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I bid. — Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit: sicut Do- mino placuit, ita factum est: sit nomen Domini bene- dictum. 60. Deus Christo Judaeam dedit et abstulit. — Re- demptor noster per hoc quod Deus est, cum Patre dat omnia; per hoc vero quod homo est, a Patre e accipit inter omnia. Dicat igitur de Judaea, cum ven- turum incarnationis ejus mysterium crederet: Do- minus dedit, Dicat de Judaea, cum exspectatam in- carnationis ejus praesentiam contempsisset: Dominus abstulit. Data quippe est, cum per quosdam futura credidit; sed exigente merito suae caecitatis ablata est, cum credita per quosdam venerari contempsit. 61. Christus exemplo docuit Deo in flagellis bene- dicere.
同上。——賞賜的是主，收取的也是主；主的旨意怎樣喜悅，事就怎樣成就；主的名是應當稱頌的。六十、神把猶太賜給基督，又收取回去。——我們的救贖主，就祂是神而言，與父一同賜下萬有；就祂是人而言，卻在萬有之中從父領受。因此，論到猶太，當它相信祂道成肉身的奧祕將要來到時，讓祂說：「賞賜的是主」；論到猶太，當它藐視了所期待的祂道成肉身的臨在時，讓祂說：「收取的是主」。因為它蒙賜下，是當它藉某些人相信將來之事時；但因它瞎眼的當得之報，它被收取，是當它藉某些人藐視去尊敬它所曾相信的。六十一、基督以榜樣教導人在鞭打中稱頌神。
Ibid. — The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord. 60. God gave Judaea to Christ and took it away. — Our Redeemer, in that He is God, gives all things with the Father; but in that He is man, receives among all things from the Father. Let Him therefore say of Judaea, when it believed the mystery of His incarnation was to come: The Lord gave; let Him say of Judaea, when it had despised the awaited presence of His incarnation: The Lord hath taken away. For it was given, when through some it believed things to come; but by the exacting merit of its blindness it was taken away, when through some it despised to venerate what it had believed. 61. Christ by His example taught men to bless God amid scourges.
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— In se autem credentes edoceat, ut in fla- gellis positi benedicere Domino sciant, cum subditur: Sicut Domino placuit, ita factum est; sit nomen Do- mini benedictum. Unde et teste Evangelio ( Matth. xxvi, 26), cum 63 propinquare passioni dicitur, accepto pane gratias egisse perhibetur. Gratias itaque agit, qui flagella alienae iniquitatis suscipit. Et qui nihil dignum percussione exhibuit, humiliter in f percussione benedicit; ut hinc videlicet ostendat quid unusquisque in flagello culpae propriae facere de- beat, si ipse aequanimiter flagella culpae portat alienae ut hinc ostendat quid in correptione faciat subditus, si in flagello positus Patri gratias agit aequalis. Se- quitur:
——但讓祂教導那些信祂的人，使他們在被置於鞭打之中時，可以曉得如何稱頌主，正如所補充的：「主的旨意怎樣喜悅，事就怎樣成就；主的名是應當稱頌的」。因此，正如福音書所見證的（太二十六26），當說到祂臨近受難時，記載祂拿起餅來祝謝。因此，那領受別人罪孽之鞭打的，就獻上感謝。祂既未顯出任何當受擊打的事，卻在擊打中謙卑地稱頌；意即祂由此顯明，每個人在自己過犯的鞭打中當如何行，倘若祂自己以平靜之心擔當別人過犯的鞭打；祂由此顯明，作屬下的在管教中當如何行，倘若那與神同等者在被置於鞭打之中時仍向父獻上感謝。接著說：
— But let Him teach those who believe in Him, that, when set amid scourges, they may know how to bless the Lord, when it is added: As it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done; blessed be the name of the Lord. Whence also, as the Gospel testifies (Matt. 26:26), when He is said to draw near to the Passion, having taken bread He is related to have given thanks. He therefore gives thanks who receives the scourges of another's iniquity. And He who displayed nothing worthy of a stroke, humbly blesses in the stroke; that hence, namely, He may show what each one ought to do amid the scourge of his own fault, if He Himself with equanimity bears the scourges of another's fault; that hence He may show what the subject should do under correction, if, set amid the scourge, the equal gives thanks to the Father. There follows: