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V ers. 6.— Ecce in manu tua est, tantum animam illius serva. 57. Quandoque Deus nos deserit ut custodiat. Ten- tatio fit salva anima, ubi negatur consensus. Delecta- tionis tamen vulnus poenitentia curandum.—Sic quippe ille nos deserit, ut custodiat; sic custodit, ut tamen permisso tentationis articulo 96 statum nobis no- strae infirmitatis ostendat. Qui mox a facie Domini exiit. atque a planta pedis usque ad verticem acce- ptum feriendo vulneravit, quia nimirum cum licen- tiam percipit, a minimis incipiens, atque usque ad majora perveniens, quasi omne c corpus men- tis illatis tentationibus lacerando transligit.
第六節。——看哪，他在你手中，只要存留他的性命。五十七、神有時撇棄我們是為要保守我們。當拒絕同意時，試探臨到而靈魂安然無恙。然而喜好之傷必須以悔改醫治。——因為祂如此撇棄我們，是為要保守我們；祂如此保守我們，卻藉著所准許的試探危機，向我們顯明我們自身軟弱的光景。他隨即從耶和華面前退去，擊打他，使他從腳掌到頭頂都受傷；因為當他得著許可時，從至小之事開始，甚至進到更大之事，他就彷彿藉所帶來的試探撕裂並刺透心靈的全身。
Ver. 6.—Behold, he is in thy hand, only preserve his life. 57. Sometimes God abandons us in order to guard us. Temptation occurs with the soul safe, where consent is withheld. Yet the wound of delight must be cured by penance.—For thus He abandons us that He may guard us; thus He guards us, that nevertheless, through the permitted crisis of temptation, He may show us the state of our own infirmity. He straightway went forth from the face of the Lord, and, striking, wounded him from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head; because indeed, when he receives licence, beginning from the least things and advancing even to the greater, he as it were pierces the whole body of the mind by lacerating it with the temptations he brings on.
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Sed tamen ad animam feriendo non pervenit, quia cun- ctis cogitationibus interior, inter ipsa vulnera dele- ctationum quae suscipit, arcani propositi intentio re- sistit; ut quamvis delectatio mentem mordeat, deli- berationem tamen sanctae rectitudinis usque ad con- sensus mollitiem non inflectat. Debemus tamen per asperitatem poenitentiae ipsa delectationum vulnera tergere, et censura districtionis rigidae, si quid flu- xum emanat in cogitatione, mundare. Unde bene mox subditur,
然而藉著擊打他並未觸及靈魂，因為那比一切思念更為內在的隱祕旨意的意向，在它所受的喜好之傷中間仍然抵擋；以致雖然喜好咬囓心靈，卻不使那聖潔正直的定意屈向同意的軟弱。然而我們仍當藉著悔改的嚴厲，抹去那些喜好之傷，並以剛正嚴格的督責，潔淨那流蕩進入思念中的一切。因此經上隨即恰當地補充說：
But yet by striking he does not reach the soul, because the intention of the secret purpose, more inward than all thoughts, resists amid the very wounds of the delights which it receives; so that although delight bites the mind, yet it does not bend the deliberation of holy uprightness to the softness of consent. Nevertheless we ought, through the harshness of penance, to wipe away those very wounds of the delights, and by the censure of a rigid strictness to cleanse whatever flows loosely into the thought. Whence it is rightly added at once: