17:78
quis tam tuto praecauebit? Exeundum de saeculo erit. Quasi non tanti sit exire, quam idololatren in saeculo stare. Nihil esse facilius potest, quam cautio idololatriae, si timor eius in capite sit. Quaecumque necessitas minor est periculo tanto comparata. Propterea spiritus sanctus consultantibus tunc apostolis uinculum et iugum nobis relaxauit, ut idololatriae deuitandae uacaremus. Haec erit lex nostra, quo expedita hoc plenius administranda, propria Christianorum, per quam ab ethnicis agnoscimur et examinamur, haec accedentibus ad fidem proponenda et ingredientibus in fidem inculcanda est, ut accedentes deliberent, obseruantes perseuerent, non obseruantes renuntient sibi.
「誰能這樣安全地防備它呢？那就非離開世界不可了。」彷彿離開世界，不比作一個拜偶像者站在世上更值得似的！倘若懼怕拜偶像的心居於首位，那麼再沒有比防備拜偶像更容易的了。與這樣大的危險相比，無論何等的必要都算小的。為此，聖靈在眾使徒當時商議時，為我們鬆開了那束縛與軛，好叫我們得以專心避開拜偶像。這將是我們的律法，越是無所牽絆，就越當完全地遵行；這是基督徒特有的律法，外邦人藉此認出並察驗我們；這律法當擺在歸信的人面前，並灌輸給那進入信仰的人，好叫將歸信的人斟酌，遵守的人堅忍，不遵守的人自行棄絕。
'Who will guard against it so safely? One would have to go out of the world.' As though it were not worth as much to go out, as to stand in the world an idolater! Nothing can be easier than caution against idolatry, if the fear of it be uppermost in the head. Any necessity whatever is smaller when compared with peril so great. For this reason the Holy Spirit, when the apostles then deliberated, relaxed the bond and the yoke for us, that we might be at leisure for avoiding idolatry. This will be our law, the more fully to be administered the more it is disengaged; the peculiar law of Christians, by which we are recognized and examined by the heathen; this is to be set before those coming to the faith, and inculcated in those entering into the faith, that those coming may deliberate, that the observant may persevere, and that the non-observant may renounce themselves.
17:79
Viderimus enim si secundum arcae typum et coruus et miluus et lupus et canis et serpens in ecclesia erit. Certe idololatres in arcae typo non habetur. Nullum animal in idololatren figuratum est. Quod in arca non fuit, in ecclesia non sit. Latin text from the edition of A. Reifferscheid, G. Wissowa, 1890. Transcribed by Roger Pearse, 2002
因為讓我們察看，照著方舟的預表，烏鴉、鳶、狼、狗、與蛇是否也要在教會裡。誠然，拜偶像者並不算在方舟的預表之中。沒有一樣走獸被描繪為拜偶像者。凡不在方舟裡的，就不當在教會裡。（拉丁文本取自 A. Reifferscheid、G. Wissowa 一八九〇年版，Roger Pearse 二〇〇二年轉錄。）
For let us see whether, according to the type of the ark, the raven too and the kite and the wolf and the dog and the serpent will be in the Church. Certainly the idolater is not counted in the type of the ark. No animal is figured as an idolater. What was not in the ark, let it not be in the Church. (Latin text from the edition of A. Reifferscheid, G. Wissowa, 1890. Transcribed by Roger Pearse, 2002.)