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C ap. ix, vers. 2. Vere scio quod ita sit, et quod non a justificatur homo compositus Deo. 2. Deo supponi debemus, non componi. Homo quippe b Deo suppositus justitiam percipit, compo- situs amittit, quia quisquis se auctori bonorum com- parat, bono se quod acceperat privat. Qui enim accepta bona sibi arrogat, suis contra Deum donis pugnat. Unde ergo despectus erigitur, dignum est ut erectus inde destruatur. Sanctus autem vir, c quia omne virtutis nostrae meritum esse vitium conspicit, si ab interno arbitro districte judicetur, recte sub- jungit:
第九章第2節。我真知道是這樣，並且人與神相比，怎能稱義呢。2。我們當被安置在神之下，而非與神並列相比。因為人若被安置在神之下，就得著公義，若與神相比，就失去公義，因為凡把自己與美善的作者相比的，就使自己喪失所領受的美善。因為凡把所領受的美善據為己有的，就用自己的恩賜與神爭戰。因此，被藐視者從何處被高舉，理當在那裡因被高舉而遭毀滅。但那聖潔之人，因看出我們德行的一切功勞，若被那內在的審判者嚴格審判，都是罪過，就恰當地補充說：
Chapter 9, Verse 2. Truly I know that it is so, and that a man is not justified when compared with God. 2. We ought to be subordinated to God, not compared with Him. For a man subordinated to God receives justice, but compared with Him loses it, because whosoever compares himself with the Author of good things deprives himself of the good he had received. For he who arrogates to himself the good he has received fights with his own gifts against God. Whence therefore the despised man is lifted up, it is fitting that, being lifted up, he be thence destroyed. But the holy man, because he beholds that every merit of our virtue is a vice if it be strictly judged by the inward Judge, rightly subjoins: