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V ers. 28. Qui quasi putredo consumendus sum, et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea. 64. Homo putredine sibi innata consumitur. — Sicut enim vestimentum a tinea de se exorta comeditur, ita homo in semetipso habet putredinem, de qua consumatur; atque hoc est quod est unde consuma- tur ut non si(??). Quod intelligi et aliter potest, si ex voce tentati hominis dicitur: Qui quasi putredo consu- mendus sum, et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea. Homo enim quasi putredo consumitur, dum carnis suae corruptione conteritur. Cui quia immunda tentatio non aliunde, sed a semetipso nascitur, more tineae carnem tentatio, quasi vestem de qua exit, consumit.
第28節。——「我這將要像腐爛之物被消滅、又像被蛀蟲所蛀之衣的人。」64. 人被自身內生的腐爛所消滅。——因為正如衣服被從自身生出的蛀蟲所蛀，人也在自身內有使他被消滅的腐爛；這就是使他被消滅、以致不復存在之物。這也可作別解，若以受試探之人的口吻說：「我這將要像腐爛之物被消滅、又像被蛀蟲所蛀之衣的人。」因為人像腐爛之物被消滅，因他被自己肉體的敗壞所磨損。又因不潔的試探不從別處、乃從他自身而生，試探便如蛀蟲一般，把肉體當作自己所從出的衣服消蝕。
Verse 28. — 'Who am to be consumed like something rotten, and like a garment that is eaten by the moth.' 64. Man is consumed by a rottenness born within him. — For as a garment is eaten by a moth sprung from itself, so man has within himself the rottenness whereby he is consumed; and this is that whereby he is consumed, so that he is not. This can also be understood otherwise, if it is said in the voice of tempted man: 'Who am to be consumed like something rotten, and like a garment that is eaten by the moth.' For man is consumed like something rotten, while he is worn away by the corruption of his flesh. And because unclean temptation is born to him not from elsewhere, but from himself, temptation, after the manner of a moth, consumes the flesh as it were the garment out of which it comes.
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In semetipso quippe habet homo unde tentetur. Quasi ergo tinea vestem consumit, quae ex veste eadem processit. Sciendum quoque quod tinea sine sonitu perforat vestimentum; et plerumque co- gitatio ita transfigit mentem, ut mens ipsa non sen- tiat, nisi postquam fuerit ejus aculeo transfixa. Bene ergo dicitur, quod homo tanquam vestimentum a tinea consumitur, quia nonnunquam tentationum, nostrarum vulnera non cognoscimus, nisi postquam ab eis confossi in mente fuerimus. Quam videlicet(??) infirmitatem nostram bene adhuc sanctus vir consi- derans, adjungit:
因為人在自身內有使他可受試探之物。所以正如蛀蟲消蝕那從同一件衣服所出的衣服，人也是如此。也當知道，蛀蟲蛀穿衣服而無聲；思念也常如此刺穿心思，以致心思本身毫無知覺，直到它被那刺所刺穿之後。所以說人像衣服被蛀蟲消蝕，乃是恰當的，因為我們有時不認得自己試探的傷口，直到我們在心思中被它們刺透之後。這聖人仍好好地思想我們這軟弱，補充說：
For man has within himself that whereby he may be tempted. As therefore a moth consumes the garment which proceeded from that same garment, so it is with him. It must also be known that a moth perforates a garment without sound; and often a thought so pierces through the mind that the mind itself does not feel it, except after it has been pierced through by its sting. Well therefore is it said that man is consumed like a garment by a moth, because sometimes we do not recognize the wounds of our temptations, except after we have been pierced through by them in the mind. Which infirmity of ours the holy man, still well considering, adds: