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31. Qui in Antichristi corpore debiliores sunt, ad perpetranda mala nequiores existunt. — CartHago namque ossis quidem speciem habet, sed ossis fortitudinem non habet. Quid est ergo quod cartHago ejus laminis ferreis comparatur, nisi quod hi qui in illu debiliores sunt, ad perpetranda mala nequiores existunt? Ferro quippe cætera metalla conciduntur, et cartHago ejus ferro similis dicitur, quia hi qui in ejus corpore ad ostensionem virtutum non sufficiunt contra necem fidelium acrius accenduntur. Quia enim cum eo se facere signa et prodigia non posse considerantt fideles se illi per crudelitatem probant; et pro eo quod innocentium corda corrumpere persua.
三十一、敵基督身體中較軟弱的，在作惡上更為兇殘。——因為軟骨固然有骨的外貌，卻沒有骨的堅硬。那麼，他的軟骨被比作鐵片，是什麼意思呢？豈不是說在他裡面較軟弱的人，在作惡上更為兇殘嗎？因為別的金屬要用鐵來切割，他的軟骨被說成像鐵，因為在他身體中那些不足以展現「德行」的人，反倒更凶狠地被激動去屠殺信徒。因為他們既思量自己不能與他一同行神蹟奇事，便藉殘忍向他證明自己的忠誠；並且因為他們不能藉勸誘敗壞無辜者的心，
31. Those who are weaker in the body of Antichrist are the more wicked in perpetrating evils. — For cartilage has indeed the appearance of bone, but has not the strength of bone. What is it, then, that his cartilage is compared to plates of iron, but that those who are weaker in him are the more wicked in perpetrating evils? For by iron the other metals are cut, and his cartilage is said to be like iron, because those in his body who are not sufficient for the display of virtues are the more sharply inflamed against the slaughter of the faithful. For because they consider that they cannot with him work signs and wonders, they prove themselves faithful to him through cruelty; and because they cannot corrupt the hearts of the innocent by persuading,
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dendo non possunt, multiplicius cæteris bonorum corpora se exstinguere gloriantur. Bene ergo dicitur: 1064 Cartilago ejus ut latJlinæ ferreæ, quia in ejus corpore quod infirmius quisque crediderit, " hoc est quod nequiul incidit. Qui recte non ferro tantummodo, sed laminis ferreis comparantur, quia dum se circumquaque in crudelitate dilatare ambiunt, quasi in ferri se laminas extendunt. [Ree. X VI.] 32. Libet arctiori inquisitionis manu hæc eadem verba conditoris, quæ jam videntur discussa, b distinguere, atque uberiores intelligentiae fructus instruendis moribus apportare.
便更以撲滅善人的身體、超過其餘之人為榮。所以恰當地說：「他的軟骨如鐵片」，因為在他身體中，凡人所認為較軟弱的，正是那更兇惡地墮落的。這些人被恰當地比作的，不僅是鐵，更是鐵片，因為他們渴望在殘忍中向四面八方鋪展自己，便彷彿伸展成鐵片。三十二、宜以更嚴謹的探究之手來分辨造物主這些似乎已經討論過的話語，並為道德的教導帶出更豐盛的悟性果實。
they glory the more in extinguishing, beyond the rest, the bodies of the good. Well, then, is it said: His cartilage is as plates of iron, because in his body whatever anyone shall have believed to be weaker, that is what falls more wickedly. And these are rightly compared not to iron only, but to plates of iron, because while they aspire to spread themselves on every side in cruelty, they extend themselves as it were into plates of iron. 32. It is fitting to distinguish with a stricter hand of inquiry these same words of the Creator, which already seem to have been discussed, and to bring forth richer fruits of understanding for the instruction of morals.
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Nam quia antiquus hostis quid per assumptum hominem contra homines agat audivimus, superest ut nunc quid in hominibus etiam per semetipsum sine homine moliatur exploremus. Kcce enim dicitur:
因為我們既已聽見這古老的仇敵藉他所取的那人向眾人所行的，如今便當察究他在人裡面、甚至不藉人、單憑自己所謀劃的是什麼。看哪，經上說：
For since we have heard what the ancient enemy does against men through the man he has assumed, it remains that we now examine what he contrives in men even through himself, without a man. For behold, it is said: