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52. Ejus messio rori gratias tribuenda. — Subaudis, dicebam. Messio enim sanctae Ecclesiæ non inconvenienter accipitur, cum perfectae animae a corporibus abstractæ, velut maturae segetes a terra decisæ, ad cœlestia horrea I demigrant; quod quia non nostra virtute, sed coelesti gratia largiente agitur, bene ait: Et ros morabitur in messione mea. Ros namjue desuper cadit, messis deorsum colligitur. Ergo ros moratur in messione, quia gratia desuper venien, agit ut digni simus qui de inferioribus colligamur. Ipsa quippe nos desuper infundente, fructum bonorum operum ferimus. Unde recte quoque per Paulum dicitur: Gratia Dei sum id quod sum, et gratia ejus in me vacua non fuit (1 Cor. xv, 10).
五十二、它的收成當歸於甘露的恩典。——補上：我說。因為聖教會的收成不無恰當地被領受，就是當那些完全的靈魂從其身體中被抽離，如同成熟的莊稼從地上被割下，遷往天上的倉廩時；這事既不是藉著我們的能力，而是藉著天上恩典的賜予而成就的，他便恰當地說：「甘露必留在我的收成上」（約伯記二十九章十九節）。因為甘露從上而降，收成從下而聚。所以甘露留在收成上，因為那從上而來的恩典，使我們配得從低處被收聚。因為正是那從上澆灌我們的恩典，使我們結出善工的果子。故此藉保羅也恰當地說：「然而我今日成了何等人，是蒙神的恩才成的，並且祂所賜我的恩不是徒然的」（哥林多前書十五章十節）。
52. Its harvest is to be attributed to the grace of the dew. — Supply: I said. For the harvest of holy Church is not unfittingly received, when perfect souls, drawn away from their bodies like ripe crops cut from the earth, migrate to the heavenly granaries; which, because it is done not by our virtue but by the bestowing of heavenly grace, he well says: 'And the dew shall abide in my harvest' (Job 29:19). For the dew falls from above, the harvest is gathered below. Therefore the dew abides in the harvest, because grace, coming from above, brings it about that we are worthy to be gathered from the lower things. For it being that very grace pouring us in from above, we bear the fruit of good works. Whence it is also rightly said through Paul: 'By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace in me hath not been void' (1 Cor. 15:10).
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Si enim h quaeratur quid sit ros desuper veniens, ait: Gratia Dei tum id quod sum. Si intueamur messem sub rore crescentem, ait: Et gratia ejus in me vacua non fuit, sed abundantius illis omnibus laboravi. Sequitur:
因為若有人問那從上而來的甘露是甚麼，他說：「我今日成了何等人，是蒙神的恩才成的。」若我們觀看那在甘露下生長的收成，他說：「並且祂所賜我的恩不是徒然的，我比眾使徒格外勞苦」（哥林多前書十五章十節）。接著說：
For if it be asked what the dew coming from above is, he says: 'By the grace of God I am what I am.' If we behold the harvest growing under the dew, he says: 'And His grace in me hath not been void, but I have laboured more abundantly than they all.' There follows: