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V ers. 6. Aut poterit comedi insulsum, quod non est sale conditum? 8. Lex carnaliter intellecta insulsa, a Christo sale condita.—In lege sal litterae est virtus intelligentiae occultae. Quisquis ergo, obsequiis carnalibus intentus, hanc inlelligere spiritaliter noluit, quid aliud quam insulsum cibum comedit? Sed hoc in 216 cibo sal cognita Veritas misit, cum latere in lege saporem occultae inlelligentiae docuit dicens: Si crederetis Moysi, crederetis forsitan et mihi, de me enim ille scripsit ( Joan. v, 46). Et rursum: Habete sol in vobis, et pacem habete inter vos ( Marc. v, 49).
第6節：那淡而無味的，豈能不用鹽調和就吃嗎？（伯六6）。八、按屬肉理解的律法是淡而無味的，卻被基督用鹽調和。——在律法中，字句的鹽乃是那隱藏悟性的能力。因此，凡專注於屬肉禮儀、不肯按屬靈理解律法的人，所吃的豈非淡而無味的食物？但那被承認的真理向這食物撒了鹽，就是當祂教導說，隱藏悟性的滋味潛藏在律法中之時，說：「你們若信摩西，也必信我，因為他寫過關於我的事」（約五46）。又說：「你們裡頭應當有鹽，彼此和睦」（可九50）。
Ver. 6. Or can that which is unsavoury be eaten, which is not seasoned with salt? (Job 6:6). 8. The law understood carnally is unsavoury, seasoned with salt by Christ.—In the law the salt of the letter is the power of the hidden understanding. Whoever therefore, intent on carnal observances, was unwilling to understand this spiritually, what else did he eat but unsavoury food? But into this food the acknowledged Truth put salt, when He taught that the savour of hidden understanding lay concealed in the law, saying: 'If ye believed Moses, ye would perhaps believe me also; for he wrote of me' (John 5:46). And again: 'Have salt in yourselves, and have peace among yourselves' (Mark 9:50).
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Sed quia ante Mediatoris adventum Judaea legem carnaliter te- nuit, praeceptis ejus dura jubentibus gentilitas subdi recusavit. Insulsum ergo cibum comedere noluit, quia prius quam Spiritus condimentum perciperet servare vim litterae expavit. Quis namque gentilium hoc quod illic praecipitur ferret, filiorum carnem pro obsequio religionis incidere, verborum culpas morte resecare? Unde et bene adbuc subditur:
但因在中保降臨之前，猶太人按屬肉持守律法，外邦世界就拒絕順服它那些命定嚴苛之事的誡命。因此，它拒絕吃淡而無味的食物，因為它在領受聖靈的調味之前，畏懼持守字句的效力。因為外邦人中有誰能承受那裡所吩咐的——為宗教的遵守而割兒子的肉，用死來剪除言語的過犯？故此也美妙地接著說：
But because before the coming of the Mediator Judaea held the law carnally, the Gentile world refused to be subjected to its precepts commanding hard things. It refused therefore to eat unsavoury food, because before it received the seasoning of the Spirit it dreaded to keep the force of the letter. For what one of the Gentiles would bear that which is there commanded—to cut the flesh of one's sons for the observance of religion, to cut off the faults of words by death? Whence too it is well further subjoined: