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60. Mane tanquam lutum, favillam et cinerem conculcant. — In reproborum quippe judicio, sancta electorum Ecclesia iuto comparatur, quia temporaliter conculcata despiciLur. Favillae assimilatur et cineri, quia dum bona ejus interiora non vident, ad sola hanc mala pervenisse æstimant, quae in ea exhiberi corporaJiter vident. a Fidelis autem electorum populus, cum multos ex se cadere conspicit, optat, si obtinere valeat, adversitatis suae tempora mutari. Hujus quia oratio differtur, gemitus augetur, Unde adhuc subditur:
六十、清早他們踐踏我如同泥土、餘燼和灰渣。——的確，在被棄絕之人的判斷中，蒙揀選者的聖教會被比作泥土，因為她暫時被踐踏而遭輕視。她被比作餘燼和灰渣，因為他們既看不見她內在的美善，便以為她只落到那些他們看見顯在她肉身上的患難。但蒙揀選的信實之民，當看見許多人從他們中間跌落時，便渴望——若能得著——他們患難的時期能有所改變。因為這祈求被延遲，他們的歎息便增添。因此又進一步加上說：
60. In the morning they trample me down like mire, and like glowing ash and cinders. — In the judgement of the reprobate, indeed, the holy Church of the elect is compared to mire, because, trampled down for a time, she is despised. She is likened to glowing ash and cinders, because, while they do not see her inward goods, they suppose that she has come only to those evils which they behold displayed in her bodily. But the faithful people of the elect, when they behold many falling away from among themselves, desire — if they could but obtain it — that the seasons of their adversity might be changed. And because the prayer for this is deferred, their groaning is increased. Whence it is still further added: