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28. Sancti bona sua non sibi, sed Deo tribuunt. Quidam dum ætate crescunt, ab innocentia decrescunt. — Miseratio eteoim etsi ejus fuerit arbitrii. ut cum ipso proficeret, liquet tamen quia ejus arbitrii non fuit ut cum ipso de ulero exiret. Constat ergo quia suae virtuti nil tribuit, qui profecto testatur quia hoc ex conditionis munere accepit. Bonum igitur quod a conditione habuisse se intimat, liquet procul dubio quia ad laudem conditoris narrat, indicans ab ipso se accepisse ut pius esset, a quo accepit ut esset, quia sieut suo opere in utero conditus non fuit, ita nec sua virtute ab utero 692 pius fuit. Sed pentandum nobis est, quod asserit; Crevit mecum.
28. 聖徒將自己的美善不歸於自己，乃歸於神。有人年歲漸長，卻從純真中退減。——因為憐憫，即使它隨他長成是出於他自己的選擇，然而顯然它與他一同從母腹出來卻不是出於他的選擇。所以確定：那清楚見證自己乃從本分之恩領受此事的人，絕不將任何事歸於自己的美德。因此，那他表明自己從本分所得的美善，無疑地顯然是為讚美造物主而述說的，表明他從那位使他得以存在者領受了敬虔——正如他不是憑自己的作為在母腹中被造成，照樣他也不是憑自己的美德從母腹就有敬虔。但我們當衡量他所斷言的：「它與我一同長大。」
28. The saints ascribe their good things not to themselves, but to God. Some, while they grow in age, decrease from innocence. — For compassion, even if it were of his own choice that it should grow with him, yet it is clear that it was not of his choice that it should come forth with him from the womb. It is established therefore that he ascribes nothing to his own virtue, who assuredly testifies that he received this from the gift of his condition. That good therefore which he intimates he had from his condition, without doubt it is clear that he narrates it to the praise of the Creator, indicating that he received from Him that he should be pious, from whom he received that he should be at all; because, just as by his own work he was not fashioned in the womb, so neither by his own virtue was he pious from the womb. But we must weigh what he asserts: 'It grew up with me.'
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Nonnulli enim quoad ætatem <rescunt, ab innocentia decrescunt. Electis vero cum foris aetag corporis, intus, si dici liceat, creseit aetas virtutis. Sequitur:
因為有些人年歲越長，就越從純真中退減。但在蒙揀選者身上，當身體的年歲在外增長時，若可如此說，美德的年歲便在內增長。接著說：
For some, in proportion as they grow in age, decrease from innocence. But in the elect, while outwardly the age of the body grows, inwardly, if it may be so said, the age of virtue grows. It follows: