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V ers. 22.— Nunquid Deum quispiam docebit scien- tiam, qui excelsos judicat? 61. Occulta Dei judicia curiosius non scrutanda. — Cum in bis quae de nobis aguntur ambigimus, debe- mus ala quae nobis sunt certa conspicere, et eam quae de nostra nobis incertitudine surrexerat cogita- tionis querelam placare. Ecce enim quod electos ad vitam flagella revocant, et a malis actibus reprobos (??)ec flagella compescunt, omnipotentis Dei judicia super (??)os valde occulta sunt, et injusta non sunt. S(??)d si tendamus oculum mentis ad superiora, in illis as- picimus quia de nobis.quid juste conqueri non habe- mus.
第22節——「有誰能將知識教導那審判高位者的神呢？」神隱秘的判斷不可過於好奇地探究。——當我們對臨到我們身上的事有所疑惑時，我們就當定睛在那些對我們確定無疑的事上，好平息那從我們自身的不確定所生出的思緒之怨言。因為看哪，鞭撻召回被揀選者歸於生命，鞭撻卻不能約束被棄絕者遠離惡行——全能神在他們身上的判斷極其隱秘，卻並非不義。但我們若將心眼投向更高之處，就必在其中看出：論到我們自己，我們並沒有可以公義地抱怨之處。
Verse 22. — 'Shall any man teach God knowledge, who judges the exalted ones?' The hidden judgments of God are not to be scrutinized too curiously. — When we are in doubt concerning the things done about us, we ought to look upon those things which are certain to us, and to appease that complaint of thought which had arisen in us from our own uncertainty. For behold, that scourges recall the elect to life, and that scourges do not restrain the reprobate from evil deeds — the judgments of almighty God upon them are very hidden, and are not unjust. But if we direct the eye of the mind to things above, in them we perceive that we have nothing whereof to complain justly concerning ourselves.
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Omnipotens enim Deus angelorum merita discernens, 494 al(??)os in aeterna luce sine lapsu per- manere constituit, alios sponte lapsos a statu suae celsitudinis in aeternae damnationis ultione prostravit. Nobiscum igitur injuste nil agit, qui et subtiliorem nobis naturam juste judicavit. Dicat ergo: Nunquid Deum quispiam docebit scientiam, qui excelsos judicat? Qui. enim super nos mira facit, constat procul dubio quia de nobis scienter omnia disponit. His itaque praemissis, adjungitur a ubi humanus animus in re- quisitione fatigatur. Nam subditur:
因為全能的神辨明眾天使的功過，指定一些天使無所墮落地存留於永恆的光中，又把另一些憑自己意志從其崇高地位墜落的天使，拋入永刑報應之中。因此，祂對我們毫無不義之為，因祂連比我們更精妙的本性也公義地審判了。那麼，就讓他說：「有誰能將知識教導那審判高位者的神呢？」因為那位在我們之上行奇妙事的主，毫無疑問是以知識安排一切關乎我們的事。既提出這些之後，便接著說到人心在探究中疲乏之處。因為接著說：
For almighty God, discerning the merits of the angels, appointed some to remain in eternal light without falling, and cast down others, fallen of their own accord from the state of their loftiness, into the vengeance of eternal damnation. Therefore He does nothing unjustly with us, who has justly judged even a nature subtler than ours. Let him say, then: 'Shall any man teach God knowledge, who judges the exalted ones?' For He who does wondrous things above us, it stands beyond doubt that He disposes all things concerning us with knowledge. These things having been premised, there is added that in which the human mind is wearied in its inquiry. For it follows: