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I bid. Et orabam filios uteri mei. 53. Qui Deus membra corporea habere dicatur. — In Deo, qui corporis forma non circumscribitur, membra corporis, id est manus, oculus, uterus ita nominantur, ut ex membrorum vocabulis effectus ejus potentiae designentur. Oculos quippe habere di- citur, quia cuncta videt; manus habere describi- tur, quia cuncta operatur; in utero autem proles concipitur, quae in hac vita profertur. Quid ergo ute- rum Dei nisi ejus consilium debemus accipere, in quo ante saecula per praedestinationem concepti su- mus, ut creati per saecula producamur?
同上——「我懇求我腹中的兒女。」53. 神何以被說有身體的肢體。——在那不被身體形狀所限的神裡面，身體的肢體——就是手、眼、腹——之所以如此命名，是要藉這些肢體的名稱來指明祂能力的果效。因為祂被說有眼，因祂看見萬有；祂被描述有手，因祂運行萬有；而在腹中孕育後裔，此後裔要在今生被生出。那麼，神的腹除了指祂的旨意，我們還當領會為甚麼呢？在這旨意中，我們於萬世之先藉預定被孕育，好使我們受造於諸世代而被生出。
The same. — 'And I entreated the sons of my womb.' 53. How God may be said to have bodily members. — In God, who is not circumscribed by the form of a body, the members of the body — that is, hand, eye, womb — are so named that by the terms of the members the effects of His power are designated. For He is said to have eyes, because He sees all things; He is described as having hands, because He works all things; but in the womb offspring is conceived, which is brought forth in this life. What, then, ought we to understand by the womb of God but His counsel, in which before the ages we were conceived through predestination, that, created through the ages, we might be brought forth?
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Deus ergo qui manet ante saecula uteri sui filios oravit, quia eos quos potenter per divinitatem condidit, incarnatus veniens humiliter rogavit. Sed quia in ipsa carne qua apparuit ab eorum aestimatione despectus est, sub- jungitur:
所以，那在萬世之先常存的神，懇求祂腹中的兒女，因祂藉祂的神性大能所創造的那些人，祂親臨成了肉身，便謙卑地懇求他們。但因祂正是在祂所顯現的那肉身中被他們的看法所藐視，便接著說：
God, therefore, who abides before the ages, entreated the sons of His womb, because those whom He powerfully created through His divinity, coming incarnate, He humbly entreated. But because in that very flesh in which He appeared He was despised by their estimation, it is subjoined: