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V ers. 18. — Balteum regum dissolvit, et praecingit fune renes eorum. 21. Deus mentis elationem peccatis carnalibus punit. — Qui membrorum suorum motus bene regere sciunt, non immerito reges vocantur. Sed cum de ipsa con- tinentia elatione mens tangitur, plerumque omnipo- tens Deus ejus superbiam deserens, hanc in immun- ditiam operis cadere permittit. Regum itaque balteum dissolvit, quando in his qui bene regere sua membra videban(??)ur, propter elationis culpam, castitatis in cis cingulum destruit. Quid vero in fune accipitur, nisi peccatum? Sicut per Salomonem dicitur: Ini- quitates suae capiunt impium, et funibus peccatorum suorum constringitur ( Prov. v, 22).
第18節——祂鬆開君王的腰帶，用繩索束他們的腰。天主用肉體的罪懲罰心靈的高傲。凡懂得好好管理自己肢體的活動者，被稱為君王並非不配。但當心靈因那節制本身而被高傲所觸動時，全能的天主往往離棄它的驕傲，容許它陷入行為的污穢。於是祂鬆開君王的腰帶，就是在那些看似善於管理自己肢體的人身上，因高傲的過犯，毀壞他們貞潔的束帶。「繩索」不是指罪，還能指甚麼呢？正如所羅門所說：「惡人必被自己的罪孽捉住，被自己罪惡的繩索纏繞」（箴五22）。
Verse 18. — He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord. God punishes the elation of the mind with carnal sins. Those who know how to govern well the motions of their members are not undeservedly called kings. But when the mind is touched with elation over that very continence, often almighty God, forsaking its pride, permits it to fall into uncleanness of deed. He looses, then, the belt of kings, when in those who seemed to govern their members well, on account of the fault of elation, he destroys in them the girdle of chastity. And what is understood by the 'cord' but sin? As it is said by Solomon: His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is bound with the cords of his own sins (Prov. v, 22).
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Et quia in reni- bus carnis delectatio principatur,districtus conscien- tiarum judex, qui regum balteum dissolvit, fune praecingit renes eorum, quatenus dissoluto castitatis cingulo, scilicet eorum membris delectatio peccati dominetur, ut quos in occulto superbia inquinat, quam sint detestabiles etiam in publico ostendat. Sequitur:
又因在腰間肉體的逸樂居於主導，那嚴厲的良心審判者，就是鬆開君王腰帶的，用繩索束他們的腰，就是使貞潔的束帶既被鬆開，罪的逸樂便轄制他們的肢體，以致那些被驕傲在暗中玷污的人，祂在公眾面前顯明他們是何等可憎。接著說：
And because in the loins the delight of the flesh holds sway, the strict judge of consciences, who looses the belt of kings, girds their loins with a cord, in that, the girdle of chastity being loosed, namely, the delight of sin may lord it over their members, so that those whom pride defiles in secret, he may show in public how detestable they are. There follows: