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Quingenta quoque juga boum, et quingentae asinae. 41. Boum juga concordes virtutes. Asinae lascivien- tes, motus aut cogitationes simplices. - Juga boum in usum nostrae possessionis sunt, c cum concordes virtutes exarant duritiam mentis. Quingentas quoque asinas possidemus, cum lascivientes motus restrin- gimus; et quidquid in nobis carnale exsurgere appe- tit, spiritali cordis dominatu refrenamus. Vel certe asinas possidere, est cogitationes intra nos simplices regere: quae dum in subtiliori intellectu currere non valent quo quasi pigrius ambulant, eo fraterna one- ra mansuetius portant.
「還有五百對牛，五百頭母驢。」四十一。牛的軛：和諧的眾德。母驢：放縱的衝動，或樸實的思念。——當和諧的眾德犁開心的剛硬時，牛的軛便供我們家產之用。當我們約束放縱的衝動時，我們也擁有五百頭母驢；凡在我們裡面想要按肉體興起之物，我們用心靈對心的管轄來制伏。或確切地說，擁有母驢就是管理我們裡面樸實的思念：這些思念既不能在較精微的悟性中奔馳，因而彷彿較遲緩地行走，就藉此更溫柔地背負弟兄的重擔。
'Five hundred yoke of oxen also, and five hundred she-asses.' 41. The yoke of oxen: concordant virtues. The she-asses: wanton motions, or simple thoughts. — Yokes of oxen are for the use of our possession, when concordant virtues plough up the hardness of the mind. We possess also five hundred she-asses, when we restrain the wanton motions; and whatever in us desires to rise up carnally, we curb by the spiritual dominion of the heart. Or certainly to possess she-asses is to rule the simple thoughts within us: which, while they are not able to run in the subtler understanding, whereby they walk as it were more sluggishly, thereby they bear the fraternal burdens more gently.
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Sunt namque nonnulli qui dum alta non intelligunt, d ad exteriora conversa- tionis opera se humilius premunt. Bene ergo per asinas, pigrum quidem animal, sed tamen portandis oneri- bus deditum, 31 simplices cogitationes accipimus; quia dum nostram plerumque ignorantiam coqnosci- mus, levius onera aliena toleramus. Cumque nos quasi singularis sapientiae altitudo non elevat, ad per- ferendam alieni cordis inertiam, mens se nostra aequanimiter inclinat. Recte autem site juga boum, sive asinae quingentae referuntur; quia vel in hoc, quod prudenter sapimus, vel in hoc, quod humiliter ignoramus, dum aeternae pacis requiem quaerimus, quasi intra jubilei numerum tenemur. Sequitur:
因為有些人，當他們不明白高深之事時，就更謙卑地委身於外在交往的工作。因此適切地藉母驢——一種遲緩卻善於負重的牲畜——我們理解樸實的思念；因為當我們常常承認自己的無知時，我們就更輕省地忍受別人的重擔。當獨一智慧的崇高不使我們自高時，我們的心就以平和的態度屈就於承擔別人心的怠惰。現今無論牛的軛還是五百頭母驢都被適切地數算；因為無論在我們精明地思想這一點上，或在我們謙卑地無知這一點上，當我們尋求永遠平安的安息時，我們彷彿被持守在禧年的數目之內。接下來說：
For there are some who, while they understand not lofty things, press themselves more humbly to the outward works of conversation. Well therefore by she-asses, a sluggish animal indeed, yet given to bearing burdens, do we take simple thoughts; because, while we very often acknowledge our own ignorance, we more lightly endure the burdens of others. And when the loftiness of a singular wisdom does not lift us up, our mind inclines itself with equanimity to bearing the sloth of another's heart. Now rightly are either yokes of oxen or five hundred she-asses reckoned; because whether in this, that we savour prudently, or in this, that we humbly are ignorant, while we seek the rest of eternal peace, we are held as it were within the number of the jubilee. There follows: