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I bid. — Egressusque est Satan a facie Domini: 70. Quo moderante, diabolus bonorum corda usque ad interitum non vulnerat. — Quia per hoc, quod us- que ad defectum cordis praevalere nequaquam per- mittitur, exclusus ab intimis, exterius vagatur. Qui etiam si virtutes mentis plerumque turbat, eo ipso foris est, quo resistente Deo, usque ad interitum bo- norum corda non vulnerat. Tantum quippe contra illa saevire permittitur, in quantum necesse est ut tentationibus erudita solidentur; ne ea quae agunt bona, suis viribus tribuant, ne in securitatis torpore se deserant, et a formidinis accinctione dissolvant:
同上。——撒但就從主面前退去。七十、在誰的治理之下，魔鬼不能傷善人的心以致毀滅。——因為藉著他絕不被容許得勢以致人心衰敗這一事實，他被摒於最內處之外，就在外面遊蕩。他縱然大多攪擾人心的諸德，卻正在那事上乃是被摒於外，即在神抵擋之下，他不能傷善人的心以致毀滅。因為他被容許攻擊他們，只到必要的程度，好使他們藉試探受教而得堅固；免得他們把自己所行的善歸於自己的力量，免得他們在安逸的怠惰中放縱自己，並從畏懼的束身中鬆懈：
Ibid. — And Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord. 70. Under whose governance the devil does not wound the hearts of the good unto destruction. — Because, through the fact that he is by no means permitted to prevail unto the failing of the heart, being shut out from the inmost parts, he wanders outwardly. Who, even if for the most part he disturbs the virtues of the mind, in that very thing is outside, in that, God resisting, he does not wound the hearts of the good unto destruction. For he is permitted to rage against them only so far as is necessary, that being instructed by temptations they may be made solid; lest they attribute to their own strength the good things they do, lest they forsake themselves in the torpor of security, and dissolve themselves from the girding of fear:
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b sed ad provectus sui custodiam tanto solertius in- vigilent, quanto se contra adversarium stare semper in acie tentationum vident.
卻要他們越發精明地警醒，看守自己的長進，因他們越看見自己常在試探的陣列中對抗那敵人而站立。
but that they may watch the more skillfully for the guarding of their own advancement, the more they see themselves always to stand against the adversary in the battle-line of temptations.