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PETRUI. Quis ille sit memini: sed, quæso te, ca quae cœpimus, exsequamur. Putamusne animabus aliquid prodesse si mortuorum corpora fuerint in Ecclesiis sepulta ? GREGOR. Quos (Caul. 13, q. 2, e. 17) gravia peccata non deprimunt, hoc prodest mortuis si in ecclesia sepeliantur, quod eorum proximi quoties ad eadem sacra loca conveniunt, suorum quorum sepulcra conspiciunt, recordantur, et pro eis Domino 460 preces fundunt. Nam quos peccata gravia deprimunt, non ad absolutionem potius quam ad majorem damnationis cumulum eorum corpora in ecclesiis ponuntur. Quod melius ostendimus, si ea quæ diebus nostris gesta sunt, breviter enarremus.
伯多祿：我記得那人是誰；但我求你，讓我們繼續我們已開始的話題。我們是否認為，把亡者的身軀葬於聖堂之內，對靈魂有任何益處？額我略：那些沒有被重罪所壓者，葬在聖堂中對亡者是有益的，因為他們的親人每逢聚集到那些聖地，看見自己親人的墳墓，便記念他們，並為他們向上主傾吐祈禱。至於那些被重罪所壓者，他們的身軀被放進聖堂，非但不能得赦免，反而只增加更大的定罪之積。若我們簡略講述我們這時代所發生的事，就能更清楚地說明此點。
PETER. I remember who that man was; but, I pray you, let us pursue the matters we have begun. Do we think it profits souls at all if the bodies of the dead are buried in churches? GREGORY. Those whom grave sins do not weigh down, it profits the dead to be buried in a church, in that their kinsfolk, as often as they come together to those same sacred places, when they behold the tombs of their own, remember them and pour out prayers for them to the Lord. But as for those whom grave sins weigh down, their bodies are placed in churches not rather for absolution than for a greater heap of damnation. This we may show better if we briefly relate the things which have been done in our days.