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50. Ejus extrema membra quasi pedes quandoque subvertuntur. — Quid per pedes Ecclesiæ, nisi extrema illius membra signamur ? Quae dum ad opera terrena deserviunt, tanto celerius ab adversariis falli possunt, quanto sublimia minus intelligunt. Hos itaque pedes adversarii subvertunt, videlicet cum extrema membra illius ad sui dogmatis errorem trahunt. Subversi pedes viam tenere nequeunt, cum infirmi quique persecutorum suorum vel promissionibus persuasi, vel minis territi, vel cruciatibus fracti, ab itinere recto d deviant. Bene autem adversaMorum semitæ fluctibus comparantur, cum dicitur:
五十。她最外圍的肢體，彷彿她的腳，有時被傾覆。——我們以教會的腳所表明的是甚麼，若不是她最外圍的肢體？這些肢體，當它們服事屬地的工作時，越是不明白高處的事，就越發能被仇敵迅速地欺哄。所以仇敵傾覆這些腳，就是當他們把她最外圍的肢體引向自己教義的錯謬時。被傾覆的腳不能守住道路，因為每一個軟弱的人，或被逼迫者的應許所說服，或被威嚇所恐嚇，或被酷刑所折服，便偏離了正路。仇敵的路徑被比作波濤，也是恰當的，正如所說：
50. Her outermost members, as it were her feet, are sometimes overthrown. — What do we signify by the feet of the Church, if not her outermost members? These, while they serve earthly works, can be the more swiftly deceived by adversaries the less they understand the things on high. These feet, then, the adversaries overthrow, namely when they draw the outermost members of her to the error of their own dogma. Feet overthrown cannot keep to the way, when each weak one, being persuaded by his persecutors' promises, or terrified by threats, or broken by torments, strays from the right path. And well are the paths of the adversaries compared to floods, when it is said:
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Et oppresserunt quasi fluctibus semitis suis, quia scilicet vita pravorum insolenti inquietudine molesta ad obruendam, ut ita dixerim, navem cordis quasi tempestas illabitur. De qua videlicel tempestate per Salomonem dicitur: Quasi tempestas transiens non erit impius ( Prov. x, 25). Cumque infirmus quisque perversos florere conspicit, hunc in perversitatis pelagus unda miseræ imitationis mergit. Sequitur:
他們以自己的路徑，如同波濤淹沒了人；因為，敗壞之人的生活既以放肆的不安而令人煩擾，便彷彿一場暴風湧入，可以說是要淹沒那心靈之舟。論到這暴風，藉所羅門說：惡人如暴風經過，就歸於無有（箴十25）。當任何軟弱的人看見悖逆之人興旺時，可悲效法的浪濤便把他淹沒在悖逆的海中。接著說：
And they have overwhelmed, as with floods, by their paths; because, namely, the life of the depraved, troublesome with insolent restlessness, glides in as a tempest to overwhelm, so to speak, the ship of the heart. Of which tempest it is said through Solomon: As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more (Prov. x, 25). And when any weak one beholds the perverse flourishing, the wave of wretched imitation drowns him in the sea of perversity. There follows: