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22. Mors quæ clectos luci restituit, reprobis lucem, nimirum præsentis vit æ gloriam tollit. — Mors enim rarnis, quæ electos luci suæ estituit, lucem suam reprobis tollit. Lux namque superbientis est gloria vitæ præsentis. Quæei lux tunc sublrahitur, cuin per carnis interitum a od retril!utionum suarum tenebras vocatur. Ibi tunc excel um brachium confringitur, quia celsitudo cordis ulira naturæ ordinem violenter arrepta opprimentis se divinæ justitiæ mole dissipatur, ut quia se perverse in brevi erexerat, per pondus judicii in æternum fracta cognoscat. Nullus autem nostrum quid post mortem sequeretur agnosceret, nisi vitæ nostræ conditor ad poenam usque mortis nostrae veniret.
二十二。死亡使選民歸於光明，卻奪去被棄者的光——即今生的榮耀。——因為肉體的死亡使選民歸回其自身的光明，卻奪去被棄者的光。因為驕傲者的光乃是今生的榮耀。當人藉肉體的毀壞被召往其報應的黑暗時，那光便從他被撤去。那時，高舉的膀臂在那裡被折斷，因為心的高傲既違反自然的次序被強暴地攫取，就被那壓制它的神聖公義之重量所擊散，以致它既曾在短暫間乖謬地自高，便藉審判的重壓認識到自己永遠被折斷。但我們無人能認識死後將發生之事，除非我們生命的創始者親臨於我們死亡的刑罰之中。
22. Death, which restores the elect to light, takes away from the reprobate the light, namely, the glory of the present life. — For the death of the flesh, which restores the elect to their own light, takes away from the reprobate their light. For the light of the proud is the glory of the present life. That light is then withdrawn from him, when through the destruction of the flesh he is summoned to the darkness of his own retributions. There then is the uplifted arm broken, because the loftiness of the heart, violently seized beyond the order of nature, is scattered by the mass of the divine justice that oppresses it, so that, because it had perversely raised itself for a brief time, it may, through the weight of judgment, recognize itself broken forever. But none of us could recognize what would follow after death, unless the Author of our life had come even to the punishment of our death.
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Nisi enim ipse misericorditer infima peteret, nequaquam nos post Suam imaginem perditos juste ad summa revocaret. Unde et recte subjungitur:
因為除非祂親自慈悲地尋求至卑之物，祂絕不會公義地將我們這照祂肖像而受造卻已失喪的人召回至高之處。因此也恰當地補充說：
For unless He Himself had mercifully sought the lowest things, He would never have justly recalled us, lost after His image, to the highest. Whence it is also rightly added: