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I bid. — Et patientiam meam quis considerat? Ardentibus desideriis ab iliis expetitus. — Ex- pressit desiderium quo festinat in carne positus re- dimi et ab inferis ad superna revocari. Et quidem paucorum hominum ista fuit perpendere, ut scirent de praesentis vitae laboribus f vel de subsequenti post mortem dilatione cogitare. Quod utrumque justi ante adventum Redemptoris nostri se perpeti dolebant. Unde et recte dicitur: Et patientiam meam quis con- siderat? e Equidem non deest qui patientiam conside- ret; sed cum citius non exaudit, quasi minus conside- rare Deus dicitur.
同節——「有誰顧念我的忍耐呢？」為他們以炙熱的渴慕所切求。——他表達了那渴慕，就是他身在肉體之中，急切要得救贖、要從陰間被召回到上面之事。實在說來，能斟酌此事、曉得思想今生的勞苦、或死後隨之而來之延遲的人甚少。這兩樣，義人在我們救贖主降臨以前都痛心地忍受。因此合宜地說：「有誰顧念我的忍耐呢？」誠然，不缺顧念這忍耐的那一位；只是當祂不更快垂聽時，神就彷彿被說成較少顧念。
Ibid.—'And who considereth my patience?' Sought by them with burning desires.—He has expressed the desire wherewith, placed in the flesh, he hastens to be redeemed and to be recalled from the lower regions to the things above. And indeed it belonged to few men to weigh this, that they should know how to think of the labours of the present life or of the subsequent delay after death. Both of which the just, before the advent of our Redeemer, grieved to endure. Wherefore it is rightly said: 'And who considereth my patience?' Indeed there is not lacking one who considers the patience; but when He does not more quickly hear, God is said, as it were, to consider it less.
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Ipsa enim humani generis quae ve- nit in mundi fine redemptio ab his qui a mundi initio praecesserunt tarda credebatur, quia longo temporis spatio a coelestium remuneratione disjuncti sunt, Veritate attestante, quae ait: Multi propheta h et re- ges voluerunt vos videre quae vos videtis, et non viderunt ( Luc. x, 24). Itaque quod nunc dicitur: Patientiam meam quis considerat? ardentis desiderii vota pan- duntur. Neque enim, ut praediximus, justorum pa- tientiam 435 non considerat Deus, sed quasi non considerare dicitur ad votum desiderii minus citius apparere, et per prolixiora tempora dispensationis suae gratiam differre. Dicat ergo: Patientiam meam quis considerat?
因為那在世界末了才臨到的人類救贖，被那些從世界之初先行之人視為遲緩，因為他們在長久的年日中與屬天賞賜相隔絕——真理為此作證，說：「有許多先知和君王要看你們所看的，卻沒有看見」（路十24）。因此，如今所說的：「有誰顧念我的忍耐呢？」乃是敞露炙熱渴慕的心願。因為正如我們先前所說，神並非不顧念義人的忍耐，只因祂較不快地應那渴慕的心願、藉更長久的時候延遲祂安排的恩典，便彷彿被說成不顧念。那麼就讓他說：有誰顧念我的忍耐呢？
For that very redemption of the human race, which came at the end of the world, was believed to be slow by those who went before from the beginning of the world, because for a long span of time they were separated from the recompense of heavenly things—Truth attesting, who says: 'Many prophets and kings desired to see the things that you see, and saw them not' (Luke x. 24). And so, what is now said: 'Who considereth my patience?' the vows of burning desire are laid open. For neither, as we said before, does God not consider the patience of the just, but He is said, as it were, not to consider it, in that He appears less quickly to the vow of desire, and through more prolonged times defers the grace of His dispensation. Let him say, then: Who considereth my patience?
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quia quod disponenti breve est, lon- gum est amanti. Unde adhuc dilationis suae damna considerans, hoc quod jam praedixerat repetit, et, descensurus ad ima, vocem doloris ingeminat, di- cens:
因為在安排者看為短的，在愛慕者看為長。因此他仍思想自己延遲所受的損失，便重述他先前已預言的話，且將要降到陰間，就加倍發出哀痛之聲，說：
Because what is short to Him who disposes is long to him who loves. Wherefore, still considering the losses of his own delay, he repeats what he had already foretold, and, about to descend to the lower regions, redoubles the voice of grief, saying: