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V ers. 8. — Quos imbres montium rigant, et non habentes velamen amplexantur lapides. 64. Sanctorum Patrum sententiis tanquam fluentis rigamur. Sanctorum martyrum invocatio. — Imbres montium sunt verba doctorum. De quibus montibus voce sanctae Ecclesiae dicitur: Levavi oculos meos ad montes ( Psal. cxx, 1). Hos itaque imbres montium rigant, quia sanctorum Patrum 525 fluenta saliant. Velamen autem, ut jam praediximus, boni operis tegmen accipimus, quo quisque t(??)gitur, ut ante om- nipotentis Dei oculos, pravitatis ejus foeditas operia- tur. Unde scriptum est: Beati quorum remissae sunt iniquitates, et quorum tecta sunt peccata ( Psal. xxxi, 1).
第八節——群山的甘霖澆灌他們，他們沒有遮蔽，便抱住磐石。六十四、我們藉眾聖教父的話語如藉江河得澆灌。呼求眾聖殉道者。——群山的甘霖就是眾教師的話語。論到這些山，聖教會發聲說：我要向群山舉目（詩篇一二一篇1節）。這群山的甘霖澆灌我們，因為眾聖教父的江河湧流迸出。至於「遮蔽」，如我們先前已說過的，我們理解為善行的遮蓋，各人藉此得遮蓋，好使他的邪惡醜態在全能上主眼前得以遮掩。因此經上記著：得赦免其過、遮蓋其罪的，這人是有福的（詩篇三十二篇1節）。
Verse 8. — Whom the showers of the mountains water, and having no covering they embrace the rocks. 64. We are watered by the sentences of the holy Fathers as by streams. The invocation of the holy martyrs. — The showers of the mountains are the words of the teachers. Concerning which mountains it is said by the voice of holy Church: I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains (Psalm 120:1). These showers of the mountains, then, water us, because the streams of the holy Fathers leap forth. But the covering, as we have already said before, we take to be the covering of good work, wherewith each one is covered, so that before the eyes of Almighty God the foulness of his depravity may be covered. Whence it is written: Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered (Psalm 31:1).
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Quos autem lapidum nomine nisi fortes intra sanctam Ecclesiam viros accipimus? quibus per pri- mum pastorem dicitur: Et vos tanquam lapides vivi superaedificamini ( I Pel. ii, 5). Hi itaque qui de nullo suo opere confidunt, ad sanctorum martyrum pro- tectionem currunt, atque ad sacra eorum corpora fletibus insistunt, promereri se veniam, cis interce- dentibus, deprecantur. Quid ergo isti in hac humi- li(??)ate faciunt, nisi quia bonae actionis velamen non habent, lapides amplexantur? Sequitur:
至於「磐石」之名，我們若不指聖教會中剛強的人，還能指誰呢？藉首牧對他們說：你們也像活石被建造起來（彼得前書二章5節）。這些人既不倚靠自己的任何行為，便奔向眾聖殉道者的保護，含淚俯伏在他們神聖的遺體前，祈求藉他們的代求得蒙赦免。那麼這等人在這謙卑中所行的，若不是因沒有善行的遮蓋而抱住磐石，還能是什麼呢？接著說：
But whom do we take by the name of rocks but the strong men within holy Church? To whom it is said by the first shepherd: And you also, as living stones, are built up (1 Peter 2:5). These, therefore, who trust in no work of their own, run to the protection of the holy martyrs, and press with weeping at their sacred bodies, praying that they may obtain pardon by their intercession. What, then, do these do in this humility, but, because they have not the covering of good action, embrace the rocks? There follows: