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Homilies on Second Corinthians 4 part 2/2

Greek original · 10 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss · long chapter, split into parts; this part covers 4:287–4:296 (296 verses in all)

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4:287
Ἀρίθμει τοίνυν τὰ φάρμακα τὰ ἰώμενά σου τὰ τραύματα, καὶ πάντα ἐπιτίθει συνεχῶς, ταπεινοφροσύνην, ἐξομολόγησιν, τὸ μὴ μνησικακεῖν, τὸ πάσχοντα κακῶς εὐχαριστεῖν, τὸ ἐλεεῖν διὰ χρημάτων, διὰ πραγμάτων, τὸ εὔχεσθαι καρτερικῶς
Count up, therefore, the remedies that heal your wounds, and apply them all continually: humility, confession, the not bearing of grudges, the giving of thanks when suffering ill, showing mercy through money and through deeds, and praying with perseverance.
所以要數算那些醫治你創傷的良藥,並且要不斷地將它們全都敷上:謙卑、認罪、不記仇、在受苦時感恩、藉錢財與行為施憐憫、以及恆切禱告。
4:288
Οὕτως ἡ χήρα τὸν ὠμὸν καὶ ἀπηνῆ ἐξιλεώσατο δικαστήν
Thus the widow appeased the harsh and unfeeling judge.
那寡婦就是這樣使那嚴酷無情的審判官回心轉意的。
4:289
Εἰ δὲ ἐκείνη τὸν ἄδικον, πολλῷ μᾶλλον σὺ τὸν ἥμερον
But if she appeased the unjust one, much more will you appease the gentle One.
她既能使那不義的審判官回心轉意,你就更能使那溫柔的主回心轉意了。
4:290
Ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα μετὰ τούτων ὁδὸς, τὸ προΐστασθαι τῶν ἀδικουμένων·
There is with these yet another way: to stand up for those who are wronged.
除這些之外還有另一條路,就是為受屈的人辯護。
4:291
Κρίνατε γὰρ, φησὶν,. ὀρφανῷ, καὶ δικαιώσατε χήραν·
For 'Judge,' He says, 'for the orphan, and do justice to the widow;
因為祂說:「你們要為孤兒伸冤,為寡婦辨屈;
4:292
καὶ δεῦτε, καὶ διαλεχθῶμεν, καὶ ἐὰν ὦσι αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ὑμῶν ὡς φοινικοῦν, ὡς χιόνα λευκανῶ
and come, let us reason together, and though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow.'
你們來,我們彼此辯論。你們的罪雖像硃紅,我必使它們白如雪。」
4:293
Ποίας οὖν ἂν εἴημεν ἀπολογίας ἄξιοι, εἰ τοσαύτας ἔχοντες ὁδοὺς εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀναγούσας, καὶ τοιαῦτα φάρμακα ἰώμενα τὰ τραύματα, καὶ μετὰ τὸ λουτρὸν τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐπιμένομεν; Μὴ τοίνυν ἐπιμένωμεν, ἀλλ' οἱ μὲν μηδέπω πεσόντες, ἐν τῷ οἰκείῳ μενέτωσαν κάλλει, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐπιπλέον ἀσκείτωσαν τοῦτο·
What defense, then, would we be worthy of, if, having so many ways leading up to heaven, and such remedies to heal our wounds, we yet persist in the same faults even after the washing? Let us not, then, persist; but let those who have not yet fallen abide in their own beauty—or rather, let them practice it the more.
那麼,我們既有這麼多通往天國的道路、又有這麼多醫治創傷的良藥,卻在受洗之後仍執迷於同樣的過失,我們還能有什麼可辯之詞呢?所以我們不可執迷;那些尚未跌倒的人,當存留在自己固有的美德中——不如說,當更加操練這美德。
4:294
κἂν γὰρ μὴ εὕρῃ ἁμαρτήματα, ταυτὶ τὰ κατορθώματα πλείονα ποιεῖ τὴν εὐμορφίαν·
For even if one find no sins, these good deeds make one's comeliness greater;
因為即使找不到罪過,這些善行也使人的美善更為增添;
4:295
ἡμεῖς δὲ οἱ πολλὰ πεπλημμεληκότες, εἰς τὴν τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων διόρθωσιν χρησώμεθα τοῖς εἰρημένοις, ἵνα τῷ βήματι τοῦ Χριστοῦ μετὰ παῤῥησίας παραστῶμεν πολλῆς·
and let us who have committed many faults use what has been said for the correction of our sins, that we may stand before the tribunal of Christ with great boldness;
至於我們這些犯了許多過失的人,就當運用所說的這些,來改正我們的罪,好叫我們能坦然無懼地站在基督的審判台前;
4:296
ἧς γένοιτο πάντας ἡμᾶς ἐπιτυχεῖν, χάριτι καὶ φιλανθρωπίᾳ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, μεθ' οὗ τῷ Πατρὶ ἅμα τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι δόξα, κράτος, τιμὴ, νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ, καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων
which may it be granted us all to attain, by the grace and love toward mankind of our Lord Jesus Christ, with whom to the Father together with the Holy Spirit be glory, might, and honor, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
願我們眾人都得以達到這境地,靠著我們主耶穌基督的恩典與慈愛;願榮耀、權能、尊貴歸與祂,並歸與父和聖靈,從今直到永永遠遠。阿們。
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