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1025 61. Paulus pavorem omnem, omnen: hosti- lem impetum despexit. — Videamus quomodo pavorem despiciat, qui ipsos adversariorum gladios cnumerans calcat. Ait enim: Quis nos separabit a charitate Dei? tribulatio an angustia, an fames, an persecutio (Rom. VIII, 55)? In pavore autem ventura poena metuitur, in gladio vero jam dolor de praesenti percussione sentitur. Quia ergo vir sanctus ventura adversa non metuit, pavorem despicit; quia vero nec superveniente percussione vincitur, nequaquam gladiis cedit. Contra hunc itaque equum tot sunt gladii irostium, quot genera persecutionum; quae cuncta obvians superat, quia amore vitae sese ad interitum parat.
保羅藐視一切懼怕，以及每一場敵對的衝擊。——讓我們看他如何藐視懼怕，他數點著敵對者的刀劍，卻將之踐踏。因為他說：「誰能使我們與神的愛隔絕呢？難道是患難嗎？是困苦嗎？是饑餓嗎？是逼迫嗎？」（羅馬書八章35節）如今，在懼怕中所懼的是將來的刑罰，而在刀劍中所感受的是當下擊打的痛苦。既然如此，聖潔之人不懼將來的逆境，便藐視懼怕；又因他甚至不被臨到的擊打所勝，便絲毫不向刀劍屈服。因此，為敵這馬的刀劍有多少，迫害的種類就有多少；他迎向這一切，卻都勝過，因為為著生命的愛，他預備自己迎向死亡。
Paul despised all fear, and every hostile onset. — Let us see how he despises fear, who tramples down the very swords of his adversaries while enumerating them. For he says: Who shall separate us from the love of God? shall tribulation, or distress, or famine, or persecution (Rom. 8:35)? Now in fear the punishment to come is feared, but in the sword the pain of a present blow is already felt. Since, therefore, the holy man fears not the adversities to come, he despises fear; and since he is not overcome even by the blow that comes upon him, he in no way yields to swords. Against this horse, therefore, there are as many swords of the foes as there are kinds of persecutions; all of which, meeting them, he overcomes, because for the love of life he prepares himself for destruction.
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Sed quia tam robustissimum pectus quomodo se jaculis opponat audivimus, nunc quid ab adversariis agatur audiamus. Sequitur:
但既然我們已聽見這何等剛強的胸膛如何以自身抵擋箭矢，如今讓我們聽敵對者所作的是什麼。接下去說：
But since we have heard how so very robust a breast opposes itself to the darts, let us now hear what is done by the adversaries. There follows: