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I bid. — Et operiet vultum suum. 75. Haeretici adulterorum more vultum operiunt. — Idcirco faciem suam adulter operit, ne cognoscatur. Omnis autem qui sentiendo vel agendo nequiter vivit, vultum suum operit, quia ad hoc perversitate do- gmatis vel operis tendit, ut ab omnipotente Deo in judicio recognosci non possit. Unde quibusdam in fine dicturus est: Nunquam novi vos; discedite a me, qui operamini iniquitatem ( Matth. vii, 23). Quid autem vultus cordis humani est, nisi similitudo Dei? Quem videlicet vultum perversus operit, ut cognosci ne- queat, cum vitam suam vel malis actibus, vel perfidiae errore confundit.
同處。——他要遮蓋自己的臉。七十五、異端者仿效姦夫遮蓋面容。——因此姦夫遮蓋自己的臉,免得被人認出。凡在思念或行為上生活邪惡的人,都遮蓋自己的臉,因為他藉教義或行為的乖僻趨向於此:使自己在審判時不能被全能天主認出。故此,祂在末了要對某些人說:「我從來不認識你們;你們這些作惡的,離開我去吧」(瑪竇福音七章23節)。然則人心的面容是什麼,豈不是天主的肖像嗎?乖僻之人正是遮蓋這面容,使它不能被認出,就是當他以惡行或背信的謬誤攪亂自己的生命之時。
In the same place. — And he will cover his face. 75. Heretics, after the manner of adulterers, cover their face. — Therefore the adulterer covers his face, that he may not be recognized. But everyone who lives wickedly, whether in thought or in deed, covers his face, because by the perversity of his doctrine or of his work he tends to this, that he may not be able to be recognized by almighty God in the judgment. Whence to certain men he will say at the end: I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity (Matthew vii, 23). But what is the face of the human heart, but the likeness of God? Which face indeed the perverse man covers, that it may not be able to be known, when he confounds his life either by evil deeds or by the error of perfidy.
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Sed talis quisque cum prospectate vitae praesentis justos fulciri conspicit, eis perversa suadere minime praesumit; a si qua vero illos pro- cella adversitatis invenerit, ad verba protinus pesti- ferae persuasionis erumpit. Unde et subditur:
但這樣的人,當他看見義人得今生順境的扶持時,就絕不敢向他們勸誘乖僻之事;然而一旦有逆境的風暴臨到他們,他就立時發出害人勸誘的言語。故此接著說:
But such a one, when he beholds the just supported by the prosperity of the present life, by no means presumes to persuade them to perverse things; but if any storm of adversity finds them, he straightway breaks forth into the words of pestilent persuasion. Whence it is also subjoined: