787:1
I bid. — Et elevabis ad Deum faciem tuam. 25. Ad Deum faciem levare, est cor poenitentia mundatum ad divina investiganda attollere. — Ad Deum faciem levare, est cor ad sublimia investi- ganda attollere. Nam sicut per corporis faciem homini, ita per interiorem imaginem Deo noti atque conspicabiles sumus. Cum vero reatu culpae depri- mimur, ad Deum levare cordis nostri faciem vere- mur. Dum enim nulla bonorum operum confidentia fulcitur, intueri summa mens trepidat, quia ipsa se conscientia accusat.
同處。——你要向神仰起你的臉。向神仰臉，就是將那因悔改而潔淨的心，舉起去探究神聖的事。——向神仰臉，就是將心舉起去探究崇高的事。因為正如我們藉身體的臉為人所認識、所辨認，照樣我們藉內在的形像為神所認識、所辨認。但當我們被罪的罪責壓下時，我們就懼怕向神仰起我們心的臉。因為當它沒有任何善行的信心作扶持時，心思就戰慄不敢仰望那至高的事物，因為良心本身控告它。
In the same place. — And thou shalt lift up thy face to God. To lift up the face to God is to raise the heart, cleansed by penitence, to the investigation of divine things. — To lift up the face to God is to raise the heart to the investigation of sublime things. For just as we are known and discernible to man by the face of the body, so we are known and discernible to God by the interior image. But when we are pressed down by the guilt of sin, we are afraid to lift up to God the face of our heart. For while it is supported by no confidence of good works, the mind trembles to gaze upon the highest things, because conscience itself accuses it.
787:2
Cum vero jam poenitentiae la- mentis culpa diluitur, et sic perpetrata planguntur, a ut plangenda minime perpetrentur, magna menti fiducia nascitur, et ad conspicienda supernae retri- butionis gaudia cordis nostri facies levatur. Sed haec Eliphaz recte diceret si infirmum moneret. Cum vero justum virum propter flagella despicit, quid aliud quam verba scientiae nesciens fundit? Quae ni- mirum dicta si ad haereticorum typum ducimus, b ipsi falsis promissionibus ad Deum nos faciem le- vare pollicentur. Ac si fideli populo patenter dicant: Quandiu praedicationem nostram non sequeris, cor in infirmis premis.
但當罪責藉悔改的哀哭得洗淨，並且所犯的事這樣被哀哭，以致當哀哭之事絲毫不再被犯時，心思裡就生出極大的信心，我們心的臉就被舉起去觀看那屬天賞報的喜樂。但以利法若是在勸勉一個軟弱之人，他說這些話就是恰當的。然而當他因著鞭打而鄙視一個義人時，他所作的除了在無知中傾倒知識的言語之外，還有甚麼呢？這些話，若我們把它們帶入異端者的類型，他們自己就以虛假的應許，應許我們必向神仰臉。彷彿他們明明對忠信的子民說：只要你不跟隨我們的宣講，你就把你的心壓在軟弱的事中。
But when the guilt is washed away by the laments of penitence, and things committed are so bewailed that things to be bewailed are by no means committed, great confidence is born in the mind, and the face of our heart is lifted up to behold the joys of the heavenly recompense. But Eliphaz would say these things rightly if he were admonishing a weak man. When, however, on account of the scourges he despises a just man, what else does he do but pour out, in ignorance, the words of knowledge? Which words, indeed, if we bring them to the type of heretics, they themselves, with false promises, promise that we shall lift up our face to God. As if they plainly said to the faithful people: So long as thou followest not our preaching, thou pressest down thy heart among weak things.
787:3
Quia vero Eliphaz beatum Job ad Deum reverti admonuit, a quo videlicet idem'vir beatus nunquam recessit, adhuc pollicendo sub- jungit:
但因為以利法勸勉蒙福的約伯歸向神——其實那位蒙福之人從未離開過神——他仍在應許中補充說：
But because Eliphaz admonished blessed Job to return to God — from whom, indeed, that same blessed man never departed — he still, in making promises, subjoins: