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77. Ungula namque terram fodere est districta abstinentia carnem edomare. Quo autem plus caro premitur, eo de coelesti spe animus securius lætatur. Unde effossa terra apte subnectitur: Exsultat audacter. Quia enim valenter reprimit quad impugnat, audacter exsultat de his quae in aeterna pace desiderat; tantoque mens melius ad superna appetenda componitur, quanto ab illicitis arctius corpus edomatur. Unde recte per Salomonem dicitur: Diligenter exerce agrum tuum, ut postea œdifices domum tuam (Prov. xxiv, 27).
七十七、因為用「蹄刨地」，就是藉嚴格的節制制伏肉體。肉體愈被壓制，心靈便愈穩妥地因屬天的盼望而歡喜。因此，在刨開的地土之後恰當地連接說：「牠昂然踴躍。」因為他既強而有力地壓制那攻擊他的，便昂然為那些他在永遠平安中所渴慕的事歡欣踴躍；並且身體愈嚴格地被制伏脫離非法之事，心便愈好地被裝備去尋求上面的事。因此恰當地藉所羅門說：「你要在外頭預備工料，在田間辦理整齊，然後建造房屋」（箴言二十四章二十七節）。
77. For to 'dig up the earth with the hoof' is to subdue the flesh by strict abstinence. And the more the flesh is pressed down, the more securely does the soul rejoice in heavenly hope. Whence to the earth dug up is fitly annexed: 'He exults boldly.' For because he powerfully represses what assails him, he boldly exults over those things which he desires in the eternal peace; and the mind is the better composed for seeking the things above, the more strictly the body is subdued from unlawful things. Whence rightly it is said through Solomon: 'Diligently till thy field, that afterward thou mayest build thy house' (Prov. 24:27).
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Ille quippe bene mentis domum sedificat, qui prius agrum corporis a spinis vitiorum purgat, ne si desideriorum sentes in carnis agro proficiant, intus tota virtutum fabrica fame boni operis crescente destruatur. In ipso autem quisque belli certamine positus, tanto subtilius fraudem hostium conspicit, qyanto et districtius corpus proprium quasi quemdam hostium adjutorem premit. Unde et post contritionem corporis, post laetitiam cordis recte subjungitur:
因為那先把自己身體的田地從惡習的荊棘中清除的人，便善於建造他心靈的房屋，惟恐私慾的荊棘若在肉體的田地中滋長，德行的整座建築便在內裡因善工日增之飢渴而被拆毀。但每一個置身於戰爭之爭戰中的人，愈嚴格地壓制自己的身體——彷彿它是仇敵的某種幫手——就愈精細地識破仇敵的詭詐。因此，在身體的擊碎之後，在內心的歡欣之後，恰當地補充說：
For he well builds the house of his mind, who first purges the field of his body from the thorns of vices, lest, if the briars of desires should thrive in the field of the flesh, within, the whole fabric of the virtues be destroyed by the hunger of good work as it grows. But everyone set in the very contest of war discerns the fraud of the enemy the more subtly, the more strictly he presses down his own body as a kind of helper of the enemies. Whence also, after the crushing of the body, after the gladness of the heart, rightly is subjoined: