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16. Deus obdurat tor, non quia duritiam confert, sed quia exigentibus peccatis, non emollit. — Quamvis aliud sit privare, aliud non dare, hoc tamen repetiit subdendo, Non dedit, quod præmisit, Privavit. Ac si diceret: i Quod dixi, Privavit, non injuste sapientiam abstulit, sed juste non dedit. Unde et Pharaonis cor Deminus obdurasse describitur, non quod ipse duritiam contulit, sed quod, exigentibus ejus meritis, nulla illud desuper infusi I timoris sensibilitate mollivit. Sed nunc hypocrita (Exod. vn, 3), quod sanctum se simulat, quod sub imagine bom operis occultat, sanctae Ecclesiæ pace premitur, et idcirco ante nestros oeulos religionis visione vestitur.
二十六、神使人心剛硬，不是因祂賜下剛硬，乃是因罪的要求，祂不使之柔軟。——「奪去」與「不賜」雖是兩回事，然而祂藉著補上「祂沒有賜」（伯三十九17），重述了祂先前所說的「祂奪去了」。彷彿祂說：「我所說『祂奪去了』，並非不義地奪去智慧，乃是公義地不賜下。」因此，主也被描述為使法老的心剛硬，並非祂親自賜下剛硬，乃是因法老的所行要求如此，祂不以任何從上澆灌的敬畏之感去使他柔軟（出七3）。但如今偽善之人，因假裝自己聖潔，因在善行的形象下隱藏自己，就被聖教會的平安所遮蓋，因此在我們眼前披上了虔誠的外貌。
26. God hardens the heart, not because He confers hardness, but because, sins requiring it, He does not soften it. — Although it is one thing to deprive, another not to give, yet He repeated this by subjoining, 'He hath not given' (Job 39:17), what He had premised, 'He hath deprived.' As if He said: 'What I said, He hath deprived, He took away wisdom not unjustly, but justly did not give it.' Whence also the Lord is described to have hardened the heart of Pharaoh, not that He Himself conferred hardness, but that, his merits requiring it, He softened it with no sensibility of fear infused from above (Exod. 7:3). But now the hypocrite, because he feigns himself holy, because he conceals himself under the image of a good work, is covered by the peace of holy Church, and therefore before our eyes he is clothed with the appearance of religion.
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Si qua vero tentatio fidei erampat, statim lupi mens rabida habitu se ovinæ pellis exspoliat; quantumque contra bonos saeviat, persequensdemonstrat. Undeetrecte subditur:
但若有任何信仰的試探爆發，那狼瘋狂的心就立刻脫去羊皮的偽裝；牠對善人如何肆虐，就藉逼迫顯明出來。因此恰當地接著說：
But if any temptation of faith break forth, immediately the rabid mind of the wolf strips itself of the guise of the sheep's skin; and how much it rages against the good, it shows by persecuting. Whence it is rightly subjoined: