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V ers. 23.— Sed cum lapidibus regionum pactum tuum. 50. Pie viventibus cavenda singularitas. Quasi distinctae in mundo regiones sunt Ecclesiae gentium, quae in una fide positae, morum linguarumque diver- sitate dividuntur. Quid ergo regionum lapides, nisi Ec- clesiarum electos accipimus? quibus primi instructoris voce dicitur: Vosautem tanquamlapides vivi superaedi- ficamini ( I Petr. ii, 5 ). De quibus sanctae Ecclesiae per prophetam Dominus pollicetur dicens: Ecce ego sternam per ordinem lapides tuos ( Isai. liv, 11).
第二十三節——「你必與各地的石頭立約。」50. 敬虔度日者當防備獨特之心。世上各邦的教會彷彿是世界中不同的地域，它們雖同在一信之中，卻因習俗與語言的差異而分別。那麼，各地的石頭若不是指教會的選民，還能是甚麼呢？他們的首位教導者用言語對他們說：「你們也就像活石，被建造」（彼前二5）。主藉先知論到他們對聖教會應許說：「看哪，我要按次序安置你的石頭」（賽五十四11）。
Verse 23. — 'But thy covenant shall be with the stones of the regions.' 50. Singularity is to be guarded against by those living devoutly. As it were distinct regions in the world are the Churches of the nations, which, set in one faith, are divided by the diversity of manners and tongues. What then do we take the stones of the regions to be, but the elect of the Churches? to whom it is said by the voice of their first instructor: 'And you as living stones are built up' (1 Pet. 2:5). Concerning whom the Lord promises to the holy Church through the prophet, saying: 'Behold I will lay thy stones in order' (Isa. 54:11).
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Qui igitur recte vivit, pacto se lapidibus 204 re- gionum jungit, quia in eo quod mundi desideria su- perat, vitam suam procul dubio ad sanctorum prae- cedentium imitationem ligat. Sed cum a mundi a ac- tione disjungitur, malignorum spirituum impugna- tiones crescunt: quae tamen quo magis in moerore quemquam atterunt, eo conditori humilius subdunt. Unde et subjungitur:
所以，凡正直度日的人，便以盟約與各地的石頭聯合，因為在他勝過世界情慾這件事上，他毫無疑問地將自己的生命繫於效法先前眾聖徒。然而，當他與世界的行動隔絕時，惡靈的攻擊便增多；但這些攻擊愈使人在憂傷中受磨損，就愈使他謙卑地降服於他的造物主。故此接著說：
He therefore who lives rightly joins himself by covenant to the stones of the regions, because in that he overcomes the desires of the world, he binds his own life without doubt to the imitation of the saints who have gone before. But when he is severed from the action of the world, the assaults of the malign spirits increase: which nevertheless, the more they wear a man down in sorrow, the more humbly do they subject him to his Creator. Whence also it is subjoined: