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教會史（續編） 第 29 章
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29:1
Pergit interea Eusebius Alexandriam, ibique Confessorum concilio congregato, pauci numero, sed fide integri, et meritis multi, quo pacto post haereticorum procellas, et perfidiae turbines tranquillitas revocaretur Ecclesiae, omni cura et libratione discutiunt. Aliis videbatur fidei calore ferventibus, nullum debere ultra in sacerdotium recipi, qui se utcumque haereticae communionis contagione maculasset. Sed qui imitantes Apostolum quaerebant, non quod sibi utile esset, sed quod pluribus, vel qui imitarentur Christum, qui cum esset omnium vita, pro salute cunctorum humilians se, descendit in mortem, quo scilicet inveniretur et in mortuis vita:
與此同時，優西比烏前往亞歷山大，在那裏召集了一次認信者的會議——人數雖少，信仰卻純全，功德甚多——他們以全心、以權衡，商議在異端的風暴與背道的旋風之後，當以何法使平安重歸於教會。在那些以信仰之熱忱熱切者看來，凡曾以任何方式被異端交通的污染所玷污之人，此後都不該再被接納進入祭司職分。但那些效法使徒、不求自己的益處乃求眾人益處的人，或那些效法基督的人（基督雖是萬有的生命，卻為眾人的救恩而謙卑自己，降至死地，好叫生命甚至在死人中也可尋見）——
Meanwhile Eusebius went to Alexandria, and there, a council of Confessors being gathered—few in number, but whole in faith and great in merits—they discussed with all care and balance by what means, after the storms of the heretics and the whirlwinds of perfidy, tranquillity might be recalled to the Church. To some, fervent with the heat of faith, it seemed that no one ought henceforth to be received into the priesthood who had in any way defiled himself with the contagion of heretical communion. But those who, imitating the Apostle, sought not what was useful to themselves but to the many, or who imitated Christ, who, though He was the life of all, humbling Himself for the salvation of all, descended into death, that life might be found even among the dead—
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dicebant melius esse, humiliari se paululum propter dejectos, et inclinari propter elisos, ut eos rursus erigerent, nec sibimet solis puritatis merito caelorum regna defenderent, sed esse gloriosius, si cum pluribus illuc mererentur intrare. Et ideo rectum sibi videri, ut tantum perfidiae auctoribus amputatis, reliquis sacerdotibus daretur optio, si forte velint , abjurato errore perfidiae, ad fidem patrum statutaque converti, nec negare aditum redeuntibus, quin potius de eorum conversione gaudere:
這些人說，為了那跌倒的，稍微謙卑自己，為了那受傷的，俯就下來，好使他們重新站立起來，這乃是更美的；不單憑自己潔淨的功德，獨自為自己保守諸天的國，反倒若能與眾人一同得以進入那裏，乃是更為榮耀。因此在他們看來這才是合宜的：只將背道的禍首剪除，至於其餘的祭司，若他們願意棄絕背道的謬誤，歸向眾教父的信仰與規條，就給他們選擇的機會；不拒絕那歸回之人的門路，反倒為他們的回轉而歡喜：「
these said it was better to humble themselves a little for the sake of the fallen, and to bend down for the sake of the bruised, that they might raise them up again; and not to defend for themselves alone, by the merit of purity, the kingdoms of heaven, but that it was more glorious if they should merit to enter there together with the many. And therefore it seemed right to them that, only the authors of the perfidy being cut off, to the remaining priests the choice should be given, if perchance they were willing, the error of perfidy being abjured, to be converted to the faith and statutes of the fathers; and not to deny access to those returning, but rather to rejoice over their conversion:
29:3
quia et ille evangelicus junior filius, paternae depopulator substantiae, in semetipsum reversus, non solum suscipi meruit, sed et dignus paternis complexibus deputatur, et anulum fidei recepit, et stola circumdatur: per quam quid aliud quam sacerdotii declarantur insignia? nec probabilis extitit apud patrem senior filius, quod invidit recepto: nec tantum meriti habuit non delinquendo, quantum noxae contraxit non indulgendo germano.
因為福音書中那揮霍父業的小兒子，醒悟過來，不僅蒙悅納，更被算為配得父親的擁抱，又領了信德的戒指，並被穿上袍子：藉此所表明的，豈不正是祭司職分的徽號麼？那大兒子在父親面前並不蒙嘉許，因他嫉妒那蒙接納的；他因未曾犯罪所得的功德，遠不及他因不肯饒恕弟兄所招的過咎。」
for that younger son of the Gospel also, the squanderer of his father's substance, having come to himself, not only deserved to be received, but was even accounted worthy of his father's embraces, and received the ring of faith, and was clothed about with a robe: by which what else is declared than the insignia of the priesthood? Nor did the elder son prove approved before the father, because he envied the one received; nor had he as much of merit by not transgressing, as he contracted of guilt by not forgiving his brother.