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sermonis philosophiœ. — Quid euim per Indiam quae nigrum populum mittit, nisi hic mundus accipitur, in quo vita hominum per culpam obscura generatur. Tincti autem colores indiae, sunt hujus mundi sapientes; qui quamvis per infidelitatem et plerumque per actionem foedi sint, ante humanos tamen ocnlos superductae honestatis colore fucantur. Sed cOæterna Dei sapientia tinctis Indiae coloribus non confertur, quia quisquis hanc veraciter intelligit, ab his hominibus quos mundus sapientes coluit quam longe distet agnoscit. ipsaque ejus inandatorum verba ab hujus mundi sapientibus differunt, qui dum intenduni eloquentiar, eorum dicta quasi pulehra apparent specie, et fucatione tincturæ;
……論哲學的言論。——因為印度既差出黑膚的民眾，它所表徵的，不正是這世界嗎？在其中人的生命因過犯而生為黑暗。而印度所染的顏色，乃是這世界的智者；他們雖因不信、又往往因自己的行為而污穢，卻在人的眼前被外加尊貴的顏色所塗染。然而與神同永的智慧，不與印度所染的顏色相比，因為凡真正明白它的，都認出它與那些世界所培育為智者的人相距何等遙遠。它誡命的話語本身，也與這世界的智者有別；那些智者既專注於口才，他們的話語便彷彿有美麗的形貌、有染料的塗飾；
...of the discourse of philosophy. — For what is received by India, which sends forth a black people, but this world, in which the life of men is begotten dark through fault? But the dyed colours of India are the wise men of this world; who, although through infidelity and very often through their action they are foul, yet before human eyes are tinctured with the colour of an overlaid honour. But the co-eternal wisdom of God is not compared with the dyed colours of India, because whosoever truly understands it recognizes how far it stands apart from those men whom the world has cultivated as wise. And the very words of its commandments differ from the wise men of this world, who, while they aim at eloquence, their sayings appear as it were of beautiful form, and of the tinting of dye;
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et cum virtute rerum careant, aliud se esse quam sunt verborum compositionibus, quasi superduclis coloribus, mentiuntur. At contra, doctrina sapientiae et prædicatione pulchra est. i et pura veritate conspicua; nec aliud se per fillaciam praetendit exterius, et aliud reservat interius; neque in dictis suis pulchra videri appetit niiore sermonis, sed integritate veritatis. In mandatis igitur suis Dei sapientia non confertur tinciis Indiae coloribus, quia dum fucata eloquentiæ ornamenta non babet, quasi vestis sine tinctura placet. Quam fucationem tincturæ bene Paulus des pexerat, cum dicebat: Quæ et loquimur r non in doclis humanæ sapientiæ verbis, sed in doctrina spirtus ( I Cor. II, 13).
當他們缺乏實質的能力時，便藉言辭的組合，如同外加的顏色，謊稱自己是別於本相的甚麼。相反地，智慧的教訓即便藉傳講也是美麗的，並以純潔的真理顯著；它不藉虛假在外面偽裝一事，在裡面卻保留另一事；它也不藉言語的閃爍在自己的言論中求顯得美麗，乃藉真理的完全。所以在它的誡命中，神的智慧不與印度所染的顏色相比，因為它既沒有口才那塗抹的裝飾，便如同未經染色的衣裳而蒙人喜悅。這染料的塗飾，保羅早已美好地藐視了，當他說：「我們講說這些事，不是用人智慧所指教的言語，乃是用聖靈所指教的言語」（林前二13）。
and while they lack the power of the realities, they lie by the compositions of words, as by overlaid colours, that they are something other than they are. On the contrary, the doctrine of wisdom is beautiful even by preaching, and conspicuous with pure truth; nor does it pretend one thing outwardly through fallacy and reserve another inwardly; nor does it seek to appear beautiful in its sayings by the glitter of speech, but by the integrity of truth. In its commandments, therefore, the wisdom of God is not compared with the dyed colours of India, because, while it has not the painted ornaments of eloquence, it pleases as a garment without dye. This tinting of dye Paul had well despised, when he said: 'Which things also we speak, not in the learned words of human wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit' (1 Cor. 2:13).
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Malebat quippe hanc sapientiam sola puritate veritatis ostendere, non autem eloquii tinctione « fucare. Sequitur:
因為他寧願單以純潔的真理彰顯這智慧，而不以言語的染色來塗飾它。接著說：
For he preferred to display this wisdom by the pure truth alone, and not to tinct it by the dyeing of speech. There follows: