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V ers. 29. — 243 Respondete, quaeso, absque con- tentione. 4. Haeretici rixas, non rationes exquirunt. Neque enim haeretici inquisitionibus suis veritatem conan- tur assequi, sed victores videri. Cumque foris oste: di sapientes appetunt, intus per stultitiam elationis suae vinculis ligantur. Unde fit ut contentionum certamina exquirant, et de Deo, qui pax nostra est, loqui pac - fice nesciant, atque ex pacis negotio rixae inventores fiant. Quibus bene per Paulum dicitur: Si quis autem videtur esse contentiosus, nos talem consuetudinem non habemus, neque Ecclesia Dei ( I Cor. xi, 16). Recte autem subditur:
第29節——我求你們，回答我，不要爭競。四、異端者尋求爭吵，而非理由。因為異端者並非藉他們的查究力求得著真理，乃是力求顯為得勝者。當他們在外面渴望被顯為智慧時，在裡面卻藉自高的愚妄被鎖鏈捆綁。因此以致他們尋求爭辯的爭競，不知如何平和地談論那作我們和平的神，反從和平之事成了爭吵的發明者。保羅對這等人說得好：若有人想要辯駁，我們卻沒有這樣的規矩，神的眾教會也沒有（哥林多前書十一章16節）。此外，恰當地補上：
Verse 29.— Answer, I beseech you, without contention. 4. Heretics seek quarrels, not reasons. For heretics do not by their inquiries endeavour to attain the truth, but to appear victors. And while outwardly they long to be shown as wise, inwardly through the folly of their elation they are bound by chains. Whence it comes about that they seek out the contests of contentions, and know not how to speak peaceably of God, who is our peace, and out of the business of peace become inventors of quarrels. To whom it is well said by Paul: But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the Church of God (1 Cor. 11:16). Rightly, moreover, is it subjoined: