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VERS. 26. — Ecce Deus magnus vincens scientiam nostram. 9. De Deo tunc tantum aliquid intelligere incipimus, cum eum noa digne cognoscere non posse sentimus. — Superius dixerat: Ecce Deus excelsus; nunc iterum dirit: Ecce Deus magnus. Quid est quod de Deo loquens ecce dicit, et ecce repetit, nisi quod ecce dicimus de ea re quam in praesenti monstramus? et quia Deus ubique præsens est, cum de illo ecce dicitur, etiam non videntibuS adesse memoratur. Bene autem eum vincere scieutiam nostram narrat, quem videri ab omnibus. dixem, quia etsi ex natione eouspicitur, magnitudo tamen illius nulU nostri sensus sublitate penetratur.
第26節。——看哪,神為大,超越我們的知識。惟有當我們察覺不能配得地認識神時,我們才開始略微明白神。——他先前說過:看哪,神被高舉;如今他又說:看哪,神為大。他論到神時說「看哪」,又重複「看哪」,這是什麼緣故呢?豈不是因為我們對於目前所指示之物才說「看哪」麼?神既無所不在,當論到他說「看哪」時,就連向那些看不見他的人,他也被提說為現今臨在。他既說神被眾人所見,卻又恰當地陳明神超越我們的知識,因為神雖從受造之物中被辨識,他的偉大卻無法被我們感官的任何敏銳所參透。
V. 26. — Behold, God is great, surpassing our knowledge. We then begin to understand something of God only when we perceive that we cannot worthily know him. — Above he had said: Behold, God is exalted; now again he says: Behold, God is great. What is it that, speaking of God, he says 'behold,' and repeats 'behold,' except that we say 'behold' of a thing which we show in the present? And because God is everywhere present, when 'behold' is said of him, he is recalled as present even to those who do not see him. But well does he relate that he surpasses our knowledge, whom he had said is seen by all, because although he is discerned from the created order, yet his greatness is penetrated by no keenness of our senses.
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Quidquid namque de claritato ejus magnitudinis acimus, infra ipsum est; et tanto ab ejus scientia longe repellimur, quante.jus potentiam nos comprehendisse suspicamur. Mom quamvis in altum mens 'ostra rapiatur, ejus tamen magnitudiRis immensitate transcenditur. Cujus tune aliquid quasi ex parte cognoscimus, quando eum nos digne cognoscere non posse sentimus. Sequitur:
因為凡我們所知關於他偉大之榮光的一切,都在他自己之下;我們越是自以為已領會了他的能力,就越發被驅離對他的認識。因為我們的心思無論被提到何等高處,仍被他無限的偉大所超越。惟有當我們察覺自己不能配得地認識他時,我們才彷彿在部分中略知他。接著說:
For whatever we know of the brightness of his greatness is beneath himself; and by so much are we driven far from the knowledge of him, as by so much we suppose ourselves to have comprehended his power. For however high our mind is caught up, yet it is transcended by the immensity of his greatness. Of whom we then know something, as it were in part, when we perceive that we cannot worthily know him. There follows: