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1:935

καί εἰ βούλει τοῦτο μαθεῖν ἀκριβῶς, τά παρ ἐκείνου αὐτοῦ, φημί τοῦ ἁγίου Ἀρσενίου, ἐκτεθέντα κεφάλαια δίελθε καί γνώσει ἐξ αὐτῶν ὅτι καί οὗτος θεόπτης ἐστίν ἀληθῶς

你若願意確切地明白這事，就查考那人——我是說聖阿爾塞尼烏斯——所留下的章節，你必從其中知道，這人也真是一位見神者。

and if you wish to learn this with certainty, go through the chapters set forth by that very man—I mean by the holy Arsenius—and you will know from them that this man too is truly a beholder of God.

1:936

Ὁ οὖν αὐτούς ἐκμιμούμενος ἔργῳ καί πόνοις τῆς αὐτῆς ὄντως καταξιωθήσεται χάριτος·

所以，凡在行為和勞苦上效法他們的，就真要配得同樣的恩典。

Whoever, therefore, imitates them in deed and in toils will truly be counted worthy of the same grace.

1:937

Εὐθυμίου δέ καί Σάβα καί τῶν καθεξῆς ἁγίων τάς πράξεις, τάς ὑπέρ ἄνθρωπον, τίς διηγήσεται;

至於猶提米烏斯、撒巴斯，以及在他們之後那些聖徒超乎人所能的作為，有誰能述說盡呢？

And the deeds of Euthymius and Sabas and of the saints who came after them, deeds beyond man—who shall recount them?

1:938

Εἴτε γάρ () πρό τοῦ τήν χάριν λαβεῖν τοῦ Πνεύματος, εἴτε καί μετά τό ταύτην λαβεῖν, τέως ἄνευ κόπων καί πόνων πολλῶν καί ἱδρώτων βίας τε καί στενοχωρίας καί θλίψεως οὐδείς διῆλθε τόν σκοτασμόν τῆς ψυχῆς, οὐδέ τό φῶς τοῦ Παναγίου Πνεύματος ἐθεάσατο

因為無論是在領受聖靈的恩典之前，還是在領受之後，直到如今，沒有一個人是不經勞苦、許多辛勞、汗水、強力、窘迫和患難，就能穿越魂裡的黑暗，或看見至聖之靈的光的。

For whether before receiving the grace of the Spirit, or after receiving it, no one until now has passed through the darkening of the soul, nor beheld the light of the All-holy Spirit, without labors and many toils and sweat, without violence and straitness and affliction.

1:939

Βιαστή γάρ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν καί βιασταί ἁρπάζουσιν αὐτήν, ἐπειδή καί διά πολλῶν θλίψεων δεῖ ἡμᾶς εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τήν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν

因為天國是努力進入的，努力的人就得著了；因為我們進入神的國，必須經歷許多患難。

For the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force, since it is also through many afflictions that we must enter into the kingdom of heaven.

1:940

Ἡ δέ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἡ μετοχή ὑπάρχει τοῦ Πνεύματος τοῦ Ἁγίου·

而天國就是有分於聖靈；

And the kingdom of heaven is the partaking of the Holy Spirit;

1:941

τοῦτο γάρ ἐστι τό εἰρημένον ὅτι ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἐντός ἡμῶν ἐστιν, ἵνα τό Πνεῦμα τό Ἅγιον ἐντός ἡμῶν λαβεῖν καί ἔχειν σπουδάσωμεν

因為所說「天國就在你們裡面」的意思，正是叫我們要竭力在我們裡面領受並持有聖靈。

for this is what was said, that the kingdom of heaven is within us, namely, that we should be zealous to receive and to have the Holy Spirit within us.

1:942

Μή οὖν λεγέτωσαν οἱ ἐκτός ὄντες διηνεκοῦς βίας καί στενοχωρίας καί εὐτελείας καί θλίψεως, ὅτι ἐντός ἡμῶν ἔχομεν τό Πνεῦμα τό Ἅγιον·

所以，那些沒有持續的強力、窘迫、卑微與患難的人，不要說我們裡面有聖靈；

Let not those, then, who are without continual violence and straitness and lowliness and affliction say that we have the Holy Spirit within us;

1:943

ἄνευ γάρ ἔργων καί ἱδρώτων καί πόνων τῆς ἀρετῆς ὁ μισθός οὗτος οὐ δίδοταί τισι

因為若沒有美德的工作、汗水與勞苦，這賞賜是不賜給任何人的。

for without works and sweat and the toils of virtue this reward is not given to anyone.

1:944

Διό μοι καλῶς ἔχειν δοκεῖ καί τό παρά πολλοῖς οὕτω λεγόμενον·

為此，那被許多人如此傳講的話，我看是說得好的：

Wherefore that saying, spoken thus by many, seems to me to be well put:

1:945

Δεῖξον, φησίν, ἔργα καί ἀπαίτει μισθούς

它說：「拿出你的工作來，然後才可討工價。」

'Show your works,' it says, 'and then demand your wages.'

1:946

τοῦ σώματος καί τοῦ οἰκήματος καί τοῦ κόσμου παντός – νύξ γάρ ἦν καί ὡς ἡμέρα τελεία ἐγένετο , ἀλλ ἐπεί ἀπόνως πλοῦτον ἔλαβε, συντόμως αὐτοῦ καί κατεφρόνησε

……身體、居所，以及整個世界——因為當時是黑夜，卻變得如同大白天——但因他毫不費力就得了財富，他也就迅速地輕看了它。

of the body and of the dwelling and of the whole world—for it was night, and it became as full day—but since he had received wealth without toil, he also quickly despised it.

1:947

Διό καί ἀμελήσας, ὅλον ὁμοῦ τόν πλοῦτον ἀπώλεσε καί ἐπί () τοσοῦτον, ὡς μηδέν μνημονεύειν ὅλως αὐτόν, ὅτι ποτέ τοιαύτην δόξαν τεθέαται

因此，他一疏忽，就頃刻間喪失了那全部的財富，以致他全然不再記得自己曾經看見過那樣的榮耀。

Wherefore, having grown negligent, he lost the whole of that wealth all at once, and to such a degree that he no longer remembered at all that he had ever beheld such glory.

1:948

Πῶς οὖν οἱ μηδέ λαβεῖν ἀξιωθέντες ποτέἤ κατιδεῖν τήν δόξαν ταύτην ποσῶς, λέγουσιν ἔχειν ταύτην ὅλην ἐν ἑαυτοῖς, ἀπορῶ

那麼，那些從未配得領受、或絲毫看見過這榮耀的人，怎麼竟說他們裡面有了它的全部呢？我實在困惑不解。

How, then, do those who have never even been counted worthy to receive or in any measure to behold this glory say that they have the whole of it within themselves? I am at a loss.

1:949

Ἀλλὤ τῆς πωρώσεως,ὤ τοῦ σκοτασμοῦ,ὤ τῆς ἀγνοίας καί τῆς ματαίας οἰήσεως, ποῦ ποτε τοῦτοἤ διά ποίων γραφῶν μεμαθήκασιν;

唉，這剛硬！唉，這黑暗！唉，這無知與虛妄的自負！他們是從何處、又是藉著哪些經文學到這事的呢？

Alas for the hardness, alas for the darkening, alas for the ignorance and the vain conceit! Whence, and through what Scriptures, have they learned this?

1:950

Ὄντως ἐματαιώθησαν ἐν τοῖς διαλογισμοῖς αὐτῶν καί ἐσκοτίσθη ἡ ἀσύνετος αὐτῶν καρδία καί ἔμειναν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, τουτέστιν ἐν τῷ σκότει τῶν παθῶν αὐτῶν καί τῶν ἡδονῶν

他們的思念實在變為虛妄，他們無知的心就昏暗了，他們仍留在埃及，就是留在他們情慾與宴樂的黑暗中。

Truly they became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened, and they remained in Egypt, that is, in the darkness of their passions and pleasures.

1:951

Οἱ γάρ τήν γῆν τῆς ἐπαγγελίας ἰδεῖν ποθήσαντες, ἥν πραέων ὀφθαλμοί καί ταπεινῶν καί πτωχῶν βλέπειν καταξιοῦνται, πᾶσαν στενοχωρίαν καί πᾶσαν θλῖψιν καί εὐτέλειαν καταδέχονται καί ἀπό πάσης καί παντοίας σωματικῆς ἡδονῆς καί τιμῆς καί ἀνέσεως σφοδρῶς ἀπέχονται

因為那些渴慕看見應許之地的人——那地是溫柔、謙卑、貧窮之人的眼所配得看見的——他們接受一切的窘迫、一切的患難與卑微，並極力戒絕一切各樣肉體的宴樂、尊榮與安逸。

For those who have longed to see the land of promise—which the eyes of the meek and lowly and poor are counted worthy to behold—accept all straitness and all affliction and lowliness, and vehemently abstain from all and every bodily pleasure and honor and ease.

1:952

Οὐ μόνον δέ ἀλλά καί ἀπό παντός ἀνθρώπου μικροῦ τε καί μεγάλου χωρίζονται, φεύγοντες αὐτούς ἀμίσως, ἵνα ταύτης καταξιωθῶσιν ἐπιβῆναι πρό τοῦ ἐκκοπῆναι τόν δρόμον αὐτῶν ἀπό τῆς ὁδοῦ τῆς παρούσης ζωῆς

不但如此，他們還與各人，無論大小，都分別開來，不帶恨意地躲避他們，為要在他們此生的路程從這條道上被截斷之前，配得踏上那地。

And not only so, but they separate themselves from every man, small and great, fleeing them without hatred, that they may be counted worthy to set foot upon it before the course of their present life be cut off from the way.

1:953

Ταπεινούμενοι γάρ καί ὡς πονηροί καί προσκεκρουκότες πολλά ἐπ ἀληθῶς διακείμενοι, οὐ μήν ἀλλά γάρ καί ὡς ἐχθροί καί παραβάται τῶν ἐντολῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ στυγνοί καί λελυπημένοι διάγουσιν, ἐπιποθοῦντες μαθεῖν τό τί ἄν δέοι αὐτούς διαπράξασθαι πρός τό καταλλαγῆναι τῷ Δεσπότῃ Χριστῷ

因為他們自己謙卑，真心把自己當作惡人、當作屢次觸犯了神的人——不，反倒當作神誡命的仇敵與違背者——愁苦悲傷度日，切慕要知道他們該作什麼，好與主基督和好。

For humbling themselves, and being truly disposed as wicked men who have given much offense—nay rather, living as enemies and transgressors of God's commandments—they pass their days downcast and grieved, longing to learn what it might be needful for them to do in order to be reconciled to the Master Christ.

1:954

Διά τοῦτο τοίνυν χαρίζεται αὐτοῖς ὁ Κύριος οὐ μόνον τό γνῶναι ὅ τι δέοι ποιῆσαι, ἀλλά καί ἰσχύς δίδοται αὐτοῖς παρ αὐτοῦ καί ὑπομονή εἰς τό ἐκπληρώσαντας πάνταἅ δεῖ, αὐτόν ἐκεῖνον ἰδέσθαι καί κτήσασθαι () τόν ἐπί πάντων καί ἐπί πᾶσι Θεόν καί τηνικαῦτα ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ διάγειν καί ἐκεῖσε τό πολίτευμα ἔχειν, κἄν ἐν σπηλαίοις κἄν ἐν ὄρεσι κἄν ἐν κελλίοις διάγωσι, κἄν ἐν μέσαις ἀναστρέφωνται πόλεσι, καί οὕτως ἀεί ἐν χαρᾷ καί εὐφροσύνῃ καί ἀγαλλιάσει ἀρρήτῳ δουλεύειν αὐτῷ

所以，為這緣故，主就賜給他們，不但知道所當行的是什麼，且從祂那裡賜給他們力量與忍耐，好叫他們既完成了一切所當作的，就能看見祂自己，並得著那超乎萬有、在萬有之上的神；那時他們就如同在天上度日，並在那裡有他們的國籍，無論他們是在洞穴、在山上、在斗室中度日，或是在城市當中往來，都照樣如此，並且這樣常在喜樂、歡欣和說不出的歡騰中事奉祂。

For this reason, therefore, the Lord grants them not only to know what it is needful to do, but strength also is given them by Him, and endurance, that having fulfilled all that is required, they may see Him Himself and gain God who is over all and in all; and then they dwell as in heaven and have their citizenship there—whether they pass their days in caves or in mountains or in cells, or whether they move about in the midst of cities—and thus they serve Him ever in joy and gladness and unspeakable exultation.

1:955

Αὕτη τοιγαροῦν ἡ ἐργασία τῶν ἁγίων ἐστίν, αὕτη ἡ πρᾶξις τῶν ἐν Πνεύματι ἀγομένων Θεοῦ

那麼，這就是眾聖徒的操練；這就是那些被神的靈引導之人的行事為人。

This, then, is the labor of the saints; this is the practice of those who are led by the Spirit of God.

1:956

Οἷος γέγονε καί ἐν τῇ καθ ἡμᾶς γενεᾷ ὁ ἅγιος καί μακαριώτατος εὐλαβής Συμεών, ὁ λάμψας δίκην ἡλίου μέσον τῆς περιωνύμου μονῆς τῶν Στουδίου, ὁ ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ κόσμου ποτέ ὤν καί τοῖς τοῦ κόσμου πράγμασι καί φίλοις καί συγγενέσιν, οὐ μόνον δέ ἀλλά καί ταῖς φροντίσι καί μερίμναις καί ἡδοναῖς τοῦ βίου ἐπί τοσοῦτον ἀποταξάμενος, ὡς μηδέ τήν μνήμην ὅλως ἔχειν αὐτῶν, ἀλλά καί ταύτην ἀφ ἑαυτοῦ ἐξορίσαι μακράν, ὁ ἀναστραφείς μέσον τοῦ πλήθους τῶν μοναχῶν καί τήν μακαρίαν ἐκείνην τότε λέξας φωνήν, Ὀφείλειλέγων εἶναι ὁ μοναχός ἐν τῷ μοναστηρίῳ ὡς ὤν καί μή ὤν καί μή φαινόμενος, μᾶλλον δέ μηδέ γνωριζόμενος, ἥν καί ἑρμηνεύων ἔλεγεν·

這樣的一位，甚至在我們這一代也曾有過：就是那聖潔、極其有福、虔敬的西面，他在那著名的司徒迪奧修道院當中，發光如日；他曾一度身處世界當中，置身於世上的事務、朋友和親屬之中，不但如此，他還如此撇棄了今生的思慮、掛念與宴樂，以致全然不再記念它們，反倒把那記念遠遠地從自己驅逐出去；他在眾修士當中往來，那時說出那有福的話，宣告說：「修士在修道院中，該像一個既在又不在、且不顯露的人——不，更是連被人認識也沒有。」他又解釋這話說：

Such a one there was even in our own generation: the holy and most blessed, reverent Symeon, who shone like the sun in the midst of the renowned monastery of Studios—he who was once in the midst of the world and among the world's affairs and friends and kinsmen, and who, moreover, so renounced the cares and anxieties and pleasures of this life that he no longer had any memory of them at all, but even banished that memory far from himself; who, moving about in the midst of the multitude of monks, then uttered that blessed saying, declaring: 'The monk ought to be in the monastery as one who both is and is not, and who does not appear—or rather, who is not even known'; which he also interpreted, saying:

1:957

Ὡς ὤν μέν τῷ σώματι, μή ὤν δέ τῷ πνεύματι, μή φαινόμενος δέ εἰ μή μόνοις διά τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος τοῖς καθαροῖς τῇ καρδίᾳ, μή γνωριζόμενος δέ διά τό μή ἔχειν μετά τινός τι

「就是說，在身體上他是在的，但在靈裡卻不在；他不顯露，除非藉著聖靈只向那些心裡潔淨的人顯露；他不被認識，因為他與任何人都毫無牽連。」

'As being present in body, but not present in spirit; not appearing, except only to the pure in heart through the Holy Spirit; not being known, because of having nothing to do with anyone.'

1:958

Ὤ μακαρίων ῥημάτων, δι ὧν ἡ ὑπέρ ἄνθρωπον ἀγγελική πολιτεία αὐτοῦ κηρύττεται, δι ὧν κεκτῆσθαι ἐν οὐρανοῖς τό πολίτευμα αὐτός ἑαυτῷ διά τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος μεμαρτύρηκεν, δι ὧν τήν μετά Θεοῦ ἡμῶν διαγωγήν ὑπέφηνε, () μή ἔχειν εἰπών μετά τινός τι

何等有福的話語啊！藉此他那超乎人、如同天使的生活得以被傳揚；藉此他為自己作了見證，就是藉著聖靈，證明他在諸天之上擁有國籍；藉此他隱約指出了他與我們神同在的生活方式——他說他與任何人都毫無牽連。

O blessed words, by which his angelic way of life beyond man is proclaimed; by which he bore witness for himself, through the Holy Spirit, that he possessed his citizenship in the heavens; by which he intimated his manner of living together with our God, saying that he had nothing to do with anyone.

1:959

Ὅπερ οὐδείς κατορθῶσαιἤ ἐπ ἀληθῶς εἰπεῖν δύναται, εἰ μή ὅλως ὅλῳ ἑνωθῇ τῷ Θεῷ·

這是無人能成就、也無人能真實說出的，除非他全然、以整個的自己與整個的神聯合。

This is something no one can accomplish, or truly say, unless he be wholly united, whole with the whole God;

1:960

εἰ δέ καί εἴπῃ, πλανᾷ ἑαυτόν

他若竟這樣說了，就是自欺。

and if he should say it, he deceives himself.

1:961

Ὁ γάρ λέγων μή ἁμαρτάνειν τυφλός ἐστι μυωπάζων, τόν Θεόν δέ ὁ ἔχων ἁμαρτάνειν οὐ δύναται, ὅτι σπέρμα αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ μένει, καθώς φησιν ὁ Ἰωάννης ἡ θεολογικωτάτη τῶν ἀποστόλων βροντή

因為那說自己不犯罪的，是瞎眼的，只能矇矓地看見；然而那有神的，就不能犯罪，因為神的種子存在他裡面，正如約翰——使徒中最富神學意味的雷聲——所說的。

For he who says that he does not sin is blind, seeing but dimly; yet he who has God is not able to sin, because His seed abides in him, as says John, the most theological thunder of the apostles.

1:962

Ὅτι δέ ἐκεῖνος τόν Θεόν ὅλον εἶχεν ἐν ἑαυτῷ καί ζῶν ἔλεγε καί ἀποθανών διά τῆς οἰκειοχείρου αὐτοῦ γραφῆς μεγάλῃ βοᾷ τῇ φωνῇ·

至於那人在自己裡面擁有整個的神這事，他活著時就這樣說，死了以後也藉著他親手所寫的著作大聲呼喊說：

And that that man had the whole God within himself, he both said while living, and, having died, he cries out with a loud voice through his own hand-written writing:

1:963

Θεόν κτῆσαι καί οὐ δεηθήσῃ βιβλίου, καί τοῦτο ἐδήλωσεν ἐξ ἔργων αὐτῶν, βιβλίον ἐκ τοῦ ἰδίου κόπου, μᾶλλον δέ ἐκ τοῦ ἐνοικήσαντος αὐτῷ Πνεύματος συγγραψάμενος, μαθήσεως γραμμάτων ὑπάρχων ἀμύητος, ὁμολογοῦμεν δέ καί ἡμεῖς, συμμαρτυροῦντες τῷ ἁγίῳ ἡμῶν πατρί καί μή κρύπτονες τήν εὐεργεσίαν φειδοῖ τοῦ μή νομισθῆναι ἀλαζόνας ἡμᾶς παρά τισιν, ὅτι ὥσπερ δεξαμενή τις ἀπορρέοντος ὕδατος, οὕτως ὁ ἅγιος πατήρ ἡμῶν ἐκ τοῦ πληρώματος μετέλαβε τοῦ Δεσπότου ἡμῶν Χριστοῦ καί ἐπλήσθη τῆς χάριτος τοῦ Πνεύματος αὐτοῦ, ὅπερ ἐστίν ὕδωρ ζῶν·

「你要得著神，就不需要書本了。」這事他也藉著他們的作為顯明出來，因為他寫成了一本書，是出於他自己的勞苦——不，更是出於那住在他裡面的靈——而他自己本是未受過文字學問啟蒙的。我們也承認這事，與我們聖潔的父同作見證，並不為著顧惜、免得被某些人看作誇口的，就把這恩惠隱藏起來：就是說，正如一個蓄滿流水的池子，我們聖潔的父也照樣有分於我們主基督的豐滿，被祂那靈的恩典充滿，這恩典就是活水；

'Gain God, and you will have no need of a book.' And this he made plain by their very works, having composed a book out of his own labor—or rather out of the Spirit who dwelt within him—being himself uninitiated in the learning of letters. And we too confess it, bearing joint witness to our holy father, and not hiding the benefaction out of a sparing wish to avoid being thought boastful by some: that just as a reservoir of flowing water, so our holy father partook of the fullness of our Master Christ, and was filled with the grace of His Spirit, which is living water;

1:964

ὥσπερ δέ πάλιν ἀπό τῆς δεξαμενῆς τό ὑπερπλεονάσαν καί ἔξωθεν ὑπερεκχυνόμενον ὕδωρ λαμβάνει τις εἰς κόρον, οὕτω καί ἡμεῖς ἐκ τοῦ πατρός ἡμῶν τοῦ ἁγίου τήν ὑπερπλεονάσασαν καί ὑπερεκχυνομένην ἀεί ἐξ αὐτοῦ χάριν εἴδομεν καί ἐλάβομεν καί ἐπίομεν καί τάς ὄψεις ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἐνιψάμεθα, τάς χεῖρας καί τούς πόδας αὐτούς, εἶτα καί ὅλοι ὅλῳ τῷ σώματι ἐλουσάμεθα καί αὐτήν () τήν ψυχήν μετά τοῦ ἀθανάτου ὕδατος ἐκείνου

又正如反過來，有人從那池子裡飲用那滿溢而外流、豐豐富富傾倒出來的水，直到飽足，我們也照樣從我們聖潔的父那裡，看見、領受並飲用了那從他常常滿溢傾倒出來的恩典，我們就在他那裡洗了臉、洗了手和腳，然後又用那不朽的水把我們全人連同整個身體、甚至那魂都沐浴了。

and just as, in turn, from the reservoir someone drinks his fill of the water that overflows and pours out abundantly from the outside, so we too from our holy father saw and received and drank of the grace that ever overflowed and poured out abundantly from him, and from him we washed our faces, our very hands and feet, and then we bathed our whole selves with our whole body, and our very soul, in that immortal water.

1:965

Ὤ μυστηρίου ξένου καί θαυμαστοῦ, ἀδελφοί

弟兄們哪，何等奇異而奇妙的奧秘啊！

O strange and wonderful mystery, brethren!

1:966

οὐ γάρ ἐμοῦ μόνου ὁ λόγοςἤ ἐπ ἐμοί μόνῳ γέγονε, ἀλλ ἄκουε τοῦ εὐγγελιστοῦ Ἰωάννου, τί περί τοῦ ὕδατος τούτου φησί, μᾶλλον δέ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καί Λόγου τοῦ ζῶντος Θεοῦ, παρ οὗ καί Ἰωάννης τόν λόγον πεπλούτηκεν·

因為這話並不單是關於我，也不是單在我身上發生的；你們且聽福音書作者約翰，聽他論到這水所說的——不，更是論到那永生神的兒子並話語（道）自己，約翰也是從祂得著他話語的豐富的：

For the discourse is not about me alone, nor has it come to pass in me alone; but hear the evangelist John, what he says concerning this water—or rather, concerning the very Son and Word of the living God, from whom John also grew rich in his word:

1:967

Ὁ πίνων γάρ, φησίν, ἐκ τοῦ ὕδατος τούτου – τοῦ αἰσθητοῦ δηλονότι, διψήσει πάλιν·

祂說：「凡喝這水的」——就是那可感知的水——「還要再渴；」

'For whoever drinks,' He says, 'of this water'—the perceptible water, that is—'shall thirst again;'

1:968

ὅστις δέ πίῃ ἐκ τοῦ ὕδατος οὗ ἐγώ δώσω αὐτῷ, οὐ μή διψήσῃ πώποτε, ἀλλά γενήσεται ἐν αὐτῷ πηγή ὕδατος ἁλλομένου εἰς ζωήν αἰώνιον

「但誰喝我所賜給他的水，就永遠不渴；那水要在他裡面成為泉源，湧流直到永生。」

'but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst at all; but it shall become in him a spring of water leaping up unto life eternal.'

1:969

Καί ἑρμηνεύων τοῦτο ὁ εὐαγγελιστής φησι·

福音書作者解釋這話說：

And the evangelist, interpreting this, says:

1:970

Τοῦτο δέ ἔλεγε περί τοῦ Πνεύματος, οὗ ἔμελλον λαμβάνειν οἱ πιστεύοντες εἰς αὐτόν

「祂這話是指著那些信入祂的人將要領受的那靈說的。」

'This He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were about to receive.'

1:971

Διά τοῦ τοιούτου γάρ ὕδατος ὥσπερ ῥύπος ἡ πονηρία ἐκπλύνεται ἀπό τῆς ψυχῆς·

因為藉著這樣的水，如同以洗濯一般，邪惡就從魂裡被洗淨；

For by such water, as by a rinsing, wickedness is washed out from the soul;

1:972

ἄνευ δέ τούτου πολλά πονήσας ὠφελήσει οὐδέν

但沒有這水，人縱然多多勞苦，也毫無益處。

but without it, though a man toil much, he will profit nothing.

1:973

Διά δέ τοῦτο καί μή δυνάμενοι ὅλως ἡμεῖς τό τάλαντον τοῦ Δεσπότου ἡμῶν κρύπτειν καί τήν γινομένην εἰς ἡμᾶς τοῦ Θεοῦ δωρεάν μή ἀναγγέλλειν, φανερῶς ὁμολογοῦμεν τό ἔλεος τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὅτι ἐνεπλήσθημεν ἀπλήστως οἱ ἀνάξιοι ἐκ τοῦ ὕδατος οὗ ἐλάβομεν διά τοῦ πατρός ἡμῶν ἀπό τοῦ Θεοῦ καί ἐκορέσθημεν ἀκορέστως εἰς δόξαν τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἁγίου, καί κατά τόν ἐνόν ἡμῖν τῆς δυνάμεως, ὡς ἔσχατοι καί ἀχρεῖοι, ἐδοξάσαμεν καί νῦν δοξάζομεν τόν Θεόν, τόν δοξάσαντα τόν πατέρα ἡμῶν τόν ἅγιον καί διά τοῦ πατρός ἡμῶν τούς ταπεινούς καί ἀναξίους ἡμᾶς

為這緣故，我們既全然不能將我們主人的一他連得（銀子）隱藏，也不能不宣揚那臨到我們的神的恩賜，就公開承認神的憐憫：就是我們這些不配的人，從那藉著我們的父從神所領受的水中，貪飲不厭地被充滿了，並不知足地被滿足，為使祂聖名得榮耀；我們也照著在我們裡面的能力，作為最末後、最無用的，榮耀了、如今也榮耀那榮耀了我們聖潔之父、又藉著我們的父榮耀了卑微不配之我們的神。

And for this reason, since we are utterly unable to hide the talent of our Master and not to proclaim God's gift that has come to us, we openly confess the mercy of God: that we, the unworthy, were filled insatiably from the water which we received through our father from God, and were satisfied unsatisfiably unto the glory of His holy name; and according to the power that is in us, as the least and most useless, we glorified and now do glorify God, who glorified our holy father, and through our father glorified us the lowly and unworthy.

1:974

Μή οὖν οἰηθείη μέ τις ψεύδεσθαι καί κατά τῆς ἐμῆς ψυχῆς καί κατά τοῦ ἐμοῦ πατρός φθέγγεσθαι, κομπολόγον με καί τορνολόγον ἡγούμενος·

所以，不要有人以為我說謊、攻擊我自己的魂和我的父，把我看作誇口者和空話連篇的人；

Let no one, then, suppose that I lie and speak against my own soul and against my father, deeming me a boaster and an idle babbler;

1:975

εἰδώς γάρ εἰμι ὅτι ἀπολεῖ ὁ Θεός πάντας τούς λαλοῦντας τό ψεῦδος, καί τοῦτο () ποιεῖν με Παῦλος ὁ θεῖος διδάσκει, Εὐλογητός ὁ Θεός λέγων, καί Πατήρ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὁ ὤν εὐλογητός εἰς τούς αἰῶνας, ἀλήθειαν λέγω καί οὐ ψεύδομαι

因為我知道神必滅絕一切說謊言的人，而神聖的保羅也這樣教導我，他說：「主耶穌基督的神與父，就是那永遠當受頌讚的，是可稱頌的；我說的是真話，並不說謊。」

for I know that God will destroy all those who speak the lie, and Paul the divine teaches me to do this, saying: 'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, I speak the truth and do not lie.'

1:976

Οἶδα ἄνθρωπον πρό ἐτῶν δεκατεσσάρων καί τά ἑξῆς, καί πάλιν·

「我認得一個人，在十四年前……」以及下面的話；又說：

'I know a man fourteen years ago,' and what follows; and again:

1:977

Ἡμεῖς δέ οὐ τό πνεῦμα τοῦ κόσμου ἐλάβομεν, ἀλλά τό Πνεῦμα τό ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἵνα ἴδωμεν τά ὑπό τοῦ Θεοῦ χαρισθέντα ἡμῖν,ἅ καί λαλοῦμεν

「我們所領受的，並不是世界的靈，乃是那從神來的靈，叫我們能知道神開恩賜給我們的事——這些事我們也講說。」

'Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, that we may know the things that have been freely given to us by God—which things also we speak.'

1:978

Τί δέ καί ἐμαυτόν ὠφελήσαιμιἤ τόν ἐμόν πατέρα τόν ἅγιον ἐκ τῶν ἐπαίνων κἄν ὅλως;

再者，我從這些稱讚中，究竟能為我自己或為我聖潔的父得著什麼益處呢？

And what, moreover, should I gain for myself, or for my holy father, from these praises at all?

1:979

Ἀλλά καθάπερ περί τῶν λοιπῶν ἁγίων ἄνωθεν εἰρηκώς, ἐκείνους μέν ἐκ τῶν λόγων οὐδέν ὠφέλησα, τούς δέ ἀκροατάς πρός ζῆλον διήγειρα καί πρός τήν ἐκείνων παρώτρυνα μίμησιν, οὕτω καί περί τοῦ ἁγίου Συμεών καί λέγων οὐ παύσομαι, ἀνάγκης δέ μοι ἐπικειμένης μή βουλόμενος λέγω καί περί ἡμῶν αὐτῶν τῶν ἀναξίων

但正如我在上面論到其餘的眾聖徒時，我的話對他們毫無裨益，卻激動了我的聽眾生發熱心，並催促他們去效法那些聖徒，照樣，論到聖潔的西面，我也必不住口地說；而且既有需要壓在我身上，我雖不願意，仍要論到我們自己這些不配的人。

But just as, having spoken above concerning the rest of the saints, I profited them nothing by my words, yet stirred up my hearers to zeal and urged them on to the imitation of those saints, so also concerning the holy Symeon I will not cease from speaking; and, necessity being laid upon me, though unwilling, I speak also concerning our unworthy selves.

1:980

ὄντως τοῦ Θεοῦ τό φιλάνθρωπον, ἵνα τῶν ταῦτα λεγόντων τό ὀκνηρόν καί ῥᾴθυμον ἀπελέγχηται

——這實在是神對人的慈愛，好叫那些說這等話之人的懶惰與怠慢，藉此得以被責備。

—truly the love of God for man, that by it the sloth and slackness of those who say such things may be reproved.

1:981

Ἐκοπίασεν ὁ μακάριος πατήρ ἡμῶν καί ἅγιος Συμεών, ὡς πολλούς τῶν πάλαι ἁγίων πατέρων ὑπερβαλέσθαι, θλίψεις δέ πειρασμούς τοσούτους ὑπέμεινε, ὡς ἐξισωθῆναι πολλοῖς τῶν περιφανεστέρων ἐν μάρτυσι

我們有福的聖父西面如此勞苦，以致超越了古時許多聖潔的教父；他又忍受了如此眾多的苦難與試煉，以致與殉道者中最為顯赫的許多人並列齊等。

Our blessed and holy father Symeon labored so greatly that he surpassed many of the holy fathers of old, and he endured such afflictions and trials that he was made equal to many of the most illustrious among the martyrs.

1:982

Διά ταῦτα οὖν ἐδοξάσθη ἀπό Θεοῦ καί ἐγένετο ἀπαθής καί ἅγιος, λαβών ἐν ἑαυτῷ ὅλον, () ὡς εἰπεῖν, τόν Παράκλητον·

因此他被神得著榮耀，成為無情慾且聖潔的人，可以說在自己裡面領受了那位保惠師的全部；

For this reason, then, he was glorified by God and became free of passion and holy, having received within himself, so to speak, the whole of the Paraclete;

1:983

καί τότε, ὥσπερ προῖκα πατήρ υἱῷ κλῆρον δίδωσι, οὕτω κἀμέ τόν ἀνάξιον δοῦλον αὐτοῦ Πνεύματος Ἁγίου ἀκαματί καί δωρεάν ἔπλησε

然後，正如父親將產業當作分給兒子的基業，他也照樣毫不費力、白白地將聖靈充滿在我這不配作他僕人的身上。

and then, just as a father gives an inheritance as a portion to his son, so also he filled me, his unworthy servant, effortlessly and freely with the Holy Spirit.

1:984

Ποῖος γάρ, εἰπέ μοι, ἐξ ὑμῶν, μή ὅτι γε εἴπω διεπράξατο, ἀλλ ἔτι τά παρ ἐκείνου πραχθέντα καί ὡς δυνατόν ῥηθέντα, νοῆσαι καλῶς δύναται;

請告訴我，你們中間有誰——我且不說能行他所行的——就是連他所行的事，以及照可能所說的話，也能好好領會的呢？

For tell me, which of you—I will not say has accomplished what he did—but is even able rightly to understand the things done by him and, as far as possible, said by him?

1:985

Πρῶτον γάρ πάντων τοῦτο ἔγραψεν, ὡς ἐν τάξει διδασκαλίας οὕτως εἰπών·

因為他首先寫下這話，如同教訓一般這樣說：

For first of all he wrote this, speaking thus as in the manner of instruction:

1:986

Ἀδελφέ, ταύτην ἡγοῦ λέγεσθαι ἀναχώρησιν τελείαν τοῦ κόσμου, τήν παντελῆ τοῦ ἰδίου θελήματος ἀπονέκρωσιν

弟兄，你當認定這才叫作全然離世：就是徹底將自己的意志治死。

Brother, consider this to be called perfect withdrawal from the world: the complete mortification of one's own will.

1:987

Ὤ μακαρίας φωνῆς, μᾶλλον δέ ψυχῆς τῆς οὕτω γενέσθαι ἀξιωθείσης καί τοῦ κόσμου παντός χωρισθείσης

何等有福的聲音——不如說是何等有福的靈魂，得蒙看為配得如此，並與整個世界分別出來！

O blessed voice—or rather, blessed soul that has been counted worthy to become such and to be separated from the whole world!

1:988

Ὑμεῖς οὐκ ἐστέ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου, ἀλλ ἐγώ ἐξελεξάμην ὑμᾶς ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου

你們不屬於世界，乃是我從世界中揀選了你們。

You are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world.

1:989

Δεῦτε προς με κἀγώ ἀναπαύσω ὑμᾶς

到我這裡來，我就使你們得安息。

Come to me, and I will give you rest.

1:990

Οἱ γάρ ἄλλως πως ἐν τοῖς ἑαυτῶν θελήμασι κἄν ὁπωσοῦνἤ ἔν τισι καλοῖς τό δοκεῖν πορευόμενοι, οὐ μή ἴδωσι τήν ζωήν, ἥν οἱ ἀποτμηθέντες τοῦ κόσμου καί τῷ ἑαυτῶν ἀποθανόντες θελήματι βλέπουσιν

因為那些以別的方式、隨從自己意志而行的人，即或在某種情形下、或在某些好事上看似行得端正，卻絕不能看見那生命；惟有那些與世界隔絕、向自己意志死了的人，才得看見那生命。

For those who walk in some other way, according to their own wills—even if in any manner or in certain things they appear to walk in what is good—shall by no means behold that life which those behold who have been cut off from the world and have died to their own will.

1:991

Εἰ οὖν σύ ταπεινωθῆναι καί ὑποταγῆναι, θλιβῆναί τε καί ἀτιμασθῆναι, ἐξουδενωθῆναι καί λοιδορηθῆναι καί ὡς εἷς τῶν ἀφανῶν καί ἀφρόνων καί εὐτελῶν καί παραπεσόντων, ἀδελφέ, οὐ καταδέχῃ γενέσθαι, ἀλλ οὐδέ καταφρονηθῆναι παρά παντός ἀνθρώπου καί ὡς εἷς τῶν ἐπιλήπτων καί προσαιτούντων εἰς τάς πλατείας καί ῥύμας τῆς πόλεως λογισθῆναι, πῶς, εἰπέ, γένῃ ξένος τοῦ ἰδίου θελήματος;

弟兄啊，你若不肯接受被貶抑、被降服、被苦待、被羞辱、被看為無有、被辱罵，被算作卑微、愚昧、無用、墮落之人中的一個；甚至不肯被眾人藐視、被算作城中街道巷弄裡那些癲癇病人和乞丐中的一個——那麼請告訴我，你怎能成為向自己意志作外人的呢？

If, then, you, brother, will not accept to be humbled and made subject, to be afflicted and dishonored, to be counted as nothing and reviled, and to be reckoned as one of the obscure and foolish and worthless and fallen; nor even to be despised by every man and reckoned as one of the epileptics and beggars in the streets and lanes of the city—tell me, how will you become a stranger to your own will?

1:992

Εἰ γάρ ταῦτα πρός δοκιμήν καί πεῖραν ἐπερχόμενα φέρειν ἐν ὑπομονῇ πᾶσιν ἡμῖν ὁ Θεός ἐνετείλατο, μᾶλλον δέ οὐ πρός δοκιμήν καί πεῖραν, ἀλλά πρός () κάθαρσιν τῶν ψυχῶν ἡμῶν ἐπαγόμενα, ἡμεῖς ὑπομεῖναι ταῦτα οὐ θέλομεν, ἀλλά ζῇ ἐν ἡμῖν τό μή θέλειν ταῦτα παθεῖν, ὅπερ ἐστί τό γεῶδες φρόνημα τῆς σαρκός, πῶς νεκροί γενησόμεθα;

因為神既吩咐我們眾人，對那臨到我們、為要試驗查驗的事——不如說並非為試驗查驗，乃是為潔淨我們靈魂而加給我們的事——都要忍耐擔當；我們卻不願忍受這些，反倒在我們裡面活著那不願受這些苦的心思，這正是肉體屬地的思念，那麼我們怎能成為死了的人呢？

For if God has commanded us all to bear with patience these things when they come upon us for testing and trial—or rather, not for testing and trial, but as things brought upon us for the purification of our souls—and yet we are unwilling to endure them, but there lives in us the unwillingness to suffer these things, which is the earthly mind of the flesh, how shall we become dead?

1:993

Εἰ δέ μή νεκροί τῷ κόσμῳ καί τοῖς ἐν κόσμῳ γενοίμεθα, πῶς οἱ μή γεγονότες διά Θεόν νεκροί ζήσομεν τήν ἐν Χριστῷ κεκρυμμένην ζωήν;

我們若不向世界並世上的事死了，那麼我們這些沒有為神死了的人，怎能活出那與基督一同藏在神裡面的生命呢？

And if we do not become dead to the world and to the things in the world, how shall we, who have not become dead for God's sake, live that life which is hidden in Christ?

1:994

Πῶς, ὡς ὁ ἅγιος εἶπε Συμεών, θεασόμεθα τόν Θεόν ἐνοικήσαντα ὡς φῶς ἐν ἡμῖν;

正如聖西面所說的，我們怎能看見神如光一般住在我們裡面呢？

How, as the holy Symeon said, shall we behold God dwelling within us as light?

1:995

Οὐδαμῶς, ἀδελφοί, μηδείς πλανάτω ὑμᾶς

弟兄們，斷乎不能；不要讓任何人迷惑你們。

By no means, brothers; let no one deceive you.

1:996

Ἀλλά μωρόν ἡγῇ τόν μακάριον Συμεών καί αἰσχύνῃ μιμήσασθαι τάς πράξεις αὐτοῦ;

難道你把有福的西面看作愚昧，並以效法他的行為為恥嗎？

But do you consider the blessed Symeon a fool, and are you ashamed to imitate his deeds?

1:997

Πάθε καί αὐτός διά τήν σεαυτοῦ σωτηρίαν, ὡς ἐκεῖνος ἔπαθε διά σέ

那麼你也當為自己的救恩受苦，正如他為你的緣故受苦一樣。

Suffer, then, you also for the sake of your own salvation, as he suffered for your sake.

1:998

Ἐκάλουν γάρ αὐτόν, ὡς ἀκούεις, διαμονῶντα, πλάνον, φάγον καί οἰνοπότην

因為你所聽見的，他們稱他為瘋子、迷惑人的、貪食好酒的人。

For they called him, as you hear, a madman, a deceiver, a glutton and a winebibber.

1:999

Ἰδού ἄνθρωπος φάγος καί οἰνοπότης, φίλος τελωνῶν καί ἁμαρτωλῶν

看哪，一個貪食好酒的人，是稅吏和罪人的朋友。

Behold, a man gluttonous and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.

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Ταῦτα δέ καί ὁ μακάριος πατήρ ἡμῶν, ὁ ἅγιος Συμεών, ὑπέρ ἡμῶν, μᾶλλον δέ δι ἡμᾶς ἤκουσε

這些話，我們有福的聖父西面也是為我們——不如說是因我們的緣故——而聽見的。

And these very things our blessed father, the holy Symeon, heard on our behalf—or rather, for our sake.

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Σύν τούτοις ἀκούεις πάλιν ὡς φονέα καί κακοῦργον δεδεμένον συρόμενον τόν Κύριον καί ὡς ἕνα τῶν εὐτελῶν παριστάμενον τῷ Πιλάτῳ, ῥάπισμα καταδεχόμενον ὑπό δούλου, εἰς φυλακήν ἐμβαλλόμενον καί ἀπό φυλακῆς ἐκβαλλόμενον, ὑπό στρατιωτῶν ῥαβδούχων ἀγόμενον, τῷ λαῷ ὑπό Πιλάτου παραδιδόμενον, Λάβετε αὐτον φάσκοντος ὑμεῖς καί σταυρώσατε

除這些以外，你又聽見主如何像凶手和惡人一樣被捆綁拖行，如同一個卑微之人被帶到彼拉多面前，受了一個僕役的掌摑，被下在監裡，又從監裡被提出來，被兵丁和持杖的差役帶領，被彼拉多交給百姓，彼拉多說：「你們自己把他釘十字架吧。」

Together with these you hear again how the Lord, like a murderer and a criminal, was dragged along bound, and was set before Pilate as one of the worthless, receiving a blow from a servant, cast into prison and led out of prison, brought forth by soldiers and lictors, delivered by Pilate to the people, who said, 'Take him yourselves and crucify him.'

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Ἴδε ὁ βασιλεύς τῶν Ἰουδαίων, ἐνδυόμενον πάλιν τά ἑαυτοῦ ἱμάτια, τόν τράχηλον σχοινίῳ δεσμούμενον καί ἐπί τόν θάνατον ἀπαγόμενον, εἶθ οὕτω τόν ἑαυτοῦ σταυρόν ἐπιφορτιζόμενον καί ἐπί τοῦ τόπου γινόμενον καί τοῦτον ὁρῶντα πηγνύμενον καί μόνον ὑπό τῶν φίλων καί μαθητῶν ἐγκαταλειπόμενον, μετά ταῦτα πάλιν ἀποδυόμενον, ἀναρτώμενον, τάς χεῖρας καί τούς πόδας ὑπό τῶν στρατιωτῶν καθηλούμενον καί κρέμασθαι ἀφιέμενον, χολήν ποτιζόμενον, λόγχῃ νυττόμενον, ὑπό ληστοῦ βλασφημούμενον, χλευαζόμενον καί ἀκούοντα·

看哪，這猶太人的王，又穿上自己的衣服，頸項被繩子捆住，被帶去受死；然後這樣背負自己的十字架，來到那地方，看著十字架被立起，被朋友和門徒獨留下；此後又被剝去衣服，被懸掛起來，雙手雙腳被兵丁釘住，任憑他懸掛，給他苦膽喝，用槍扎他，被一個強盜褻瀆，被戲弄，並聽見人說：

Behold the King of the Jews, again putting on his own garments, his neck bound with a rope and led away to death; then thus loaded with his own cross and coming to the place, and watching it being fixed upright, and left alone by his friends and disciples; after this, again stripped, hung up, his hands and feet nailed by the soldiers and left to hang, given gall to drink, pierced with a lance, blasphemed by a robber, mocked, and hearing:

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Ὁ καταλύων τόν ναόν καί ἐν τρισίν ἡμέραις ἐγείρων, σῶσον σεαυτόν καί κατάβηθι ἀπό τοῦ σταυροῦ, καί αὖθις·

「你這拆毀聖殿、三日內又建起來的，救救自己，從十字架上下來吧！」又說：

'You who destroy the temple and raise it in three days, save yourself and come down from the cross'; and again:

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Εἰ Υἱός ἐστι τοῦ Θεοῦ, καταβάτω νῦν ἀπό τοῦ σταυροῦ καί πιστεύσομεν εἰς αὐτόν, καί οὕτω μετά τό ταῦτα πάντα παθεῖν, εὐχαριστοῦντα καί εὐχόμενον ὑπέρ τῶν φονευσάντων αὐτόν καί τήν ψυχήν εἰς χεῖρας παρατιθέντα τοῦ Πατρός αὐτοῦ

「他若是神的兒子，如今就從十字架上下來吧，我們就信他。」他就這樣受了這一切的苦以後，仍然感謝，並為那殺害他的人禱告，且將自己的靈魂交在他父的手裡。

'If he is the Son of God, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him'; and so, after suffering all these things, giving thanks and praying for those who had slain him, and committing his soul into the hands of his Father.

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() Οὐκ ἀρκοῦσι ταῦτά σοι πάντα εἰς μίμησιν, ἀδελφέ, ἀλλ αἰσχύνῃ οὕτω ταῦτα παθεῖν;

弟兄啊，這一切豈不足夠你效法麼？還是你以這樣受苦為恥呢？

Do not all these things suffice you for imitation, brother? Or are you ashamed to suffer these things thus?

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Διά ποίων δέ ἄλλων ἔργωνἤ πῶς συνδοξασθήσῃ αὐτῷ;

你要藉著甚麼別的行為，或怎樣，才能與他一同得榮耀呢？

By what other works, or how, will you be glorified together with him?

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Ὅστις γάρ, φησίν, ἐπαισχυνθῇ με καί τούς ἐμούς λόγους, ἐπαισχυνθήσομαι κἀγώ αὐτόν ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ Πατρός μου, τοῦ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς

因為他說，凡把我和我的話當作可恥的，我在我天父面前也要把他當作可恥的。

For whoever, he says, is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will I also be ashamed before my Father who is in heaven.

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Εἰ δέ τά παθήματα αὐτοῦ,ἅ ὑπέστη ὑπέρ ἡμῶν, αἰσχυνόμεθα μιμήσασθαι καί παθεῖν, ὡς ἐκεῖνος ἔπαθεν, εὔδηλον ὅτι οὐδέ τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ συμμέτοχοι γενησόμεθα·

但我們若以效法他為我們所忍受的苦難為恥，不肯像他那樣受苦，那就顯然我們也不能成為他榮耀的同分者；

But if we are ashamed to imitate his sufferings, which he endured for our sake, and to suffer as he suffered, it is quite clear that neither shall we become partakers of his glory;

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οὐ γάρ ἔργῳ ἀλλά λόγῳ μόνῳ ἐσμέν, οὕτως ἔχοντες, πιστοί·

因為我們既是如此存心，就不過是口頭上、而非行為上的信徒；

for we are believers not in deed but in word alone, being disposed in this way;

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ἔργων δέ μή προσόντως, νεκρά ὑπάρχει ἡ πίστις ἡμῶν

既沒有行為，我們的信心就是死的。

and since works are lacking, our faith is dead.

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Διά τοῦτο τοιγαροῦν λέγω καί λέγων οὐ παύσομαι, ὅτι οἱ μή τά πάθη Χριστοῦ διά μετανοίας καί ὑπακοῆς μιμησάμενοι καί τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ μέτοχοι γεγονότες, καθώς ἀνωτέρω λεπτομερῶς ἐδηλώσαμεν, οὔτε τῆς πνευματικῆς αὐτοῦ ἀναστάσεως συμμέτοχοι γενήσωνται, οὔτε Πνεῦμα λάβωσιν Ἅγιον

因此我要說，並且說了也不停止：凡不藉著悔改與順從去效法基督受苦、也未曾成為他死的同分者的人——正如我們上面已經詳細說明的——就既不能成為他屬靈復活的同分者，也不能領受聖靈。

For this reason, therefore, I say, and saying it I will not cease, that those who do not imitate the sufferings of Christ through repentance and obedience, and have not become partakers of his death—as we have shown in detail above—shall neither become partakers of his spiritual resurrection nor receive the Holy Spirit.

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Διά γάρ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἡ ἀνάστασις πάντων γίνεται·

因為眾人的復活是藉著聖靈成就的；

For through the Holy Spirit the resurrection of all comes to pass;

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καί οὐ λέγω τήν ἐπί συντελείᾳ τῶν σωμάτων ἀνάστασιν – σαλπίσει γάρ τότε ὁ ἄγγελος καί τά νεκρά σώματα ἀναστήσονται , ἀλλά τήν καθ ἑκάστην γινομένην τῶν νεκρῶν ψυχῶν πνευματικῶς πνευματικήν ἀναγέννησιν καί ἀνάστασιν, ἥν ὁ ἅπαξ ἀποθανών καί ἐγερθείς καί διά πάντων καί εἰς πάντας () τούς ἀξίως βιοῦντας ἀνιστάμενος καί τάς συναποθανούσας αὐτῷ τῇ προθέσει καί τῇ πίστει ψυχάς συνεγείρων, δίδωσι διά τοῦ Παναγίου αὐτοῦ Πνεύματος, δωρούμενος αὐταῖς ἀπεντεῦθεν ἤδη τήν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἧς γένοιτο πάντας ἡμᾶς ἐπιτυχεῖν χάριτι τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ᾧ πρέπει πᾶσα δόξα εἰς τούς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων

我所指的並非那末了肉身的復活——因為到那時天使要吹號，死了的身體要復活——乃是那按屬靈方式天天發生的、死了之靈魂在靈裡的重生與復活；這復活是那位曾一次死而復活、又在一切照樣正直度日的人裡面並藉著他們而復起的主所賜的，他將那些憑心志與信心與他同死的靈魂一同復起，藉著他至聖的靈賞賜他們，從如今就將諸天的國賜給他們；願我們眾人都得以進入這國，靠著我們主耶穌基督的恩典，一切榮耀都歸與他，直到世世代代。

and I do not mean the resurrection of bodies at the consummation—for then the angel will sound the trumpet and the dead bodies will rise—but rather that spiritual regeneration and resurrection of dead souls which takes place daily in a spiritual manner, which he who died once and was raised, and who rises through all and in all who live worthily, and who raises together the souls that have died with him by their purpose and faith, grants through his all-holy Spirit, bestowing upon them already from now the kingdom of heaven—which may it be granted to us all to attain, by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom belongs all glory unto the ages of ages.

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Περί προσπαθείας τῆς εἰς τούς συγγενεῖς

論對親屬的眷戀，

Concerning attachment to relatives,

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Καί τίς ἡ ἀπάτη αὐτῆς καί εἰς οἷον βόθρον καί δεσμόν κατάγει τούς κρατουμένους ὑπ αὐτῆς

並論它的欺騙為何，以及它把被它挾制的人帶進怎樣的坑與捆綁裡。

and what its deception is, and into what sort of pit and bondage it brings down those who are held captive by it.

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Καί περί ἀπογνώσεως καί τῆς ἐν ταύτῃ διαφορᾶς

又論絕望，以及其中的分別。

And concerning despair, and the distinction within it.

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ἀγάπηνἤ κἄν ὅλως ἄλλοις ὑποδεικνύειν τάς τῆς σωτηρίας ὁδούς, οὐχ ὡς ἐναντίου ὄντος τοῦ πράγματος τῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐντολῇ, μᾶλλον μέν οὖν καί εὐπροσδέκτου ὑπάρχοντος αὐτῷ, ἀλλ ὅμως ἐμοῦ ἀναξίου τυγχάνοντος τοῦ τοιούτου πνευματικοῦ ἐγχειρήματος, διό καί δέδοικα, ὁ ταπεινός, μή καί ἐπ ἐμοί τό Δαυιτικόν ἐκεῖνο προσφορώτατα λεχθήσεται ῥῆμα·

……愛心，或竟向別人指明救恩的道路——並非因為這事與神的誡命相違，倒是他所悅納的；然而因我自己配不上這樣屬靈的職事，所以我這卑微的人就懼怕，惟恐大衛那話也極合適地要論到我身上說：

…love, or at all to point out to others the ways of salvation—not as though the matter were contrary to the commandment of God, but rather as being well-pleasing to him; yet nevertheless, since I myself am unworthy of such a spiritual undertaking, I therefore fear, lowly one that I am, lest that saying of David be most fittingly spoken concerning me also:

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Τῷ δέ ἁμαρτωλῷ εἶπεν ὁ Θεός·

但神對那罪人說：

But to the sinner God said:

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() Ἀλλ ἴδωμεν, εἰ δοκεῖ, τίς ἐστιν ὁ μισῶν παιδείαν καί τίς ὁ ἐκβάλλων τούς λόγους αὐτοῦ εἰς τά ὀπίσω

但我們若看為合宜，就來看看誰是恨惡教訓的，誰是把神的話丟在背後的。

But let us see, if it seems good, who it is that hates instruction, and who it is that casts his words behind him.

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Ὁ μή πειθόμενος τοῖς τοῦ Θεοῦ νόμοις μισεῖ τήν ἐκ τῶν λόγων τοῦ Κυρίου παιδείαν καί βύει τά ὦτα αὐτοῦ τοῦ μή ἀκοῦσαι λόγον τῆς ἐσχάτης ἀνταποδόσεως τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶνἤ τοῦ πυρός ἐκείνου τοῦ αἰωνίου καί τῶν κολάσεων τοῦ ᾅδου καί τῆς κατακρίσεως τῆς αἰωνίου ἐκείνης, ἀφ ἧς οὐκ ἔνι διαδρᾶσαι τόν ἅπαξ ἐμπεσόντα εἰς τάς τιμωρίας αὐτῆς

那不順從神律法的人，就恨惡從主的話而來的教訓，並塞住自己的耳朵，不肯聽那論到罪人終局報應的話，或那永火、陰間的刑罰、以及那永遠的定罪；凡一次陷入其刑罰中的，就再無從逃脫。

He who does not obey the laws of God hates the instruction that comes from the words of the Lord, and stops up his ears so as not to hear the word of the final requital of sinners, or of that eternal fire, and of the torments of Hades, and of that eternal condemnation, from which there is no escape for one who has once fallen into its punishments.

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Ὁ δέ μή πάσῃ ἰσχύϊ καί δυνάμει ψυχῆς τάς ἐντολάς τοῦ Θεοῦ πρό τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτοῦ ἔχων ἀεί καί φυλάττων αὐτάς, ἀλλά καταφρονῶν μέν αὐτῶν, προτιμῶν δέ τά ἐναντία τούτων καί ποιῶν αὐτά, ἔστιν ὁ ἐκβάλλων τούς λόγους εἰς τά ὀπίσω

但那不肯用靈魂全部的力量與能力，將神的誡命常擺在自己眼前並謹守遵行，反倒藐視誡命、偏愛與之相反的事並去行的人——他就是那把神的話丟在背後的人。

But he who does not with all the strength and power of his soul keep the commandments of God always before his eyes and guard them, but rather despises them and prefers the things contrary to them and does them—he is the one who casts the words behind him.

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Καί ἵνα ἐξ ἑνός σαφές ὑμῖν ποιήσω τό τοῦ λόγου προκείμενον, ὅταν ὁ μέν Θεός προστάσσῃ καί διαρρήδην βοᾷ·

為要藉一個例子把我論說的題旨向你們說明白：當神吩咐、並明明呼喊說：

And that I may make the subject of my discourse clear to you by a single example: when God commands and cries out plainly:

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Μετανοεῖτε, ἤγγικε γάρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν καί πάλιν·

「你們應當悔改，因為諸天的國近了。」又說：

'Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,' and again:

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Σπουδάσατε εἰσελθεῖν διά τῆς πύλης τῆς στενῆς, ὁ δέ ταῦτα ἀκούων οὐ μόνον οὐ προαιρεῖται μετανοεῖν καί βιάσασθαι ἑαυτόν εἰσελθεῖν διά τῆς στενῆς πύλης, ἀλλά διερχόμενος πάσας τάς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ ἐν μετεωρισμῷ καί διαχύσει ψυχῆς, προστιθείς τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ κακοῖς καθ ὥραν κακά καί ἄνεσιν σώματος καί θεραπείαν ὑπέρ τήν δέουσαν χρείαν ἐπιζητῶν, ὅπερ τῆς πλατείας μᾶλλον καί εὐρυχώρου ὁδοῦ σημεῖόν ἐστι καί οὐχί τῆς στενῆς καί τεθλιμμένης, τῆς φερούσης εἰς τήν ζωήν τήν αἰώνιον, οὕτω τοίνυν καί ὁ τοιοῦτος ἐκβάλλει τοῦ Θεοῦ τούς λόγους εἰς τά ὀπίσω καί τά ἑαυτοῦ θελήματα, μᾶλλον δέ τά τοῦ διαβόλου, ποιεῖ

「你們要努力進窄門。」——那聽見這些話的人，卻不但不揀選悔改、不勉強自己進窄門，反倒把他一生的日子都消磨在心思的浮蕩與放縱之中，時時把惡加在自己的惡上，並尋求超過需用的身體安逸與享受（這正是那寬闊大路的記號，而非那引到永生、又窄又擠之路的記號）——這樣的人也照樣把神的話丟在背後，去行自己的意志，不如說是行魔鬼的意志。

'Strive to enter through the narrow gate'—but he who hears these things not only does not choose to repent and to force himself to enter through the narrow gate, but passing all the days of his life in distraction and dissipation of soul, adding evils upon his own evils hour by hour, and seeking ease of body and comfort beyond what necessity requires (which is rather a sign of the broad and spacious way, and not of the narrow and afflicted way that leads to eternal life)—such a one, therefore, likewise casts the words of God behind him, and does his own wills, or rather the wills of the devil.

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()Ἅ κἀγώ πρῶτος, ὁ ταλαίπωρος, ἐκπληρῶν καί ἐν λάκκῳ βορβόρου κείμενος καί ἐν αἰσθήσει ὑπάρχων τῶν ἰδίων κακῶν, βοῶ κάτωθεν κράζων καί τούς ἔξωθεν παριόντας ἅπαντας προσφωνῶν·

這些事我這可憐的人自己首先犯了，躺臥在污泥的坑中，並感覺到自己的種種惡行，就從坑底呼喊，大聲向一切從外面經過的人呼籲說：

These things I myself, wretched one, first of all fulfilling, and lying in a pit of mire, and being in awareness of my own evils, cry out from below, calling aloud and addressing all who pass by outside:

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Πόρρω που τοῦ δεινοτάτου τούτου λάκκου γίνεσθε, ἀδελφοί, καί τήν εὐθεῖαν ὁδόν, ἥτις ἐστίν ὁ Χριστός, πορεύεσθε!

「弟兄們，要遠遠離開這極其可怕的坑，走那條正直的路，就是基督！」

'Keep far away from this most dreadful pit, brothers, and walk the straight way, which is Christ!'

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Καί μηδείς ἐκκλίνῃ δεξιᾷἤ ἀριστερᾷ καί ὧδε σύν ἐμοί τῷ παναθλίῳ καί δυστυχεῖ ἐμπεσεῖται καί στερηθείη μετά τῶν ἐπιγείων καί τά ἐπουράνια ἀγαθά

願沒有人偏左偏右，與我這極其可憐、遭遇不幸的人一同陷在這裡，以致連同屬地的事物，也失去了屬天的美福。

And let no one turn aside to the right or to the left and fall in here together with me, the utterly wretched and ill-fated one, and be deprived, along with the earthly things, of the heavenly good things as well.

1:1028

Ἐπειδή δέ διά πολλῶν τῶν ἑαυτοῦ μηχανημάτων ὁ παμπόνηρος διάβολος καί ἐχθρός τῶν ψυχῶν ἡμῶν εἰς τό τοιοῦτον βάραθρον τούς πλείοναςἤ καί σχεδόν ἅπαντας ὁμοῦ, οἱονεί συμφορήσας, κατά καιρούς ἀπορρίπτει, ἔστι δέ καί διά μιᾶς ταύτης, τῆς πρός τούς συγγενεῖς λέγω προσπαθείας, ᾗ καί ὡς σχοινίῳ χρώμενος, ὁ ἐχθρός ἐφ ἑνός ἑκάστου τραχήλῳ ἀποδεσμῶν ἄγει καί συνπεριάγει πάντας τούς τόν τοιοῦτον καταδεξαμένους δεσμόν, εἰς κρημνούς φρικτούς τε καί βάραθρα ἁμαρτημάτων χαλεπά καί ἀσύγγνωστα καί εἰς αὐτόν καταποντίζει τόν τῆς ἀπογνώσεως λάκκον, καί ἐν πυθμένι ᾅδου καταβιβάσας καί ἐνδεσμήσας ἀφίησι, φύγωμεν, ἀγαπητοί, τόν ὄλεθρον τοῦτον, παρακαλῶ

但那極其邪惡的魔鬼，我們靈魂的仇敵，藉著他許多的詭計，時常把大多數人——或幾乎所有人一同，彷彿把他們聚攏起來——拋進這樣的坑裡；他也藉著這一件事，就是我所說對親屬的眷戀，把它當作繩索，繫在各人的頸項上，牽引拖帶一切接受這種捆綁的人，帶到可怖的懸崖和罪惡那難堪又不可赦的深坑裡，並將他們沉入那絕望的坑中，把他們帶下到陰間的底處，捆住後就撇下他們；親愛的弟兄，我懇求你們，讓我們逃離這毀滅吧。

But since through his many devices the all-wicked devil, the enemy of our souls, casts the greater part—or almost all together, as if gathering them in—into such a pit at various times, and does so also through this one thing, I mean attachment to relatives, using it as a rope, the enemy binds it fast about the neck of each one and leads and drags around together all who have accepted such a bond, into fearful precipices and grievous, unpardonable pits of sins, and plunges them down into that very pit of despair, and having brought them down to the bottom of Hades and bound them there, he leaves them—let us flee, beloved, this destruction, I beseech you.

1:1029

Πανούργως γάρ ἐνριζοῖ ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις καί σεσοφισμένως ἐμποιεῖ τήν ἀπόγνωσιν ἐπί τοσοῦτον, ὡς μήτε νομίζειν τούτους ἐν ἀπογνώσει γενέσθαι, μήτε πείθεσθαι ταῖς θείαις Γραφαῖς, μήτε μήν πιστούς ἡγεῖσθαι τούς περί τοιούτων λέγοντας πρός αὐτούς, πάντα δέ δεύτερα τῆς ἑαυτῶ τιθέναι φρονήσεωςἤ μᾶλλον εἰπεῖν ἀφροσύνης καί ἀναισθησίας, καί δεδεμένους ὄντας ἀπό τοῦ τραχήλου ἀναλγήτους () διακεῖσθαι, ὅπερ χεῖρον πάσης ἐστίν ἀπογνώσεως

因為他狡詐地在這樣的人裡面扎根，又詭譎地在他們裡面生出絕望，達到這樣的地步，以致他們既不覺得自己已陷在絕望中，也不肯信服神的聖言，更不把那些論到這些事、對他們說話的人看為可信；反倒把一切都置於自己的明智——不如說是自己的愚昧與麻木——之下，並且雖被繩索繫住頸項，卻仍毫無知覺，這比任何絕望還要糟糕。

For cunningly he roots himself in such people, and craftily produces despair in them to such a degree that they neither think themselves to be in despair, nor are persuaded by the divine Scriptures, nor indeed consider trustworthy those who speak to them concerning such matters, but set everything as secondary to their own prudence—or rather, one should say, to their own folly and insensibility—and, though bound by the neck, they remain unfeeling, which is worse than any despair.

1:1030

πλῆθος ἐμπεσόντα κακῶν τῆς ἑαυτοῦ σωτηρίας ἀπογινώσκειν τινά, καί ἕτερον τό ὡς καλῷ τῷ κακῷ χρᾶσθαι καί ἐν πλήροφορίᾳ εἶναι ὅτι καλόν τι ποιεῖ

……一種是陷入眾多惡行之人對自己的救恩絕望；另一種是把惡當作善來行，並且深信自己是在行某種善事。

…that one who has fallen into a multitude of evils despairs of his own salvation, and the other, that he uses the evil as though it were good and is in full assurance that he is doing something good.

1:1031

Ὁ μέν γάρ πρότερος, εἰ περί μετανοίας καί τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ φιλανθρωπίας διδαχθῇ καί μάθῃ ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι πλῆθος ἁμαρτιῶν ὅ μή ἐξαλείφει ἡ μετάνοια καί ὅτι ὅπου ἐπλεόνασεν ἡ ἁμαρτία, ὑπερεπερίσσευσεν ἡ χάρις καί ὅτι χαρά μᾶλλον γίνεται ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ἐπί ἑνί ἁμαρτωλῷ μετανοοῦντι, ἴσως ἑαυτοῦ γενόμενος καί κατανυγείς, ἐπιθυμήσειέ ποτέ τῶν πολλῶν ἐκείνων ἀπαλλαγῆναι κακῶν καί τοῦ δυσβαστάκτου φορτίου κουφισθῆναι τό αὐτοῦ συνειδός, διαναστήσεται καί πάντα ἄλλα – τά βιωτικά λέγω – εἰς οὐδέν λογισθήσεται καί τῇ μετανοίᾳ θερμῶς προσέλθῃ·

因為前一種人，他若受了關於悔改與神慈愛的教導，並知道沒有一種眾多的罪是悔改所不能塗抹的，又知道罪在哪裡顯多，恩典就更加顯多，且知道一個罪人悔改，在天上反而要有喜樂——他或許就會醒悟過來，良心受了刺痛，有時就渴望脫離那許多的惡，並使他難以擔負的良心之重擔得以減輕；他必奮起，將其餘一切的事——我是說今生的事——都看為無有，並熱切地前來悔改。

For the former, if he is taught concerning repentance and the loving-kindness of God, and learns that there is no multitude of sins which repentance does not blot out, and that where sin abounded, grace did much more abound, and that there is joy rather in heaven over one sinner who repents—then perhaps, coming to himself and being pricked in conscience, he may sometime desire to be delivered from those many evils and to have his conscience lightened of its burden hard to bear; he will rouse himself, and will count all other things—the affairs of this life, I mean—as nothing, and will come fervently to repentance.

1:1032

ὁ δέ δεύτερος, δυσανακλητότερος ὤν, εἰς ἅπαν ἀπαναίνεται τοῖς τοιούτοις φαρμάκοις ἰατρευθῆναι

但後一種人，因更難挽回，就全然拒絕受這樣藥物的醫治。

But the latter, being more difficult to recall, utterly refuses to be healed by such remedies.

1:1033

Πῶς γάρ καί ἰατρευθῆναι καταδέξεται, ὁ μηδέ ὅτι ἐν νόσῳἤ πτώματι κεῖται ὅλως πειθόμενος;

因為他既絲毫不肯信自己是躺臥在病中或跌倒的光景裡，又怎會接受醫治呢？

For how will he accept to be healed, who is not even persuaded at all that he lies in sickness or in a fall?

1:1034

Ἀλλά δέον ἡμᾶς λόγοις πρότερον, καθ ὅσον οἷοί τε ὦμεν, πνευματικοῖς, ἔκ τε τοῦ θείου Εὐαγγελίου καί τῶν λοιπῶν ἁγίων Γραφῶν ἀναλεξαμένους, πληροφορῆσαι καί δεῖξαι αὐτοῖς, πῶς μέν τῆς εὐθείας ὁδοῦ ἀπαρξάμενοι, ἐκκλίναντες ἠπατήθησαν, πῶς δέ ὁ ἐχθρός αὐτούς μεμονωμένους εὑρών τό τῆς προσπαθείας σχοινίον ἀπατηλῶς τοῖς ἑαυτῶν τραχήλοις ἐμπεριέδησεν, ἔπειτα καί πῶς αὐτούς εἰς κρημνούς καί βάραθρα ἁμαρτημάτων ἐμπεριήγαγε·

但我們理當先——盡我們所能——從神聖的福音以及其餘的聖言中採集屬靈的話語，使他們得著充分的確信，並向他們指明：他們如何從正直的路起頭，卻偏離而受了迷惑；仇敵又如何趁他們孤立無援，狡詐地把眷戀的繩索繫在他們自己的頸項上；然後又如何把他們牽引進罪惡的懸崖與深坑；

But it is fitting that we first—as far as we are able—having gathered spiritual words from the divine Gospel and the rest of the holy Scriptures, give them full assurance and show them how, having set out from the straight way, they turned aside and were deceived; how the enemy, finding them isolated, deceitfully bound the rope of attachment about their own necks; and then also how he led them around into precipices and pits of sins;

1:1035

καί μετά ταῦτα δείξομεν αὐτοῖς καί πῶς τῷ βαθυτάτῳ λάκκῳ ἐναπέρριψε, καί ποῦ καί πῶς ἐν τῷ ᾅδῃ καταβιβάσας, τό ἐπί τοῦ τραχήλου αὐτῶν σχοινίον ἐναπέδησε, () καί ὡς οὐκέτι δυναμένους ἐλευθερωθῆναι καί πρός τήν γῆν ἀνελθεῖν, ἀφείς αὐτούς ὑπεχώρησε

此後我們還要向他們指明：他如何把他們拋進那最深的坑裡，又在哪裡、怎樣把他們帶下到陰間，將那繩索繫牢在他們的頸項上，並如何當作再不能得釋放、再不能上到地面的人，就撇棄他們而退去了。

and after these things we will show them also how he cast them into the deepest pit, and where and how, having brought them down into Hades, he fastened the rope about their neck, and, as of those no longer able to be freed and to come up to the earth, he abandoned them and withdrew.

1:1036

Καί οὕτω τούς πειθομένους τοῖς λόγοις τῆς θείας Γραφῆς καί εἰς συναίσθησιν τῶν οἰκείων ἐρχομένους κακῶν καί συνομολογοῦντας καί οὕτως ἔχειν συντιθεμένους τά κατ αὐτούς, τηνικαῦτα καί τά φάρμακα τοῖς τραύμασιν ἁρμόζοντα διά τῶν λόγων αὐτῶν ἐπιδώσομεν

這樣，對那些信服神聖言之話語、並來到覺悟自己惡行的人，那些承認並同意自己的光景實在如此的人，我們那時就要藉著他們自己的話，把合適醫治他們創傷的藥物加給他們。

And thus, to those who are persuaded by the words of the divine Scripture and come to an awareness of their own evils, and who confess and agree that their state is such—then indeed we will apply, through their own words, the remedies suited to their wounds.

1:1037

Μέλλοντί μοι δέ πρός τάς ἀποδείξεις τῶν πραγμάτων ἐλθεῖν καί τόν ἀγῶνα τοῦ λόγου τῷ ἀλόγῳ καί ἀμαθεῖ ἐπειγομένῳ ἀναδέξασθαι, συνεύξασθαι δέομαι πάντων ὑμῶν, ἵνα ἡ χάρις τοῦ Παναγίου Πνεύματος φαιδρότερον ἐπιλάμψασα ὅλην μου καταφωτίσῃ τήν διάνοιαν καί τόν νοῦν καί δῴη ἀξίως εἰπεῖν τι, οὐχί διά τήν ἐμήν ἀξίαν, ἀλλά διά τήν ὑμετέραν ὠφέλειαν, ἐνηχοῦσα οἷον αὐτήν τούς λόγους ἅμα τε τῷ ταύτης φωτί φαίνουσα καί ὑποδεικνύουσα πάντα ἅπερ προείπομεν, καί οἱονεί πως λέγουσα πρός ἡμᾶς·

但當我要進到這些事的論證，並要擔起言論的爭戰——我這被催逼、卻不善言辭又無學識的人——我懇求你們眾人與我同心禱告，好使那至聖之靈的恩典更加明亮地照耀，光照我整個的悟性與心思，並賜我配得說出些話來，不是因我自己的資格，乃是為你們的益處；願聖靈彷彿在我心中發出言語，同時以他的光顯明，指示我們先前所預言的一切，並彷彿對我們說：

But as I am about to come to the demonstrations of these matters, and to take up the contest of discourse—I who am pressed on, being without eloquence and unlearned—I beg you all to pray together with me, that the grace of the all-holy Spirit, shining forth more brightly, may illumine my whole understanding and mind, and may grant me to say something worthily—not because of my own worthiness, but for your benefit—sounding, as it were, the words within it, and at the same time shining with its own light and pointing out all the things we have foretold, and saying to us, as it were:

1:1038

Ἴδε ἡ ὁδός, ἴδε ἡ ἔκπτωσις αὐτῆς, ἴδε ὁ ἐχθρός, τό σχοινίον

「看哪，這是路；看哪，這是它的失落；看哪，這是仇敵，這是繩索。」

'Behold the way; behold its falling away; behold the enemy, the rope.'

1:1039

Ἴδε ὁ ἀδελφός, πῶς μετά χαρᾶς τόν δεσμόν καταδέχεται

「看哪，這是弟兄，他怎樣歡歡喜喜地接受了那捆綁。」

'Behold the brother, how he accepts the bond with joy.'

1:1040

Ἴδε ποῦ σύρων ὁ διάβολος αὐτόν ἀποφέρει, καί πάντα καθεξῆς ἀνελλιπῶς ὑποδείξασα καί πῶς τούς ἐκείνου βρόχους δυνηθῶμεν διαφυγεῖν ἐκδιδάξασα, πρός τούς οὐρανούς ἐλευθέρους ἡμᾶς συμπαραλαβοῦσα ἀνέλθῃ

「看哪，看那魔鬼拖著他，把他帶到哪裡去。」——願聖靈毫無遺漏地按次序指明這一切，並教導我們如何能逃脫他的網羅，好使她把我們當作自由的人一同帶著，升到諸天去。

'Behold where the devil, dragging him, carries him off'—and having pointed out all things in order without omission, and having taught how we may be able to escape his snares, may she take us up as free ones and ascend with us to the heavens.

1:1041

Τοῦτο δέ οὐκ ἄλλως ἄν γένηται ἡμῖν δυνατόν, εἰ μή ἄνωθεν καί ἐξ ἀρχῆς τοῦ βίου καί τῆς εἰς τό μοναχικόν στάδιον εἰσόδου ἡμῶν τόν λόγον ἀναγαγόντες, ἐκεῖθεν τήν ἀρχήν ποιησόμεθα

但這事若不藉別的方法，就不能為我們所成，除非我們把論說追溯到起初，從我們生命的開端、以及我們進入修道之路的那入口說起，並從那裡起頭。

But this cannot become possible for us in any other way, unless we lead our discourse back from the beginning and from the very start of our life and of our entrance into the monastic course, and make our beginning from there.

1:1042

Οὕτω γάρ καί ὡς ἐν ὁδῷ βαδίζων ὁ λόγος, ἅπερ ὑπέσχετο διά τῆς τοῦ Πνεύματος χάριτος καθαρῶς τοῖς προσέχουσιν ἀποδείξειεν

因為這樣，論說也如同行走在路上一般，可以藉著聖靈的恩典，向那些留心的人清楚地顯明它所應許的事。

For thus also the discourse, as though walking along a road, may clearly demonstrate to those who give heed the things it has promised, through the grace of the Spirit.

1:1043

Ἀλλά μή ἀποκάμητε, ὠφέλιμος γάρ ὁ λόγος, καθ ὅσον ἐστί καί θεόπνευστος, ἐπειδή καί ἡμεῖς καί οἱ λόγοι ἡμῶν, κατά τόν εἰρηκότα σοφόν, καί αὐτή ἡμῶν ἡ πνοή ἐν χειρί Θεοῦ τοῦ πεποιηκότος ἡμᾶς

但你們不要厭倦，因為這論說既是神所默示的，就是有益的；正如那智者所說的，我們和我們的言語，並我們一切的氣息，都在那造我們之神的手中。

But do not grow weary, for the discourse is profitable inasmuch as it is also God-inspired, since both we and our words, according to the wise man who said it, and our very breath, are in the hand of God who made us.

1:1044

βουληθείς ἐξελέσθαι τῆς δουλείας καί αἰσχίστης πλάνης ἡμᾶς, κατῆλθεν ἐκεῖθεν ὅλως τούς πατρῴους κόλπους μή λιπών, ὡς οἶδεν αὐτός, καί γενόμενος ἐπί τῆς γῆς, ἐμπεριπατήσας τε καί συναναστραφείς ἡμῖν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις οὖσιν ἁμαρτωλοῖς, καί προστάγματα δούς σωτηρίας τοῖς ἁγίοις αὐτοῦ μαθηταῖς καί ἀποστόλοις, ἀνῆλθεν αὖθις πρός τόν ἑαυτοῦ Πατέρα μετά δόξης, παραγγείλας αὐτοῖς καί εἰπών·

……他既願意救我們脫離那奴役和最可恥的欺騙，就從那裡降下——卻絲毫沒有離開父的懷抱，正如他自己所知道的——並來到地上，與我們這些有罪的世人同行同住，又將救恩的命令賜給他聖潔的門徒和使徒，然後帶著榮耀再升到他自己的父那裡去，並囑咐他們說：

…willing to deliver us from the bondage and the most shameful deception, he came down from there without at all leaving the bosom of the Father—as he himself knows how—and having come to be upon the earth, and walked about and lived among us who are sinful men, and having given commandments of salvation to his holy disciples and apostles, he ascended again to his own Father with glory, having charged them and said:

1:1045

Πορευθέντες, κηρύξατε τό εὐαγγέλιον πάσῃ τῇ κτίσει διδάσκοντες πάντας, οὐχί τόδε τηρεῖνἤ τόδε, ἀλλά πάντα ὅσα ἐνετειλάμην ὑμῖν

「你們去，向普天下一切受造之物傳福音，教訓萬人」——不是說遵守這件或那件，乃是「凡我所吩咐你們的」。

'Go, preach the gospel to every creature, teaching all men'—not to keep this or that, but 'all things whatsoever I have commanded you.'

1:1046

Πάντα δέ εἰπών οὐδέν ἀφῆκεν ὅ μή φυλάξαι προσέταξεν

他既說了「凡事」，就沒有留下任何一件不吩咐人遵守的。

And having said 'all things,' he left out nothing that he did not command to be kept.

1:1047

Ἆρα οὖν, ἀγαπητοί ἀδελφοί, ἔγνωτε τί ἐστι τοῦτο ὅ λέγει·

那麼親愛的弟兄們，你們可明白他所說的這話是甚麼意思：

Now then, beloved brothers, have you understood what this is that he says:

1:1048

Ὁ ἀπιστήσας,ἤ καί περί τούτου εἴπω πρός τήν ὑμετέραν ἀγάπην;

「那不信的」——還是我也要為這事向你們的愛心說明呢？

'He that disbelieved'—or shall I speak concerning this also to your love?

1:1049

Δοκεῖ γάρ εὔληπτον εἶναι καί ἁπλοῦν τό λεγόμενον, ἔχει δέ ἐγκεκρυμμένα εἰς βάθος αὐτοῦ τά νοήματα

因為所說的話看似容易領會且簡單，其實在它的深處藏著意義。

For what is said seems easy to grasp and simple, but it has meanings hidden in its depth.

1:1050

() Πίστιν ἐνταῦθα οὐ ταύτην λέγει ὅτι Θεός ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός μόνον, ἀλλά τήν περί πασῶν τῶν παρ αὐτοῦ λεχθεισῶν ἁγίων ἐντολῶν περιεκτικωτάτην πίστιν τήν συνέχουσάν πως ἐν ἑαυτῇ πάσας τάς θείας αὐτοῦ ἐντολάς καί πιστεύουσαν μηδέν εἶναι ἀργόν μέχρι καί μιᾶς κεραίας ἐν αὐτοῖς, ἀλλά πάντα ἕως ἑνός ἰῶτα ζωή καί ζωῆς αἰωνίου πρόξενα·

他在這裡所說的「信」，並非單指基督是神這一點，乃是指那涵蓋一切、關乎他所說一切聖潔誡命的信；這信在自己裡面以某種方式包含了他一切神聖的誡命，並且相信其中連一畫也沒有一件是徒然的，反倒每一件、直到一點一畫，都是生命，並且是永生的媒介。

By 'faith' here he does not mean only this—that Christ is God—but that most comprehensive faith concerning all the holy commandments spoken by him, the faith which in some way holds together within itself all his divine commandments, and which believes that there is nothing idle in them, down to a single stroke, but that all of them, to one iota, are life and the procurers of eternal life.

1:1051

ὡς ἄν ὁ πιστεύων οὕτως ἔχειν αὐτάς καί διά τοῦ ἁγίου βαπτίσματος συνταξάμενος ταῦτα πάντα φυλάσσειν καί ἀπαραλείπτως ποιεῖν σωθήσεται, ὁ δέ ἀπιστήσας ἔν τινι τοῖς λόγοις αὐτοῦ μέχρι καί μιᾶς, ὡς εἴρηται, κεραίαςἤ ἑνός ἰῶτα, ὡς αὐτόν ἐκεῖνον ὅλον ἀπαρνησάμενος, κατακριθῇ

凡信這些事本是如此、並藉著聖洗立約要謹守這一切、毫無遺漏地遵行的人，必要得救；但那怕只在祂話語中的一項上不信的人—如所說的，甚至只是一畫或一點—也必被定罪，如同全然否認了那一位。

For he who believes that they are so, and who through holy baptism has covenanted to keep all these things and to do them without omission, shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved even in a single one of His words—down to one jot or, as it is said, one tittle—shall be condemned as having denied that whole One Himself.

1:1052

ὁ γάρ εἰς τά μεγάλα πιστεύσας αὐτῷ οἷον ὅτι Θεός ὤν ἀτρέπτως ἐγένετο ἄνθρωπος, ὅτι ἐσταυρώθη καί ἀπέθανε καί ἀνέστη, ὅτι ἀναστάς τῶν θυρῶν κεκλεισμένων εἰσῆλθε καί ὤφθη τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ μαθηταῖς, ὅτι ἀνελήφθη καί κάθηται ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ Θεοῦ καί Πατρός, ὅτι μέλλει ἔρχεσθαι κρῖναι ζῶντας καί νεκρούς καί ἀποδοῦναι ἑκάστῳ κατά τά ἔργα αὐτοῦ πρότερον δηλονότι ἐξαναστήσας πάντας ἡμᾶς, τούς ἀπό Ἀδάμ καί μέχρι τῆς ἐσχάτης ἡμέρας τεχθήσεσθαι μέλλοντας , λέγοντι δέ αὐτῷ Ἀμήν λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι καί ὑπέρ ἀργοῦ λόγου λόγον δώσουσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κρίσεως ἀπιστῶν, πῶς ἄρα πιστός ἔσται καί μετά πιστῶν συγκαταριθμηθῇ;

因為那在大事上信了祂的人—就是信祂本為神，卻不改變地成了人；信祂被釘十字架、死了、又復活了；信祂復活後在門緊閉時進來，向祂自己的門徒顯現；信祂被接上升，坐在神與父的右邊；信祂要來審判活人死人，並照各人的行為報應各人，也就是說必先叫我們眾人復活，包括從亞當以來直到末日將要出生的人—然而當祂說：「我實在告訴你們，凡人所說的閒話，在審判的日子必要句句供出來」時，他卻不信；那麼他怎能算是信徒，又怎能與信徒同列呢？

For he who has believed Him in the great matters—namely, that being God He became man without change; that He was crucified, died, and rose again; that after rising He entered while the doors were shut and appeared to His own disciples; that He was taken up and sits at the right hand of God and the Father; that He is to come to judge the living and the dead and to render to each according to his works, having first, that is, raised us all up, both those from Adam and those yet to be born until the last day—yet disbelieves Him when He says, 'Amen I say to you, that men shall give account even for an idle word in the day of judgment,' how then shall he be a believer and be numbered with the faithful?

1:1053

Ὁ τοίνυν ἐπ ἐκείνοις τοῖς φρικτοῖς καί ὑπέρ νοῦν καί ὑπέρ πᾶσαν ἀνθρωπίνην διάνοιαν πιστεύων Χριστῷ καί τοῖς γεγονόσι καί μέλλουσι γενέσθαι παρ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ πειθαρχοῦσαν ἔχων καί συντιθεμένην αὐτοῦ τήν ψυχήν, () ἀπιστῶν δέ αὐτός ὁπηνίκα λέγοντος ἀκούει·

那麼，那信這些可畏的、超乎人心思、超乎一切人類悟性之事的人，就是信我們的主耶穌基督自己所已成就與將要成就之事，並使自己的魂順服、贊同於祂—然而他自己卻在聽見祂如此說的時候不信：

He, then, who believes in those awesome things which surpass the mind and every human understanding, in what has come to pass and in what is yet to come from our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, having his soul obedient and consenting to Him—yet himself disbelieves at the moment he hears Him saying:

1:1054

Ὁ θέλων ὀπίσω μου ἐλθεῖν, ἀπαρνησάσθω ἑαυτόν καί ἀράτω τόν σταυρόν αὐτοῦ καί ἀκολουθείτω μοι καί·

「若有人要跟從我，就當捨己，背起他的十字架，來跟從我」；又說：

'Whoever wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me'; and:

1:1055

Ὁ φιλῶν πατέραἤ μετέρα ὑπέρ ἐμέ οὐκ ἔστι μου ἄξιος καί ὅτιὉ ἐρχόμενος πρός με καί οὐ μισεῖ τόν πατέρα αὐτοῦ καί τήν μετέρα καί τούς ἀδελφούς καί τάς ἀδελφάς καί τήν γυναῖκα καί τά τέκνα, ἔτι δέ καί τήν ἑαυτοῦ ψυχήν, οὐ δύναταί μου εἶναι μαθητής καί ὅτιὉ λύσας μίαν τῶν ἐντολῶν τούτων τῶν ἐλαχίστων ἐλάχιστος κληθήσεται ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν, πῶς ὁ τοιοῦτος πιστός καί οὐχί μᾶλλον ὡς ἄπιστοςἤ καί χείρων ἀπίστου κατακριθήσεται;

「愛父母過於愛我的，不配作我的門徒」，並且「凡到我這裏來，若不恨自己的父母、弟兄、姊妹、妻子、兒女，並且連自己的性命也不恨，就不能作我的門徒」，又說「凡廢掉這些誡命中最小一條的，在天國裏必稱為最小的」—這樣的人怎能算是信徒，豈不更要被定罪為不信的人，或竟比不信的人還壞麼？

'He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me,' and that, 'He who comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, and brothers and sisters, and wife and children, and moreover even his own soul, cannot be My disciple,' and that, 'He who breaks one of these least commandments shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven'—how shall such a one be a believer, and not rather be condemned as an unbeliever, or even worse than an unbeliever?

1:1056

Ὅτι ἐν μέν τοῖς μείζοσιν ὁμολογεῖ πιστεύειν Χριστῷ, ἐν δέ τοῖς ἐλαχίστοις ὡς ψευδομένου καταφρονεῖ αὐτοῦ τοῦ τῶν ὅλων Θεοῦ καί Δεσπότου·

因為在較大的事上他承認信基督，但在最小的事上，他卻藐視祂—就是那萬有的神與主宰—彷彿祂在說謊。

For in the greater matters he confesses that he believes in Christ, but in the least matters he despises Him—the very God and Master of all—as though He were lying.

1:1057

καί πιστεύειν λέγων ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις αὐτῷ ὡς Θεῷ, ὡς τῷ τυχόντι ἀνθρώπῳ διαπιστεῖ λέγοντι ὅτι καί ὑπέρ ἀργοῦ λόγου λόγον δώσουσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τῆς κρίσεως·

他一面說在別的事上信祂如同信神，卻又當祂說「凡人所說的閒話，在審判的日子必要句句供出來」時，把祂當作偶然的凡人一般不信。

And while saying that in other things he believes Him as God, he disbelieves Him as though He were some chance man, when He says that men shall give account even for an idle word in the day of judgment.

1:1058

καί οἴεται γελῶν καί αἰσχρολογῶν καί ματαιολογῶν σωθῆναι, ταλανίζοντος ἐκείνου τούς γελῶντας καί μακαρίζοντος τούς πενθοῦντας·

他一面戲笑、說污穢和虛妄的話，卻以為能得救；然而祂卻稱那戲笑的人為有禍的，稱那哀慟的人為有福的。

And he thinks to be saved while laughing and speaking shameful and idle words, though He calls wretched those who laugh and blesses those who mourn.

1:1059

ἀλλά καί ἑαυτόν μή ἀπαρνούμενος μηδέ τόν σταυρόν βαστάζων, ἀκολουθεῖν νομίζει τῷ δι αὐτόν σταυρωθέντι Χριστῷ·

他既不捨己，也不背起十字架，卻以為自己是在跟從那為他被釘十字架的基督。

But even while not denying himself nor bearing his cross, he supposes that he is following Christ who was crucified for his sake.

1:1060

ἑαυτοῦ γονεῖς, ἄξιον εἶναι αὐτόν τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀπό ψυχῆς ἔχει

……他自己的父母，卻從心裏認為自己配得基督。

...his own parents, he holds from his soul that he is worthy of Christ.

1:1061

Οὕτως ἄρα καί αὐτοί οἱ ἐρχόμενοι δῆθεν πρός αὐτόν διά τῆς ἀποταγῆς καί οὐ μισοῦντες ἅπαντας τούς ἑαυτῶν συγγενεῖς, ἔτι δέ καί τήν ἑαυτῶν ψυχήν ἀπαρνούμενοι, () ἀλλ ἐξ ἐναντίας καί ἀγαπῶντες αὐτούς μᾶλλον, μαθηταί εἶναι τοῦ Χριστοῦ ματαίως νομίζουσι·

照樣，那些名義上藉著棄絕來到祂面前，卻不恨惡自己一切親屬、並且不但不否認自己的魂、反而更加愛他們的人，這等人也是徒然以為自己是基督的門徒。

So then in this way even those who supposedly come to Him through renunciation, yet do not hate all their own kinsfolk, and moreover do not deny their own soul, but on the contrary even love them the more—these too vainly suppose themselves to be disciples of Christ.

1:1062

καί λύοντες καθ ὥραν οὐχί μίαν καί τήν ἐλαχίστην τῶν ἐντολῶν ἀλλά πολλάς καί μεγάλας, οὐδέν ὅλως ἐναντίον ποιεῖν τι νομίζουσι, μᾶλλον μέν οὖν καί μεγάλους ἑαυτούς ἐν τῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ βασιλείᾳ οὕτως ἔχοντες ὑπολαμβάνουσιν ἔσεσθαι·

他們時時所廢掉的，不只是一條最小的誡命，乃是許多而且是重大的誡命，卻以為自己毫無違背之處；反倒以為自己既是如此，將在神的國裏為大。

And while at every hour they break not one, the least of the commandments, but many and great ones, they suppose they are doing nothing at all contrary; rather they even imagine that, being such, they shall be great in the kingdom of God.

1:1063

καί τό μεῖζον ἁπάντων κακῶν, ὅτι οὐχί παράβασιν ὅλως ταῦτα ἐντολῆς εἶναι λέγουσιν, ἀλλά καί ἡμᾶς αὐτούς, ἀντιποιουμένους τοῦ λόγου τῆς ἀληθείας, πείθειν ἀσυνέτως ἐπιχειροῦσιν

而最大的惡就是：他們不但說這些全然不算是違背誡命，甚至還愚昧地試圖說服我們這些持守真理之道的人。

And—the greatest of all evils—they not only say that these are no transgression of a commandment at all, but even foolishly attempt to persuade us ourselves, who lay claim to the word of truth.

1:1064

Ἀλλ ἐπί τό προκείμενον ἐπανέλθωμεν

但讓我們回到眼前的題目上來。

But let us return to the matter before us.

1:1065

Πάντα τοίνυν ὅσα τοῖς ἀποστόλοις ὁ Χριστός καί Θεός ἐνετείλατο, ὁμοίως καί ἡμᾶς φυλάττειν προσέταξεν, ἅπερ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ φυλάξαι δυνάμεθα μέν, οὐ προαιρούμεθα δέ διά τό ἀσθενεῖν ἡμᾶς τῇ πίστει καί τῇ ἀγάπῃ τῇ εἰς Χριστόν

凡基督與神所吩咐使徒的一切事，祂照樣命定我們也要遵守—這些事我們在世上原是能夠遵守的，只是我們不肯遵守，因為我們在信心和向著基督的愛上軟弱。

All things, then, whatsoever Christ and God commanded the apostles, He likewise ordained that we also keep—things which indeed we can keep in the world, but do not choose to, because we are weak in faith and in love toward Christ.

1:1066

Καί ὅτι τοῦτο ἀληθές ἐστι μαρτυροῦσι πάντες οἱ πρό νόμου καί ἐν νόμῳ καί μετά τήν τοῦ Σωτῆρος παρουσίαν μετά παίδων καί γυναικῶν καί τῶν ἐν ἅπασι βιωτικοῖς μεριμνῶν καί φροντίδων εὐαρεστήσαντες τῷ Κυρίῳ, κεχωρισμένοι τούτων ἁπάντων τῇ ἀπροσπαθεῖ προαιρέσει γενόμενοι καί ὑπέρ τούς ἐν ὄρεσι καί σπηλαίοις λαμπρότεροι τῇ πίστει καί τῷ βίῳ ἀναφανέντες

這事是真實的，眾人都為此作見證—就是那些在律法以前的、在律法之下的、以及在救主降臨以後的人—他們雖有兒女、妻子，並在各樣今生的掛慮與思念之中，卻蒙主的喜悅；他們藉著不貪戀的心志，脫離了這一切，且在信心和生活上顯得比那住在山洞岩穴中的人更為光耀。

And that this is true, they all bear witness—those before the Law, and under the Law, and after the coming of the Savior—who, together with children and wives and amid all the cares and anxieties of daily life, pleased the Lord, having become separated from all these things by a disposition free of attachment, and having shone forth more brilliantly in faith and life than those who dwell in mountains and caves.

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