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V ers. 8. — Testa saniem radebat. 33. Testa, hoc est, carne sua e terra sumpta, saniem peccati rasit. — Quid enim aliud in manu Domini te- sta est, nisi caro ex nostrae substantiae luto sumpta? Etenim testa igne solidatur. Caro autem Domini eo ex passione sua robustior exstitit, quo per infirmita- tem moriens, a morte sine infirmitate surrexit. Unde recte etiam per Prophetam dicitur: Exaruit velut testa virtus mea ( Psal. xxi, 16). Sicut testa enim ejus virtus exaruit, qui susceptae carnis infirmitatem pas- sionis suae igne roboravit. Quid vero per saniem, nisi peccatum, debet intelligi? Per carnem quippe et san- guinem solent carnis peccata designari. Unde per Psalmistam dicitur:
第八節。——他用瓦片刮去膿血。他用瓦片，即以取自塵土的自己肉身，刮去了罪的腐爛。因為在主手中的瓦片，若不是取自我們本質泥土的肉身，還能是甚麼呢？瓦片乃是被火所堅固；而主的肉身也因祂的受難而更為剛強，因為它藉軟弱而死，卻無軟弱地從死裡復活。故此先知也恰當地說：我的精力枯乾如同瓦片（詩篇二十一篇16節）。因為凡以自己受難之火使所取肉身的軟弱剛強者，其精力就枯乾如同瓦片。至於膿血，若不是指罪，還能指甚麼呢？因為肉體之罪常以肉與血來表明。故此藉詩人說：
Verse 8. — With a potsherd he scraped away the corrupt matter. He scraped away the corruption of sin with a potsherd, that is, with his own flesh taken from the earth. For what else is the potsherd in the Lord's hand but the flesh taken from the clay of our substance? For a potsherd is hardened by fire; and the flesh of the Lord came forth the stronger from his Passion, in that, dying through weakness, it rose from death without weakness. Whence it is rightly said also through the Prophet: My strength is dried up like a potsherd (Psalm xxi, 16). For his strength was dried up like a potsherd, who by the fire of his Passion made robust the weakness of the flesh he had assumed. But what ought to be understood by the corrupt matter, if not sin? For by flesh and blood the sins of the flesh are wont to be signified. Whence it is said through the Psalmist:
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Libera me de sanguinibus ( Psal. ʟ, 16). Sanies itaque putredo est sanguinis. Quid ergo accipimus d saniem, nisi peccata carnis ex longa vetustate pejora? Vulnus itaque in saniem vertitur, cum neglecta culpa usu deterius gravatur. Mediator itaque Dei et hominum homo Christus Jesus ( I Tim. ii, 5) corpus suum manibus persequentium tradens, saniem testa rasit, quia peccatum carne delevit. Ve- nit enim, sicut scriptum est, in similitudinem carnis peccati, ut de peccato damnaret peccatum ( Rom. viii, 3). Dumque hosti objicit innocentiam carnis suae, exter- sit contagia carnis nostrae; et ex qua nos captivos inimicus tenuit, per illam nos liberos expiavit;
求你救我脫離流人血的罪（詩篇五十一篇16節）。膿血乃是血的腐敗。因此我們把膿血理解為甚麼呢？若不是因長久積習而愈趨敗壞的肉體之罪？故此當過犯被忽略、因慣習而愈發沉重時，創傷就轉為膿血。因此，神與人之間的中保，那位為人的基督耶穌（提摩太前書二章5節），將自己的身體交在逼迫者手中，用瓦片刮去膿血，因為祂藉肉身塗抹了罪。因為祂來，正如經上所記，成了罪身的形狀，好在肉體中定了罪案（羅馬書八章3節）。當祂以自己肉身的無罪抵擋仇敵時，就擦去了我們肉體的污穢；仇敵曾藉以擄掠我們的那肉身，祂也藉之潔淨我們、使我們得自由；
Deliver me from bloods (Psalm l, 16). Corrupt matter, then, is putrefied blood. What therefore do we take corrupt matter to be, if not the sins of the flesh made worse by long inveteracy? A wound is thus turned into corruption when a fault, being neglected, is by habit weighed down into something worse. Therefore the Mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Tim. ii, 5), delivering his own body into the hands of his persecutors, scraped away the corruption with a potsherd, because by his flesh he blotted out sin. For he came, as it is written, in the likeness of sinful flesh, that of sin he might condemn sin (Rom. viii, 3). And while he sets the innocence of his own flesh against the enemy, he wiped away the defilements of our flesh; and by that very flesh through which the enemy held us captive, through it he purified us and made us free;
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quia quam nos instrumentum fecimus culpae, haec nobis per Mediatorem versa est in arma justitiae. Testa ergo sanies raditur, cum carne culpa superatur. Bene autem subditur:
因為我們曾用作犯罪工具的那東西，藉著中保，為我們轉成了公義的兵器。因此，當過犯被肉身勝過時，膿血就被瓦片刮去。經上又恰當地補充說：
for that which we had made an instrument of guilt was, through the Mediator, turned for us into weapons of righteousness. Corrupt matter, then, is scraped away with a potsherd when guilt is overcome by the flesh. And it is well added: