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I bid. — Et flagellis suis me cinxerit. 39. Infirma Ecclesiae membra ex assiduis flagellis turbantur. — Aliud quippe est flagellis perculi, aliud cingi. Flagellis namque percutimur cum consolatio- nem et in doloribus ex rebus aliis habemus. Nam cum tanta nos afflictio depremit, ut ex nullius rei conso- latione respirare animus possit, non jam flagellis so- lummodo ferimur, sed etiam cingimur, quia tribula- tionum verbere ex omni parte circumdamur. Cinctus enim flagellis Paulus fuerat, cum dicebat: Foris pugnae, intus timores ( II Cor. vii, 5). Cinctus flagel- lis fuerat, cum dicebat: d Periculis ex genere, peri- culis ex gentibus, periculis in civitate, periculis in so- litudine ( II Cor.
同上——「祂用祂的鞭打圍繞了我。」39. 教會軟弱的肢體因不斷的鞭打而受攪擾。——被鞭打擊打是一回事，被鞭打圍繞又是另一回事。當我們在憂苦中仍能從別的事物得著安慰時，我們是被鞭打擊打。但當如此深重的患難壓迫我們，以致心靈無法從任何事物的安慰中得著喘息時，我們便不再僅是被鞭打驅趕，而是被圍繞了，因為我們四面被患難的鞭條所環繞。保羅曾被鞭打圍繞，當他說：「外有爭戰，內有懼怕」（哥林多後書七章5節）。他曾被鞭打圍繞，當他說：「同族的危險、外邦人的危險、城裡的危險、曠野的危險」（哥林多後書
The same. — 'And He has girded me about with His scourges.' 39. The weak members of the Church are troubled by continual scourges. — For it is one thing to be struck with scourges, another to be girded with them. We are struck with scourges when even in our sorrows we have consolation from other things. But when so great an affliction presses us down that the soul can find no breathing-space from the consolation of anything, then we are no longer merely borne along by scourges, but are girded about, because we are surrounded on every side by the lash of tribulations. Paul had been girded with scourges when he said: 'Fightings without, fears within' (2 Cor. 7:5). He had been girded with scourges when he said: 'In perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness' (2 Cor.
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xi, 26), et caetera, quae ita enu- merat, ut nusquam se habuisse requiem ostendat. e Sancta vero Ecclesia cum tribulationum suarum flagellis cingitur, in ea infirmi quique in pusillani- mitatis casu rediguntur, ita ut se eo f jam despectos existiment, quo exaudiri se tardius vident. Recte adhuc etiam ex eorum typo sancti viri voce subjun- gitur:
十一章26節）等等，他如此一一列舉，好顯明自己無處得安息。但當神聖教會被她患難的鞭打所圍繞時，在她裡面凡軟弱的都陷入灰心喪膽的境地，以致他們越見自己遲遲不蒙垂聽，就越以為自己已被藐視。因此，仍以他們為表號，藉聖者之口如此接下去，甚為恰當：
11:26), and the rest, which he so enumerates as to show that he had nowhere any rest. But when holy Church is girded with the scourges of her tribulations, in her all the weak are reduced to a state of faintheartedness, so that they think themselves already despised in proportion as they see themselves the more slowly heard. Rightly is it further added, still under their figure, in the voice of the holy man: