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V ers. 19. — Ducit sacerdotes inglorios, et optimates supplantat.. 22. Qui aut curam sibi subditorum negligunt, aut aliud quam aeterna proemia requirunt, inglorii. — Magna sacerdotia gloria est rectitudo subditorum. Unde bene egregius praedicator discipulis dicit: Quae enim est nostra spes, aut gaudium, aut corona gloriae? nonne vos ante Dominum ( I Thess. ii, 19)? Sed cum sa- cerdotes vitam discipulorum negligunt, et nullum de eorum provectibus ante Dominum fructum ferunt, quid aliud quam inglorii dicuntur? quia ante di- strictum judicem nimirum gloriam tunc non inveniunt, quam modo in subditorum suorum moribus praedi- cationis studio non exquirunt. Bene autem dicitur:
第19節——祂領祭司無榮而去，傾覆貴胄。凡忽略照顧屬下，或尋求永恆賞賜以外之物者，都是無榮的。祭司職分的大榮耀就是屬下的正直。因此那卓越的傳道者恰當地對門徒說：「我們的盼望、喜樂、所誇的冠冕是甚麼呢？豈不是你們在主面前站立的嗎？」（帖前二19）。但當祭司忽略門徒的生活，在主面前從他們的長進得不著果子時，他們豈不被稱為無榮的嗎？因為在那嚴厲的審判者面前，他們那時必找不著榮耀——就是他們如今不藉傳道的熱忱在屬下品行中尋求的。經上又恰當地說：
Verse 19. — He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth the nobles. Those who either neglect the care of their subjects, or seek something other than eternal rewards, are without glory. The great glory of the priesthood is the rectitude of subjects. Hence well does the excellent preacher say to his disciples: For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glory? Are not ye, before the Lord? (1 Thess. ii, 19). But when priests neglect the life of their disciples, and bear no fruit from their advancement before the Lord, what else are they called but 'without glory'? For before the strict judge they then assuredly find no glory, which now by the zeal of preaching they do not seek in the morals of their subjects. And it is well said:
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Et optimates supplantat, quia cum mentem regen- tiem justo judicio deserit, haec b internum retribu- tionis praemium non requirit; et in eo supplantatur, quo fallitur, ut pro aeterna gloria de principatu tem- porali gratuletur. Supplantantur igitur optimates, c quia dum vera coelestis patriae praemia negligunt, in suis hic voluptatibus cadunt. Sequitur:
祂又傾覆貴胄，因為當祂憑公義的審判離棄那治理的心靈時，它便不尋求那內在的報賞；並且它在所受欺騙之處被傾覆，以致不求永恆的榮耀，反為現世的權位沾沾自喜。所以貴胄被傾覆，因為當他們忽略天上家鄉真正的賞賜時，就在此地墮入自己的逸樂中。接著說：
And he overthroweth the nobles, because when by just judgment he forsakes the ruling mind, it does not seek the inward reward of recompense; and it is overthrown in that whereby it is deceived, so that instead of eternal glory it congratulates itself on temporal rule. The nobles, therefore, are overthrown, because while they neglect the true rewards of the heavenly country, they fall here into their own pleasures. There follows: