢這無處不在的主，就在其中——不可見地，我不知祢是如何、又從何而來——忽然被尋見，如同另一個太陽般顯耀出來。

And by heaven I mean the soul that has been purified, in which You—invisibly, I know not how or whence coming, You who are everywhere present—are suddenly found and shine forth like another sun.

1:3181

Ταῦτα πρός ἡμᾶς τοῦ Θεοῦ τά θαυμάσια, ἀδελφοί!

弟兄們哪，這就是神向我們所行的奇妙作為！

Such are the wondrous works of God toward us, brethren!

1:3182

Ἀνερχομένων δέ ἡμῶν ἐπί τό τελεώτερον, οὐκέτι ὡς τό πρότερον ἄμορφοςἤ ἀνείδεος ὁ ἄμορφος καί ἀνείδεος ἔρχεταιἤ τήν παρουσίαν καί ἄφιξιν τοῦ φωτός αὐτοῦ σιωπῇ πρός ἡμᾶς ἀπεργάζεται

然而當我們向著那更完全的境地上升時，那位無形無像者，便不再像先前那樣無形無像地前來，也不再靜默無聲地成就祂的光向我們的臨在與降臨。

But as we ascend toward that which is more perfect, no longer, as before, does He who is formless and shapeless come formless and shapeless, or accomplish the presence and arrival of His light toward us in silence.

1:3183

Ἐν μορφῇ τινι, πλήν Θεοῦ·

——乃是以某種形式，然而卻是神的形式。

—in a certain form, yet a form of God.

1:3184

Θεός δέ οὐκ ἐν σχήματιἤ ἐκτυπώματι, ἀλλ ἐν ἀκατανοήτῳ καί ἀμηχάνῳ καί ἀμόρφῳ μεμορφωμένος φωτί ἁπλοῦς δείκνυται – οὐδέν γάρ πλέον εἰπεῖνἤ ἐκφράσαι δυνάμεθα , τέως ἐμφανῶς δείκνυται καί γνωρίζεται πάνυ γνωστῶς καί λίαν ὁρᾶται τρανῶς ὁ ἀόρατος, ἀοράτως λαλεῖ καί ἀκούει καί, ὡς εἴ τις φίλος πρός φίλον ἐνώπιος ἐνωπίῳ, προσομιλεῖ ὁ φύσει Θεός τοῖς κατά χάριν ἐξ αὐτοῦ γεννηθεῖσι θεοῖς, καί ὡς πατήρ ἀγαπᾷ καί παρά τῶν υἱῶν φιλεῖται ἄγαν θερμῶς καί γίνεται () τούτοις ξένον θέαμα καί φρικτότερον ἄκουσμα, μήτε λαλεῖσθαι παρ αὐτῶν ἀξίως δυνάμενον, μήτε σιωπῇ συγκαλύπτεσθαι ἀνεχόμενον·

因為神不在乎某種形象或印記，乃是在那不可測度、不可企及、無形的光中受了形，被顯明為單純的——因為我們再也無法說出或表述甚麼了。然而祂暫且明明地被顯出，極其可知地被認識，那不可見者被極其清晰地看見；祂不可見地說話與聽聞，且如同朋友與朋友面對面交談一般，這位按本性為神的，便與那些按恩典從祂而生為神的人交談；祂如父親般愛他們，也極其熱切地被眾子所愛，向他們成了一幕奇異的景象、一件最令人敬畏的可聽之事，既非他們所能配得地說出，也不容被靜默所遮蓋。

For God is not in a figure or an impress, but, being fashioned in incomprehensible and unattainable and formless light, He is shown forth as simple—for we can say or express nothing further. Yet for the time being He is shown manifestly and is made known most knowably, and the Invisible One is seen exceedingly clearly; invisibly He speaks and hears, and, as a friend converses with a friend face to face, so He who is God by nature converses with those who by grace have been begotten of Him as gods; and as a father He loves and is loved by His sons very ardently, and becomes to them a strange sight and a most awesome thing to hear, which can neither be worthily uttered by them, nor endures to be concealed in silence.

1:3185

οὗ τῷ πόθῳ ἀεί ἀναπτόμενοι καί μυστικῶς παρ αὐτοῦ ἐνηχούμενοι, ποτέ μέν περί τῶν ἀλλοτρίων παθῶν ἀποδυρόμενοι γράφουσι, ποτέ δέ τά ἑαυτῶν θριαμβεύουσι πταίσματα

他們因渴慕祂而常常被點燃，並奧祕地受祂的感發；他們有時為別人的情慾哀哭而寫作，有時則將自己的過失公然宣揚出來。

By longing for Him they are ever kindled, and are mystically inspired by Him; and sometimes they write, bewailing the passions of others, and sometimes they make a public triumph of their own falls.

1:3186

Καί ποτέ μέν, τάς εἰς αὐτούς γενομένας εὐεργεσίας καί ἐνεργείας τῆς χάριτος εὐχαρίστως ἐκδιηγούμενοι, θεολογικῶς ἀνυμνοῦσι τόν θεουργικῶς αὐτούς ἀλλοιώσαντα·

他們有時懷著感恩，述說臨到他們的恩惠與恩典的運行，便以神學的方式歌頌那以神聖大能改變了他們的主；

And sometimes, recounting with thanksgiving the benefits and workings of grace that have come to them, they hymn in theological manner Him who has divinely transformed them;

1:3187

ποτέ δέ, εἴ τι ἐναντίως καί ἐσφαλμένως λεγόμενον περί τῆς ψυχικῆς σωτηρίας ἡμῶν ἀκούσωσι, κατά τό δοθέν αὐτοῖς μέτρον τῆς γνώσεως διορθούμενοι, τοῦτο γράφουσι, τάς μαρτυρίας ἀπό τῶν θείων παριστῶντες Γραφῶν καί ἠρεμεῖν ὅλωςἤ κόρον τῆς διηγήσεως λαβεῖν οὐκ ἰσχύουσι

他們有時若聽見有人論到我們魂的救恩，說了甚麼相違、錯謬的話，便照著所賜給他們知識的度量加以糾正，將此寫下，並引證神聖經上的見證；他們既不能全然安靜下來，也不能滿足於敘述而止住。

and sometimes, if they hear anything spoken contrarily and erroneously concerning the salvation of our souls, correcting it according to the measure of knowledge given them, they write it down, adducing the testimonies from the divine Scriptures; and they are not able to remain wholly still, nor to take their fill of the narration.

1:3188

Ἐπειδή οὐκέτι ἑαυτῶν, ἀλλά τοῦ ἐν αὐτοῖς εἰσι Πνεύματος, οὕς καί κινεῖ καί ὑπ αὐτῶν πάλιν κινεῖται αὐτό, καί γίνεται ἐν αὐτοῖς πάντα ὅσα ἐν ταῖς θείαις ἀκούεις Γραφαῖς περί τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν λεγόμενα, μαργαρίτης, κόκκος σινάπεως, ζύμη, ὕδωρ, πῦρ, ἄρτος, πόμα ζωῆς, πηγή ζῶσά τε καί ἁλλομένη, ποταμούς ῥέουσα λόγων πνευματικῶν, λόγων θείας ζωῆς, λαμπάς, κλίνη, παστάς, νυμφῶν,νυμφίος, φίλος, () ἀδελφός καί πατήρ

因為他們不再屬乎自己，乃是屬乎那在他們裏面的靈；這靈既感動他們，又反過來被他們所感動，於是聖經上你所聽見論到天國的一切，便都在他們裏面成就了：珍珠、一粒芥菜種、麵酵、水、火、餅、生命的飲料、湧流的活泉、流出屬靈言語之江河（就是神聖生命之言的江河）、燈、床榻、洞房、新婦、新郎、朋友、弟兄與父親。

For they are no longer their own, but belong to the Spirit that is in them; and this Spirit both moves them and is in turn moved by them, and there come to be in them all those things which you hear spoken in the divine Scriptures concerning the kingdom of heaven: a pearl, a grain of mustard seed, leaven, water, fire, bread, the drink of life, a fountain living and leaping up, pouring forth rivers of spiritual words, words of divine life, a lamp, a couch, a bridal chamber, a bride, a bridegroom, a friend, a brother, and a father.

1:3189

Καί τί πολλά λέγων πειρῶμαι τά πάντα διεξελθεῖν καί ἰδού εἰσιν ἀναρίθμητα;

看哪，這些既是不可勝數的，我又何必多言，試圖將它們一一述盡呢？

And why, saying much, do I attempt to go through them all, when behold, they are without number?

1:3190

ἤκουσε καί ἐπί καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἀνέβη, πῶς γλῶσσα μετρήσασα ταῦτα λόγῳ ἐκδιηγήσεται;

那耳朵未曾聽見、人心也未曾想到的，舌頭又怎能度量這些，用言語述說出來呢？

That which ear has not heard, nor has entered into the heart of man—how shall a tongue, having measured these things, recount them in words?

1:3191

Εἰ γάρ καί ἐντός ἡμῶν πάντα διά τό τόν πάροχον τούτων Θεόν περιφέρειν κεκτήμεθα, ἀλλ οὔτε νοΐ ἐκμετρῆσαι, οὔτε λόγῳ ἐξηγήσασθαι ταῦτα ὅλως δυνάμεθα

因為縱然我們裏面已擁有這一切，緣故乃是我們裏面懷帶著那賞賜這些的神，我們卻既不能用心思將它們量盡，也全然不能用言語將它們述說出來。

For even though we possess all things within us, because we bear about within us God who bestows them, yet we can neither measure them out with the mind nor set them forth in words at all.

1:3192

Ταῦτα τοίνυν ἐγράψαμεν, ὦ πατέρες καί ἀδελφοί, οὐκ ἐνδείξεως χάριν, μή γένοιτο – τί γάρ καί ἔχομεν ἡμέτερον ἐνδείξασθαι, εἰ μή ἐκ κοιλίας μητρός ἡμῶν ἁμαρτίας καί ἀκαθαρσίας καί ἀνομίας πολλάς, αἷς ὡς οἶμαι οὐδέ ἡ θαλαττία ψάμμος τῷ πλήθει συνεξισάζεται;

眾父老與弟兄們哪，我們寫這些，並不是為著炫耀——斷乎不是！因為我們有甚麼屬自己的可以炫耀呢？除非說，我們從母腹裏便有罪、有污穢、有許多不義，其數之多，依我看來，連海沙也不能與之相比。

These things, therefore, we have written, O fathers and brethren, not for the sake of display—God forbid! For what have we of our own to display, save that, from our mother's womb, we have sins and uncleannesses and many iniquities, to whose multitude, as I think, not even the sand of the sea is equal?

1:3193

ἀλλά τοῦ Θεοῦ τά θαυμάσια φανεροῦμεν καί παρατιθέμεθα ὑμῖν, εἰ καί μή ἀξίως, ἀλλ οὖν κατά γε τήν ἡμετέραν δύναμιν·

反倒是要顯明神奇妙的作為，並將它們陳明在你們面前——縱然不配，卻至少是按著我們的能力；

Rather, we make manifest the wondrous works of God and set them before you—though not worthily, yet at least according to our ability;

1:3194

πρός τούτοις καί ἵνα τούς οἰομένους Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον ἀγνώστως ἔχειν ἀπό τοῦ θείου βαπτίσματος διά ταύτης τῆς ἐξηγήσεως ὠφελήσωμεν

此外，也是要藉著這番闡述，使那些以為自己從神聖的洗禮就在不知不覺中擁有了聖靈的人得著益處。

and besides this, so that by this exposition we might benefit those who suppose that they possess the Holy Spirit unconsciously from divine baptism.

1:3195

Διδάσκει γάρ ὁ λόγος ἡμᾶς τήν ἐνοῦσαν ἐν πρώτοις ἡμῖν παντελῆ σκότωσίν τε καί ζόφωσιν ἤγουν τήν ἀλλοτρίωσιν τοῦ θείου φωτός, ὅτε δηλαδή καί τήν περί Θεοῦ ἄγνοιαν σαφῶς διεξέρχεται, ἔπειτα τόν ἐκ τῆς συνειδήσεως γινόμενον ἔλεγχον, εἶτα τό φόβον, εἶτα τήν ἐπιθυμίαν τῆς ἀφέσεως τῶν χρεῶν ὅτε καί μεσίτην ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐπιζητεῖ πρός τοῦτο καί βοηθόν, ὡς μή δυνάμενος δηλονότι μόνος ἀναιδῶς προσελθεῖν διά τό καταβαρεῖσθαι αὐτόν ὑπό πολλῶν τῆς αἰσχύνης ἁμαρτιῶν , εἶτα τήν ἐπιτυχίαν τοῦ μεσίτου καί ποιμένος καί πρεσβευτοῦ·

因為這番話教導我們：起初在我們裏面的乃是全然的黑暗與幽暗，就是與神聖之光的隔絕——那時它也清楚地陳明了對神的無知；隨後是良心所生的責備；隨後是懼怕；隨後是對赦免諸債的渴望，那時人便為此尋求一位中保與幫助者，因他顯然不能獨自厚顏地親近，緣故是他被許多可羞的罪所壓；隨後是尋得那中保、牧人與代求者；

For the discourse teaches us the utter darkness and gloom that is in us at the first—that is, the estrangement from the divine light, when indeed it clearly sets forth also the ignorance concerning God; then the reproof that arises from conscience; then fear; then the desire for the remission of debts, when a man seeks for this an intercessor and helper, being plainly unable to draw near alone and shamelessly, because he is weighed down by many sins of shame; then the attaining of the intercessor and shepherd and advocate;

1:3196

() καί πῶς τῇ νοερᾷ ἐλλάμψει τοῦ Πνεύματος καί τοῦτον τεθέαται, ὅ καί ἀρχήν γενομένην ἐλλάμψεως δείκνυσιν, ἧς πρῴην ὑπῆρχεν ἀμύητος, πῶς τε μετά τό γενέσθαι τήν ἀποκάλυψιν πάλιν ἡ θεωρία παρῆλθε τοῦ Πνεύματος καί, στερηθείς ταύτης, πάλιν ἐν σκότει ἁμαρτιῶν πολλῶν περιέπεσε

以及他如何藉著聖靈在心思中的光照，甚至得見了這一位——這顯明了一種光照的開端，就是他先前所未曾與聞的；又述說在那啟示成就之後，聖靈的異象如何再次消逝，他既被奪去了這異象，便重新陷入諸多罪惡的黑暗之中。

and how, by the noetic illumination of the Spirit, he has beheld even this one—which shows the beginning of an illumination into which he was formerly uninitiated; and how, after the revelation had come to pass, the vision of the Spirit again passed away, and, being deprived of it, he fell back again into the darkness of many sins.

1:3197

Μετά δέ ταῦτα καί τήν διά τοῦ ποιμένος δευτέραν κλῆσιν ἐδήλωσεν, εἶτα τήν ὑπακοήν, τήν πίστιν, τήν ταπείνωσιν, τήν ὑποταγήν, ἐκ δέ τούτων τήν κατά μικρόν ἐν γνώσει καί θεωρίᾳ γινομένην ἐν ἡμῖν ἐναργεστάτην ἀλλοίωσιν, ἥν ὁ μή ἐπεγνωκώς ἐν ἑαυτῷ γενομένην κατά τήν τοῦ λόγου ἐξήγησιν, οὐ δυνατόν ἔχειν Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον τόν τοιοῦτον κατοικοῦν ἐν αὐτῷ

此後它也講明了藉著牧人而來的第二次呼召；隨後是順從、信心、謙卑、服從；並由這些而生、在知識與默觀中漸漸在我們裏面成就的那極其明顯的變化——這變化，人若未曾按著這番話的闡述認出它已在自己裏面成就，這樣的人便不可能有聖靈住在他裏面。

And after these things it made clear also the second calling through the shepherd; then obedience, faith, humility, submission; and out of these the most manifest transformation that comes to be in us little by little in knowledge and contemplation—which transformation, if a man has not recognized as having come to pass within himself according to the exposition of the discourse, it is not possible that such a one has the Holy Spirit dwelling in him.

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Ἀλλά ταῦτα μέν ὁ λόγος, καθώς μοι ἄνωθεν εἴρηται, διεξοδικώτερον διερχόμενος, οὐ καυχωμένους ἡμᾶς ἀποδεικνύει, ἀλλά διηγουμένους τά θαυμάσια τοῦ Θεοῦ,ἅ ἐν τοῖς ἐκζητοῦσιν αὐτόν ἐξ ὅλης ψυχῆς καί καρδίας φιλαγάθως ἐργάζεται, ὡς ἄν πᾶσα πρόφασις καί παρακοήν ἔνδικον ἀπολήψεται τήν μισθαποδοσίαν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ᾗ κρινεῖ ὁ Θεός τό γένος τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ᾧ πρέπει πᾶσα δόξα, τιμή καί προσκύνησις νῦν καί ἀεί καί εἰς τούς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων

然而這番話，正如我在前面所說的，既更詳盡地講述了這些事，就顯明我們並非在誇口，乃是在述說神奇妙的作為，就是祂因愛慕良善，在那些全心全魂尋求祂的人身上所行的；如此，在神審判人類的那日，一切藉口與應受懲責的悖逆都必得其報應。願一切榮耀、尊貴與敬拜都歸與祂，從今直到永永遠遠。

But this discourse, as has been said by me above, going through these matters more fully, shows us not to be boasting, but to be recounting the wondrous works of God, which He works out of love of the good in those who seek Him with their whole soul and heart; so that every pretext and just disobedience may receive its recompense in the day when God shall judge the race of men—to whom belongs all glory, honor, and worship, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.

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Τοῦ ἁγίου καί μεγάλου πατρός ἡμῶν Συμεών τοῦ Νέου

我們聖潔而偉大的父新神學家西面之作。

Of our holy and great father Symeon the New.

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Εὐχαριστία πρός Θεόν περί τῶν γεγονότων εὐεργεσιῶν εἰς αὐτόν παρ αὐτοῦ

為著從神而來、臨到他身上之諸般恩惠而向神獻上的感恩。

A Thanksgiving to God for the benefits that have come to him from Him.

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Ἐν ᾗ καί περί εὐχῆς πνευματικῆς καί τῆς ἐν ταύτῃ προκοπῆς

其中也論到屬靈的禱告，以及在其中所得的長進。

In which there is also treated spiritual prayer and the progress made therein.

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Καί περί ἐλλάμψεως θείας θεωρίας τε ἀπλανοῦς καί ἀγάπης τῆς πρός Θεόν

並論到神聖的光照、無謬的默觀，以及向著神的愛。

And concerning divine illumination, unerring contemplation, and love toward God.

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() Εὐχαριστῶ σοι, Δέσποτα, Κύριε οὐρανοῦ καί γῆς, ὁ ἐκ μή ὄντος εἰς τό εἶναι πρό καταβολῆς κόσμου γενέσθαι με προορίσας

主啊，天地的主宰，我感謝祢，就是那在創世以先便預定了我從無有中進入實有的。

I give thanks to You, Master, Lord of heaven and earth, who didst foreordain me, before the foundation of the world, to come from non-being into being.

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Εὐχαριστῶ σοι, ὅτι πρό τοῦ φθάσαι τήν ἡμέραν καί ὥραν, ἐν ᾗ ἐκέλευσας παραχθῆναί με, αὐτός ὁ μόνος ἀθάνατος, ὁ μόνος παντοδύναμος, ὁ μόνος ἀγαθός καί φιλάνθρωπος, κετελθών ἐξ ὕψους ἁγίου σου, τῶν κόλπων τῶν πατρικῶν μή ἐκστάς καί ἐκ τῆς ἁγίας Παρθένου Μαρίας σαρκωθείς καί γεννηθείς, προανέπλασας καί προεζώωσας καί τοῦ προπατορικοῦ με πτώματος ἠλευθέρωσας καί τήν εἰς οὐρανούς ἄνοδον προηυτρέπισας

我感謝祢，因為在祢所命定要生出我的日子與時辰來到以先，祢自己——那獨一不死的、獨一全能的、獨一美善又愛人的——便從祢聖潔的高天降下，卻未曾離開父的懷抱，並從聖潔的童女馬利亞成了肉身、降生為人，預先重塑了我，預先賜我生命，將我從始祖的墮落中釋放出來，又預先為我豫備了升入諸天的道路。

I give thanks to You, that before the day and hour came in which You commanded me to be brought forth, You Yourself—the only immortal, the only almighty, the only good and lover of mankind—having come down from Your holy height, without departing from the Father's bosom, and having been made flesh and born of the holy Virgin Mary, refashioned me beforehand and gave me life beforehand, and freed me from the ancestral fall, and prepared beforehand my ascent into the heavens.

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καί κατά () μικρόν αὐξάνοντα, αὐτός καί τῷ τῆς ἀναπλάσεως ἁγίῳ βαπτίσματί σου ἐξανεκαίνισας, καί τῷ Ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι κατεκόσμησας, καί ἄγγελον φωτός φύλακά μοι κατέστησας, καί ἀπό τῶν ἐναντίων ἔργων καί τῶν τοῦ ἐχθροῦ παγίδων μέχρι τελείας ἡλικίας με ἄτρωτον διεφύλαξας

當我漸漸長大時，祢自己又藉著祢那使人重生的聖潔洗禮更新了我，並以聖靈裝飾了我，又立了一位光明的天使作我的守護者，且保守我直到成年，不受那仇敵之作為與那敵人網羅的傷害。

And as I grew little by little, You Yourself both renewed me anew by Your holy baptism of regeneration, and adorned me with the Holy Spirit, and appointed an angel of light to be my guardian, and kept me unwounded, until my full stature, from the works of the adversary and the snares of the enemy.

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Ἐπεί δέ οὐ βίᾳ ἡμᾶς, ἀλλ αὐτοπροαιρέτῳ γνώμῃ σῴζεσθαι ἐδικαίωσας, εἴασας κἀμέ τῷ αὐτεξουσίῳ τιμᾶσθαι καί τήν πρός σέ ἀγάπην ἐκ τῆς τῶν ἐντολῶν σου φυλακῆς αὐτοπροαίρετον ἐπιδείκνυσθαι, ἐγώ δέ ὁ ἀγνώμων καί καταφρονητής, ὥσπερ ἵππος ἀπολυθείς ἐκ δεσμῶν, οὕτω τήν ἀξίαν τῆς αὐτεξουσιότητος λογισάμενος, εἰς κρημνόν ἐμαυτόν, τῆς σῆς δεσποτείας ἀποσκιρτήσας, ἀπέρριψα

然而，既然祢裁定我們得救不是出於強迫，乃是出於我們自己的自由選擇，祢便也任憑我得著自由意志的尊榮，好叫我藉著遵守祢的誡命，自主地顯出對祢的愛。但我這忘恩負義、輕慢的人，卻像掙脫了韁繩的馬，如此看待自由意志的價值，從祢的主權之下奔逃跳脫，將自己拋入了深淵。

But since You have judged it right that we be saved, not by compulsion, but by our own free choice, You left me too to be honored with free will, and to display love toward You, freely chosen, out of the keeping of Your commandments. But I, the ungrateful and contemptuous one, like a horse loosed from its bonds, reckoning thus the worth of free will, sprang away from Your lordship and cast myself down into a precipice.

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Κἀκεῖ με κείμενον καί ἀναισθήτως ἐγκυλιόμενον καί ἐπί πλεῖον συντριβόμενον, οὐκ ἀπεστράφης, οὐκ εἴασας κεῖσθαι καί τῷ βορβόρῳ μολύνεσθαι, ἀλλά διά σπλάγχνα ἐλέους σου ἐξαπέστειλας κἀκεῖθέν με ἀνήγαγες καί λαμπρότερον ἐτίμησας, καί ἀπό βασιλέων καί ἀρχόντων, ὡς σκεῦος ἄτιμον βουληθέντων μοι χρήσασθαι εἰς λειτουργίαν τῶν θελημάτων αὐτῶν, ἀρρήτοις σου κρίμασιν ἀπελύτρωσας·

當我躺臥在那裏、麻木地打滾、被壓得越發破碎時，祢並未轉臉不顧，也未任憑我躺在污泥中被玷污；反倒因著祢憐憫的慈心，差遣並將我從那裏領上來，使我得著更為輝煌的尊榮，並藉著祢那不可測度的判斷，將我從那些君王與官長手中救贖出來——他們原想把我當作卑賤的器皿，用以服事他們自己的私慾。

And as I lay there, senselessly wallowing and being crushed yet more, You did not turn away, You did not let me lie and be defiled in the mire; but for the sake of the compassions of Your mercy You sent forth and led me up from there, and honored me more splendidly, and by Your unspeakable judgments You redeemed me from kings and rulers who wished to use me as a vessel of dishonor for the service of their own desires.

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δῶρα χρυσίου καί ἀργυρίου, καίτοι φιλαργύρου μου ὄντος, λαβεῖν με οὐκ εἴασας, δόξαν καί περιφάνειαν βίου, διδομένην μοι εἰς ἀπεμπόλησιν τοῦ ἁγιασμοῦ σου, ὡς βδέλυγμα ταύτην λογίσασθαι ἐδωρήσω μοι

金銀的餽贈，雖然我原是貪愛錢財的，祢卻不容我收取；那生命中的榮華與顯赫，本是要獻給我、作為變賣祢那聖別之物的代價，祢卻恩賜我把它看作可憎之物。

Gifts of gold and silver, though I was a lover of money, You did not let me take; the glory and splendor of life, offered to me as the price for the selling-away of Your sanctification, You granted me to reckon as an abomination.

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Ἀλλά ταῦτα πάντα, ἐξομολογοῦμαί σοι, Κύριε ὁ Θεός τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καί τῆς γῆς, εἰς οὐδέν πάλιν θέμενος, εἰς λάκκον καί ἰλύν βυθοῦ αἰσχρῶν ἐννοιῶν τε καί () πράξεων ἐμαυτόν ὁ ἄθλιος ἐναπέρριψα, κἀκεῖ κατελθών τοῖς ἐγκεκρυμμένοις ἐν τῷ σκότει περιέπεσον, ἐξ ὧν οὐκ ἐμαυτόν ἐγώ μόνον, ἀλλ οὐδέ ὁ σύμπας κόσμος εἰς ἕν ἀθροισθείς ἐκεῖθεν ἀναγαγεῖν με καί τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν ἐξελέσθαι ἠδύνατο

然而這一切——天地的主耶和華神啊，我向祢承認——我竟又把它們看為無有，我這卑微的人，將自己拋入坑中，投進那羞恥意念與行為之深淵的淤泥裏；我既下到那裏，便與那些藏在黑暗中的事物相遇了，從其中，不但我自己一人，就連全世界合而為一，也不能把我從那裏領上來、從它們的手中救拔出來。

But all these things—I confess to You, O Lord God of heaven and earth—counting them again as nothing, I, the wretched one, cast myself into a pit and into the slime of the deep, of shameful thoughts and deeds; and having gone down there, I fell in with the things hidden in the darkness, from which not only I myself alone, but not even the whole world gathered into one, could have led me up from there and delivered me from their hands.

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Ὅμως ἐκεῖσε κρατούμενόν με ἐλεεινῶς καί ἀθλίως περισυρόμενον καί συμπνιγόμενον καί καταπαιζόμενον παρ αὐτῶν, ὁ εὔσπλαχνος σύ καί φιλάνθρωπος Δεσπότης, οὐ παρεῖδές με, οὐκ ἐμνησικάκησας, οὐκ ἀπεστράφης μου τήν ἀγνώμονα γνώμην, οὐκ ἐπί πολύ ἀφῆκας ὑπό τῶν ληστῶν ἐθελοντί τυραννεῖσθαί με

然而當我被牢牢地拘禁在那裏，被它們可憐可悲地拖來拖去、被扼住、被戲弄時，祢這滿有憐憫、又愛人的主宰，並未忽略我，並未記念我的過犯，並未轉臉離棄我那忘恩負義的心思，也未長久任憑我甘心情願地被那些強盜所轄制。

Yet as I was held fast there, pitiably and wretchedly dragged about and choked and mocked by them, You, the compassionate and man-loving Master, did not overlook me, did not remember my faults, did not turn away from my ungrateful mind, did not for long leave me to be willingly tyrannized by the robbers.

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