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V ers. 11. Sed extende paululum manum tuam, et tange cuncta quae possidet, nisi in a faciem benedixerit tibi. 68. Electi in tentatione proficiunt. — Plerumque enim, dum virtutum fructus fecunde reddimus, dum conti- nua prosperitate pollemus, aliquantulum mens erigi- tur, ut a semetipsa sibi existere bona quae habet, ar- bitretur. Quae nimirum bona antiquus hostis malitio- se attrectare appetit; sed haec tentari Deus nonnisi benigne permittit, ut dum mens tentatione pulsante, in bonis de quibus gaudebat concutitur, imbecillita- tis suae debilitate cognita, in spe divini adjutorii ro- bustius solidetur.
第十一節：——但你且伸手動他一切所有的，他必當面褻瀆你。六十八、選民在試探中長進。——因為我們常常在豐盛地結出眾德之果、在持續的順境中興盛時，心便有些被高舉，以致以為自己所有的善事乃是出於自己。這些善事，那古蛇仇敵確實惡毒地想要染指；但神只仁慈地容許它們受試探，好使當心在試探的敲擊下、在它所曾歡喜的善事中被震動時，既認清了自己軟弱的無能，就在神幫助的盼望中更堅固地被建立。
Ver. 11. But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he possesses, unless he bless thee to thy face. 68. The elect make progress in temptation. — For often, while we fruitfully render the fruits of virtues, while we prevail with continual prosperity, the mind is somewhat lifted up, so that it may judge the good things it has to exist from itself. Which good things indeed the ancient enemy maliciously desires to lay hold of; but God permits these to be tempted only benignly, so that while the mind, at the pulsing of temptation, is shaken in the good things in which it rejoiced, having come to know the debility of its own weakness, it may be more robustly established in the hope of divine aid.
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Fitque mira dispensatione pietatis, ut unde malignus hostis cor tentat, ut interimat, inde misericors conditor hoc erudiat, ut vivat. Unde et bene subjungitur:
藉著慈愛的奇妙安排，事情便如此成就：那惡毒的仇敵從何處試探人心以致要毀滅它，慈憐的創造主便從何處教導它，使它得以存活。因此也恰當地接著說：
And it comes to pass by a wonderful dispensation of piety, that whence the malignant enemy tempts the heart in order to destroy it, thence the merciful Creator instructs it that it may live. Whence also it is well subjoined: