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Iterum mittitur exercitus, iterum duces, iterum oppugnatur Ecclesia. Cumque eum moesti et flentes populi circumstarent, prophetico apud eos usus sermone perhibetur: Nolite (inquit) filii, conturbari, quia nubecula est, et cito pertransit. Cumque discessisset, et navi per Nilum fluvium iter ageret: Comes qui ad hoc ipsum missus fuerat, cognito ejus itinere, instanter eum insequi caepit. Et cum forte applicuisset Athanasii navicula ad quendam lo cum, comperit a praetereuntibus post tergum esse percussorem suum, et jam jamque nisi prospiceret, imminere. Conterriti omnes qui simul aderant socii, eremum suadebant ad fugae praesidium petendam. Tum ille: Nolite, inquit, o filioli, deterreri:
又有一支軍隊被差來，又有將領，教會又遭攻擊。當哀傷哭泣的會眾圍繞著他時，據傳他在他們中間說出一句帶有先知性的話：「孩子們」，他說，「不要驚慌，因為這不過是一小片雲，很快就過去了。」他離去後，正乘船沿尼羅河行進，那為此事所差來的伯爵得知他的行程，便立即緊緊追趕。當亞他那修的小船恰巧停靠在某處時，他從過路的人那裏得知，他的殺手就在後面，眼看若不留心，危險已迫在眉睫。同在那裏的眾同伴都驚恐萬分，力勸他逃往曠野尋求庇護。那時他卻說：「孩子們，不要驚惶：
Again an army was sent, again leaders, again the Church was assailed. And when the people, mournful and weeping, stood about him, he is reported to have used a prophetic word among them: 'Be not troubled, my children,' he said, 'for it is a little cloud, and it quickly passes by.' And when he had departed, and was making his journey by ship along the river Nile, the count who had been sent for this very purpose, learning of his journey, began at once to pursue him closely. And when by chance Athanasius's little boat had put in at a certain place, he learned from those passing by that his slayer was behind him, and that, unless he looked to it, the danger was already all but at hand. All his companions who were present together, terrified, urged that the desert should be sought as a refuge for flight. Then he said: 'Be not dismayed, O little children:
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eamus magis in occursum percussori nostro, ut sciat quia louge major est qui nos defendit, quam qui persequitur. Et conversa navicula, iter agere obviam ei qui se insectabatur, adgressus est. Ille qui nullo genere suspicari posset in occursum sibi venire quem quaereret, tanquam praetereuntes aliquos interrogari jubet, ubi audissent esse Athanasium. Cumque respondissent vidisse se eum non longe euntem, tota celeritate pertransiens, properat in vanum, festinans capere, quem ante oculos positum videre non potuit. Ille vero Dei virtute monitus Alexandriam redit, ibique tuto latebras usquequo persecutio cessaret, exegit.
我們倒要迎著我們的殺手前去，叫他知道那保護我們的，遠比那逼迫的更大。」於是小船掉轉，他便迎著那追趕他的人前去。那人萬萬料想不到他所尋找的竟迎面而來，便彷彿向過路之人查問，他們在何處聽說亞他那修的下落。眾人回答說，曾見他往不遠處去了，那人便全速經過，徒然趕路，急切要捉拿那擺在他眼前他卻看不見的人。但亞他那修蒙神大能的指示，回到亞歷山大，在那裏安然躲藏，直到逼迫止息。
let us rather go to meet our slayer, that he may know that He who defends us is far greater than he who persecutes.' And, the little boat being turned about, he set about making his way to meet the one who was pursuing him. The other, who could in no way suspect that the one he sought was coming to meet him, ordered, as it were, some passers-by to be questioned where they had heard Athanasius to be. And when they answered that they had seen him going not far off, passing on with all speed, he hastened in vain, hurrying to capture the one whom, set before his very eyes, he could not see. But Athanasius, admonished by the power of God, returned to Alexandria, and there in safety waited out his hiding place until the persecution should cease.