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V ers. 15. — Habitent in tabernaculo illius socii ejus, quia non est. 22. Satan non esse dicitur, quia bene esse amisit.— Id est, in mente ejus apostatae angeli per cogitatio- nes nequissimas conversentur, ejus videlicet socii, qui idcirco jam non est, quia a summa essentia re- cessit, et per hoc, quotidie excrescente defectu, qua- si ad non esse tendit, quo semel ab eo qui vere est cecidit; qui recte quoque non esse dicitur, quia bene esse perdidit, quamvis naturae essentiam non amisit. [ Vet. X.] Adhuc tamen easdem iniqui cogitationes subtilius exprimens subjungit, dicens:
第十五節。——「願他的同伴住在他的帳棚裡，因為他已不存在。」22. 撒但被說為「不存在」，是因為他已失去「善的存在」。——就是說，願那些背叛的天使藉著極其邪惡的意念，在這背教者的心中往來活動，正是他的同伴；他之所以已經「不存在」，是因為他離棄了至高的本質，並且藉此，隨著缺欠日益增長，彷彿趨向於「不存在」，這是他一旦從那真正存在者身上墮落所落入的境地；他也正確地被說為「不存在」，因為他喪失了「善的存在」，儘管他並未失去其本性的實質。然而，他為了更精微地表達這同樣邪惡的意念，又補充說：
Verse 15. — 'Let his companions dwell in his tabernacle, because he is not.' 22. Satan is said not to be, because he has lost being well. — That is, let the apostate angels move about in the mind of this apostate through their most wicked thoughts — his companions, indeed, who therefore already is not, because he has withdrawn from the highest Essence, and thereby, as his defect increases daily, he tends as it were toward not-being, into which he once fell from Him who truly is; and he is rightly said also not to be, because he has lost being well, although he has not lost the essence of his nature. Yet, expressing these same wicked thoughts still more subtly, he adds, saying: