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I bid. Irruit in me quasi gigas. 21. Qui non reluctantur, eum ut gigantem secum pu- gnantem experiuntur. — Facile quippe inimico re- sistitur si non ei vel in multis lapsibus, vel in uno, diutius consentiatur. Sin vero ejus suasionibus anima sub esse consueveri(??), quanto sc ei crebrius subjicit, tanto eum sibi intolerabiliorem facit, ut ei reluctari non valeat, quia nimirum malignus adver- sarius contra hanc ex prava consuetudine devictam quasi more gigantis pugnat. Sed tamen plerumque sancta Ecclesia etiam post perpetratas culpas men- tes fidelium ad poenitentiam revocat, et peccata ope- ris virtute spontaneae afflictionis mundat. Unde bene subditur.
同上，「他像巨人一般向我衝來。」二十一、那些不抵抗的人便經歷到他如同與他們爭鬥的巨人。——因為若人不長久順從仇敵，無論在多次跌倒或在一次跌倒中，仇敵便容易被抵擋。但若心靈習於順服他的引誘，那麼它越頻繁地屈服於他，就越使他對自己更不能忍受，以致無力抵擋他；因為那惡毒的敵對者攻擊這已被惡習所勝的心靈，正彷彿以巨人的方式爭鬥。然而聖教會極常在罪已犯下之後，仍把信徒的心思召回悔改，並藉甘心苦修之德潔淨他們行為上的罪。故此美妙地接著說：
Ibid. 'He hath rushed upon me like a giant.' 21. Those who do not resist experience him as a giant fighting with them.—For the enemy is easily resisted if one does not for long consent to him, whether in many falls or in one. But if the soul has grown accustomed to be subject to his persuasions, the more frequently it subjects itself to him, the more intolerable it makes him to itself, so that it cannot resist him; for indeed the malignant adversary fights against this soul—already conquered by evil habit—as it were after the manner of a giant. Yet nevertheless holy Church very often recalls the minds of the faithful to penance even after guilt has been committed, and by the virtue of voluntary affliction cleanses the sins of their deeds. Whence it is well subjoined: