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55. Despectis veris bonis, carnales fluxis, cum quibus pereunt, innituntur. — Apud aestimationem quippe malorum in nihilum redigimur, quando ea quae ipsi quasi summa diligunt bona temporalia non tenemus. Despectis namque supernis promissionibus, terrena desiderant; et si quando in eorum mente aliquid de appetitu æternitatis oritur, suborla citius transitoria 663 delectatione dissipatur. Unde et statim subjungitur: Fidelis quippe populus se pati denuntiat, quod eos quos diligit pati dolet. Ventus ergo desiderium tollit, cum res quaelibet transitoria aeternitatis appetitum destruit. Unde adhuc congrue subinfertur: Nubes quippe in alto eminet, sed hanc ad cursum flatus impellit.
五十五。屬肉體的人藐視真正的美善，卻倚靠那與他們一同滅亡的短暫之物。——因為在惡人的估量中，我們被貶為虛無，就是當我們不持守那些他們自己彷彿至高所愛的暫時之物時。因為他們既藐視那上頭的應許，就貪戀屬地的事物；他們心中若有時興起一點對永恆的渴慕，也很快被那興起的短暫喜樂所消散。因此立刻接著說：因為忠信的百姓宣告自己受苦，因為它為它所愛的人受苦而憂傷。所以，風把渴慕吹去，就是當任何短暫的事物毀壞對永恆的渴慕時。因此還恰當地進一步補充說：雲彩固然高聳，風的吹拂卻驅它奔向其路程。
55. Despising true goods, the carnal lean upon fleeting ones, with which they perish. — For in the estimation of the wicked we are reduced to nothing, when we do not hold those temporal goods which they themselves love as though they were the highest. For, despising the promises on high, they desire earthly things; and if ever something of the appetite for eternity arises in their mind, it is very quickly dissipated by the arising delight of things transitory. Whence it is straightway subjoined: For the faithful people declares that it suffers, because it grieves that those whom it loves suffer. The wind, therefore, carries off desire, when any transitory thing destroys the appetite for eternity. Whence there is still fittingly further added: For a cloud stands out on high, but the blast of wind drives it to its course.
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Sic nimirum, sic sunt temporalia ini. quorum bona. Velut in alto quidem per honoris celsitudinem degere videntur; sed ad cursum vitæ quotidie, quasi quibusdam mortalitalis suae flatibus impelluntur. Salus ergo ut nubes transit, quia perver sorum gloria, f quo alta est, fixa non est. Sed expletis desideriis actibusque infirmantium, ad electorum vocem sermo convertitur, cum protinus subinfertur:
惡人的暫時之福確實是如此，正是如此。它們彷彿藉尊榮的崇高而住在高處；卻天天被驅向他們生命的路程，如同被自己朽壞的某種吹拂所驅。所以，安康如雲彩般消逝，因為悖逆之人的榮耀，無論多高，卻不長存。但當軟弱之人的慾望與作為終結時，話語便轉向選民的聲音，隨即進一步接著說：
So indeed, so are the temporal goods of the wicked. They seem, as it were, to abide on high through the loftiness of honour; but they are driven daily to the course of their life, as by certain blasts of their own mortality. Well-being, therefore, passes like a cloud, because the glory of the perverse, however high it is, is not fixed. But when the desires and deeds of the weak are ended, the discourse is turned to the voice of the elect, when there is straightway further subjoined: