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V ers. 12.— Cumque elevassent procul oculos suos, non cognoverunt eum. 47. Non cognoscunt Ecclesiam. Cur. —Haeretici quique cum sanctae Ecclesiae facta considerant, ocu- los levant, quia videlicet ipsi in imo positi sunt, et cum ejus opera respiciunt, in alto sunt sita quae cernunt; sed tamen hanc in dolore positam non co- gnoscunt. Ipsa quippe appetit hic mala recipere, ut possit ad aeternae renumerationis praemium purgata pervenire. Plerumque prospera metuit, et disciplina eruditionis hilarescit. Haeretici igitur, quia pro ma- gno praesentia appetunt, eam in vulneribus positam non cognoscunt. Hoc namque quod in illa cernunt, in suorum cordium h cognitione non relegunt.
第十二節。——他們遠遠地舉目觀看，認不出他來。他們認不出教會。緣由。——凡屬異端的人，當他們思想聖教會的作為時，就舉起眼目，因為顯然他們自己置身於卑下之處，而當他們仰望她的作為時，所看見的事乃設立於高處；然而他們卻認不出她處於憂苦之中。因為她自己在此願意領受災禍，好叫她得潔淨後能達到永恆賞賜的獎賞。她常常懼怕興盛，卻因受教的管教而歡欣。因此異端既把現今之事看為大事，就認不出她處於創傷之中。因為他們在她身上所看見的，卻不在自己心中的認識裡重新讀出。
Verse 12. — And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not. They do not recognize the Church. Why. — Whatever heretics there are, when they consider the deeds of holy Church, they lift up their eyes, because plainly they themselves are placed in the depths, and when they look upon her works, the things they behold are set on high; but nevertheless they do not recognize her placed in grief. For she herself desires here to receive evils, that, purged, she may be able to attain to the reward of eternal recompense. Very often she fears prosperity, and gladdens at the discipline of instruction. The heretics therefore, because they desire present things as something great, do not recognize her placed in wounds. For this which they behold in her, they do not read again in the knowledge of their own hearts.
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Cum ergo haec et adversitatibus proficit, ipsi suo stupori inhaerent: quia per experimentum ignorant quae vident.
因此，既然她甚至藉逆境得益處，他們卻固守自己的驚愕：因為就經歷而言，他們對所看見的事一無所知。
Since therefore she profits even by adversities, they cling to their own stupor: because by experience they are ignorant of the things which they see.