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V ers 7.— In tantum, ut si priora tua fuerint parva, et novissima tua multiplicentur nimis. 62. Quid suis sequacibus promittant —Si vero ha- bitaculum justitiae, consilium mentis vocat, afflictis catholicis errorum magistri pacatum habitaculum justitiae promittunt, quia si eos ad sua pertrahunt, profecto a contentione conticescunt. Namque hi qui trahi ad perversa potuerunt, tanto jam tranquillius temporali pace quieti sunt, quanto longius ab aeterna separantur. Opes quoque intelligentiae se sequenti- bus crescere spondent. Unde et subditur: In tantum, ut si priora tua fuerunt parva, et novissima tua multi- plicentur nimis.
第7節——這樣，你起初雖然微小，你的終局必大大增多。62. 他們對跟隨者所應許的。——但他若以「公義的居所」指心思的謀算，那些謬誤的教師便向受苦的大公信徒應許公義平安的居所，因為他們若把這些人拉到自己一邊，便確實止息了爭辯。因為那些能被拉向乖僻之事的人，離永恆越遠，就在暫時的平安中越發安穩地得歇息。他們也保證悟性的豐富必增加給跟隨他們的人。因此接著說：這樣，你起初雖然微小，你的終局必大大增多。
Verse 7.—So that if thy former state were small, thy latter should be multiplied exceedingly. 62. What they promise to their followers.—But if by 'the habitation of righteousness' he calls the counsel of the mind, the masters of errors promise to the afflicted catholics a peaceful habitation of righteousness, because if they draw them to their own side, they assuredly cease from contention. For those who have been able to be drawn to perverse things are now at rest in temporal peace so much the more tranquilly, as they are separated further from the eternal. They also pledge that the riches of understanding shall increase to those who follow them. Whence too it is subjoined: So that if thy former state were small, thy latter should be multiplied exceedingly.
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Sed quia eorum verbis non facile creditur, quoniam saepe vita contemptibilis demon- stratur, antiquorum patrum sententias proferunt, ea- rumque rectitudinem in argumentum sui erroris inflectunt. Unde et subditur:
但因他們的話不易被人相信，既然他們的生活常顯為可鄙，他們便引出古代教父的言論，把這些言論的正直扭曲成支持自己錯謬的論據。因此接著說：
But because their words are not easily believed, since their life is often shown to be contemptible, they bring forth the sentences of the ancient fathers, and bend the rectitude of these into an argument for their own error. Whence too it is subjoined: