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V ers. 24.— Et scies quod pacem habeat tabernacu- lum tuum. 205 53. In Scripturis pax plena et pax inchoata. In Scriptura sacra aliter pax plena dicitur, atque aliter inchoata. Inchoatam quippe pacem Veritas di- scipulis dederat, cum dicebat: Pacem relinquo vobis, pacem meam do vobis ( Joan. xiv, 27), et plenam Si- meon desideraverat, cum exoraret dicens: c Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine, secundum verbum tuum in pace ( Luc. ii, 29). Pax enim nostra ex desi- derio conditoris inchoatur, ex manifesta autem vi- sione perficitur. Plena quippe tunc erit, cum mens nostra nec ignorantia caecatur, nec carnis suae impu- gnatione concutitur.
第二十四節——「你必知道你帳棚平安。」205. 53. 在聖經中有完全的平安與初起的平安。在聖經中，平安以一種說法稱為完全的，又以另一種說法稱為初起的。真理曾將初起的平安賜給門徒，說：「我留下平安給你們，我將我的平安賜給你們」（約十四27）；而西面則渴望完全的平安，懇求說：「主啊，如今可照你的話，釋放僕人安然去世」（路二29）。因為我們的平安在造物主的渴慕中開始，卻在明顯的見面中成全。因為當我們的心既不被無知蒙蔽，也不被自己肉體的攻擊所震撼時，那平安才是完全的。
Verse 24. — 'And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace.' 205. 53. In the Scriptures there is a full peace and an inchoate peace. In sacred Scripture peace is spoken of in one way as full, and in another as inchoate. For the Truth had given the inchoate peace to the disciples, when He said: 'Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you' (John 14:27); and Simeon had longed for the full peace, when he prayed, saying: 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart, O Lord, according to thy word, in peace' (Luke 2:29). For our peace is begun in the desire of the Creator, but is perfected in the manifest vision. For it will then be full, when our mind is neither blinded by ignorance nor shaken by the assault of its own flesh.
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Sed quia ejus exordia tangimus, cum vel mentem Deo, vel carnem menti subjugamus, tabernaculum justi habere pacem dicitur, quia vide- licet ejus corpus, d quod mente inhabitat, a perver- sis desideriorum motibus e sub justitiae dispositione refrenatur. Sed quid prodest per continentiam carnem restringere, si mens se per compassionem nesciat in proximi amore dilatare? Nulla namque est castitas carnis quam non commendat suavitas mentis. Unde post pacem tabernaculi apte subjungitur:
然而，因為我們在使心降服於神、或使肉體降服於心時，才觸及平安的初端，故此說義人的帳棚有平安，就是說，他的身體（即心所居住之處）在公義的安排下，得以約束、脫離情慾的悖逆騷動。但若心不曉得藉憐恤在愛鄰舍上擴展自己，單藉節制約束肉體又有何益？因為凡不被心之甘美所稱許的肉體貞潔，都算不得甚麼貞潔。故此在帳棚的平安之後，恰當地接著說：
But because we touch its beginnings when we subject either the mind to God or the flesh to the mind, the tabernacle of the just is said to have peace, because namely his body, which the mind inhabits, is restrained from the perverse motions of the desires under the ordering of justice. But what does it profit to restrain the flesh through continence, if the mind know not how to enlarge itself in the love of the neighbour through compassion? For there is no chastity of the flesh which the sweetness of the mind does not commend. Whence after the peace of the tabernacle it is fitly subjoined: