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34. Corda divino amore vacua diabolus replet. — Aquilonis nomine, in sacro eloquio appellari diabolus solet, qui ut torporis frigore gentium corda constringeret, dixit: Sedebo in monte testamenti, in lateribus Aquilonis (Isa. XIX, 13). Qui super vacuum extenditur, quia illa corda possidet quat divini amoris gratia non replentur. Sed tamen omnipotenti Deo suppetit etiam vasa diaboli cunctis virtutibus vacua suae gratiæ munere implere, in eisque II divini dimolis soliditatem ponere, quos nulla conspicit rectitudinis actione roborari. Unde apte subjungitur:
34. 魔鬼充滿那些空虛、缺乏神聖之愛的心。—在聖言中，魔鬼慣被稱為北方；牠為要以麻木的寒冷綑綁列國的心，便說：「我要坐在聚會的山上，在北方的極處」（以賽亞書十四章13節）。牠伸展在空虛之上，因為牠佔據那些不被神聖之愛的恩典所充滿的心。然而全能的神仍有能力，甚至將祂恩典的恩賜充滿那些魔鬼的器皿—就是那些空虛無一切美德的器皿—並在其中安置神聖力量的堅固，就是在那些祂看見未被任何正直行為所堅固的人裡面。故此恰當地補充說：
34. The devil fills hearts empty of divine love.—By the name of the north, in sacred eloquence the devil is wont to be called, who, that he might bind the hearts of the nations with the cold of torpor, said: 'I will sit on the mount of the testament, in the sides of the north' (Isaiah XIV, 13). He is stretched out over the void, because he possesses those hearts which are not filled by the grace of divine love. But nevertheless it lies within the power of almighty God to fill even the vessels of the devil, empty of all virtues, with the gift of his grace, and to place in them the solidity of divine strength, whom he sees strengthened by no action of uprightness. Whence aptly it is subjoined: