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arbitror autem et apostoli Ioannis doctrinam nos non inepte disposuisse, qui ait: quia tres testimonium perhibent, spiritus et aqua et sanguis, et isti tres unum sunt. nisi fallor autem etiam illud explanauimus quod Dominus noster ait: Ioannes quidem baptizauit aqua, nos autem baptizabimini in spiritu sancto. praeterea existimo nos non infirmam rationem reddidisse consuetudinis causam. tueamur tamen, etsi posteriore loco id facimus, ne qui putet nos unico articulo praesentem altercationem suscitare. quamquam haec consuetudo etiam sola deberet apud homines timorem Dei habentes et humiles praecipuum locum obtinere.
但我判斷，我們已不算笨拙地闡明了使徒約翰的教訓，他說：「作見證的原來有三，就是聖靈、水與血，這三樣也都歸於一。」若我沒有弄錯，我們也已解釋了我們的主所說的：「約翰是用水施洗，但你們要受聖靈的洗。」此外，我想我們對這慣例之緣由所作的說明也不算薄弱。然而讓我們來為它辯護——儘管我們把這事放在末了——免得有人以為我們只憑單一一點就挑起眼前的爭論。其實這慣例即使單獨一項，在敬畏神又謙卑的人中間，也理當佔首要的地位。
But I judge that we have not ineptly set forth the teaching of the apostle John, who says: 'For there are three that bear witness, the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three are one.' And unless I am mistaken, we have also explained that which our Lord said: 'John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' Besides, I think we have rendered no weak account of the reason for the custom. Yet let us defend it—even though we do so in the last place—lest anyone should suppose that we are raising the present dispute upon a single point. And yet this custom alone ought, among men who fear God and are humble, to hold the chief place.