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約伯倫理 第 488 章

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I bid. — Deridetur enim justi simplicitas. 48. Quid sapientia hujus mundi. Quid sapientia justorum. Cur a mundo rideatur. — Hujus mundi sa- pientia est, cor machinationibus tegere, sensum verbis velare, quae falsa sunt vera ostendere, quae vera sunt a fallacia demonstrare. Haec nimirum b pru- dentia usu a juvenibus scitur, haec a pueris pretio discitur, hanc qui sciunt caeteros despiciendo super- biunt; hanc qui nesciunt, subjecti et timidi in aliis mirantur, quia ab eis haec eadem c duplicitas iniqui- tatis, nomine palliata, diligitur, dum mentis perver- sitas urbanitas vocatur.
同上——「義人的純樸被人譏笑。」四十八、何為這世界的智慧。何為義人的智慧。為何被世界所嘲笑。——這世界的智慧就是以詭計遮蓋內心,以言語掩飾心意,將虛假的顯為真實,將真實的證作虛假。這種精明實在被年輕人藉操練所知曉,被孩童花代價所學得;知道它的人便藐視他人而驕傲;不知道它的人,卑屈膽怯,便在別人身上驚羨之,因為這同一的不義之兩面手法,被他們以美名遮飾而喜愛,同時心思的邪僻卻被稱為機敏世故。
Ibid. — For the simplicity of the just is derided. 48. What is the wisdom of this world. What is the wisdom of the just. Why it is laughed at by the world. — The wisdom of this world is to cover the heart with machinations, to veil the sense with words, to show what is false as true, to demonstrate what is true as falsehood. This prudence, indeed, is known by the young through practice, this is learned by boys at a price; those who know it despise others and grow proud; those who know it not, subject and timid, admire it in others, because by them this same duplicity of iniquity, cloaked under a name, is loved, while perversity of mind is called urbanity.
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Haec sibi obsequentibus prae- cipit honorum culmina quaerere, adepta temporalis gloriae vanitate gaudere, irrogata ab aliis mala mul- tiplicius reddere, cum vires suppetunt nullis resisten- tibus cedere, cum virtutis possibilitas deest, quidquid explere per malitiam non d valet, hoc in pacifica bonitate simulare. At contra sapientia justorum est nil per ostensionem fingere, sensum verbis aperire, vera ut sunt diligere, falsa devitare, bona gratis ex- hibere, mala libentius tolerare quam facere; nullam injuriae ultionem quaerere, pro veritate contumeliam e lucrum putare. Sed haec justorum simplicitas deri- detur, quia ab hujus mundi sapientibus puritatis vir- tus, fatuitas creditur.
這智慧教導順從它的人尋求尊榮的高位,因獲得暫時榮耀的虛空而歡喜,將別人所加的惡以多倍償還,當力量足夠、無人抵擋時決不退讓,而當德能不足、憑惡毒無法達成之事時,便在和平的良善中假裝之。反之,義人的智慧乃是不以外表假裝甚麼,以言語敞開心意,愛真實之事如其本相,躲避虛假之事,白白施展善行,寧願忍受邪惡過於行邪惡,不為傷害尋求報復,將為真理之故所受的辱罵算為利益。但義人這純樸卻被譏笑,因為被這世界的智者視純潔之德為愚妄。
This wisdom instructs those who obey it to seek the heights of honors, to rejoice in the vanity of temporal glory obtained, to repay in manifold measure the evils inflicted by others, to yield to none who resist when strength suffices, and, when the possibility of power is lacking, to feign in peaceable goodness whatever it cannot accomplish through malice. But on the contrary, the wisdom of the just is to feign nothing by outward show, to open the sense by words, to love true things as they are, to shun false things, to exhibit good things freely, to endure evils more willingly than to do them, to seek no vengeance for injury, to count reproach for the sake of truth as gain. But this simplicity of the just is derided, because by the wise of this world the virtue of purity is believed to be folly.
488:3
Omne enim quod innocenter agitur, ab eis procul dubio stultum putatur; et quid- quid in opere veritas approbat, carnali sapientiae fa- tuum sonat. Quid namque stultius videtur mundo quam mentem verbis ostendere, nil callida machina- tione simulare, nullas injuriis contumelias reddere, pro maledicentibus orare, paupertatem quaerere, pos- sessa relinquere, rapienti non resistere, percutienti alteram maxillam praebere? Unde bene hujus mundi dilectoribus ille egregius Dei sapiens dicit: Abomi- nationes Aegyptiorum immolabimus Domino Deo nostro ( Exod. viii, 26). 361 Oves quippe Aegyptii edere dedignantur;
因為凡以清白所行的,無疑被他們視為愚拙;並且凡真理在作為中所稱許的,在肉體的智慧聽來都顯為愚妄。因為在世界看來,還有甚麼比這更愚拙的呢——以言語顯明心意,不以狡詐詭計假裝,不以辱罵報復傷害,為咒詛的人禱告,尋求貧窮,撇下所擁有的,不抵擋搶奪的,把另一邊臉也轉給打你的人?故此那位卓越的神的智者向這世界的愛慕者說得好:「我們要把埃及人所憎惡的獻祭給耶和華我們的神」(出八26)。因為埃及人不屑吃羊;
For everything that is done innocently is by them without doubt accounted foolish; and whatever truth approves in a work sounds foolish to carnal wisdom. For what seems more foolish to the world than to show the mind by words, to feign nothing by cunning machination, to repay no insults for injuries, to pray for those who curse, to seek poverty, to relinquish things possessed, not to resist him who plunders, to offer the other cheek to him who strikes? Whence well does that eminent wise man of God say to the lovers of this world: We shall immolate to the Lord our God the abominations of the Egyptians (Exod. viii, 26). For the Egyptians disdain to eat sheep;
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sed quod abominantur Aegyptii, hoc Israelitae Deo offerunt, quia simplicitatem conscien- tiae, quam injusti quique velut infimam abjectamque despiciunt, hanc justi in virtutis sacrificium vertunt; et excolentes recti puritatem ac mansuetudinem Deo immolant, quam abominantes reprobi fatuitatem putant. Quae nimirum justi simplicitas breviter, sed sufficienter exprimitur, cum protinus subinfertur.
但埃及人所憎惡的,以色列人卻獻給神,因為良心的純樸——就是任何不義之人所輕看為至卑至賤的——義人卻將它化為德行的祭;並且他們培育它,將正直人的純潔與溫柔獻祭給神,而棄絕之人厭棄之,視為愚妄。義人這純樸被簡短卻充分地表達出來,當隨即補充說:
but what the Egyptians abominate, this the Israelites offer to God, because the simplicity of conscience, which any unjust persons despise as most lowly and abject, this the just turn into a sacrifice of virtue; and cultivating it, they immolate to God the purity and meekness of the upright, which the reprobate, abominating, account folly. Which simplicity of the just is briefly but sufficiently expressed, when at once it is subjoined:
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