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24. In rebus pessimis exsultant et delectantur. — Quid nomine sentium nisi eas quas jam supra diximus (Num. 21 hujus lib.) puncliones peccatorum intelligimus? Quia autem perversæ mentes gaudent in iniquitatibus, quas flere debuerunt, omnes hæretici tanto se f inani laetitia extollunt, quanto magis ad pejora convalescunt; atque esse suh sentibus delicias deputant, quia inde perversam mentem ad gaudium sub'evant, unde spinas peccatorum portant. Nam si quando ad errorem suum valuerint quempiam trahere, sese per lætitiam jactant; atque unde sibi peccata quolidie, etiam alios perdendo, congregant, inde se esse quasi duces ad justitiam exsultant. Bene ergo dicitur:
二十四、他們以最壞的事為喜樂、為快樂。——我們以荊棘之名領會甚麼，若非我們上面已經說過的那些罪的刺痛呢？但因為悖謬的心思在他們本應哀哭的罪孽中歡喜，一切異端就越發向更壞之事壯大，便越以虛妄的喜樂高抬自己；他們竟以在荊棘之下為享樂，因為他們從擔負罪之荊棘之處，把悖謬的心思提升到歡樂。因為他們若有時能將某人拉入自己的錯謬，便歡欣自誇；他們甚至藉毀滅別人、日日為自己積聚罪孽之處，卻在那裡歡躍，彷彿自己是引人歸義的領袖。因此說得好：
24. They exult and delight in the worst things. — What do we understand by the name of thorns, but those prickings of sins which we have already spoken of above? But because perverse minds rejoice in the iniquities which they ought to have wept over, all heretics exalt themselves with so much vain gladness the more they gain strength toward worse things; and they reckon it to be delights to be under thorns, because from that whence they bear the thorns of sins, they thence lift up their perverse mind to gladness. For if ever they are able to draw someone to their error, they boast themselves with joy; and from that whence they daily gather sins to themselves, even by destroying others, they thence exult as though they were leaders unto righteousness. Well, therefore, it is said:
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Qui inter hujuscemodi lcetabantur, et esse sub sentibus delicias compulabant. Trahunt enim quos valent ad perdilionem suam, I et sub peccatis esse, vel culpis culpas addere credunt se virtutum opulentiam cumulare.
『他們在這樣的事中歡樂，並以在荊棘之下為享樂。』因為他們把所能拉的人拉向自己的滅亡，並相信處在罪中、或罪上加罪，就是積聚德行的豐盛。
'Who rejoiced among such things, and counted it delights to be under the thorns.' For they draw whom they can to their own perdition, and believe that to be under sins, or to add faults to faults, is to heap up an abundance of virtues.