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57. Quarum duritiam emollivi, et superbiam stravit. — Manum quippe ad silicem extendit, quia ad duritiam gentium suæ brachium prædicationis misit.Unde et idem beatus Job passionis suæ historiam praesciens gentibus innotescendam, dicit: Scribantur hæc tylo ferreo in plumbi lamina, e vel certe sculpantur in alice (Job. XIX, 24). Qui vero hoc in loco montes, nisi bnjus saeculi potentes accipimus, qui pro terrena substantia daltum tument? De quibus Psahnista ait: Tange montes, ct fumigabunt (Psal. CXLIII, 5). Sed montes a radicibus sunt eversi, quia, prædicante taneta Ecclesia, summæ hujus sæculi potestates in adortum omnipotentis Dei ab intima.cogitatione Icecidrerunt.
57. 她軟化了他們的剛硬，並使他們的驕傲仆倒。──因為她向燧石伸出手，乃因她把講道的膀臂伸向外邦人的剛硬。故此那有福的約伯，預知自己受苦的歷史將要向外邦人顯明，說：「惟願這些用鐵筆刻在鉛版上，或用鑿子刻在燧石中。」（伯十九24）但在此處我們以山所理解的，若不是這世上因地上財物而高高膨脹的權貴，還能是誰呢？論到他們，詩人說：「求你摸山，山就冒煙。」（詩一四四5）但這些山從根被推翻，因為當聖潔的教會傳道時，這世上至高的權勢便從其至內的思念仆倒，歸入對全能之神的敬拜。
57. Whose hardness she softened, and laid low their pride. — For she stretched out her hand to the flint, because she sent the arm of her preaching to the hardness of the Gentiles. Whence also the same blessed Job, foreknowing the history of his passion to be made known to the Gentiles, says: 'Let these be written with an iron pen on a plate of lead, or else graven with a chisel in flint' (Job XIX, 24). But whom in this place do we understand by mountains, save the mighty of this world, who swell high on account of earthly substance? Of whom the Psalmist says: 'Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke' (Ps. CXLIII, 5). But the mountains were overthrown from their roots, because, as the holy Church preached, the highest powers of this world fell from their innermost thought into the adoration of Almighty God.
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Radices enim montium cogitationes sunt intimæ superborum. Et a radicibus montes cadunt, quia ad colendum Deum potestates sæculi ab imis cogitationbus prosternuntur. Recte etenim per radicem cogitario occulta signatur, quiapcr hoc quod intus t on cernitur, erumpit quod videatur foris. Unde et in bonam partem per prophetam dicitur: f Emittet id quod salvatum fuerit de domo Juda, et quod reliquum at, mittet radicem deorsum, et faciet fructum sursum D (Isai. XXXVII, 31). Ac si aperte diceretur: In itnis cogitatio nascitur, ut in summis retributio reddatur. Dicat ergo:
因為山的根乃是驕傲者至內的思念。山從其根倒塌，因為世上的權勢為要敬拜神，便從其至卑的思念被傾倒。隱藏的思念確實恰當地以根來表明，因為藉那在內裡不被察見的，便迸發出在外面可被看見的。故此也以善意藉先知說：「猶大家所逃脫餘剩的，仍要往下扎根，向上結果。」（賽三十七31）彷彿明明地說：思念在至低之處生出，好使報償在至高之處得以償還。故此可說：
For the roots of the mountains are the innermost thoughts of the proud. And the mountains fall from their roots, because for worshipping God the powers of the world are cast down from their lowest thoughts. Rightly indeed is hidden thought signified by the root, because by that which is not discerned within, there breaks forth what may be seen without. Whence also in a good sense it is said through the prophet: 'That which shall be saved of the house of Judah shall send forth, and that which is left shall take root downward, and shall bear fruit upward' (Isa. XXXVII, 31). As if it were openly said: In the lowest parts thought is born, that in the highest reward may be rendered. Let it say therefore:
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Ad silicem extendit manum suam, subvertit a radicibus montes, quia din duritiam tendunt sancta prædicatio petiit, superborum altitudinem funditus stravit. Quia vero eos quos a cogitationibus terrenis evacuat donis coelestibus replet, et quos infimis curis exhaurit supernis rigat tluentis, moi subditur:
「她向燧石伸手，從根傾覆諸山」，因為聖潔的講道尋求那些趨向剛硬的人，並徹底使驕傲者的高傲仆倒。但因她使那些被她從屬地思念倒空的人得以充滿天上的恩賜，又以上頭的流水灌溉那些被她從至卑掛慮抽乾的人，隨即補充說：
'She stretched out her hand to the flint, she overturned the mountains from the roots,' because the holy preaching sought those who tend toward hardness, and utterly laid low the loftiness of the proud. But because she fills with heavenly gifts those whom she empties of earthly thoughts, and waters with the streams above those whom she drains of the lowest cares, presently it is subjoined: