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I bid. Et de humo non egredietur dolor. 14. Per occulta merita mentium, aperta prodeunt flagella poenarum. Dolor namque quasi de humo f egreditur, cum homo ad Dei imaginem conditus de rebus insensibilibus flagellatur. Sed quia per occulta mentium merita, aperta prodeunt flagella poenarum, et de humo dolor non egreditur, quoniam sensus nostri malitia exigit ut a rebus insensibilibus feriatur. Ecce enim cernimus quod ad correptionem nostram exspectatus imber arente terra suspenditur, et a ca- liginosus aer inardescente sole siccatur; mare procellis tumescentibus saevit, et alios ad transmeandum su- sceptos intercipit, aliis desideratum iter erecta in cumulum unda b contradicit;
同節：「愁苦也不是從土中生出。」第十四，藉著人心隱藏的功過，刑罰公開的鞭打便顯出來。因為愁苦彷彿是從土中生出，就是當按神形像受造的人被無知覺之物所鞭打之時。但因為藉著人心隱藏的功過，刑罰公開的鞭打便顯出來，所以愁苦並非從土中生出，既因我們感官的惡念要求它被無知覺之物擊打。因為看哪，我們看見為著我們的懲治，所盼望的雨被扣住不降在乾旱的地上，昏暗的空氣因日頭炎熱而乾涸；海因洶湧的風暴而怒號，攔阻它所接納的一些渡海之人，又以它高聳成堆的波浪，向另一些人拒絕他們所渴望的航程；
Same verse. 'And out of the ground shall no sorrow spring.' 14. Through the hidden merits of minds, the open scourges of punishments come forth. For sorrow as it were springs out of the ground, when man, created in the image of God, is scourged by insensible things. But because through the hidden merits of minds the open scourges of punishments come forth, sorrow does not spring out of the ground, since the malice of our sense demands that it be struck by insensible things. For behold, we perceive that, for our correction, the awaited rain is held back from the parched earth, and the murky air is dried up as the sun grows hot; the sea rages with swelling storms, and cuts off some it had received for crossing over, while to others it denies the desired passage with its wave raised into a heap;
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terra non solum ger- mina fecunditatis imminuit, sed etiam semina accepta consumit. In quibus nimirum cunctis patenter aspi- citur hoc, quod quidam sapiens de Domino testatur, dicens: Et pugnabit cum eo orbis terrarum contra insensatos ( Sap. v, 21). Orbis quippe terrarum c cum Domino contra insensatos pugnat, quando in poena delinquentium et elementorum adversitas militat. Sed tamen de humo dolor non egreditur, quia res quaelibet insensibilis ad afflictionem nostram stimulo nostrae actionis excitatur. De homo dolor non egre- ditur, quia nequaquam poena de ea nascitur creatura, quae percutit, sed de ea procul dubio, quae peccando vim percussionis extorsit.
地不僅減少它豐產的苗芽，甚至耗盡它所領受的種子。在這一切事上，確實明明地看見那一位智者論到主所見證的：「全世界要與祂一同攻擊那些愚妄人」（智慧書五章21節）。因為當在懲罰犯罪之人時，連元素的逆境也一同爭戰，全世界便與主一同攻擊那些愚妄人。但愁苦畢竟不是從土中生出，因為任何無知覺之物乃是被我們自己行為的刺激而挑起，來苦害我們。愁苦不是從土中生出，因為刑罰絕不是從那擊打的受造之物而生，乃無疑是從那藉犯罪而強奪了擊打之力的人而生。
the earth not only diminishes the shoots of its fruitfulness, but even consumes the seeds it has received. In all which things, assuredly, is plainly beheld that which a certain wise man testifies of the Lord, saying: 'And the whole world shall fight with Him against the unwise' (Wisdom v, 21). For the whole world fights with the Lord against the unwise, when, in the punishment of the transgressors, the adversity of the elements too does battle. But nevertheless out of the ground sorrow does not spring, because any insensible thing is roused to our affliction by the goad of our own action. Out of the ground sorrow does not spring, because punishment in no way is born of that creature which strikes, but doubtless of that which, by sinning, wrested the force of the blow.
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Sed curandum magnopere est ut cum in rebus exterioribus pondere doloris afficimur, spe ad superna tendamus; quatenus eo mens ad alta perveniat, quo nos exterior poena casti- gat. Unde et apte subjungitur:
但務要極其謹慎，使我們在外在之事上被愁苦的重擔所苦時，藉盼望趨向天上之事；好使心思藉著那使我們受外在刑罰懲治的同一途徑，達到高處。故此經上也合宜地補充說：
But it must be greatly taken care of, that when we are afflicted in outward things by the weight of sorrow, we may tend by hope to the things above; so that the mind may come through to the heights, by that same means whereby the outward punishment chastises us. Hence it is also fitly subjoined: