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執事魯斯提庫斯
辯論 第 1 章
拉丁文原文．4 節．此語言尚無詞彙資料
1:1
Transcriptis exultanter ac raptim quae deprecante me exemplanda misisti illico ad beatitudinem uestram uolumen utrumque direxi; unica uero illa et sine comparatione doctrina, qua ex utroque testamento magnorum aenigmatum absolutissime aperiens quaestiones amoto uelamine oculis cordis uerum spiritalis intellegentia lumen infundit, quam admirationi mihi fuerit, manifestius declarare non potui, quam ut eam a me faterer digne non posse laudari. quamquam quid ego ad adtollenda ea quae editis solum me esse imparem dicam? pace dictum sit omnium qui sunt optime his quae liberalia appellant studia instituti, nec ab his quidem mira librorum tuorum praeconia satis digne excoli posse existimo.
我懷著喜樂、匆忙地抄錄了你應我懇求而寄來供謄寫的著作，隨即把兩卷都送呈你的聖德。至於那獨一無二、無可比擬的教導——你藉著它，最為徹底地揭開兩約中重大奧祕的種種問題，挪去帕子，把屬靈悟性的真光注入人心之眼——我對它何等欽佩，我無法更明白地表達，只能承認我無法配得地讚美它。然而，我又何必僅僅說自己不配頌揚你所發表的著作呢？容我冒昧地說——願受過那被稱為「博雅學藝」之最佳訓練的眾人不要見怪——我認為連他們也不能充分而配得地彰顯你書中奇妙的功績。
Having joyfully and in haste transcribed the works you sent at my entreaty to be copied, I at once directed both volumes to your beatitude. But as for that teaching, unique and beyond compare, by which—most completely unfolding the questions of great mysteries from both Testaments and lifting the veil—you pour the true light of spiritual understanding into the eyes of the heart: how great my admiration of it has been I could not more plainly declare than by confessing that I cannot worthily praise it. And yet why should I call myself merely unequal to extolling the things you publish? Be it said without offense to all who are best trained in those studies they call the liberal arts—I do not think that the marvelous merits of your books can be sufficiently and worthily set forth even by them.
1:2
quia licet facilius esse decernant iudicare quam dicere, mihi tamen adeo persuasum est non esse hoc facile, ut merito definiam, quod nemo rectius tam praeclari operis praedicator existeret quam eius inuentor et conditor, quia, quod nemo sic potuit inuenire, utique sic nemo laudat. sed dum haec tacitus mecum reuoluo, occurrit mihi quod in bibliothecis studiosi saecularium litterarum puer quondam, ut se aetatis illius curiositas habet, praetereundo legissem.
因為他們雖斷定評判比創作容易，我卻深信此事並不容易，以致我恰當地論定：對於如此卓越之作，沒有誰能比其發現者與作者本人成為更合宜的頌揚者——既然無人能如此構思出來的，自然也無人能如他那般稱頌。然而當我默默在心中思量這些事時，腦海浮現出一件往事：我幼年時，憑著那年紀特有的好奇，曾在那些醉心世俗文學之人的藏書室裡，順手讀到過一段話。
For although they decree it easier to judge than to compose, yet I am so persuaded that this is not easy that I rightly conclude no one could prove a more fitting herald of so illustrious a work than its own discoverer and author—since what no one was able so to invent, surely no one praises as he. But while I turn these things over silently within myself, there comes to mind something which, as a boy, with the curiosity proper to that age, I once read in passing in the libraries of those devoted to secular letters.
1:3
nam cum supra memoratae aedis ordinator ac dominus inter expressas lapillis aut ceris discoloribus formatasque effigies uel oratorum uel etiam poetarum specialia singulorum autotypis epigrammata subdidisset, ubi ad praeiudicati eloquii uenit poetam, hoc modo orsus est: Virgilium uatem melius sua carmina laudant, in freta dum fluuii current, dum montibus umbrae lustrabunt conuexa, polus dum sidera pascet . semper honos, nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt . et uere, dummodo orationibus tuis culpa caream, quod inter sacros apices commemorationesque sanctorum mundialium a me scripturarum promuntur exempla, merito mihi dominum Eucherium mente recolenti memoratum in memoriam opus recurrit.
原來，那建築的興建者兼主人，在用小石子或各色蠟塑造的肖像之間，於每一位——無論是演說家還是詩人——的畫像之下，都題上各自專屬的銘辭；當他來到那位辯才超群的詩人時，便如此起首道：「自有詩歌更能讚頌詩人維吉爾——當江河奔流入海，當山影掠過幽谷，當穹蒼餵養群星之時。你的尊榮、你的名字、你的稱讚必永遠長存。」而確實——只要靠你的代禱，我在聖經與聖徒的紀念之間引述世俗文章為例不致受責——當我心中追念尤切利烏斯大人時，那段記起的文字便理當重回我的記憶。
For when the builder and lord of the aforementioned edifice had set, among the likenesses fashioned of little stones or of variously colored waxes, beneath each one—whether of orators or even of poets—particular epigrams in their own portraits, when he came to the poet of preeminent eloquence, he began thus: 'His own songs better praise the bard Virgil—while rivers run into the seas, while shadows traverse the hollows of the mountains, while the heaven feeds the stars. Ever shall thine honor, thy name, and thy praises abide.' And truly—provided that by your prayers I be free from blame, in that amid the sacred letters and commemorations of the saints I bring forth examples of worldly writings—deservedly, as I call to mind lord Eucherius, that remembered work returns to my memory.
1:4
nam dum erunt superius conprehensa, omnium Christianorum ore et amore celebrabere praedicandus in posterum, dum doces posteros. ora pro me, domine uere sancte atque amice dei et mihi in Christo omni cultu suscipiende pater.
因為上文所述既將長存，你便要在後世被眾基督徒以口稱頌、以愛追念，配得傳揚，只要你仍教導後人。求你為我代禱，真正聖潔之主、神的朋友啊，也是我當在基督裡以全然敬虔接待的父。
For while the things set forth above shall endure, you shall be celebrated, worthy of proclamation, by the mouth and love of all Christians in time to come, so long as you teach those who come after. Pray for me, lord truly holy and friend of God, and father to be received by me with all reverence in Christ.