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Theological and Ethical Discourses 1 part 12/27

Greek original · 162 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss · long chapter, split into parts; this part covers 1:1766–1:1927 (3767 verses in all)

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1:1766
Εἰ γάρ καί μή συναντήσει τοῦτο ἡμῖν τό βιαίῳ θανάτῳ τόν βίον ὑπεξελθεῖν, ἀλλά τῇ προαιρέσει, ὡς ἔργῳ τοῦτο ἤδη παθόντες καί ὑπομείναντες, λογισθήσεται ἡμῖν ὑπό τοῦ φιλανθρώπου Θεοῦ ἡμῶν καί ἀγωνοθέτου κατά τόν λέγοντα ἅγιον·
For even if it should not befall us to depart from life by a violent death, yet by intention — as though we had already suffered and endured this in deed — it will be reckoned to us by our loving God and judge of the contest, according to the holy man who says:
因為即便我們不曾遭遇以暴力的死法離世,只要出於心志,如同已經在事實上受了這苦、忍耐了下來,這也必蒙我們那仁愛的神並賽場裁判者算為如此,正如那位聖者所說:
1:1767
Νή τήν ὑμετέραν ἀγάπην, καθ ἡμέραν ἀποθνῄσκω
'By your love, I die daily.'
「『我指著你們的愛起誓,我是天天冒死。』」
1:1768
Οὐχ ὡς τῇ πείρᾳ τοῦτο πολλάκις παθών, ἀλλά τῇ προθέσει, φησί, καί πάλιν·
Not as having often suffered this in experience, but in intention, he says. And again:
並非因為他屢次在實際經歷中受過這事,而是就存心而言,他說。又說:
1:1769
Διώκω εἰ καί καταλάβω, ἐφ ᾧ καί κατελήφθην
'I press on, if indeed I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of.'
「『我竭力追求,或者可以得著我所以被基督耶穌得著的。』」
1:1770
Ἔτι δέ καί ὑπέρ πάντων ὀφείλομεν τῶν δι ἥντινα αἰτίαν λυπούντων ἤ λοιδορούντων ἡμᾶς καί ὑπέρ τῶν ἐχθρωδῶς πρός ἡμᾶς ἐκ πονηρᾶς προθέσεως διακειμένων ἀεί, ἀλλά καί ὑπέρ τῶν πιστῶν ἁπάντων καί ἀπίστων προσεύχεσθαι, ὡς ἄν οἱ τῆς πλάνης ἀπαλλαγῶσι καί τῇ ἀληθινῇ πίστει προσέλθωσι
Moreover, we also ought always to pray for all who, for whatever reason, grieve or revile us, and for those who are disposed toward us with hostility out of an evil intention, but also for all the faithful and unbelievers, that those in error may be delivered from it and come to the true faith.
此外,我們也應當常常為那些因任何緣故使我們憂愁或辱罵我們的人禱告,也為那些出於惡意常常敵視我們的人禱告,甚至也要為所有信與不信的人禱告,好叫在迷途中的人得以脫離迷惑,歸向真實的信仰。
1:1771
Ταῦτα οὐδείς ποτε ἀνθρώπων ἐννοῆσαι ἀφ ἑαυτοῦ ἤ εἰπεῖν ἤ ἀκοῇ παραδέξασθαι, μἠ ὅτι γε ἔργῳ αὐτά διαπράξασθαι ἠδυνήθη, εἰ μή ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ πρότερον ἐξεχύθη πλουσίως ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ καί ἔνοικον ἔσχε δι αὐτῆς τόν εἰπόντα·
No man has ever been able of himself to conceive these things, or to speak them, or to accept them by hearing — let alone to accomplish them in deed — unless the love of God had first been poured out richly in his heart, and through it he had come to have dwelling within him the one who said:
這些事,若不是神的愛先豐富地澆灌在人心裡,並藉此使那位說話者住在人裡面,人絕不可能憑自己想到、說出、或聽聞而領受,更遑論在行為上實踐出來——那位說的是:
1:1772
Οὐ δύνασθε χωρίς ἐμοῦ ποιεῖν οὐδέν
'Without me you can do nothing.'
「『離了我,你們就不能做什麼。』」
1:1773
Ἀλλ οὐδέ τῆς τοιαύτης χάριτος καί δωρεᾶς ἔτυχέ τις, εἰ μή πρότερον ἑαυτόν ἀπηρνήσατο, καθώς ἐνετείλατο ὁ Σωτήρ καί ἡμεῖς λεπτότερον ἐδηλώσαμεν, τῷ Κυρίῳ δηλονότι ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ εὐπροθύμως δουλεύσας καί ἀγαπήσας αὐτόν
But no one has attained such grace and gift unless he first denied himself, as the Savior commanded — and we have explained this more precisely — that is, having served the Lord with a whole heart and willing readiness, and having loved him.
但沒有人能得著這樣的恩典與恩賜,除非他先否定自己,正如救主所吩咐的——這一點我們已較詳細地說明過——就是全心甘願地事奉主,並愛祂。
1:1774
Εἰ δέ μή ταύτην ἀναφαίρετον εἴληφε, μηδείς ἑαυτόν ἀπατάτω, γινωσκέτω δέ τοῦτο, ὡς οὐδέ τῆς μετά Θεοῦ ἑνώσεως τῆς ἐν νοερᾷ αἰσθήσει καί γνώσει καί θεωρίᾳ γινομένης κατηξιώθη ἤ καταξιωθήσεται πώποτε
But if he has not received this as an inalienable possession, let no one deceive himself; rather let him know this: that he has never been deemed worthy, nor ever will be, of union with God that comes about in noetic perception and knowledge and contemplation.
若尚未領受這愛為不能被奪去的產業,任何人都不可自欺,而應當知道:他從未蒙受、也永不會蒙受那藉著心智的覺知、認識與默觀而成就的、與神合一的恩典。
1:1775
Οἱ γάρ χρηματίσαντες ἄνδρες τέλειοι ἐν τῇ μεθέξει τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ χάριτος () καί τήν πνευματικήν ἡλικίαν ἐν τῷ ῥηθέντι μέτρῳ τελείαν κτησάμενοι ὅλοι γίνονται μετά τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὁρῶντες αὐτόν τοσοῦτον ὅσον ὁρῶνται καί αὐτοί ὑπ αὐτοῦ
For those men who have been called perfect through participation in the grace of God, and who have acquired the spiritual stature that is perfect according to the measure spoken of, become wholly united with God, seeing him to the same degree that they themselves are seen by him.
因為那些藉著分享神的恩典而被稱為完全人、並依前述尺度獲得完全屬靈身量的人,就全然與神合一,他們看見神的程度,正如他們自己被神看見的程度一樣。
1:1776
Μένει γάρ γνωστῶς ὁ Θεός ἐν αὐτοῖς καί αὐτοί γνωστῶς ἐν τῷ Θεῷ μένουσιν ἀχωρίστως καί ἀδιαστάτως
For God dwells in them knowably, and they likewise dwell knowably in God, inseparably and undividedly.
因為神以可知的方式住在他們裡面,他們也以可知的方式住在神裡面,彼此不可分離、不可間隔。
1:1777
Ὁπηνίκα δέ οὕτως ἕξουσι τελειωθέντες καλῶς, τηνικαῦτα καί ὁ Πατήρ αὐτῶν ὁ οὐράνιος τά ὑπάρχοντα αὐτῷ δίδωσιν εἰς τάς χεῖρας αὐτῶν
And whenever they shall have thus attained this state, having been rightly perfected, then also their heavenly Father gives what belongs to him into their hands.
當他們如此蒙受美好的成全,達到這境地時,他們的天父便將屬於祂自己的一切都交在他們手中。
1:1778
ὑπάρχοντα δέ αὐτοῦ ταῦτά εἰσιν·
and these are what belong to him:
而屬於祂的乃是這些:
1:1779
τό ἀθάνατον, τό ἄφθαρτον, τό ἄτρεπτον, τό ἀναλλοίωτον, τό ἀΐδιον, τό ἀμήχανον κάλλος τῆς δόξης ἧς εἶχεν ὁ Υἱός πρό τοῦ τόν κόσμον γενέσθαι παρά τῷ Θεῷ καί Πατρί, καθώς φησιν αὐτός ὁ Λόγος καί Υἱός τοῦ Πατρός·
immortality, incorruptibility, immutability, unchangeableness, eternity, the ineffable beauty of the glory which the Son had with God the Father before the world came to be, as the Word and Son of the Father himself says:
不死、不朽壞、不可轉變、不可更改、永恆,以及那在創世以前,聖子在神與父那裡所擁有之榮耀的、無法言喻之美——正如那道、那父的兒子親自所說:
1:1780
Δόξασόν με σύ, πάτερ, τῇ δόξῃ ᾗ εἶχον πρό τοῦ τόν κόσμον εἶναι παρά σοι, καί πάλιν·
'Father, glorify me with the glory I had with you before the world was.' And again:
「『父啊,願你榮耀我,就是我未有世界以先、在你那裡所有的榮耀。』又說:
1:1781
Τήν δόξαν ἥν δέδωκάς μοι δέδωκα αὐτοῖς, ἵνα ἕν ὦσι, καθώς σύ, Πάτερ, ἐν ἐμοί κἀγώ ἐν αὐτοῖς
'The glory which you have given me I have given them, that they may be one, even as you, Father, are in me and I in them.'
「『你所賜給我的榮耀,我已賜給他們,使他們合而為一,正如你父在我裡面,我也在他們裡面。』」
1:1782
Ἐξ οὗ πηγάζει τό φῶς τό ἀπρόσιτον μέν τοῖς ἁμαρτωλοῖς ἅπασι, προσιτόν δέ ἐν αὐτοῖς ἀνατέλλον καί γινόμενον τούτοις χαρά ἀνεκλάλητος, εἰρήνη πάντα νοῦν ὑπερέχουσα, τρυφή καί ἀπόλαυσις καί εὐφροσύνη ἐν ἀκορέστῶ κόρῳ νῦν καί εἰς τούς ἀτελευτήτους αἰῶνας
From this there springs forth the light which is inaccessible to all sinners, but accessible, rising within them, and becoming for them joy unspeakable, peace surpassing all understanding, delight and enjoyment and gladness in insatiable satiety, now and unto the endless ages.
由此湧出那光,它對一切罪人是不可親近的,但在他們裡面卻是可親近的、升起的,並成為他們難以言喻的喜樂、出人意外的平安、以及在永不飽足之飽足中的甘甜、享受與歡欣,直到如今,直到無窮的世代。
1:1783
Καί ἵνα συνελών εἴπω, μᾶλλον δέ εἰπεῖν μή δυνάμενος, οὕτω πως κἀγώ ἐκπληττόμενος, τάς ἀπαρχάς τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐκείνων ἁπάντων, ὧν ὀφθαλμός τεθολωμένος τοῖς πάθεσι τό κάλλος οὐκ εἶδεν, οὐδέ οὖς βεβυσμένον τῇ ἀγνωσίᾳ ἤκουσεν, οὐδέ ἐπί καρδίαν ἀκάθαρτον ἀνέβη ἀνθρώπου, ἅ ὁ Θεός ἡτοίμασε τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτόν, ὡς ἀρραβῶνας ἀπ ἐντεῦθεν ἤδη τοῖς πιστοῖς ὁ ἀψευδής καί πιστός δίδωσι
And to sum up — or rather, being unable to say it, thus somehow being amazed myself — the firstfruits of all those good things, whose beauty an eye clouded by passions has not seen, nor an ear stopped up by ignorance heard, nor has it arisen upon the unclean heart of man, which God has prepared for those who love him — these the one who is truthful and faithful already gives from here on as pledges to the faithful.
總而言之——或者不如說我根本無法說出來,正如我自己也如此驚訝——那位不撒謊、信實的神,已經從現在起,把這一切美善之物的初果,作為憑據賜給信徒;那美善之物的美,是被情慾蒙蔽的眼睛未曾見過的,是被無知堵塞的耳朵未曾聽過的,也未曾進入人不潔淨的心,是神為愛祂的人所預備的。
1:1784
Ταῦτα οὖν εἰσιν ἅ προϋπεσχόμην ὑμῖν εἰπεῖν ὑπάρχοντα () εἶναι τοῦ Πατρός
These, then, are the things I had previously promised to tell you, which belong to the Father.
這些便是我先前應許要告訴你們的,那屬於父的產業。
1:1785
Καί οὕτω ταῦτα δίδωσιν, ὡς ἠκούσατε, τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτόν καί διάγουσιν ἐν τῇ γῇ καθάπερ ἐν οὐρανῷ, καί οὖσιν ἐν τῷ θανάτῳ ὡς ἤδη τῇ ἀθανασίᾳ τετιμημένοι, καί ἐν τῷ σκότει περιπατοῦσιν ὡς ἐν ἡμέρᾳ καί ἐν ἀδύτῳ φωτί·
And thus, as you have heard, he gives these things to those who love him and pass their lives on earth as though in heaven, and who, though in death, are as those already honored with immortality, and who, walking in darkness, are as though in daylight and in unsetting light;
祂便如此,正如你們所聽見的,把這一切賜給那些愛祂、在地上如同在天上度日的人;他們雖處於死亡之中,卻彷彿已蒙不朽之尊榮;他們行在黑暗中,卻彷彿行在白晝與永不落下之光中;
1:1786
ἐν δέ τῷ βορβορώδει τούτῳ σώματι ἀναπνέουσιν, ὡς ἐν τῷ τῆς τρυφῆς παραδείσῳ κεκτημένοι τό τῆς ζωῆς ξύλον ἐν μέσῳ, ναί μήν καί αὐτήν τήν τῶν ἀγγέλων τροφήν, τόν οὐράνιον ἄρτον, ἐξ ὧν πᾶσαι αἱ ἄϋλοι δυνάμεις τῶν οὐρανῶν τρεφόμεναι ἀκηράτως ζωοῦνται·
and though they breathe within this muddy body, it is as though they possessed, in the paradise of delight, the tree of life in its midst — yes, indeed, even the very food of angels, the heavenly bread, by which all the immaterial powers of the heavens are nourished and live incorruptibly;
他們雖在這污濁的身體中呼吸,卻彷彿身處那滿有喜樂的樂園,擁有其中的生命樹,甚至還有天使的食糧、天上的糧食,眾天上無形的能力正是靠這糧食得養、無玷得生命;
1:1787
οἵ καί στρεφόμενοι ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ κόσμου καί τῶν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ πραγμάτων βοῶσιν ἐν ἀληθείᾳ μετά τοῦ Παύλου·
and these, even while moving about in the midst of the world and its affairs, cry out in truth together with Paul:
他們雖置身於世界及世上諸事之中往來,卻能與保羅一同真實地宣告:
1:1788
Ἡμῶν δέ τό πολίτευμα ἐν οὐρανοῖς ὑπάρχει, ἔνθα πέλουσα ἡ ἁγία ἀγάπη, συγγινομένη τοῖς ἑαυτῆς ἐρασταῖς καί πλουσίως αὐτούς περιλαμποῦσα, ἀπαθεῖς καί τῷ ὄντι ἀγγέλους ἐργάζεται
'Our citizenship is in heaven' — there where holy love abides, keeping company with its own lovers and richly shining round about them, making them dispassionate and, indeed, truly angels.
「『我們卻是天上的國民』——聖潔的愛正棲居在那裡,與愛慕祂的人相伴,並豐盛地光照他們,使他們成為無情慾之累、真正如同天使一般的人。」
1:1789
Ὁ οὖν πρό τοῦ συναφθῆναι αὐτῇ καί συγκραθῆναι ὁλοτελῶς ἀπαθῆ ἑαυτόν ὀνομάζων, ἤ διδάσκων ἑτέρους, ἤ τά τῶν ἀπαθῶν ἔργα πράττειν ἐπιχειρῶν, ἤ πάλιν τά ὑπ ἐκείνων πραττόμενα ἀπιστῶν, νηπίῳ ἔοικεν ἁπαλῷ, ἐν ἀώρῳ τῇ ἡλικίᾳ τά τῶν ἀνδρῶν ὅπλα αἴροντι καί ἑτέρους περί πολέμου διδάσκειν ἐπαγγελλομένῳ, οὐ μόνον δέ, ἀλλά καί ἑαυτόν συνεξισοῦντι καί παρενείροντι τοῖς ἀνδράσι καί πολεμισταῖς καί πρός πόλεμον ἀπιέναι σύν αὐτοῖς ἐπιχειροῦντι
He, then, who — before being joined to it and wholly blended with it — calls himself dispassionate, or teaches others so, or attempts to perform the works of the dispassionate, or again disbelieves the things done by such men, resembles a tender infant who, at an age unripe for it, takes up the weapons of grown men and professes to teach others about warfare; and not only this, but also seeks to make himself equal to and to insert himself among grown men and warriors, and attempts to march out to war together with them.
因此,凡在與此愛聯結、與之完全融合之前,就自稱無情慾之累、或教導他人如此、或試圖做出無情慾之累者所做的事,或反過來不相信這些人所做的事的人,就好比一個柔弱的嬰兒,在年紀尚未成熟時就拿起成人的兵器,並自稱要教導他人作戰;不僅如此,還企圖使自己與成年的戰士並駕齊驅、擠身其中,並試圖與他們一同出征。
1:1790
Ὅπερ οὐκ ἀδύνατον μόνον ἐστίν, ἀλλά καί πολλοῦ γέλωτος ἄξιον·
This is not only impossible, but also worthy of much laughter;
這不但是不可能的,也是十分可笑的;
1:1791
ὑπ αὐτῶν γάρ ὧν ἐπιφέρεται ὅπλων συμποδισθήσεται πάντως καί καταβληθήσεται καί συντριβήσεται καί οὐδέ ἀναστῆσαι ἴσως δυνήσεται
for he will certainly be entangled by the very weapons he carries, and be thrown down, and be crushed, and perhaps will not even be able to rise up again.
因為他必定會被自己所攜帶的那些兵器絆倒、擊倒、壓碎,甚至可能連站起來都做不到。
1:1792
οὐκ οἶδε γάρ ὅτι οἱ ἐν πολέμῳ πληττόμενοι καί καταβαλλόμενοι ἐξεγείρονται πάλιν καί ἐμπειρότεροι γίνονται καί κραταιότερον τοῖς ἐχθροῖς ἀντιμάχονται
For he does not know that those who are struck and cast down in war rise up again and become more experienced, and fight back against their enemies more powerfully.
因為他不知道,那些在戰爭中被擊打、被打倒的人會再次奮起,變得更有經驗,並更強而有力地與敵人交戰。
1:1793
Εἰ γάρ δειλόν ἄνδρα μή ἐξιέναι εἰς πόλεμον τῷ Μωϋσῇ ὁ Θεός διετάξατο, πόσῳ γε ( ) μᾶλλον νηπίῳ ἔτι καί μηδέ ἀφ ἑαυτοῦ περιπατεῖν ἤ ζώννυσθαι δυναμένῳ ἁρμόσει τήν ἀνδρῴαν ἡλικίαν ἐκδέξασθαι καί μή πρό τούτου τοῖς ἀδυνάτοις ἐπιχειρεῖν
For if God commanded Moses that the fearful man should not go out to war, how much more fitting is it that one who is still an infant and not even able to walk or gird himself unaided should wait for the age of manhood, and not, before that, attempt things beyond his power.
若神曾吩咐摩西,膽怯的人不可出去打仗,那麼對一個尚是嬰孩、甚至還不能自己行走或束腰的人來說,豈不更當等候成年,而不應在此之前,就嘗試去做力所不能及的事嗎?
1:1794
Ὅμως μέντοι ἐπειδή οὐκ ἔστιν ἡμῖν ἡ πάλη πρός αἷμα καί σάρκα, ἀλλά πρός τάς ἀρχάς, πρός τάς ἐξουσίας, πρός τούς κοσμοκράτορας τοῦ σκότους τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου, πρός τά πνευματικά τῆς πονηρίας ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις, οὐδέ τά ὅπλα ἡμῶν σαρκικά καί ὁρώμενα, ἀλλά πνευματικά καί νοούμενα, ὑπάρχει δέ καί ὁ πόλεμος οὗτος ἀόρατος, ἀοράτως πρός ἀοράτους ἐχθρούς γινόμενος, διά τοῦτο πάντες οἱ δοκοῦντες εἶναί τι ἑαυτούς ἐπιδείκνυνται τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τολμηρούς περί ταῦτα καί ἀνδρείους καί περί τήν ἐξήγησιν τῆς τοιαύτης πάλης καί τῆς ἀντιπαρατάξεως λίαν ἐμπείρους, ἀλλά μήν καί αὐτῆς τῆς ἥττης καί νίκης τῶν πονηρῶν σοφούς καί ἐπιστήμονας καί διδακτικούς
Nevertheless, since our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places, and our weapons are not fleshly and visible but spiritual and intelligible, and moreover this warfare is invisible, being waged invisibly against invisible enemies — for this reason all who think themselves to be something display themselves to men as bold and courageous in these matters, and as thoroughly experienced in the exposition of such conflict and counter-array, and indeed as wise and knowledgeable and skilled teachers concerning the defeat and victory over the evil powers.
然而,既然我們並不是與屬血氣的爭戰,而是與那些執政的、掌權的、管轄這黑暗世界的、以及天上屬靈氣的惡魔爭戰;我們的兵器也不是屬肉體、看得見的,而是屬靈的、可思念的;而且這場爭戰本是不可見的,是不可見地與不可見的仇敵作戰——正因如此,那些自以為是什麼人物的人,就在人前把自己表現得對此十分大膽勇敢,對這種爭戰與對陣的闡述也極其老練,甚至在論及戰勝或戰敗那些惡者上,也儼然是智慧、精通且善於教導的人。
1:1795
Ὅθεν καί ὡς μονομάχοι τινές καί νικηταί τῶν ἐχθρῶν διά τῆς κενολογίας καί ἀπάτης τῶν συλλογισμῶν τοῖς πᾶσι γνωρίζεσθαι σπεύδουσιν·
Hence they hasten to make themselves known to all as certain champions and conquerors of the enemy through empty talk and the deceit of their reasonings;
因此,他們急切地想藉著空談與詭辯的欺哄,使眾人認識他們是某種角鬥士,是戰勝仇敵的得勝者;
1:1796
οἵ, καί ἐλεγχόμενοι καί ὑπό τοῦ οἰκείου συνειδότος κατακρινόμενοι ὡς ἄπρακτοι καί τοῦ τοιούτου πολέμου ἄπειροι, οὐ δύνανται συγκαταθέσθαι καί τήν ἑαυτῶν ἀσθένειαν καί ἀπειρίαν καθομολογῆσαι ὑπό φιλοδοξίας καί ἀνθρωπαρεσκείας κατακρατούμενοι·
and even when convicted and condemned by their own conscience as men of no accomplishment and inexperienced in such warfare, they are unable to agree and confess their own weakness and inexperience, being held fast by love of glory and man-pleasing;
這些人即使被自己的良心指責、定罪為毫無成就、對這樣的爭戰全然無經驗的人,卻因被好名與討好人之心所轄制,仍不肯承認、也不肯坦承自己的軟弱與無經驗;
1:1797
λίαν γάρ τῆς δόξης ἐκπεσεῖν τῶν ἀνθρώπων φοβοῦνται
for they greatly fear falling from the esteem of men.
因為他們極其懼怕在人眼中失去榮譽。
1:1798
Ἐπειδή γάρ οὐ βλέπονται κατά ψυχήν τοῖς πλησίον ὁποῖοί ποτ ἄν εἰσιν, οὐδέ παρά τῶν ἀνθρώπων καταλαμβάνονται ὅτι γυμνοί τυγχάνουσι τῶν τοῦ Πνεύματος ὅπλων, οὐδέ ὅτι ἀσθενεῖς ἔτι καί νήπιοί εἰσι, κρύπτουσιν ἑαυτούς τῷ κωδίῳ τῆς ὑποκρίσεως καί τῇ δορᾷ τοῦ προβάτου·
For since they are not seen by their neighbors according to their soul, as they truly are, nor are they perceived by men to be in fact stripped of the weapons of the Spirit, nor to be still weak and infants, they hide themselves under the fleece of hypocrisy and the sheep's clothing;
因為鄰人看不見他們靈魂的真實光景,也沒有人察覺到他們其實是赤裸無聖靈兵器的、仍是軟弱且幼稚的,於是他們就用偽善的羊毛、綿羊的皮把自己遮蓋起來;
1:1799
καί τοῦτο τοῖς πᾶσι διά τῆς χρηστολογίας φαίνεσθαι βούλονται ὅπερ οἱ τήν κατά Χριστόν ἡλικίαν διά πόνων κτησάμενοι αὐτοί, μηδέ τάς βάσεις ἴσως τῆς πίστεως καί ἐλπίδος () ἐπί τήν πέτραν ἐρείσαντες, μηδέ τήν οἰκοδομήν τῶν ἀρετῶν ἐπί τόν θεμέλιον Χριστόν ἀνυψώσαντες
and through smooth speech they wish to appear to all to be that which those who acquired the stature according to Christ through toils actually are — though they themselves have perhaps not even set the foundations of faith and hope firmly upon the rock, nor raised up the edifice of the virtues upon the foundation, Christ.
他們藉著花言巧語,想在眾人面前顯得如同那些藉勞苦而獲得基督身量的人一般——儘管他們自己或許連信與望的根基都尚未立在磐石上,更未曾在根基基督之上建立起德行的大廈。
1:1800
Διά δή τοῦτο ἀμφίβολοι ἔτι καί ἀδόκιμοι ὄντες, τῇ ἐπιφορᾷ τῶν πειρασμῶν καί τῇ καταιγίδι τῶν λογισμῶν ὠθούμενοι, συμποδίζονται καί σκελιζόμενοι ἐλεεινῶς καταπίπτουσιν
For this very reason, being still doubtful and unproven, driven by the onslaught of temptations and the storm of thoughts, they are entangled, and, tripped up, fall down pitifully.
正因如此,他們仍是動搖不定、未經考驗的,被試探的猛攻與思緒的風暴所催逼,以致被絆住、跌倒,可憐地仆倒在地。
1:1801
σκηνήν περικείμενοι, οὐδέ στῆναι εἰς πρόσωπον ὅλως ἀνθρώπου ἠδυνήθησαν ἄν, οὐδέ ὀφθῆναι, ὡς οἶμαι, τινί·
wrapped about with a covering, they would not have been able at all to stand before the face of any man, nor, I think, to be seen by anyone;
若不是披上這層遮掩,他們根本無法在任何人面前站立得住,我想也無法被任何人看見;
1:1802
καί μάλιστα οἱ προὔχειν δοκοῦντες τῶν ἄλλων ἐν γνώσει καί λόγῳ καί τόν βασιλικόν οἰόμενοι χαρακτῆρα ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἐπιφέρεσθαι, οἵ καί ὡς σοφοί καί εὐλαβεῖς καί σώφρονες παρά τῶν πολλῶν τιμώμενοι καί σεβόμενοι οὐδέν ἧττον κατά τάς ἀφανεῖς κινήσεις τῆς ψυχῆς τῶν τήν κακίαν πολυτελῶν διαφέρουσιν
and especially those who seem to surpass others in knowledge and speech, and who suppose that they bear the royal stamp within themselves, and who, though honored and revered by the many as wise and reverent and self-controlled, are nonetheless, in the hidden movements of the soul, no different from those extravagant in wickedness.
尤其是那些自認在知識與言辭上勝過他人、以為自己身上帶有王者印記的人,他們雖被眾人尊為智者、虔敬者、自制者,加以敬重崇仰,但就其靈魂隱密的動向而言,卻與那些窮凶極惡之人毫無二致。
1:1803
Ἀλλ ἄγε δή καί τήν δόξαν τῶν ὄντως ἁγίων καί ἀπαθῶν ἀνδρῶν οἱ βουλόμενοι διδαχθῆναι θελήσατε, οἱ ταύτης ἐφιέμενοι δηλαδή καί ταύτην ἐπικτήσασθαι ἐπιποθοῦντες θερμῶς·
But come now, you who wish to be taught the glory of those who are truly holy and dispassionate men — that is, you who desire this and ardently long to acquire it —
但來吧,你們這些願意受教、想明白那些真正聖潔、無情慾之累之人所擁有之榮耀的人——就是渴慕這榮耀、且熱切盼望要獲得它的人——
1:1804
εἰκόνα γάρ ὑμῖν φράσω παριστῶσαν αὐτῶν τήν τῶν ὅπλων περιβολήν καί τήν ἐκείνων λαμπρότητα καί γνώσεσθε, ἕκαστος ἑαυτόν τοῖς ἁγίοις ἐκείνοις συγκρίνων, ἐν οἵοις ἐστέ καί ὅσον τῆς ἐκείνων ἀνδρείας ὁμοῦ καί ἀξίας καί δυνάμεως πάντες ἀπολειπόμεθα
for I will describe to you an image representing their armor and their splendor, and you shall know, each of you comparing himself to those saints, in what state you are, and how far all of us fall short of their courage together with their worth and power.
因為我要向你們陳述一個圖像,呈現他們所披的兵甲與他們的光輝,你們就會明白——當每個人拿自己與那些聖人相比較時——你們自己是何等光景,我們眾人又是多麼遠遠不及他們的勇敢、尊貴與能力。
1:1805
Ἀλλ ἄγε δή καί τήν δόξαν τῶν ὄντων ἁγίων καί ἀπαθῶν ἀνδρῶν οἱ βουλόμενοι διδαχθῆναι θελήσατε, οἱ ταύτης ἐφιέμενοι δηλαδή καί ταύτην ἐπικτήσασθαι ἐπιποθοῦντες θερμῶς·
But come now, you who wish to be taught the glory of those who are truly holy and dispassionate men — that is, you who desire this and ardently long to acquire it —
但來吧,你們這些願意受教、想明白那些真正聖潔、無情慾之累之人所擁有之榮耀的人——就是渴慕這榮耀、且熱切盼望要獲得它的人——
1:1806
εἰκόνα γάρ ὑμῖν φράσω παριστῶσαν αὐτῶν τήν τῶν ὅπλων περιβολήν καί τήν ἐκείνων λαμπρότητα καί γνώσεσθε, ἕκαστος ἑαυτόν τοῖς ἁγίοις ἐκείνοις συγκρίνων, ἐν οἵοις ἐστέ καί ὅσον τῆς ἐκείνων ἀνδρείας ὁμοῦ καί ἀξίας καί δυνάμεως πάντες ἀπολειπόμεθα
for I will describe to you an image representing their armor and their splendor, and you shall know, each of you comparing himself to those saints, in what state you are, and how far all of us fall short of their courage together with their worth and power.
因為我要向你們陳述一個圖像,呈現他們所披的兵甲與他們的光輝,你們就會明白——當每個人拿自己與那些聖人相比較時——你們自己是何等光景,我們眾人又是多麼遠遠不及他們的勇敢、尊貴與能力。
1:1807
Τοιγαροῦν ἐννόησόν μοι τόν οὐρανόν οἷος ὑπάρχει ἐν αἰθρίᾳ καί ἀνεφέλῳ νυκτί καί βλέπε μοι ἐν αὐτῷ τόν τῆς σελήνης δίσκον ὅλον πεπληρωμένον τό εἰλικρινές καί καθαρώτατον φῶς, κύκλῳ δέ ταύτης τόν πολλάκις γινόμενον κύκλον περί αὐτήν·
Consider, then, for me the sky, what it is like on a clear and cloudless night, and behold in it, for me, the disc of the moon, wholly filled with pure and most limpid light, and around it that halo which often forms about it;
那麼,請你為我想像一下,晴朗無雲的夜晚天空是何等模樣,並請你在其中看見那月亮的圓盤,充滿了純淨、極其清澈的光,而環繞著它的,是那經常出現的光暈;
1:1808
καί σκοπήσας ταῦτα καλῶς, μετάβηθι τῷ νῷ καί πρός ὅ μέλλω πάλιν εἰπεῖν
and having carefully observed these things, turn your mind also to what I am about to say next.
當你仔細觀察這一切之後,請你把心思也轉向我接下來要說的話。
1:1809
Τῶν ἁγίων ἐοίκασιν ἕκαστος, ἔτι ἐν σώματι ὄντες, οὐρανῷ, ἡ δέ καρδία αὐτῶν τῷ δίσκῳ ἔοικε τῆς σελήνης
Each of the saints, while still in the body, resembles the sky, and their heart resembles the disc of the moon.
每一位聖徒,雖然仍在肉身之中,卻好比那天空;他們的心則好比月亮的圓盤。
1:1810
Ἡ δέ ἁγία ἀγάπη τό παντουργόν ὑπάρχει καί παντοδύναμον φῶς, () πολύ τοῦ ἡλιακοῦ τούτου φωτός καί ἀσυγκρίτως λαμπρότερον ἥτις ἁπτομένη τῶν καρδιῶν αὐτῶν καί καθάπερ τό τῆς σελήνης φῶς, ἀλλ ὁλόφωτος ἀεί διά σπουδῆς καί ἀγαθοεργίας τῶν ἁγίων συντηρουμένη
But holy love is the all-working and all-powerful light, far greater than this light of the sun and incomparably more radiant; and it, touching their hearts — just as the light of the moon touches its disc — keeps them, not waxing and waning, but ever wholly luminous, through the zeal and good works of the saints.
而聖潔的愛乃是那全能運行、全能大能的光,遠勝於這太陽之光,光輝無可比擬;這光接觸他們的心,正如月光照亮月輪一般,卻不會盈虧,而是藉著聖徒的殷勤與善行,常保全然光明。
1:1811
Ἡ δέ ἁγία ἀπάθεια, ὥσπερ κυκλοειδής στέφανος καί ὡς σκηνή μέσον αὐτούς περιφέρουσα καί περιέπουσα, σκέπει πάντοθεν καί περιφρουρεῖ καί ἀτρώτους ἀπό πάσης ἐννοίας πονηρᾶς, μή ὅτι γε ἁμαρτίας, διατηρεῖ, καί ἀβλαβεῖς καί ἐλευθέρους ἐκ πάντων ἐχθρῶν ἀποκαθιστᾷ·
And holy dispassion, like a circular crown, and like a tent surrounding and enfolding them in its midst, shelters them on every side, and guards them round about, and preserves them unwounded from every evil thought — let alone sin — and restores them unharmed and free from all enemies;
而聖潔的無情慾之累,就像一頂圓形的冠冕,又如一座帳幕,環繞並圍護著他們,從四面遮蔽他們、四周守護他們,保守他們不受任何惡念的傷害,更不用說罪了,並使他們免於一切仇敵、毫髮無損、得享自由;
1:1812
οὐ μόνον δέ, ἀλλά καί ἀπροσίτους αὐτούς τοῖς ὑπεναντίοις ἐργάζεται
and not only this, but it also renders them inaccessible to their adversaries.
不但如此,它還使他們對敵對者而言是不可接近的。
1:1813
Εἴδετε δόξαν οἱ ταύτην ὄντως ποθοῦντες;
Have you seen the glory, you who truly desire it?
你們這些真心渴慕這榮耀的人,看見這榮耀了嗎?
1:1814
Συνήκατε τῆς λεχθείσης εἰκόνος τό μέγεθος καί ὅσον ἕκαστος ἡμῶν τῆς τῶν ἁγίων δόξης καί λαμπρότητος ὑστερεῖ;
Have you understood the greatness of the image just spoken, and how much each of us falls short of the glory and splendor of the saints?
你們明白了剛才所說之圖像的偉大,以及我們每個人是多麼遠遠不及聖徒的榮耀與光輝了嗎?
1:1815
Ἡ γάρ εἰκών αὕτη τύπος τῶν ἐν ἡμῖν τελουμένων ἐστίν, οὐχ ὑφ ἡμῶν ἐπινοηθεῖσα, μή γένοιτο, ἀλλ ὑπό τοῦ Θεοῦ προϋποστᾶσα καί γενομένη
For this image is a type of the things accomplished within us — not devised by us, God forbid, but pre-existing and brought into being by God.
因為這圖像乃是成就在我們裡面之事的預表,絕非我們所自行構想的——絕無此事——而是神事先存在並使之成就的。
1:1816
Ἐν γάρ τῇ κτίσει ὁ τεχνίτης Θεοῦ Λόγος ὡς ἐν πίνακι προεζωγράφησε τά ὕστερον μέλλοντα εἰς σωτηρίαν ἡμῶν καί ἀνάπλασιν γίνεσθαι, ἵνα τόν τύπον ἐν τοῖς αἰσθητοῖς φαινόμενον βλέποντες μή ἀπιστήσωμεν ὅτι καί ἐν τοῖς καθ ἡμᾶς πνευματικῶς τελεῖται καί περαιοῦται ἡ ὄντως ἀλήθεια, ἀλλ εἰδότες ὅτι ἕκαστος ἡμῶν δεύτερος κόσμος ὑπό Θεοῦ, μέγας ἐν τῷ μικρῷ τούτῳ κόσμῳ καί ὁρωμένῳ, παράγεται, καθά μοι καί τις τῶν θεολόγων συμμαρτυρεῖ, μή χείρονες ἐν μηδενί φανῆναι θελήσωμεν τῶν εἰς διδασκαλίαν ἡμῶν γενομένων ἀλόγων ἤ καί ἀψύχων ὑπό τοῦ φιλανθρώπου Θεοῦ, ἀλλά τά μέν καλά ζηλώσωμεν ἅπαντα, τῶν δέ ἐναντίων τήν μίμησιν φύγωμεν ὅση δύναμις
For in creation, the Word of God, the Craftsman, painted beforehand, as on a tablet, the things that were later to come to pass for our salvation and re-formation, so that, seeing the pattern appearing in perceptible things, we might not disbelieve that the true reality is also accomplished and brought to completion spiritually in what concerns us; but knowing that each of us is brought forth by God as a second world — great within this small and visible world — as also a certain theologian testifies together with me, let us not wish to appear in any way inferior to the irrational or even inanimate things that have been made by our loving God for our instruction, but let us zealously imitate all that is good, and flee, as far as we are able, the imitation of what is contrary.
因為在創造之中,那位巧匠——神的道——已如在畫板上一般,預先描繪出日後要為我們的救恩與更新而成就的事,好叫我們看見這顯現於可感知事物中的預表時,不至於不信在我們自身之內,真實的事也同樣藉著屬靈的方式成就、完成;而是要明白,我們每一個人都是神所造出的、在這渺小、可見的世界之內的一個偉大的「第二世界」——正如一位神學家也與我同證此事——我們不願在任何方面顯得不如那些無理性、甚或無生命之物;那些受造物乃是仁愛的神為教導我們而造的。願我們竭力效法一切美善,並盡力逃避效法一切與此相反之事。
1:1817
Καί ἵνα τἆλλα παρήσω ὄντα, τοῦτο μόνον εἰς ὑπόμνησιν ὑμῶν λέξας, καταπαύσω τόν λόγον
And that I may pass over the other things that exist, having said only this for your remembrance, I will bring my discourse to an end.
至於其餘存在的事,我姑且略過不提,只說這一點作為你們的提醒,便要結束這篇講論。
1:1818
πνευματικόν ἀναχθῆναι, καθά ῥᾳθυμίᾳ πάλιν καί καταφρονήσει καί ἀμελείᾳ τοῖς προτέροις κακοῖς περιπίπτομεν καί ὑπό τήν νύκτα τῆς ἁμαρτίας γινόμεθα
...to be led up spiritually — just as, again through laziness and contempt and negligence, we fall back into our former evils and come to be under the night of sin.
……被引領向上進入屬靈之境;正如我們又因懶惰、輕忽與疏忽,重新落入先前的惡事之中,並陷入罪惡的黑夜。
1:1819
Δεῖ οὖν ἡμᾶς ἐν τούτῳ τόν ὑπηρέτην ἡμῶν μιμεῖσθαι, εἰ μή τινα ἄλλον, καί θεράποντα ἥλιον
We ought, then, in this respect, to imitate our servant — if no one else — even the sun, our attendant.
因此,在這件事上,我們應當效法我們的僕役——即便沒有別的可效法——就是那太陽,我們的侍者。
1:1820
Καθάπερ γάρ ἐκεῖνος οὐδέποτε παύεται τοῦ ἀνατέλλειν καί ἐπιλάμπειν, ἀλλά τό τοῦ Δεσπότου ἀενάως ἐκπληροῖ πρόσταγμα, οὕτω καί ἡμεῖς μή θελήσωμεν διά ἀμελείας ἐν τῷ σκότει καθῆσθαι τῶν ἡδονῶν καί παθῶν·
For just as it never ceases to rise and to shine, but ever unceasingly fulfills the command of the Master, so let us too refuse, through negligence, to sit in the darkness of pleasures and passions.
因為正如太陽從不停止升起、照耀,反而永不停息地成全主人的命令,我們也當如此,不願因疏忽而坐在慾樂與情慾的黑暗之中。
1:1821
τό πρόσταγμα δέ μᾶλλον τοῦ εἰπόντος·
but rather the commandment of him who said:
而是那位如此宣告者的命令:
1:1822
ἤγγικε γάρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν φυλάσσοντες, διά τῆς καθημερινῆς καί ἀδιαλείπτου μετανοίας καί τῶν ἐξ αὐτῆς καί δι αὐτῆς προχεομένων δακρύων καί πάσης ἄλλης ἀγαθοεργίας ἐκκαθαιρόμενοι, πρός τό ἀνέσπερον φῶς ὡς υἱοί φωτός ἐπανέρχεσθαι σπεύσωμεν
For the kingdom of heaven is at hand — keeping watch, and being cleansed through daily and unceasing repentance and through the tears poured out from it and by it, and through every other good work, let us hasten to return to the never-setting light as sons of light.
因為天國近了——當儆醒謹守,藉著每日不斷的悔改,以及由此悔改所湧流出來的眼淚,並藉著一切其他善行而得潔淨,讓我們如光明之子,急速歸向那永不西沉的光。
1:1823
Οὕτω γάρ καί αὐτοί πάλιν ἡμεῖς ἡμέρα ἄϋλος καί γῆ καινή καί καινοί οὐρανοί, τόν τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἥλιον λάμποντα ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἔχοντες, διά τοῦ ὑποδείγματος τοῖς πλησίον ἡμῶν χρηματίσομεν, τά τοῦ θεοῦ δηλονότι προστάγματα καί τήν δόξαν αὐτοῦ οὐ λόγοις κενοῖς καί ματαίοις, ἀλλ ἔργοις αὐτοῖς διηγούμενοι, ἔμπρακτοι διδάσκαλοι ἐν παντί καί ἐν πᾶσι γινόμενοι τοῖς ἀμελεστέροις τῶν ἀδελφῶν καί ἀναπολογήτους αὐτούς ἐργαζόμενοι
For thus we too, in our turn, having the sun of righteousness shining within us, shall ourselves become for our neighbors, through our example, an immaterial day, a new earth, and new heavens, relating to them God's commandments and his glory not by empty and vain words but by deeds themselves, becoming practical teachers in everything and in every way to the more negligent of the brethren and rendering them without excuse.
因為如此,我們自己也將反過來,懷藏公義的太陽在我們裡面發光,藉著我們的榜樣,對我們的近人成為無形質的白日、新地與新天,不是用空洞虛妄的言語,而是用行為本身,向他們陳明神的誡命與祂的榮耀,在凡事上、在一切事上,對那些較為懈怠的弟兄成為身體力行的教師,使他們無可推諉。
1:1824
Μή δή οὖν εἰς ῥᾳθυμίαν ἐνάγωμεν τούς πλησίον ἐν τῷ λέγειν·
Let us not, then, lead our neighbors into laziness by saying:
所以,我們切不可藉著這樣說話,把近人引入怠惰之中:
1:1825
Πῶς ἄρα τοῦτο ἤ πῶς ἐκεῖνο δυνατόν παρά ἀνθρώπων κατορθωθῆναι;, κἀκ τούτου ὀκνηροτέρους ποιῶμεν αὐτούς εἰς τήν ἐργασίαν τῶν ἐντολῶν
"How, then, can this or that possibly be accomplished by human beings?" — and by this make them more slothful toward the doing of the commandments.
「這事或那事,人怎麼可能做成呢?」——並藉此使他們在行誡命上變得更加懶惰。
1:1826
Ὅτι μέν γάρ τά πολλά τοῖς πολλοῖς ἀδύνατα, σύμφημι κἀγώ, () ἐν τοῖς κατ ἐμέ ῥᾳθύμοις καί καταφρονῆσαι τοῦ κόσμου καί σκύβαλα τά ἐν αὐτῷ πάντα ἡγήσασθαι μή προαιρουμένοις, τοῖς τῇ ματαίᾳ δόξῃ προσκειμένοις καί πλούτου ὀρεγομένοις καί ἐπαίνοις καί τιμαῖς ἐνηδομένοις ταῖς ἐξ ἀνθρώπων, τοῖς οἰήσει μετά τούτων καί τύφῳ ἀθλίως κεκρατημένοις
That indeed many things are impossible for many people, I too agree — for those who, like me, are indolent and unwilling to despise the world and to count all things in it as refuse, who cling to vainglory and covet riches and delight in praises and honors from men, who are wretchedly held fast by conceit together with these things and by pride.
誠然,對許多人而言,許多事確實是不可能的——這一點我也承認,對於那些像我一樣懈怠、不願意輕看世界、不願意將世上一切都視為糞土的人,對於那些貪戀虛榮、渴求財富、以人所給的稱讚與尊榮為樂的人,對於那些因這些事並因驕矜而可悲地被自負所轄制的人。
1:1827
Παρήσω γάρ, τό γε νῦν ἔχον, ἐθελουσίως τούς ἐγκαλινδουμένους χοίρων δίκην εἰς τά βορβορώδη τῶν κακῶν τῆς ἁμαρτίας πράγματα, οἵ τήν οἰκίαν τῆς ψυχῆς κενήν περιφέροντες τοῦ ἐνοικοῦντος ἐν τοῖς πιστοῖς καί οὕτω καθ ἑκάστην βοῶντος·
For I shall pass over, for the present, those who willingly wallow like swine in the muddy affairs of the evils of sin, who carry about the house of the soul empty of him who dwells in the faithful and who thus cries out each day:
至於那些甘願如豬一般在罪惡污穢的泥沼中打滾的人,我現在暫且略過不提;他們使靈魂的居所空空如也,沒有那位居住在信徒裡面、且每日這樣呼喊的主:
1:1828
Ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ θλῖψιν ἕξετε·
"In the world you will have tribulation;
『在世上你們有苦難;
1:1829
ἀλλά θαρσεῖτε, ἐγώ νενίκηκα τόν κόσμον, τῷ ἐναντίῳ συντάττονται
but take courage, I have overcome the world" — these men range themselves with the adversary.
但你們可以放心,我已經勝了世界。』——這些人卻與那敵對者結為一夥。
1:1830
Ἐν ἐκείνοις γάρ τοῖς διά πίστεως καί τῆς ἑαυτῶν ἀπαρνήσεως τῷ Χριστῷ καί Θεῷ πίστει καί ἀγάπῃ καί ταπεινώσει ἀκολουθήσασι καί αὐτόν σύν Πατρί καί Πνεύματι ἐν ἑαυτοῖς κτησαμένοις πάντα δυνατά καί ῥᾴδια γίνονται κατά τόν εἰρηκότα ἐν Πνεύματι·
For in those who through faith and self-denial have followed Christ and God with faith and love and humility, and who have gained him, together with the Father and the Spirit, within themselves, all things become possible and easy, according to him who said in the Spirit:
因為在那些藉著信與捨己、以信、愛與謙卑跟隨基督與神、並在自己裡面得著祂與父及聖靈同在的人身上,一切事都變得可能且容易,正如那位在聖靈裡說話的人所言:
1:1831
Πάντα ἰσχύω ἐν τῷ ἐνδυναμοῦντί με Χριστῷ
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
『我靠著那加給我力量的基督,凡事都能做。』
1:1832
Ὅν οἱ πεπλουτηκότες ὁρῶσιν ἀοράτως αὐτοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ τό ἄφραστον κάλλος·
Him do those who have become rich behold, invisibly, the ineffable beauty of God himself:
那些已然富足的人,以隱形之目觀看那位神自己不可言喻的美麗:
1:1833
κρατοῦσιν ἀνεπάφως, κατανοοῦσιν ἀκατανοήτως τό ἀνείδεον εἶδος αὐτοῦ, τήν ἄμορφον μορφήν καί τό ἀσχημάτιστον σχῆμα ἐν ἀθεάτῳ θέᾳ καί ἀσυνθέτῳ κάλλει ἀποικίλτως πεποικιλμένον
they hold him without touching, they comprehend incomprehensibly his formless form, his shapeless shape, and his figureless figure, adorned without adornment in an unseen sight and in a simple, uncompounded beauty.
他們不觸而握,以不可理解的方式領悟祂那無形之形、無狀之狀、無象之象,在那不可見的觀看中、在那單純無合成的美麗中,以無雕飾之方式而被裝飾。
1:1834
Τί δέ ἐστιν ὅ κατανοοῦντες ὁρῶσι;
But what is it that they see when they comprehend?
然而,他們所領悟而看見的,究竟是什麼呢?
1:1835
Τό ἁπλοῦν τῆς θεότητος αὐτό φῶς αὐτό τοῖς νοεροῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ὁρῶσι πλουσίως, ὅ καί ψηλαφῶντες ἀΰλοις χερσίν ἀκατασχέτῳ τῷ ἔρωτι, ἀνεστίως ἐσθίουσιν ἐν πνευματικῷ τῷ τοῦ νοός καί τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῶν στόματι, οὗ τῆς θεωρίας τοῦ κάλλους καί τῆς γλυκύτητος ὅλως κορεσθῆναι οὐδέποτε δύνανται
They behold richly with their noetic eyes the simple light of the Godhead itself, which also, touching it with immaterial hands in uncontainable love, they eat without ceasing with the spiritual mouth of their mind and soul, and of the contemplation of whose beauty and sweetness they can never be wholly sated.
他們以心靈的眼睛豐盛地看見神性那單純的光本身,並以難以自持的愛慕,用非物質的手觸摸它,以他們心智與靈魂那屬靈的口不斷地吃這光,對於這美麗與甘甜之觀看,他們永遠無法完全飽足。
1:1836
εἰ δέ ποτε μή πάλιν αὐτοῖς τρανότερον φαίνοιτο, ὡς τοῦ ὅλου στερισκόμενοι διάκεινται, εἰ δέ καί κρυβῆναι τελείως () κἄν πρός μικρόν ἐθελήσειε, πόθου ἀρρήτου πόνον δριμύν καί ἀφόρητον ἐν αὐτοῖς ἀπεργάζεται
But if it should ever again not appear to them more clearly, they are disposed as though deprived of the whole; and if it should even wish to be hidden completely, even for a little while, it produces in them a sharp and unbearable pain of ineffable longing.
然而,若這光有時不再更清晰地向他們顯現,他們便如同被剝奪了一切一般;而若這光甚至願意完全隱藏,哪怕只是片刻,也會在他們裡面產生一種因難言的渴慕而生的、劇烈而難以忍受的痛苦。
1:1837
Εἰ τοίνυν ἐκ μικρᾶς καί στενοτάτης ὀπῆς ἡ κόρη, μόνην χρυσῷ πεπυκασμένην τήν χεῖρα ἔξωθεν ἐκτείνασα, τῷ ἐραστῇ ἐπιδώσει, κἀκεῖνος ταύτης δραξάμενος καί τό ἀμήχανον κάλλος αὐτῆς κατανοῶν κατασπάζεται αὐτήν, ὡς συμβασιλεῦσαι καί συναφθῆναι αὐτῇ προσδοκῶν, τοῦτο ἐκείνης μεθ ὅρκων ὑπισχνουμένης αὐτῷ, εἶτα αἴφνης ἐκ τῶν ἐκείνου χειρῶν τήν αὐτῆς ἡ κόρη χεῖρα ἁρπάσασα συστείλῃ πρός ἑαυτήν καί ἀποκρύψει τελείως, οὐχί θλῖψιν ἀφόρητον αὐτῷ προξενήσει καί τήν τοῦ πόθου μᾶλλον ἔκκκαυσιν περισσοτέραν ἐκ τούτου τῷ τοιούτῳ σφοδρῶς ἀπεργάσεται;
If, then, a maiden, extending only her hand adorned with gold outward through a small and very narrow opening, should give it to her lover, and he, grasping it and contemplating its inconceivable beauty, eagerly kisses it, expecting to reign together with her and to be joined to her — she having promised him this with oaths — and then the maiden should suddenly snatch her hand back from his hands, draw it to herself, and hide it completely, will she not thereby cause him unbearable grief, and will this not the more kindle in such a man an even greater inflammation of longing?
既然如此,倘若有一位少女,僅將她那飾以黃金的手,從一個極小極窄的孔隙中伸出在外,交給她的愛慕者,而那人握住這手,思忖她那難以言喻的美麗,便熱切地親吻它,期盼與她同治共享、與她結合——因她曾向他起誓應許此事——然而那少女忽然從他手中將自己的手奪回,收回己身,完全隱藏起來,這豈不會使他產生難以忍受的憂傷,反而使這樣一個人心中渴慕的火焰燃燒得更加猛烈嗎?
1:1838
Οἶμαι, συμμαρτυρήσετέ μοι τῷ λόγῳ τοῦ ὑποδείγματος καί ὑμεῖς
I think you too will bear witness with me to the truth of this example.
我想,你們也會為這比喻的道理作見證,與我一同認可。
1:1839
Εἰ δέ ἐν ὁρωμένοις καί αἰσθητοῖς σώμασιν ὁμοῦ καί πράγμασιν οὕτω ταῦτα συμβαίνειν εἴωθε, φθειρομένοις οὖσι καί ταχέως παρερχομένοις, πόσῳ γε μᾶλλον ἐν τοῖς νοητοῖς ἀοράτοις τοῦτο συμβήσεται, ἀφθάρτοις οὖσι καί ἀϊδίοις·
But if this is wont to happen thus among visible and perceptible bodies and things alike, which are corruptible and quickly passing away, how much more will this happen among intelligible, invisible things, which are incorruptible and eternal?
既然這樣的事在可見的、可感知的身體與事物之間尚且常常如此發生——這些身體與事物都是必朽壞、且迅速消逝的——那麼在那些可理解的、不可見的事物之間,這事豈不更要發生得多嗎?因為它們乃是不朽而永恆的。
1:1840
ὅσῳ γάρ κρείττονα τῶν προσκαίρων εἰσί τά αἰώνια ἀγαθά, τοσοῦτον ἀναλόγως καί τόν ἔρωτα ἐμποιοῦσι σφοδρότερον ἐν ταῖς τῶν ἐρώντων ψυχαῖς·
For by as much as eternal goods are superior to temporal ones, by so much, proportionally, do they produce a more intense love in the souls of those who love them.
因為永恆的美善勝過短暫的事物有多少,相應地,它們在愛慕者的靈魂中所激起的愛也就有多強烈。
1:1841
ὅθεν οὐδέ ἐᾷ τούτους ὁ πόθος τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπιθυμίᾳ ἤ προσπαθείᾳ ἔν τινι κρατηθῆναι κἄν ὁπωσοῦν
Hence the longing for God does not allow these men to be held fast by any desire or attachment to anything whatsoever, in any way at all.
因此,對神的渴慕,絕不容許這些人以任何方式,被任何情慾或執著所轄制於任何事物之上。
1:1842
Οὐ δόξης γάρ, οὐ τρυφῆς, οὐ χρημάτων οὗτοι ἐφίενται, ἀλλ οὐδέ σωμάτων ἔρωτος προσψαῦσαι ὅλως κατά νοῦν συγκεχώρηνται·
For these men desire neither glory, nor luxury, nor riches; nor indeed are they permitted even to touch, in their minds, upon the love of bodies at all;
因為這些人既不渴求榮耀,也不貪圖逸樂或錢財;甚至就連在心思中觸及對肉體的愛慾,也全然不被允許;
1:1843
ἀλλά καθάπερ ὁ τήν ἐκ χρωμάτων κατασκευασθεῖσαν ἄψυχον εἰκόνα () τῆς νύμφης νυμφίος ὁρῶν ταύτῃ πρόσκειται καί ἐνατενίζει διηνεκῶς καί βούλεται ὁρᾶν αὐτήν, ἀναφλέγων τόν πόθον αὐτοῦ καί τήν ἐπιθυμίαν τήν πρός αὐτήν, ἐπάν δέ αὐτήν ἐκείνην τήν νύμφην παραγενομένην θεάσηται, οὐ κατά τήν τῆς εἰκόνος μορφήν οὖσαν, ἀλλ ἀσυγκρίτῳ καί ἀφράστῳ κάλλει ἀμώμητον τό εἶδος κεκτημένην τῆς εὐπρεπείας, καί ταύτην κατασπάσηται καί περιπλακῇ, οὐκέτι ὅλως ἀνέχεται πρός τήν εἰκόνα ταύτης ἐναπιδεῖν σχετικῶς, τό αὐτό δή μειζόνως πάσχουσι καί οἱ ἐκ μεγέθους καί καλλονῆς τῶν ὁρωμένων κτισμάτων τήν δύναμιν καί τήν σοφίαν τοῦ γενεσιουργοῦ ἀναθεωροῦντες καί εἰς ἀγάπην καί πίστιν τήν πρός αὐτόν καί εἰς φόβον ἐκ τούτων ἁγνόν κατά προκοπήν ἀναγόμενοι
but just as a bridegroom, gazing upon the lifeless image of his bride fashioned out of colors, cleaves to it and gazes upon it continually and wishes to see her, kindling his longing and desire for her — but when he beholds that very bride herself, arrived in person, not in the form of the image, but possessing an incomparable and ineffable beauty, faultless in comeliness of appearance, and he kisses her and embraces her, he can no longer bear at all to look with attachment upon her image — the very same thing, and to a greater degree, is experienced also by those who, from the greatness and beauty of visible created things, contemplate the power and wisdom of their Maker and are led up, by progress, from these things to love and faith toward him and to a pure fear.
正如一位新郎,注視著以顏料繪成的、毫無生氣的新娘畫像,便依戀著它、不斷凝視它,渴望看見她,由此燃起對她的渴慕與愛慾;然而,當他親眼看見那新娘本人親自到來時——她的容貌並非如畫像所繪那般,而是擁有無可比擬、難以言喻之美,端麗而毫無瑕疵——他便親吻她、擁抱她,從此再也無法忍受帶著眷戀去注視那幅畫像了。同樣的事,那些從可見受造之物的宏偉與美麗中默觀造物主的大能與智慧、並藉此循序漸進地被引向對祂的愛與信、以及對祂那純潔敬畏的人,所經歷的更是有過之而無不及。
1:1844
Ὁπότε γάρ αὐτῷ ἐκείνῳ οὐσιωδῶς τῷ Θεῷ ἑνωθῶσι καί τῆς ἐκείνου θέας καί μεθέξεως ἀξιωθῶσιν, οὐκέτι τῇ εἰκόνι τῶν ποιημάτων, οὐδέ τῇ σκιᾷ τῶν ὁρωμένων ἐμπαθῶς ἤ προσπαθῶς, ἤ σχετικῶς προσανέχουσι
For once they are united substantially to that very God and are counted worthy of his vision and participation, they no longer cling with passion, or attachment, or affection to the image of created things, nor to the shadow of visible things.
因為當他們與那位神本體性地聯合、並蒙恩得以觀看祂、分享祂之時,他們便不再帶著情慾、依戀或執著,眷戀受造之物的影像,也不再眷戀可見事物的陰影。
1:1845
Τοῦτο οὖν τό μακάριον πάθος, μιμήσομαι γάρ ἐν τούτῳ τόν εἰπόντα·
This blessed experience, then — for in this I shall imitate him who said:
所以,對於這蒙福的境況——在此,我要效法那位如此說過的人:
1:1846
Ὡσπερεί τῷ ἐκτρώματι ὤφθη κἀμοί, καί ἡμεῖς οἱ ἀπερριμένοι, φιλανθρωπίᾳ Θεοῦ καί χάριτι, διά πολλῶν δεήσεων παθεῖν ἠξιώθημεν, δι οὗ καί τῶν εἰρημένων ἁπάντων τήν πεῖραν ἐν αἰσθήσει καί ὁράσει καί γνώσει μυστικῶς διδαχθέντες καί λαβόντες ὁμοῦ εἰς ὠφέλειαν καί προτροπήν τῶν ἐκζητεῖν τόν Θεόν καί αὐτόν εὑρεῖν βουλομένων ταῦτα γραφῇ παρεδώκαμεν
"As to one untimely born, he appeared also to me" — so we too, cast off as we are, were, by the love of God for mankind and by his grace, through many supplications, counted worthy to experience this; through which, having been mystically taught, and having together received the experience of all that has been said, in sensation and vision and knowledge, we have committed these things to writing for the benefit and exhortation of those who wish to seek God and to find him.
『祂如同向未足月而生的人一樣,也向我顯現。』——我們這些被棄絕的人,也是如此,靠著神對人類的慈愛與恩典,經過許多祈求,得以蒙恩經歷這一切;藉此,我們在感覺、觀看與知識上蒙受了奧祕的教導,一同領受了前面所述一切之經驗,並將這些事訴諸文字,傳留下來,為要造福並勸勉那些願意尋求神、並願意尋見祂的人。
1:1847
Συναλγήσατε οὖν ἡμῖν καί συνεύξασθε οἱ ἐκ τοῦ παρόντος λόγου καρπούμενοι τήν ὠφέλειαν καί πρός τό ὕψος τούτου πρακτικῶς ἀνελθεῖν προαιρούμενοι, () ὅπως ταῖς πρός Θεόν ὑμῶν εὐπροσδέκτοις δεήσεσι μή μόνον ἄσβεστος ἐν ἡμῖν ὁ τοῦ θείου πόθου πυρσός διατηρηθῇ, ἀλλά καί σφοδρότερον μᾶλλον φλογός ἀναφθῇ καί ἀμώμους ἡμᾶς καί ἀμέμπτους καί ἀσπίλους διατηρήσῃ ὁ ἀπό γῆς εἰς οὐρανούς ἀναβιβάσας καί δοξάσας τό γένος ἡμῶν τῶν ἀνθρώπων
Share, then, in our suffering and pray together with us, you who reap benefit from the present discourse and who choose to ascend practically to its height, so that through your acceptable supplications to God the torch of divine longing may not only be kept unquenched in us, but may be kindled to burn yet more fiercely than a flame, and so that he who has raised our human race from earth to heaven and has glorified it may keep us blameless, faultless, and spotless.
所以,你們這些從這篇講論中蒙受益處、並立志實際地攀升至其高峰的人,請與我們一同體恤、一同禱告,好叫藉著你們蒙神悅納的祈求,不僅使那神聖渴慕的火炬在我們裡面得以不滅地保存,反而燃燒得比火焰更加猛烈,並使那位將我們人類由地上提升至諸天、且使我們這族類得榮耀的主,保守我們無瑕、無可指摘、毫無玷污。
1:1848
Ναί μήν ἐπί πλεῖον συγκολλήσει καί τρανῶς συνενώσει καί συγκραθῆναι γνωστῶς ἀξιώσει ὅλον με ὅλῳ ἑαυτῷ καί ὑμῖν, ἐν ἀμίκτῳ μίξει καί συναφείᾳ ἀφράστῳ κατά τάς ἀψευδεῖς ὑποσχέσεις αὐτοῦ, ᾧ πρέπει πᾶσα δόξα τιμή καί προσκύνησις, σύν τῷ Πατρί καί τῷ παναγίῳ αὐτοῦ Πνεύματι, νῦν καί ἀεί καί εἰς τούς ἀτελευτήτους αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων·
Yes indeed, he will bind us together yet more, and unite us clearly, and count us worthy to be mingled, knowingly, wholly me with his whole self and with you, in an unconfused mingling and ineffable union, according to his unfailing promises — to whom is due all glory, honor, and worship, together with the Father and his all-holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the unending ages of ages.
誠然,祂還要更進一步地將我們緊緊黏合、清楚地合而為一,並施恩讓我這全人,以一種可知覺的方式,與祂全然的自己並與你們相調和,在一種無混雜的交融與難以言喻的聯合之中,正如祂那絕無虛謊的應許所言。願一切的榮耀、尊貴與敬拜,都歸於祂,連同聖父及祂那至聖的聖靈,從今時直到永遠,直到無窮無盡的世世代代。阿們。
1:1849
ΛΟΓΟΣ Ε΄ () Περί τῶν οἰομένων ἀγνώστως ἔχειν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς τό Πνεῦμα τό Ἅγιον, μή ἐπαισθανομένων δέ καθόλου τῆς ἐνεργείας αὐτοῦ·
DISCOURSE V. Concerning those who suppose that they possess the Holy Spirit within themselves without knowing it, while not perceiving at all the operation thereof;
第五篇講論。論那些自以為在不知不覺中擁有聖靈於己身之內、卻完全感受不到其運行作為的人:
1:1850
καί περί τῶν λεγόντων μή δύνασθαί τινα τῶν ἀνθρώπων κατά τήν παροῦσαν ζωήν ὁρᾶν τήν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, καί ἀπόδειξις διά χρήσεων περί τούτου
and concerning those who say that no human being can, in the present life, behold his glory, together with a demonstration by way of citations concerning this.
並論那些聲稱在今生沒有人能看見祂榮耀的人,以及就此事以引文所作的證明。
1:1851
Καί ὅτι φθόνος οὐδείς ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις, ὅταν διά πάσης σπουδῆς ἐναρέτου τούτοις συνεξισώμεθα
And that there is no envy at all among the saints, when through every virtuous effort we make ourselves equal to them.
並論在聖徒之中並無絲毫嫉妒,只要我們藉著一切合乎德行的努力,使自己與他們相等同。
1:1852
Καί ποίῳ τρόπῳ ὁρᾷ τις τόν Θεόν καί ὅτι ὁ εἰς τοιαῦτα μέτρα πεφθακώς, ὥστε ὁρᾷν κατά τό ἐφικτόν τόν Θεόν, ἔνθεν ἤδη μυεῖται καί τήν μέλλουσαν δοθῆναι ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι τοῖς ἁγίοις ἀπόλαυσιν
And in what manner one sees God, and that he who has attained to such a measure as to see God, insofar as this is attainable, is already thereby initiated into the enjoyment that is to be given, in the age to come, to the saints.
並論人以何種方式得見神,以及那已達到如此地步、以致能在可及的範圍內看見神的人,如何已從此被引入、預先體驗了將來要賜給聖徒享受的那福樂。
1:1853
Καί ὅτι ὅσα ἄν ὁ τοιοῦτος λέγῃ ἤ ποιῇ ἤ γράφῃ, οὐκ αὐτός, ἀλλά τό Πνεῦμα τό Ἅγιον τό λαλοῦν ἐν αὐτῷ ταῦτα λέγει καί γράφει·
And that whatever such a man says, or does, or writes, it is not he himself, but the Holy Spirit speaking within him, who says and writes these things:
並論這樣的人無論說什麼、做什麼、寫什麼,並非他自己,而是那在他裡面說話的聖靈在說這些話、寫這些事:
1:1854
καί ὁ τούς λόγους αὐτοῦ ἀθετῶν ἤ παραλογιζόμενος, εἰς τό Πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ, τό ἐνεργοῦν καί λαλοῦν ἐν αὐτῷ, ἁμαρτάνει καί βλασφημεῖ
and he who rejects or misconstrues his words sins and blasphemes against the Spirit of God who works and speaks within him.
而那拒絕或曲解他話語的人,便是得罪並褻瀆了那在他裡面運行、說話的神的靈。
1:1855
Ἰδού καί πάλιν ἐγώ πρός τούς λέγοντας ἔχειν ἀγνώστως Πνεῦμα Θεοῦ καί οἰομένους ἀπό τοῦ θείου βαπτίσματος τοῦτο κεκτῆσθαι ἐν ἑαυτοῖς καί τόν μέν θησαυρόν ἔχειν νομίζοντας, κούφους δέ τούτου ἑαυτούς ὅλως ἐπιγινώσκοντας, πρός τούς ὁμολογοῦντας μέν μηδέν ὅλως ἐπαισθανθῆναι ἐν τῷ βαπτίσματι, ἀγνώστως δέ καί ἀνεπαισθήτως ὑπολαμβάνοντας τήν τοῦ Θεοῦ δωρεάν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἀπό τότε ἐγκατοικήσασαν καί μέχρι τοῦ νῦν ἔνδοθεν () τῆς ἑαυτῶν ψυχῆς ἐνυπάρχουσαν·
Behold, once again I turn to those who say that they possess the Spirit of God without knowing it, and who suppose that they have acquired this from divine baptism, and who think that they have the treasure yet recognize themselves as entirely devoid of it; to those who confess that they perceived nothing at all in baptism, yet suppose that the gift of God has, without their knowing or perceiving it, dwelt within them from that time and continues to exist even now within the depths of their soul:
看哪,我再次針對那些人說話,他們聲稱自己在不知不覺中擁有神的靈,自以為是從神聖的洗禮中得著這靈於己身之內,並自認為擁有這寶藏,卻又承認自己對此完全一無所感;也針對那些人說話,他們承認在洗禮中絲毫沒有任何感受,卻仍設想神的恩賜自那時起便在不知不覺、毫無感覺中入住於他們裡面,並且直到如今仍存於他們靈魂的深處:
1:1856
οὐ μόνον δέ, ἀλλά γάρ καί πρός αὐτούς τούς μηδεμίαν λέγοντάς ποτε αἴσθησιν ἐν θεωρίᾳ καί ἀποκαλύψει ταύτης λαβεῖν, πίστει δέ μόνῃ καί λογισμῷ, ἀλλ οὐ πείρᾳ τοῦτο παραδεξαμένους καί κρατοῦντας ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ὡς ἐκ τῆς τῶν θείων λογίων ἀκροάσεως
and not only so, but also to those who say that they have never at any time received any perception of it in vision and revelation, but who have accepted and hold this within themselves by faith and reasoning alone, and not by experience, as from the hearing of the divine oracles.
不僅如此,也針對那些人說話,他們聲稱自己從未在任何時候於觀照與啟示中領受過任何對此的感知,而僅僅是憑著信與推理——而非憑著親身經驗——從聽聞神聖言語而接受並持守此事於自己心中。
1:1857
Ἵνα οὖν τά παρ ἐκείνων προτάξω λεγόμενα, ὅρα τί φασιν οἱ σοφοί καί ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν ἐπιστήμονες·
So that I may first set forth what is said by them, observe what these wise men — learned, at least in their own estimation — say:
為要先陳明他們所說的話,請看這些自視為有智慧、在自己眼中博學的人怎麼說:
1:1858
Ὅσοι εἰς Χριστόν ἐβαπτίσθητε, φησίν ὁ Παῦλος, Χριστόν ἐνεδύσασθε
"As many as were baptized into Christ," says Paul, "have put on Christ."
保羅說:『凡受洗歸入基督的人,都已經穿上了基督。』
1:1859
Οὐχί βεβαπτισμένοι ἐσμέν καί ἡμεῖς;
Have we not also been baptized?
難道我們不也是受過洗的人嗎?
1:1860
Εἰ οὖν βεβαπτίσμεθα, δῆλον ὅτι, καθώς φησιν ὁ Ἀπόστολος, καί τόν Χριστόν ἐνδεδύμεθα
If, then, we have been baptized, it is clear that, as the Apostle says, we have also put on Christ.
既然我們已受洗,那麼,顯然如使徒所言,我們也已經穿上了基督。
1:1861
Αὕτη τοίνυν καί παρ αὐτῶν ἡ πρώτη πρότασις καί ἀπόδειξις
This, then, is their first premise and proof.
這便是他們所提出的第一項前提與證明。
1:1862
Τί οὖν, οὐχ ἡμεῖς, ἀλλά τό Πνεῦμα τό Ἅγιον πρός αὐτούς εἴποι ἄν;
What, then, would the Holy Spirit — not we ourselves — say to them?
那麼,不是我們,而是聖靈,將如何對他們說呢?
1:1863
Τό οὖν ἔνδυμα τοῦτο, τί εἶναι, ὦ οὗτοι, λέγετε·
This garment, then — tell me, you there, what is it?
那麼,這件衣服到底是什麼呢?喂,你們倒說說看。
1:1864
Ὁ τοίνυν Χριστός ἐστί τι, ἵνα ὡς ἄφρων πρός ἄφρονας εἴποιμι, ἤ οὐδέν ἐστιν;
Is Christ, then, something — that I may speak, as a fool to fools — or is he nothing?
那麼,基督到底是某種實在之物呢——容我如愚者對愚者說話——還是根本什麼都不是?
1:1865
Ἔστι τι, πάντως εἴποιεν ἄν, εἰ γε μή τέλεον παρακοπήν φρενῶν εἰσι πάσχοντες
"He is something," they would surely say, unless they have utterly lost their minds.
「祂是某種實在之物,」他們必定會這樣說,除非他們已經完全喪失了理智。
1:1866
Εἰ οὖν εἶναί τι ὁμολογεῖτε, εἴπατε δή καί τί πρῶτόν ἐστιν, ἵνα οὕτως διδάξητε ἑαυτούς μή ὡς ἄπιστοι φθέγγεσθαι, ἀλλ ὡς πιστοί
If, then, you confess that he is something, tell me also, first, what he is, so that thus you may teach yourselves to speak, not as unbelievers, but as believers.
既然你們承認祂是某種實在之物,那就請先說明祂究竟是什麼,好叫你們藉此教導自己,不像不信的人那樣說話,而像信徒那樣說話。
1:1867
Τί τοίνυν ἄλλο ἐστίν ὁ Χριστός, εἰ μή Θεός ἀληθής καί ἄνθρωπος ἐπ ἀληθῶς τέλειος πεφυκώς;
What else, then, is Christ, if not true God and man, having truly become perfect man?
那麼,基督除了是真神、並真正成為完全之人以外,還能是什麼呢?
1:1868
Τοῦτο τοιγαροῦν ὁμολογοῦντες, εἴπατε ἡμῖν καί διά τί ἄνθρωπος γέγονεν ὁ Θεός
Confessing this, then, tell us also why God became man.
既然你們承認這一點,那就請告訴我們,神為何要成為人。
1:1869
Πάντως, ὡς αἱ θεῖαι Γραφαί διδάσκουσι καί αὐτά τά γεγονότα καί καθ ἑκάστην γινόμενα, εἰ καί ἴσως ὑμεῖς ἐθελοκωφοῦντες ἀγνοεῖτε ἵνα τόν ἄνθρωπον ποιήσῃ θεόν
Surely, as the divine Scriptures teach, and as the very events, both past and daily occurring, show — even if you, perhaps willfully deaf, remain ignorant of it — it was so that he might make man god.
當然是這樣:正如神聖的經文所教導的,也如同過去已發生、以及每日仍在發生的事實所顯明的一樣——儘管你們或許故意裝聾作啞、對此一無所知——那是為了要使人成為神。
1:1870
Διά τῆς σαρκός ἤ διά τῆς θεότητος;
Through the flesh, or through the Godhead?
是藉著肉體呢,還是藉著神性呢?
1:1871
Ἡ σάρξ γάρ, φησίν, οὐκ ὠφελεῖ οὐδέν·
"For the flesh," it is said, "profits nothing;"
因為經上說:『肉體是無益的;』
1:1872
τό πνεῦμά ἐστι τό ζωοποιοῦν
"it is the spirit that gives life."
『叫人活著的乃是靈。』
1:1873
Εἰ οὖν διά τῆς αὐτοῦ θεότητος ἥν ἀνέλαβε σάρκα πρῶτον ἐθέωσε, καί ἡμᾶς πάντας οὐ διά τῆς φθαρτῆς σαρκός ἀλλά διά τῆς θεωθείσης () ζωοποιεῖ, ἵνα μηκέτι μηδαμῶς ὡς ἄνθρωπον ἀλλ ὡς ἕνα Θεόν αὐτόν τέλειον ἐν δυσίν ἐπιγινώσκωμεν φύσεσιν – εἷς γάρ Θεός , ὡς τοῦ φθαρτοῦ ὑπό τῆς ἀφθαρσίας καταποθέντος καί τοῦ σώματος ὑπό τοῦ ἀσωμάτου οὐκ ἀφανισθέντος μέν, ὅλου δέ ἀλλοιωθέντος καί μένοντος ἀσυγχύτου, ἀρρήτως ἀνακεκραμένου καί ἐν ἀμίκτῳ μίξει τῇ τριαδικῇ θεότητι ἡνωμένου, ἵνα εἷς Θεός ἐν Πατρί καί Υἱῷ καί Ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι προσκυνῆται καί μήτε προσθήκην τῷ ἀριθμῷ ἀπό τῆς οἰκονομίας λάβῃ τινά μήτε πάθος τι ἀπό τοῦ σώματος ἡ Τριάς ὑποστῇ
If, then, by his own Godhead he first deified the flesh which he assumed, he likewise gives life to us all, not through his corruptible flesh, but through that which has been deified — so that we should no longer in any way know him as man, but as one perfect God in two natures (for God is one), inasmuch as the corruptible has been swallowed up by incorruption, and the body has not been annihilated by the incorporeal, but has been wholly transformed while remaining unconfused, ineffably commingled and united in an unmixed mingling with the triadic Godhead — so that the one God may be worshiped in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the Trinity may neither receive any addition to its number from the economy, nor undergo any passion on account of the body.
所以,既然祂憑自己的神性,首先使祂所取的肉身成為神性化的肉身,祂便照樣不是藉著那必朽壞的肉體,而是藉著那已被神性化的肉體,叫我們眾人得生命——好叫我們不再以任何方式將祂認作僅是人,而是認作在兩種本性中合為一位的完全神(因為神只有一位),就如同必朽壞的被那不朽壞的所吞滅,身體並非被那非物質的所消滅,而是整個被改變,卻仍保持不相混淆,以難以言喻的方式與三一神性相調和,並以無混雜的交融合而為一,好叫這唯一的神,在聖父、聖子、聖靈裡,得著敬拜,而三一之數既不因這救世經綸而有任何增添,三一神性也不因這身體而承受任何苦難。
1:1874
Ἵνα προγινώσκων σύ ἅ ὡμολογήσας ἐρωτώμενος παρ ἐμοῦ, μή ἐξ ἀγνοίας ἐκκλίνῃς τῆς εὐθείας τῶν νοημάτων ὁδοῦ καί κόπους παρέξῃς ἡμῖν καί κρῖμα προξενήσῃς πλεῖον τῇ σῇ ψυχῇ
So that you, knowing beforehand what you have confessed when questioned by me, may not, out of ignorance, swerve from the straight path of these concepts, and cause us trouble, and bring greater judgment upon your own soul.
如此,讓你事先知道自己在被我詢問時所承認的內容,免得你因無知而偏離這些道理的正直之路,徒然給我們添麻煩,也給自己的靈魂招致更大的審判。
1:1875
Πάλιν τοιγαροῦν προσαναμνήσω σε τά ῥηθέντα ἐν ἐπιτόμῳ, ἵνα εὐσύνοπτον γένηται ὅ μέλλω εἰπεῖν
Once more, therefore, let me remind you briefly of what has been said, so that what I am about to say may be easily grasped.
所以,讓我再一次簡要地提醒你先前所說的話,好叫我接下來要說的內容易於理解。
1:1876
Θεός ἀληθής καί ἄνθρωπος τέλειος παναληθῶς πεφυκώς, διά τοῦτο γενόμενος ἄνθρωπος, ὅπερ πρώην οὐκ ἦν, ἵνα ποιήσῃ θεόν τόν ἄνθρωπον, ὅπερ οὐδέποτε γέγονεν, διά τῆς θεότητος θεώσας καί θεοποιῶν ἡμᾶς δηλαδή καί οὐχί διά μόνης αὐτοῦ τῆς σαρκός·
True God and perfect man, having in all truth become so — and having for this reason become man, which he formerly was not, that he might make man god, which man had never before become — deifying us, that is, and making us god through his Godhead, and not through his flesh alone;
祂是真神,並真正、完全地成為了人——祂之所以成為人,乃是因為祂先前並非是人,為要使人成為神,而人先前也從未成為過神——這也就是說,祂藉著祂的神性使我們神性化、使我們成為神,而不僅僅是藉著祂的肉體;
1:1877
Εἰ οἱ βαπτιζόμενοι τόν Χριστόν ἐπενδύονται, τί τοῦτό ἐστιν ὅ ἐπενδύονται;
If those who are baptized put on Christ as a garment, what is this that they put on?
既然受洗的人穿上基督為衣,那麼他們所穿上的,究竟是什麼呢?
1:1878
Ὁ οὖν Θεόν ἐνδυσάμενος οὐκ ἐπιγνώσεται νοερῶς καί ἴδῃ τί ἐνεδύσατο;
Will not, then, he who has put on God come to know it intellectually and see what he has put on?
那麼,穿上了神的人,難道不會以心智知曉、看見自己所穿上的是什麼嗎?
1:1879
Ὁ γυμνός τῷ σώματι ἐνδυσάμενος ἐπαισθάνεται καί τό ἱμάτιον ὁποῖον ὁρᾷ, ὁ δέ γυμνός τῇ ψυχῇ Θεόν ἐνδυσάμενος οὐ γνώσεται;
He who is naked in body, when he puts on clothing, perceives it and sees what sort of garment it is; shall then he who is naked in soul, having put on God, not know it?
身體赤裸的人,一旦穿上衣服,便能感覺到,並看見那衣服是何等模樣;那麼,靈魂赤裸的人,穿上了神,難道竟不會知曉嗎?
1:1880
Εἰ γάρ οὐκ αἰσθάνεται ὁ τόν Θεόν ἐνδυόμενος τί ποτε ἄρα ἐνεδύσατο, λοιπόν κατά σέ οὐδέ ἐστί τί ποτε ὁ Θεός·
For if he who puts on God does not perceive at all what he has put on, then, according to your view, God, after all, is not anything at all;
因為,若穿上神的人絲毫感覺不到自己究竟穿上了什麼,那麼,按照你們的說法,神究竟就根本不是什麼實在之物了;
1:1881
εἰ γάρ ἦν, οἱ αὐτόν ἐνδυόμενοι ἐγίνωσκον ἄν
for if he were something, those who put him on would know it.
因為,若祂確實是某種實在之物,那些穿上祂的人便理當會知曉。
1:1882
Τό γάρ μηδέν ἐνδυόμενοι οὐδέν αἰσθανόμεθα, τό δέ τί ποτε ἤ παρ ἑτέρου ἤ ἡμᾶς αὐτούς ἐπενδύοντες καί λίαν () ἐπαισθανόμεθα, εἴ γε καί σώας τάς αἰσθήσεις κεκτήμεθα·
For when we put on nothing, we perceive nothing; but when we put on something, whether given by another or put on by ourselves, we perceive it quite intensely — that is, if we possess sound senses;
因為,當我們穿上的是空無一物時,我們自然一無所感;但當我們穿上某種實在之物時,無論是由他人所給,還是我們自己所穿,我們都會有極其強烈的感覺——當然,前提是我們的感官是健全的;
1:1883
νεκροί γάρ ἐνδυόμενοι οὐκ αἰσθάνονται μόνοι καί δέδοικα μή καί οἱ ταῦτα λέγοντες νεκροί καί γυμνοί ἐπ ἀληθείας ὄντως εἰσίν
for only the dead, when clothed, do not perceive it; and I fear lest those who say such things are themselves, in truth, really dead and naked.
因為唯獨死人,穿上衣服,才會毫無感覺;而我實在擔心,那些說這種話的人,他們本身其實正是真真實實的死人與赤裸之人。
1:1884
Τό Πνεῦμα μή σβέννυτε ὁ Παῦλος διακελεύεται
"Quench not the Spirit," Paul commands.
保羅命令說:『不要消滅聖靈的感動。』
1:1885
Καί τοῦτο λέγοντες, τόν σκοπόν τῶν λεγομένων μή ἐπιστάμενοι, τήν ἑαυτῶν ἄγνοιαν ἐμφανίζουσιν·
And in saying this, not understanding the purpose of what is said, they reveal their own ignorance:
而他們引用這句話時,卻不明白這話的用意何在,如此便暴露了自己的無知:
1:1886
Μή σβέσῃς, φησί, τήν λαμπάδα, οὐ περί τῆς ἤδη ἐσβεσμένης αὐτῷ πάντως λέγει, ἀλλά περί τῆς ἔτι καιομένης καί ἀστράπτον ἐχούσης τό φῶς
"Do not quench the lamp," he says — surely he is not speaking at all about one already extinguished, but about one still burning and possessing a light that flashes forth.
他說「不要熄滅這燈」,絕不是在講一盞已經熄滅的燈,而是在講一盞仍在燃燒、發出閃耀之光的燈。
1:1887
Ἀλλά γάρ αὖθις πρός αὐτούς ὦδε ἀνθυποφέρομεν
But again, in this way let us bring a counter-objection against them:
然而,讓我們再一次這樣向他們提出反問:
1:1888
Ὁρᾶτε κἄν ὅλως ἐν ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς, ὦ οὗτοι, τό Πνεῦμα καιόμενον καί λάμπον ὥσπερ εἰκός;
Do you, then, you there, see the Spirit burning and shining within yourselves at all, as would be fitting?
喂,你們啊,你們在自己裡面究竟有沒有看見那聖靈如理當如此地燃燒發光呢?
1:1889
Καί πρός τοῦτο οὐ μόνον οὐδέν ἀποκρίνονται, ἀλλά καί τάς ὄψεις εὐθύς ἀλλοιούμενοι ἀποστρέφονται καί ὡς βλασφημίαν ἀκούσαντες δυσχεραίνουσι·
And to this, not only do they make no reply at all, but their countenances immediately change and they turn away, and they are vexed as though they had heard blasphemy;
對此,他們不僅一言不答,反而立刻臉色驟變,轉過臉去,並且如同聽見了褻瀆的話一般,顯出不悅之色;
1:1890
εἶτα, τόν ἐρωτῶντα φιλοτιμούμενοι καί τόν πρᾷον δῆθεν ὑποκρινόμενοι, οὐ μετά στυφότητος ἀποκρίνονται·
then, out of regard for the one who asked, and feigning, as it were, a gentle manner, they reply without harshness:
然後,他們出於對發問者的顧忌,又故作溫和之態,並不帶著嚴厲地回答說:
1:1891
Καί τίς ποτε ἰδεῖν τοῦτο τολμηρῶς εἴποι ἤ ὅλως αὐτό ἐθεάσατο; Ἄπαγε
And who would ever dare to say that he has seen this, or that he has beheld it at all? Far from it!
又有誰敢誇口說自己曾見過此事,或曾完全目睹它呢?絕無此事!
1:1892
Τίς τοῦτο εἶπε, λέξον ἡμῖν
Who said this? Tell us.
是誰說了這話?請告訴我們。
1:1893
Ὁ μονογενής, φησίν, Υἱός ὁ ὤν εἰς τόν κόλπον τοῦ Πατρός ἐκεῖνος ἐξηγήσατο
The only-begotten Son, he says, who is in the bosom of the Father—he has declared him.
經上說:『那位在父懷中的獨生子,是他將父闡明出來的。』
1:1894
Ἀληθῶς λέγεις καί ἡ μαρτυρία σου ἀληθής μέν, ἀλλά κατά τῆς σεαυτοῦ ψυχῆς
You speak truly, and your testimony is indeed true, but it is against your own soul.
你說的是實話,你的見證的確為真,但卻是不利於你自己靈魂的。
1:1895
Ἐάν γάρ ἐγώ δείξω σοι τόν αὐτόν Υἱόν τοῦ Θεοῦ λέγοντά σοι δυνατόν εἶναι τοῦτο, τί ἐρεῖς;
For if I show you the very Son of God himself telling you that this is possible, what will you say?
因為,若我指給你看,正是神的兒子親口對你說這是可能的,你還能說什麼呢?
1:1896
Ὁ ἑωρακώς ἐμέ ἑώρακε τόν Πατέρα
He who has seen me has seen the Father.
看見了我的,就是看見了父。
1:1897
Τοῦτο δέ οὐ κατά τήν τῆς σαρκός εἶπε θεωρίαν, ἀλλά κατά τήν τῆς θεότητος ἀποκάλυψιν
But he said this not with reference to the vision of the flesh, but with reference to the revelation of the divinity.
祂說這話,並非指肉眼所見的景象,而是指神性的啟示而言。
1:1898
καί οὕτως οὐδεμία ἔσται διαφορά ἤ προτίμησις ἀπίστων τε καί πιστῶν, ἀλλά πάντες ἐξ ἴσης τοῦ πεποθημένου μακαρισμοῦ ἔτυχόν τε () δηλονότι καί τύχωσιν
And thus there would be no difference or preference between unbelievers and believers, but all alike would obtain—and clearly would go on obtaining—the longed-for blessedness.
這樣一來,不信者與信者之間便毫無分別或高下之分,眾人都同樣地——顯然也將同樣地——獲得那渴望已久的真福了。
1:1899
Ἀλλ οὐκ ἔστι ταῦτα, οὐκ ἔστι, καθά δή καί αὐτός πάλιν δείκνυσιν Ἰουδαίοις διαλεγόμενος καί λέγων·
But it is not so, it is not so, as he himself again shows when disputing with the Jews and saying:
然而事實並非如此,並非如此,正如祂自己在與猶太人辯論時再次指明所說的:
1:1900
Εἰ ἐγνώκειτέ με, καί τόν Πατέρα μου ἐγνώκειτε ἄν
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.
你們若認識我,也就認識我的父了。
1:1901
Ὅτι δέ δυνατόν ἡμῖν ἐστι τό κατιδεῖν τόν Θεόν, ὡς ἀνθρώπῳ ἰδεῖν ἐφικτόν, ἄκουσον αὐτοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ Υἱοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ πάλιν λέγοντος·
But that it is possible for us to behold God, insofar as it is attainable for a man to see, hear Christ the Son of God again saying:
至於我們有可能看見神——就人所能達到的程度而言——請再聽基督、神的兒子這樣說:
1:1902
Μακάριοι οἱ καθαροί τῇ καρδίᾳ ὅτι αὐτοί τόν Θεόν ὄψονται
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
清心的人有福了,因為他們必得見神。
1:1903
Ἀλλ οἶδα, ὁ τά ἐν χερσίν ἀπιστῶν ἀγαθά καί λαβεῖν ταῦτα μή προθυμούμενος ἐπί τά μέλλοντα μεταβήσεται καί ἀποκριθείς ἐρεῖ·
But I know that he who disbelieves the good things at hand and is not eager to receive them will turn to the things to come, and answering will say:
但我知道,那不相信眼前既有之善、也不急於領受這善的人,會轉而訴諸將來之事,並回答說:
1:1904
Ναί, ὄντως οἱ καθαροί τῇ καρδίᾳ τόν Θεόν ὄψονται, ἀλλ ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι τοῦτο καί οὐκ ἐν τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι γενήσεται
Yes, indeed the pure in heart shall see God, but this will happen in the age to come, and not in the present age.
是的,清心的人的確必得見神,但這將發生在來世,而非今生此世。
1:1905
Διά τί ἤ πῶς τοῦτο ἔσται, ἀγαπητέ;
Why, or how, will this be, beloved?
親愛的,這將如何、又為何會發生呢?
1:1906
Εἰ γάρ διά τῆς καθαρᾶς καρδίας τόν Θεόν εἶπεν ὄψεσθαι, πάντως ὅτε ἡ καθαρότης προσγένηται, καί ἡ θεωρία συνέπεται αὐτῇ
For if he said that God is seen through a pure heart, then certainly, whenever purity comes about, the vision follows it.
因為,既然祂說神是藉著清潔的心才得見的,那麼無論何時純潔一旦臨到,異象的觀見也必隨之而來。
1:1907
ποτέ ἐκαθάρισας, ἔγνως ἄν ὡς ἀληθῆ τά λεγόμενα·
Had you ever purified yourself, you would have known that what is said is true;
你若曾經潔淨過自己,就會知道所說的話是真實的;
1:1908
ἐπεί δέ οὐκ ἔθου τοῦτο ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου οὐδέ εἶναι ἀληθές ἐπίστευσας, διά τοῦτο καί τῆς καθάρσεως κατεφρόνησας καί τῆς θεωρίας διήμαρτες
but since you did not set this in your heart, nor believed it to be true, for this reason you also despised purification and missed the vision.
但因為你並未將此放在心上,也不相信它是真實的,因此你既輕視了潔淨,也就失去了那觀見。
1:1909
Εἰ γάρ ἐνταῦθα ἡ κάθαρσις, καί ἐνταῦθα ἔσται ἡ ὅρασις·
For if purification is here, the vision too will be here;
因為潔淨若是在此世,異象的觀見也必在此世;
1:1910
εἰ δέ μετά θάνατον εἴπῃς τήν ὅρασιν εἶναι, θήσεις πάντως καί τήν κάθαρσιν μετά θάνατον, καί οὕτω σοι γενήσεται τό μηδέποτε ἰδεῖν τόν Θεόν ἐν τῷ μή εἶναί σοι ἐργασίαν μετά τήν ἔξοδον δι ἧς εὑρήσεις τήν κάθαρσιν
but if you say that the vision is after death, you will certainly also have to place purification after death, and thus it will come about for you that you will never see God, since after your departure you have no work by which you might find purification.
但你若說異象要在死後才有,那你勢必也要把潔淨放在死後;如此一來,你就永遠不能見神了,因為在你離世之後,再沒有任何作為能讓你尋得潔淨。
1:1911
Ἀλλά καί ὁ Κύριος τί φησιν;
But what does the Lord also say?
然而,主又是怎麼說的呢?
1:1912
Ὁ ἀγαπῶν με τάς ἐντολάς μου τηρήσει καί ἐγώ ἀγαπήσω αὐτόν καί ἐμφανίσω αὐτῷ ἐμαυτόν
He who loves me will keep my commandments, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.
愛我的人,必遵守我的命令,我也要愛他,並要親自向他顯現。
1:1913
Πότε οὖν ἡ ἐμφάνεια τούτου γενήσεται;
When, then, will this manifestation take place?
那麼,這顯現究竟何時發生呢?
1:1914
Ἐνταῦθα ἤ ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι;
Here, or in the age to come?
是在今世,還是在來世?
1:1915
Ὅπου γάρ ἡ ἀκριβής τῶν ἐντολῶν φυλακή, ἐκεῖ ἔσται καί ἡ τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἐμφάνεια, μετά δέ τήν ἐμφάνειαν ἡ τελεία ἐν ἡμῖν ἀγάπη προσγίνεται
For wherever there is exact keeping of the commandments, there also will be the manifestation of the Savior; and after the manifestation, perfect love comes to be in us.
因為凡有嚴謹持守誡命之處,救主的顯現也必在那裡;而在這顯現之後,那完全的愛便會在我們裡面產生。
1:1916
Εἰ γάρ μή τοῦτο γένηται, οὔτε πιστεύειν, οὔτε ἀγαπᾶν αὐτόν ὡς χρή δυνάμεθα·
For if this does not happen, we can neither believe nor love him as we ought:
因為若非如此,我們就無法照著應有的樣式去信靠祂、去愛祂:
1:1917
Ὁ μή ἀγαπῶν () τόν ἀδελφόν αὐτοῦ ὅν ὁρᾷ, τόν Θεόν ὅν οὐ βλέπει πῶς δύναται ἀγαπᾶν; Οὐδαμῶς
He who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, how can he love God, whom he does not see? By no means.
不愛自己所看見之弟兄的人,怎能愛那看不見的神呢?絕無可能。
1:1918
Μένει δέ τά τρία ταῦτα, πίστις ἐλπίς, ἀγάπη·
But these three remain: faith, hope, love;
如今常存的有這三樣:信、望、愛;
1:1919
Εἰ οὖν ἡ πίστις τῇ ἐλπίδι συνέζευκται, ἡ δέ ἐλπίς τῇ ἀγάπῃ συνέπεται, ὁ μή ἔχων ἀγάπην ἐλπίδα οὐ κέκτηται, ὁ δέ ἐλπίδος ἐκτός, δηλονότι καί πίστεως
If, then, faith is yoked to hope, and hope follows upon love, he who does not have love does not possess hope; and he who is without hope is clearly also without faith.
既然信與望相互聯結,望又緊隨著愛,那麼沒有愛的人也就沒有望;而沒有望的人,顯然也就沒有信了。
1:1920
Πῶς γάρ, τῶν αἰτιῶν τῆς ἀγάπης μή ὄντων, αὐτήν ἐκείνην παρεῖναι ἐνδέχεται;
For how, when the causes of love are absent, can love itself be present?
因為,若愛的成因並不存在,愛本身又怎麼可能出現呢?
1:1921
Ὡς γάρ θεμελίων ἐκτός ὄροφος οἴκου οὐχ ἵσταται, οὕτως οὐδέ πίστεως καί ἐλπίδος βεβαίας χωρίς ἀγάπην Θεοῦ ἐν ψυχῇ ἀνθρώπου εὑρεθῆναι δυνατόν·
For just as a house's roof cannot stand without foundations, so neither can the love of God be found in a man's soul apart from firm faith and hope;
正如房屋的屋頂若無根基便無法立穩,同樣,若沒有堅固的信與望,神的愛也不可能存在於人的靈魂之中;
1:1922
ὁ δέ μή τήν ἀγάπην ἔχων οὐδέν ἐκ τῶν λοιπῶν ἀρετῶν ὠφελεῖται ἤ χωρίς ταύτης ὠφεληθήσεται, καθά δή καί αὐτός Παῦλος γράφων διαμαρτύρεται
and he who does not have love profits nothing from the rest of the virtues, or will be profited nothing apart from it, just as Paul himself testifies in writing.
而沒有愛的人,從其餘的德行中一無所獲,或者說,若沒有愛,其餘德行也將於他無益,正如保羅親自在書信中所鄭重見證的那樣。
1:1923
Περί δέ τοῦ ἀπ ἐντεῦθεν ὁρᾶν τόν Θεόν ἄκουε αὐτοῦ πάλιν λέγοντος·
But concerning seeing God from this present life, hear him again saying:
至於在今生就能得見神一事,再聽他這樣說:
1:1924
Νῦν βλέπω ἐν ἐσόπτρῳ καί ἐν αἰνίγματι, τότε δέ πρόσωπον πρός πρόσωπον καί πάλιν·
Now I see in a mirror and in a riddle, but then face to face; and again:
我如今彷彿對著鏡子觀看,模糊不清,到那時就要面對面了;又說:
1:1925
Νῦν γινώσκω ἐκ μέρους, τότε δέ ἐπιγνώσομαι καθ ὅ καί ἐπεγνώσθην
Now I know in part, but then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
我如今所知道的有限,到那時就全知道,如同主知道我一樣。
1:1926
Ἀλλ ἐκεῖνος, φησί, Παῦλος ἦν
But he, someone says, was Paul.
但有人說:那位是保羅啊。
1:1927
Παῦλος δέ οὐχί κατά πάντα ἄνθρωπος ἦν, ἡμῖν ὁμοιοπαθής τε καί σύνδουλος;
But was not Paul in every respect a man, of like passions with us and our fellow servant?
難道保羅不也是個十足的人,與我們同樣有血氣、同為僕人的嗎?
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