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Greek original · 76 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss · long chapter, split into parts; this part covers 1:3643–1:3718 (3767 verses in all)

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1:3643

Ἀλλ οὐδ οἱ πνευματικοί τῶν κοσμικῶν καί πονηρῶν ἀνθρώπων ἰδεῖν τά πονηρά ἔργα ἤ τούς ἐμπαθεῖς λόγους αὐτῶν χωρῆσαι ἐν ἑαυτοῖς δύνανται, ἀλλά βλέποντες καί οὗτοι τά ἐν κόσμῳ οὐ βλέπουσι καί ἀκούοντες τά τῶν κοσμικῶν ὡς οὐκ ἀκούοντες τῇ αἰσθήσει διάκεινται˙ καί οὕτως οὐδεμία κοινωνία τούτοις πρός τά ἐκείνων ἤ ἐκείνοις πρός τά τῶν πνευματικῶν γίνεται

But neither are the spiritual able to see the evil works of worldly and wicked men, or to receive within themselves their passion-laden words; rather, they too, though seeing the things of the world, do not see them, and, hearing the words of worldly men, are disposed as though not hearing them by perception; and thus there is no communion of these with those, nor of those with the things of the spiritual.

然而，屬靈的人同樣也不能看見屬世惡人的惡行，也不能在自己裡面容納他們充滿情慾的言語，而是他們雖看見世上的事，卻視若無睹，雖聽見屬世之人的話語，卻在感知上如同未曾聽見一般；就這樣，他們與那些人之間，或那些人與屬靈之事之間，彼此毫無交通。

1:3644

() Καθάπερ φωτός καί σκότους σαφής ἡ διαίρεσις καί ἡ μίξις ἀδύνατος˙ Ποία γάρ, φησί, κοινωνία φωτί πρός σκότος ἤ ποία μερίς πιστῷ μ ετά ἀπίστου, οὕτως, καί ἐν τοῖς Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον ἔχουσι, τοσαύτη ἡ ἀπ ἀλλήλων διάστασις καί ὁ χωρισμός πρός τούς μή ἔχοντάς ἐστιν

Just as the division between light and darkness is clear and their mixture impossible — for, it says, 'What communion has light with darkness, or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?' — so also among those who have the Holy Spirit, there is such a distance and separation from those who do not have Him.

正如光明與黑暗之間的分別是明顯的、二者無法混合——因為經上說：「光明與黑暗有何相通？信與不信有何相干？」——照樣，凡有聖靈的人與那沒有聖靈的人之間，也存在著如此的距離與分隔。

1:3645

Οἱ μέν γάρ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ἔχουσι τό πολίτευμα, ἄγγελοι ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἤδη γενόμενοι, οἱ δέ ἐν τῷ προγονικῷ σκότει καί τῇ σκιᾷ τοῦ θανάτου ἔτι κάθηνται προσηλωμένοι τῇ γῇ καί τοῖς ἐν γῇ πράγμασι˙ καί οἱ μέν, τῷ νοητῷ καί ἀνεσπέρῳ φωτί, οἱ δέ μόνῳ τῷ αἰσθητῷ περιλάμπονται˙ καί οἱ μέν ἑαυτούς καί τούς πλησίον ὁρῶσιν, οἱ δέ καί ἑαυτούς καί τούς πλησίον καθ ἑκάστην ὁρῶντες ἀποθνήσκοντας ἀγνοοῦσιν ὅτι ἄνθρωποί εἰσι καί ὡς ἄνθρωποι ἀποθνήσκουσι˙ καί ἀγνοοῦντες, οὐ πιστεύουσι περί κρίσεως οὐδέ ὅτι ἀνάστασις ἔσται καίἀνταπόδοσις τῶν βεβιωμένων ἑκάστῳ

For the former have their citizenship in heaven, having already become angels out of men, while the latter still sit in the ancestral darkness and the shadow of death, riveted to the earth and to earthly affairs; and the former are illumined by the intelligible and unsetting light, while the latter are illumined only by the sensible light; and the former see themselves and their neighbors, while the latter, though seeing both themselves and their neighbors dying each day, do not know that they are men and die as men do; and not knowing this, they do not believe concerning the judgment, nor that there will be a resurrection and a recompense to each for the deeds done in life.

因為前者的國籍在於天上，已從凡人變成天使；後者卻仍坐在祖傳的黑暗與死蔭之中，被牢牢釘在地上與世上的事務裡；前者為那可悟知、永不落下的光所照耀，後者卻只為那可感之光所照耀；前者看見自己與鄰人，後者雖每日看見自己與鄰人死去，卻不知自己是人、也會像人一樣死去；因不知此事，他們便不信有審判，也不信將有復活與各人按其生平所行而得的報應。

1:3646

Εἰ μέν Πνεῦμα Ἅγιόν ἐστί σοι, πάντως ἐκ τῶν ἐν σοί γινομένων αὐτοῦ ἐνεργειῶν γνωρίσεις ἅ λέγει περί αὐτοῦ ὁ Ἀπόστολος˙ φησί γάρ˙ Ὅπου Πνεῦμα Κυρίου, ἐκεῖ ἐλευθερία καί ὅτι˙ Τό μέν σῶμα νεκρόν δι ἁμαρτίαν, τό δέ πνεῦμα ζωή διά δικαιοσύνην καί ὅτι˙ Οἱ τοῦ Χριστοῦ τήν σάρκα ἐσταύρωσαν σύν τοῖς παθήμασι καί ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις

If you have the Holy Spirit, you will certainly know from His activities that come to be in you what the Apostle says concerning Him. For he says: 'Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom,' and: 'The body indeed is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness,' and: 'Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.'

你若有聖靈，你必能從祂在你裡面所生發的運行，認出使徒所論及祂的話語；因為他說：「主的靈在哪裡，哪裡就有自由」，又說：「身體固然因罪而死，心靈卻因義而活」，又說：「屬基督的人已經把肉體連同邪情私慾釘在十字架上了。」

1:3647

Ὅσοι γάρ ἐβαπτίσθησαν ἐν Πνεύματι Ἁγίῳ ὅλον τόν Χριστόν ἐνδεδυμένοι εἰσί καί υἱοί εἰσι φωτός καί ἐν φωτί ἀνεσπέρῳ περιπατοῦσι καί βλέποντες τόν κόσμον οὐ βλέπουσι καί ἀκούοντες τά τοῦ κόσμου οὐκ ἀκούουσιν

For as many as have been baptized in the Holy Spirit have put on Christ entire, and are sons of light, and walk in unsetting light, and, seeing the world, do not see it, and, hearing the things of the world, do not hear them.

因為凡受聖靈施洗的人，都已穿上了完整的基督，成為光明之子，行在永不落下的光中，看見世界卻視若不見，聽見世上之事卻聽若未聞。

1:3648

Πνεύματος, μωρία γάρ αὐτοῖς εἰσιν, οὕτω μοι νοήσεις καί περί τῶν Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον ἐχόντων ἐν ἑαυτοῖς˙ σῶμα φοροῦσιν ἀλλ οὐκ εἰσίν ἐν σαρκί˙ Ὑμεῖς γάρ, φησίν, οὐκ ἐστέ ἐν σαρκί ἀλλ ἐν πνεύματι, εἴπερ Πνεῦμα Θεοῦ οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν˙ νεκροί εἰσι τῷ κόσμῳ καί ὁ κόσμος αὐτοῖς˙ Ἐμοί γάρ, φησί, κόσμος ἐσταύρωται κἀγώ τῷ κόσμῳ

'...of the Spirit, for they are folly to them' — thus you should also understand concerning those who have the Holy Spirit within themselves: they bear a body, but are not in the flesh. For, it says, 'You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.' They are dead to the world, and the world to them; for, it says, 'The world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.'

……的事，因為這些在他們看來是愚拙的』——你也當照樣理解那些內心懷有聖靈之人：他們雖披戴身體，卻不在肉體之中。因為經上說：「你們不在肉體，乃在聖靈裡，如果神的靈住在你們裡面的話」；他們向世界是死的，世界向他們也是死的；因為經上說：「就我而論，世界已經釘在十字架上了；就世界而論，我已經釘在十字架上了。」

1:3649

Ὁ ταῦτα εἰδώς ἐνεργούμενα ἐν αὐτῷ τά σημεῖα καί θαύματα ὄντως θεοφόρος καί σημειοφόρος ἐστί, τόν Θεόν ἔχων, ἤγουν αὐτό τό πανάγιον Πνεῦμα ἔνοικον, λαλοῦν καί ἐνεργοῦν ἐν αὐτῷ τά εἰρημένα ὑπό τοῦ Παύλου

He who knows these signs and wonders to be at work in him is truly God-bearing and sign-bearing, having God — that is, the all-holy Spirit itself — dwelling within him, speaking and working in him the things spoken by Paul.

那知道這些神蹟奇事正在自己裡面運行的人，實在是負神者和帶有神蹟者，因為他有神——亦即那至聖聖靈本身——內住於他，在他裡面說話並運行保羅所說的那些事。

1:3650

Ὁ δέ μήπω ταῦτα ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἐγνωκώς, μή ἀπατάσθω, σάρξ ἐστιν ἔτι καί αἷμα, ὑπό τόν ζόφον δηλονότι τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν τῆς σαρκός καλυπτόμενος˙ σάρξ δέ καί αἷμα βασιλείαν Θεοῦ, ἥτις ἐστί τό Πνεῦμα τό Ἅγιον, οὐ κληρονομεῖ

But let him who has not yet known these things in himself not be deceived: he is still flesh and blood, evidently covered by the gloom of the desires of the flesh; and flesh and blood do not inherit the kingdom of God, which is the Holy Spirit.

但那尚未在自己裡面認識這些事的人，切莫自欺，他仍是屬血氣的，顯然仍被肉體私慾的幽暗所籠罩；而血肉之軀不能承受神的國，這國就是聖靈。

1:3651

Ἀπό μέν τοῦ θείου βαπτίσματος τήν τῶν ἡμαρτημένων λαμβάνομεν ἄφεσιν καί τῆς πρώην κατάρας ἐλευθερούμεθα καί τῇ παρουσίᾳ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἁγιαζόμεθα, τήν δέ τελείαν χάριν κατά τό˙ Ἐνοικήσω ἐν αὐτοῖς καί ἐμπεριπατήσω, οὐ τότε˙ τοῦτο γάρ τῶν βεβαιοπίστων καί ἐκ τῶν ἔργων ταύτην ἐπιδεικνύντων ἐστί

From divine baptism we receive the forgiveness of our sins, and are freed from the former curse, and are sanctified by the presence of the Holy Spirit; but the perfect grace, according to the saying, 'I will dwell in them and walk among them,' we do not receive then; for this belongs to those firm in faith who also demonstrate it by their works.

藉著神聖的洗禮，我們獲得罪的赦免，並從先前的咒詛中得釋放，也因聖靈的臨在而成聖；但按照經上「我要住在他們中間，在他們中間往來」所說那完全的恩典，我們那時卻尚未領受；因為這是屬於那些堅定持守信仰、並以行為顯明此信的人的。

1:3652

Μετά γάρ τό βαπτισθῆναι ἡμᾶς πρός πονηράς καί αἰσχράς πράξεις ἐκκλίνοντες καί αὐτόν τόν ἁγιασμόν εἰς ἅπαν ἀποβαλλόμεθα, μετανοίᾳ δέ καί ἐξομολογήσει καί δάκρυσι κατά ἀναλογίαν τήν ἄφεσιν πρότερον τῶν ἡμαρτημένων λαμβάνομεν καί οὕτω τόν ἁγιασμόν μετά τῆς ἄνωθεν χάριτος

For after we have been baptized, turning aside to wicked and shameful deeds, we cast away that very sanctification entirely; but through repentance, confession, and tears, proportionately, we first receive again the forgiveness of our sins, and thus, together with grace from above, sanctification also.

因為在我們受洗之後，若轉向邪惡可恥的行為，便將那聖化全然拋棄；然而藉著悔改、認罪與眼淚，按著相應的程度，我們先重新獲得罪的赦免，然後也隨之連同從上而來的恩典一併獲得聖化。

1:3653

Ἀπό μέν τῆς μετανοίας ἔκπλυσις τοῦ μολυσμοῦ () τῶν αἰσχρῶν γίνεται πράξεων, μετά δέ ταύτην, μετοχή Πνεύματος Ἁγίου˙ οὐχ ἁπλῶς δέ, ἀλλά κατά τήν πίστιν καί τήν διάθεσιν καί τήν ταπείνωσιν τῶν ἐξ ὅλης μετανοούντων ψυχῆς˙ οὐ μόνον δέ, ἀλλά καί μετά τό τελείαν τήν ἄφεσιν τῶν ἡμαρτημένων παρά τοῦ πατρός καί ἀναδόχου λαβεῖν

From repentance comes the washing away of the defilement of shameful deeds, and after this, participation in the Holy Spirit — not simply, however, but according to the faith, the disposition, and the humility of those repenting with their whole soul; and not only this, but also after receiving the complete forgiveness of sins from the spiritual father and sponsor.

悔改帶來對可恥行為之污穢的滌淨，其後便是與聖靈的相通；然而這並非無條件地發生，而是照著那些全心悔改之人的信心、心志與謙卑而定；不僅如此，還必須是在從屬靈的父與監護人（代父）那裡領受完全的罪之赦免之後。

1:3654

Διά τοῦτο καλόν καθ ἑκάστην μετανοεῖν κατά τήν κελεύουσαν ἐντολήν˙ τό γάρ μετανοεῖτε, ἤγγικε γάρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀόριστον ἡμῖν ὑπεμφαίνει τήν ἐργασίαν

For this reason it is good to repent daily, according to the commanding precept; for the words 'Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand' intimate to us an unending labor.

因此，按著那發出命令的誡命，每日悔改是美善的；因為「你們要悔改，因為天國近了」這話，向我們暗示了一項無止境的功課。

1:3655

Ἡ χάρις τοῦ παναγίου Πνεύματος ταῖς τῷ Χριστῷ νυμφευομέναις ψυχαῖς ὡς ἀρραβών δίδοται˙ καί καθάπερ ἀρραβῶνος χωρίς οὐκ ἔχει ἀσφαλῶς ἡ γυνή τήν μετά τοῦ ἀνδρός συνάφειαν μέλλειν ποτέ βεβαίως γενήσεσθαι, οὕτως οὐδέ ψυχή βεβαίαν λαμβάνει πληροφορίαν ποτέ τοῦ μετά τοῦ δεσπότου αὐτῆς καί Θεοῦ εἰς αἰῶνας συνέσεσθαι, ἤ μυστικῶς καί ἀνεκφράστως αὐτῷ συνάπτεσθαι, καί τοῦ ἀπροσίτου κάλλους ἐπαπολαύειν αὐτοῦ, εἰ μή τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ τόν ἀρραβῶνα λάβῃ καί γνωστῶς αὐτόν ἐν ἑαυτῇ κτήσηται

The grace of the all-holy Spirit is given as a betrothal-pledge to souls betrothed to Christ; and just as, without a pledge, a woman has no sure assurance that her union with the man will certainly come to be, so too a soul never receives sure assurance that it will be forever with its Master and God, or be mystically and inexpressibly joined to Him, and enjoy His unapproachable beauty, unless it receives the pledge of His grace and consciously acquires it within itself.

至聖聖靈的恩典，作為聘禮賜給那些許配於基督的靈魂；正如若無聘禮，女子便無法確實把握她與男子的結合必將成就一樣，靈魂若不領受祂恩典的聘禮、並在自己裡面有所知覺地擁有它，便永不能得著確實的把握，知道自己必將永遠與其主宰和神同在，或奧祕地、無可言喻地與祂聯合，並享受祂那不可企及的美善。

1:3656

Ὅν τρόπον οἱ γραφόμενοι συμβολικοί χάρται εἰ μή ὑπογραφάς ἀξιοπίστων μαρτύρων δέξωνται, οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ ἀρραβών βέβαιος, οὕτως οὐδέ πρό τῆς ἐργασίας τῶν ἐντολῶν καί τῆς τῶν ἀρετῶν κτήσεως ἀσφαλής ἡ τῆς χάριτος ἔλλαμψις γίνεται

In the manner that written contracts, unless they receive the signatures of trustworthy witnesses, do not constitute a sure pledge, so too, before the labor of the commandments and the acquisition of the virtues, the illumination of grace does not become secure.

正如所立的契約若不獲得可信見證人的簽署，這聘禮便不算確實一樣，若不先實行誡命並獲得諸德行，恩典的光照也不會成為穩固可靠的。

1:3657

Ὅπερ γάρ ἐν τοῖς συμφώνοις οἱ μάρτυρες, τοῦτο ἐπί τοῦ πνευματικοῦ ἀρραβῶνος ἡ τῶν ἐντολῶν ἐργασία καί αἱ ἀρεταί καθεστήκασι˙ τελείαν γάρ διά τούτων λαμβάνει τήν τοῦ ἀρραβῶνος κατάσχεσιν ἕκαστος τῶν μελλόντων σωθήσεσθαι

For what witnesses are in contracts, that the labor of the commandments and the virtues are in the case of the spiritual pledge; for it is through these that each of those who are to be saved obtains the complete possession of the pledge.

因為在契約中見證人所扮演的角色，正是誡命的實行與諸德行在屬靈聘禮中所扮演的角色；因為凡將要得救的人，正是藉此而獲得對這聘禮完全的持有。

1:3658

Πρῶτον οἱονεί τά σύμφωνα γράφονται διά τῆς ἐργασίας τῶν ἐντολῶν, εἶτα ὑπό τῶν ἀρετῶν ἐπισφραγίζονται καί ὑπογράφονται˙ καί τηνικαῦτα ἐπιδίδωσι τόν () δακτύλιον ὁ νυμφίος Χριστός τῇ νύμφῃ ψυχῇ, ἤγουν τόν ἀρραβῶνα τοῦ Πνεύματος

First, as it were, the marriage contract is written through the practice of the commandments; then it is sealed and signed by the virtues. And at that time the bridegroom Christ gives the ring to the bride, the soul — that is, the pledge of the Spirit.

首先，彷彿藉著實行誡命寫成婚約；隨後藉著德行加以蓋印簽署；那時，新郎基督便將戒指賜給新娘——靈魂，亦即賜下聖靈的憑據。

1:3659

τήν ἐνθένδε ἀποδημίαν λαβεῖν ἀπεκδέχεται, πληροφορουμένη διά τοῦ ἀρραβῶνος ὡς ἀδιάψευστα τά συμπεφωνημένα αὐτῇ ἔσονται

She awaits her departure from this life, being fully assured through the pledge that what has been agreed to her will prove unfailing.

她期待著離開此世的旅程，因這憑據而全然確信，凡與她所約定的事必不落空。

1:3660

Καθάπερ βραδύνοντος τοῦ νυμφίου ἐν ἀποδημίᾳ, ἤ ἀπασχολουμένου ἐν ἑτέραις τισίν ὑποθέσεσι καί τόν γάμον τέως ὑπερτιθεμένου ποιῆσαι, ἐάν ὀργισθεῖσα ἡ νύμφη τῆς ἐκείνου ἀγάπης καταφρονήσῃ καί τόν ἀρραβωνικόν χάρτην ἤ ἀπαλείψῃ ἤ διαρρήξῃ, ἐκπίπτει τῶν πρός τόν νυμφίον ἐλπίδων εὐθύς, οὕτω καί ἐπί τῆς ψυχῆς πέφυκε γίνεσθαι

Just as, when the bridegroom delays on a journey, or is occupied with certain other affairs and for the time being postpones making the marriage, if the bride, becoming angry, despises his love and either erases or tears up the betrothal document, she at once falls from her hopes toward the bridegroom — so also it is the nature of things to happen in the case of the soul.

正如新郎因遠行遲延，或因忙於其他事務而暫且延後婚禮之時，若新娘因此發怒，藐視他的愛，將婚約文書塗抹或撕毀，她便立刻喪失對新郎的一切盼望；靈魂的情形本質上也是如此。

1:3661

Ἐπάν γάρ εἴπῃ τις τῶν ἀγωνιζομένων˙ Ἕως πότε κακοπαθεῖν ὀφείλω; καί τῶν ἀσκητικῶν πόνων κατολιγωρήσῃ καί διά τῆς ἀμελείας τῶν ἐντολῶν καί ἐγκαταλείψεως τῆς διηνεκοῦς μετανοίας οἱονεί ἀπαλείψῃ καί διαρρήξῃ τά σύμφωνα, εὐθύς ἐκπίπτει καί τοῦ ἀρραβῶνος καί τῆς πρός Θεόν ἐλπίδος τελείως

For when one of those who struggle says, 'How long must I suffer hardship?' and grows negligent of ascetic labors, and through neglect of the commandments and abandonment of unceasing repentance, as it were erases and tears up the covenant, he at once falls completely from both the pledge and his hope toward God.

因為當某個奮鬥者說：『我還要受苦到幾時呢？』因而輕忽苦修的勞苦，並因疏於遵行誡命、放棄持續不斷的悔改，彷彿將約書塗抹撕毀，他便立刻完全喪失聖靈的憑據，也完全喪失對神的盼望。

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Ὥσπερ ἡ νύμφη ἐάν πρός ἕτερον τήν ἀγάπην τοῦ ἁρμοσθέντος αὐτῇ νυμφίου μετάθηται καί συγκοιτασθῇ αὐτῷ φανερῶς ἤ λαθραίως, οὐ μόνον οὐδέν ἐκ τῶν ὑποσχεθέντων αὐτῇ παρά τοῦ νυμφίου ἐλπίσει λαβεῖν, ἀλλά καί τιμωρίαν καί μέμψιν τήν ἐκ τοῦ νόμου προσδοκήσει ἀξίως, οὕτω δή καί ἐπί ἡμῶν γίνεσθαι πέφυκεν

Just as, if the bride transfers to another the love due to the bridegroom betrothed to her, and lies with him openly or secretly, she will not only have no hope of receiving anything promised to her by the bridegroom, but will justly expect punishment and reproach according to the law, so also it is the nature of things to happen in our case.

正如新娘若將本應獻給與她訂婚之新郎的愛轉向他人，並與那人明目張膽或暗中同寢，她不僅無望從新郎那裡得到所應許的任何事物，反倒理當按律法預期懲罰與譴責；我們的情形本質上也是如此。

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Ἐάν μετάθηταί τις τήν ἀγάπην τοῦ νυμφίου Χριστοῦ πρός ἄλλου τινός ἐπιθυμίαν πράγματος φανερῶς ἤ λαθραίως καί () κρατηθῇ ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ, μισητή ἔσται τῷ νυμφίῳ καί βδελυκτή καί ἀνάξια τῆς συναφείας αὐτοῦ˙ εἴρηκε γάρ˙ Ἐγώ τούς ἐμέ φιλοῦντας ἀγαπῶ

If anyone transfers the love due to Christ the bridegroom toward the desire of some other thing, openly or secretly, and his heart is held fast in it, he will be hateful to the bridegroom and abominable and unworthy of union with him; for he has said, 'I love those who love me.'

若有人將本應獻給新郎基督的愛轉向貪戀其他事物，無論明目張膽或暗中如此，且其心被那事物所擄獲，他便將為新郎所憎惡、可憎，且不配與祂聯合；因為祂曾說：『愛我的人，我也愛他。』

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Ὁ ἀρραβών ἐν τοῖς κεκτημένοις αὐτόν ἄφθεκτος γίνεται, ἀκατανοήτως κατανοούμενος, ἀκρατήτως κρατούμενος, ἀοράτως ὁρώμενος, ζῶν καί λαλῶν καί κινούμενος καί τόν κεκτημένον κινῶν, ἀφιπτάμενος τοῦ ἐν ᾧ ἐσφραγισμένως περιέχεται κιβωτίου καί πάλιν ἀνελπίστως ἐντός αὐτοῦ εὑρισκόμενος, ὡς μήτε τήν παρουσίαν βεβαίαν μήτε τήν ὑποχώρησιν ἀνεπίστροφον νομίζειν τόν κεκτημένον ποιεῖν˙ καί οὕτως, μή ἔχων αὐτόν ὡς ἔχων ἐστί, καί ἔχων ὡς μή ἔχων, ὁ κεκτημένος τοῦτον διάκειται

The pledge becomes intangible in those who possess it — comprehended incomprehensibly, held ungraspably, seen invisibly; living, speaking, and moving, and moving the one who possesses it; flying forth from the coffer in which it is contained as though sealed, and again unexpectedly being found within it, so that the possessor considers neither its presence secure nor its withdrawal irrevocable. And thus the possessor, not having it, is as one who has it, and, having it, is as one who does not have it — such is his condition.

聖靈的憑據在得著祂的人身上是不可捉摸的：以不可理解之方式被理解，以不可掌握之方式被掌握，以不可見之方式被看見；祂活著、說話、行動，並使得著祂的人也隨之行動；祂從那彷彿被密封收藏的匣子中飛出，又出乎意料地再次被發現於其中，以致得著祂的人既不能確信祂的臨在必然，也不能確信祂的隱退不可挽回。就這樣，得著祂的人雖不擁有卻彷彿擁有，雖擁有卻彷彿不擁有，正處於這樣的境況之中。

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Ὅν τρόπον ἔνδοθεν οἰκίας νυκτός ἱσταμένου τινός, κεκλεισμένων αὐτῆς τῶν θυρῶν πάντοθεν, ἐάν μίαν διανοίξῃ θυρίδα καί ἀστραπή τοῦτον αἴφνης περιλάμψῃ λαμπρά, μή φέρων ἐκεῖνος τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ταύτης τήν ἀπαυγήν εὐθύς ἀσφαλίζει μύων τους ὦπας καί συστέλλεται ἐφ ἑαυτόν, οὕτω δή ἐγκεκλεισμένης καί τῆς ψυχῆς ἐν τοῖς αἰσθητοῖς, ἐάν ἔξωθεν τούτων ποτέ ὡς διά θυρίδος τῷ νοΐ παρακύψῃ, ὑπό τῆς ἀστραπῆς τοῦ ἐν αὐτῇ ἀρραβῶνος, φημί δή τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος, καταστραφεῖσα, τήν λαμπηδόνα μή φέρουσα τοῦ ἀστέκτου φωτός, εὐθύς καί τόν νοῦν καταπλήττεται καί ὅλη ἐφ ἑαυτήν συστέλλεται, φεύγουσα ὡς εἰς οἰκίαν τινά ὑπό τά αἰσθητά καί ἀνθρώπινα

Just as, when someone stands inside a house at night with its doors shut on every side, if he opens a single small window and a brilliant flash of lightning suddenly shines around him, unable to bear the glare of it with his eyes, he immediately protects himself by closing his eyes and shrinks back into himself — so also, when the soul, shut in among the things of sense, at some point peers out with the mind, as through a small window, beyond them, it is overwhelmed by the lightning-flash of the pledge within it — I mean the Holy Spirit — and, unable to bear the brightness of that unbearable light, is at once struck with astonishment in its mind and shrinks entirely back into itself, fleeing, as into some house, under the shelter of sensible and human things.

正如有人夜間站在屋內，四面門戶皆已關閉，若他打開一扇小窗，忽有燦爛的閃電照亮四周，他的眼睛承受不住那強光，便立即閉上眼睛加以保護，且整個人縮回自身；照樣，當靈魂被封閉於感官事物之中，若有時她藉著理智如同透過一扇小窗向外窺望，便會被那內在憑據——我是指聖靈——的閃光所震懾，因承受不住那不可承受之光的燦爛，理智立時驚駭，整個靈魂便縮回自身，逃避到感官與人性事物之中，彷彿逃進某座房屋一般。

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Δέον ἕκαστον ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων σημείων κατανοεῖν, εἰ τόν ἀρραβῶνα τοῦ Πνεύματος ἐκ τοῦ νυμφίου καί δεσπότου Χριστοῦ εἴληφε˙ καί εἰ μέν ἔλαβε, σπουδαζέτω τοῦτον κατέχειν˙ εἰ δέ μήπω τοῦτον λαβεῖν ἠξιώθη, σπουδασάτω διά τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἔργων καί πράξεων καί θερομάτης μετανοίας λαβεῖν αὐτόν καί φυλάξαι διά τῆς ἐργασίας τῶν ἐντολῶν καί τῆς τῶν ἀρετῶν ἐπικτήσεως

Each one ought to discern from such signs whether he has received the pledge of the Spirit from Christ, the bridegroom and master. And if he has received it, let him be diligent to retain it; but if he has not yet been deemed worthy to receive it, let him be diligent, through good works and deeds and most fervent repentance, to receive it, and to guard it through the practice of the commandments and the acquisition of the virtues.

人人都當從這些徵兆中察覺自己是否已從新郎兼主宰基督那裡領受了聖靈的憑據；若已領受，就當殷勤持守；若尚未蒙允領受，就當藉著善行、善工並最熱切的悔改殷勤求取，並藉著實行誡命與獲致諸德行來加以持守。

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() Καθάπερ ἡ στέγη πάσης οἰκίας διά τῶν θεμελίων καί τῆς λοιπῆς κτίσεως ἵσταται, ὡσαύτως δέ καί τά θεμέλια διά τό τήν στέγην βαστάζειν καταβάλλονται ὡς ἀναγκαῖα καί χρήσιμα, καί οὔτε στέγη δίχα θεμελίων συνίσταται πέφυκεν, οὔτε θεμέλιοι ἄνευ στέγης τῷ βίῳ χρειώδεις ἤ ὠφέλιμοι ὅλως εἰσίν˙ οὕτω καί ἡ τοῦ Θεοῦ χάρις διά τῆς τῶν ἐντολῶν συντηρεῖται ἐργασίας καί αἱ πράξεις τῶν ἐντολῶν διά τήν τοῦ Θεοῦ δωρεάν ὡς θεμέλιοι καταβάλλονται, καί οὔτε ἡ χάρις τοῦ Πνεύματος παραμένειν ἡμῖν πέφυκεν ἄνευ τῆς τῶν ἐντολῶν ἐργασίας, οὔτε ἡ τῶνἐντολῶν ἐργασία ἄνευ τῆς χάριτος τοῦ Θεοῦ χρήσιμος ἤ ὠφέλιμος ἐστιν ἡμῖν

Just as the roof of every house stands by means of the foundations and the rest of the structure, and likewise the foundations, for the sake of bearing the roof, are laid as necessary and useful — and neither is a roof naturally constituted without foundations, nor are foundations of any use or benefit for life at all without a roof — so also the grace of God is preserved through the practice of the commandments, and the deeds of the commandments are laid down, for the sake of God's gift, as foundations; and neither is it the nature of the Spirit's grace to remain with us apart from the practice of the commandments, nor is the practice of the commandments useful or beneficial to us apart from the grace of God.

正如每座房屋的屋頂靠著地基與其餘結構而立，同樣地，地基也是為了承托屋頂而被視為必要且有用之物才被奠立；沒有地基屋頂本無法立足，沒有屋頂單有地基對生活也毫無用處或益處；照樣，神的恩典是藉著實行誡命而得以保存，而誡命的踐行是為了神的恩賜才被奠立為根基；聖靈的恩典若無誡命的踐行便不能長存於我們身上，誡命的踐行若無神的恩典對我們也毫無用處或益處。

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Ὅν τρόπον ἡ ἄστεγος οἰκία ἡ ὑπό ἀμελείας τοῦ κτίσαντος οὕτως ἐαθεῖσα οὐ μόνον ἄχρηστός ἐστιν, ἀλλά καταγέλωτα τῷ κτίσαντι προξενεῖ, οὕτω καί ὁ τούς θεμελίους τῆς ἐργασίας τῶν ἐντολῶν καταβαλλόμενος καί τοίχους ὑψηλῶν ἀρετῶν ἀναστήσας, ἐάν μή καί τήν χάριν τοῦ Πνεύματος ἐν θεωρίᾳ καί γνώσει ψυχῆς λήψεται, ἀτελής ἐστι καί παρά τῶν τελείων κατελεούμενος

Just as a roofless house, left in that state through the negligence of its builder, is not only useless but brings ridicule upon its builder, so also one who lays the foundations of the practice of the commandments and raises up the walls of lofty virtues, if he does not also receive the grace of the Spirit in the contemplation and knowledge of the soul, is incomplete, and is pitied by those who are complete.

正如一座因建造者疏忽而未加屋頂、任其如此的房屋，不僅毫無用處，反而使建造者蒙受恥笑；照樣，一個立下實行誡命的根基、又築起崇高德行之牆的人，若不能在靈魂的默觀與知識中也領受聖靈的恩典，他便是不完全的，且要受到那些已臻完全者的憐憫。

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Ἐκ γάρ τῶν δύο τούτων αἰτιῶν ταύτης πάντως ἐστέρηται˙ ἤ γάρ τῆς μετανοίας ἠμέλησεν, ἤ πρός τήν τῶν ἀρετῶν συλλογήν ὡς πρός ἄπειρον ὕλην ἀπειρηκώς, ἐνέλειψέ τινα τῶν δοκούντων μέν ἡμῖν ἐλαχίστων, ἀναγκαίων δέ ὄντων πρός τόν ἀπαρτισμόν τοῦ οἴκου τῶν ἀρετῶν, ὡς μή δύνασθαι ἄνευ ἐκείνων διά τῆς τοῦ Πνεύματος χάριτος στεγασθῆναι αὐτόν

For it is from one of these two causes that he is altogether deprived of it: either he has neglected repentance, or, having grown weary in the gathering of the virtues as though facing an infinite substance, he has left out some of those things that seem to us most trivial but are in fact necessary for the completion of the house of the virtues, so that without them it cannot be roofed over by the grace of the Spirit.

因為他之所以完全被剝奪這恩典，必出於以下兩個原因之一：或是他疏忽了悔改，或是他在積聚德行的過程中，彷彿面對無窮無盡的材料而心生疲乏，遺漏了某些在我們看來微不足道、卻是完成德行之屋所必需的部分，以致若沒有這些，那房屋便無法藉聖靈的恩典而蓋上屋頂。

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Εἰ διά τοῦτο ἐπί τῆς γῆς ὁ Υἱός τοῦ Θεοῦ καί Θεός κατῆλθεν ἵνα δι ἑαυτοῦ καταλλάξῃ γνωστῶς ἡμᾶς ἐχθρούς ὄντας τῷ ἰδίῳ Πατρί καί συνάψῃ γνωστῶς ἡμᾶς ἑαυτῷ διά τοῦ τοῦ Ἁγίου καί ὁμοουσίου αὐτοῦ Πνεύματος, ὁ ταύτης ἐκπίπτων τῆς χάριτος ἄλλης ποίας τεύξεται;

If it was for this reason that the Son of God and God came down to earth — that he might reconcile us, who were enemies, to his own Father through himself, in a manner known to us, and join us to himself, in a manner known to us, through his Holy and consubstantial Spirit — then what other grace will the one who falls from this one obtain?

若神子並神降臨於地，正是為了藉著自己，以我們可知的方式，使身為仇敵的我們與祂自己的父和好，並藉著祂神聖、同質的聖靈，以我們可知的方式，將我們聯結於祂自己——那麼，那墮落而失去這恩典的人，還能得著什麼別的恩典呢？

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Πάντως οὐδέ κατηλλάγῃ αὐτῷ οὐδέ τήν μετ αὐτοῦ ἕνωσιν διά τῆς μετουσίας τοῦ Πνεύματος ἔσχηκεν

Assuredly, he has neither been reconciled to him, nor has he obtained union with him through participation in the Spirit.

他確實既未與祂和好，也未曾藉著分享聖靈而與祂合而為一。

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() Εἰσαγάγῃ τις πῦρ ἐν κόλπῳ, φησίν ὁ Σοφός, τά δέ ἱμάτια οὐ κατακαύσει; Ἐγώ δέ φημί˙ τίς τό ἄστεκτον καί οὐράνιον πῦρ ἐν καρδίᾳ δεξάμενος, οὐ πυρωθήσεται καί λαμπρυνθήσεται καί τάς τῆς θεότητος αὐγάσει καί αὐτός ἀστραπάς κατά ἀναλογίαν τῆς καθάρσεως καί τῆς μετοχῆς τοῦ πυρός˙ ἡ γάρ μετοχή τῇ καθάρσει, τῇ δέ μεθέξει συνέπεται κάθαρσις˙ τούτου δέ γενομένου, Θεός ὅλος κατά χάριν ὁ ἄνθρωπος γίνεται

'Can anyone carry fire in his bosom,' says the Wise One, 'and not burn his garments?' But I say: who, having received the unbearable and heavenly fire in his heart, will not be set on fire, and made radiant, and himself flash forth the lightnings of the Godhead, in proportion to his purification and his participation in the fire? For participation follows upon purification, and purification accompanies participation. And when this comes to pass, the man becomes wholly God by grace.

智者說：『人若將火藏在懷中，衣服豈能不被燒著？』而我要說：誰若在心中領受了那不可承受的天上之火，豈能不被點燃、被照亮，並照著他潔淨與分享那火的程度，自己也發出神性的閃光呢？因為分享伴隨著潔淨，潔淨也伴隨著分享；而這一旦成就，人便按恩典而全然成為神。

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Τῶν μέν ἐμπαθῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν καί ἡδονῶν ὁ μετασχών τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἀπαλλάττεται, τῶν δέ τῆς φύσεως σωματικῶν ἀναγκῶν οὐ χωρίζεται

The one who partakes of the Holy Spirit is freed from passionate desires and pleasures, but is not separated from the bodily necessities of nature.

凡分享聖靈的人，便脫離了帶有情慾的慾望與逸樂，卻不能脫離肉身本性的種種必需。

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Καί ὡς μέν ἐλευθερωθείς τῶν δεσμῶν τῆς ἐμπαθοῦς ὀρέξεως καί συναφθείς τῇ ἀθανάτῳ δόξῃ τε καί γλυκύτητι, ἀδιαλείπτως ἄνω τε βιάζεται εἶναι καί σύν Θεῷ διάγειν καί μηδέ πρός βραχύ τῆς ἐκείνου θεωρίας καί ἀκορέστου τρυφῆς ἀφίστασθαι˙ ὡς δέ τῷ σώματι καί τῇ φθορᾷ ἐμπεδούμενος, ὑπ αὐτοῦ κατασπᾶται καί σύρεται καί πρός τά γήϊνα ἐπιστρέφεται, τοσαύτην ὑπέρ τούτου τηνικαῦτα τήν λύπην δέχεται, ὅσην οἶμαι ἁμαρτωλοῦ ψυχήν ἔχειν χωριζομένην ἀπό τοῦ σώματος

And insofar as he has been freed from the bonds of passionate desire and joined to immortal glory and sweetness, he strives ceaselessly to be above and to spend his life with God, and not to withdraw even for a brief moment from the contemplation of that One and from insatiable delight in him; but insofar as he is fettered to the body and to corruption, he is dragged down and pulled by it and turned back toward earthly things, and at that time he receives, on account of this, as much grief as I think the soul of a sinner has when it is separated from the body.

就他已從情慾渴求的枷鎖中得釋放、並與那不朽的榮耀與甘美聯合而言，他不斷努力向上，與神同在，甚至片刻也不願離開對祂的默觀與那永不厭足的甘飴；然而就他仍被身體與朽壞所束縛而言，他被身體向下拖拽、牽引，重新轉向地上之事，那時他因此所承受的憂傷，我想不亞於罪人的靈魂與身體分離時所受的痛苦。

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Ὥσπερ τῷ φιλοσωμάτῳ καί φιλοζώῳ, τῷ φιληδόνῳ καί φιλοκόσμῳ, ὁ χωρισμός τῶν τοιούτων θάνατός ἐστιν, οὕτως τῷ φιλάγνῳ καί φιλοθέῳ, τῷ φιλαΰλῳ καί φιλαρέτῳ, θάνατος τῷ ὄντι ἡ ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων μικρά τῆς διανοίας διάστασις

Just as, for the one who loves the body and loves this life, for the one who loves pleasure and loves the world, separation from such things is death, so likewise, for the one who loves purity and loves God, for the one who loves the immaterial and loves virtue, real death is even a brief withdrawal of the mind from such things.

正如對愛戀肉體、貪生愛世、耽於逸樂、迷戀塵世之人而言，與這些事物分離便是死亡；照樣，對愛慕貞潔、愛慕神、愛慕非物質之事、愛慕德行之人而言，理智即使片刻脫離這些事物，實在也如同死亡。

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Εἰ γάρ ὁ τόν αἰσθήτον τοῦτο φῶς ὁρῶν, ἐάν πρός μικρόν μύσῃ τούς ὀσθαλμούς ἤ κατακαλυφθῇ τούτους ὑφ ἑτέρου, ἄχθεται καί λυπεῖται καί φέρειν ὄλως τοῦτο οὐ δύναται, καί μάλιστα ἐάν ἀναγκαῖά τινα καί παράδοξα ἦν ὁρῶν˙ πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ ἐν Ἁγίῳ φωτιζόμενος Πνεύματι καί τά ἀγαθά ἐκεῖνα ὁρῶν, ὕπαρ καί νοερῶς, γρηγορῶν καί καθεύδων, ἅ ὀφθαλμός οὐκ εἶδε καί οὖς οὐκ ἤκουσε καί ἐπί καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἀνέβη, () εἰς ἅ παρακύψαι καί ἄγγελοι ἐπιθυμοῦσιν, ἐάν ἀποσπασθῇ ἐκ τῆς τῶν τοιούτων θεωρίας ὑπό τινος, λυπηθήσεται καί θλιβήσεται;

For if one who sees this sensible light, should he close his eyes for a little while, or should they be covered by someone else, is troubled and grieved and cannot bear it at all — especially if he happened to be seeing something necessary and extraordinary — how much more will the one who is illumined by the Holy Spirit and beholds those good things, in waking reality and intellectually, whether awake or asleep — things which eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, things into which even angels long to look — if he is torn away from the contemplation of such things by someone, be grieved and afflicted?

若一個看見這可感之光的人，只要片刻閉上眼睛，或被他人遮蔽了雙眼，便會煩惱憂傷，全然無法忍受——尤其是他當時正看著某種必要且奇妙的事物——那麼，那被聖靈光照、無論醒時或睡時皆在真實中、於理智中看見那些美善之事的人——即眼睛未曾見過、耳朵未曾聽過、未曾進入人心，連天使也渴望詳細窺探的事——若被人強行拉離對這些事的默觀，豈不更要憂傷苦惱嗎？

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Θάνατος γάρ αὐτῷ δοκεῖ τοῦτο καί ἀλλοτρίωσις εἰκότως τῆς αἰωνίου ζωῆς

For this seems to him death, and, quite reasonably, an estrangement from eternal life.

因為對他而言，這彷彿就是死亡，理所當然，也是與永生的隔絕。

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αὐτῶν ὁράσεις ὄψονται, οὐκ ἐξαπατωμένη, ἀλλ ἀληθείαις ἐνατενίζουσα καί ἀποκαλύψεσι πιστουμένη

...they shall see visions of them — not being deceived, but gazing intently upon truths and being confirmed by revelations.

……他們將看見異象——並非受欺哄，而是專注凝視真理，並藉啟示而得堅信確據。

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Ὁπηνίκα τό ἐπιθυμητικόν μέρος τῆς ψυχῆς περί πάθη καί μίξεις καί τρυφάς καί ἀπολαύσεις ἐρεθίζεται τοῦ βίου, τοιαῦτα ὡσαύτως βλέπει καί τά ἐνύπνια ἡ ψυχή˙ εἰ δέ τό θυμικόν αὐτῆς κατά τῶν ὁμοφύλων ἐκθηριοῦται, θηρίων ἐφόδους καί ἑρπετῶν πολέμους καί μάχας ὀνειροπολεῖ, διαπληκτιζομένη ὡς ἐπί δικαστηρίων μεθ ὧν διαφέρεται˙ εἰ δέ τό λογιστικόν αὐτῆς ἐπαίρεται ταῖς ἀλαζονείαις καί ὑπερηφανείαις, ἁρπαγάς εἰς ἀέρα πτεροφυεῖς καί θρόνων ὑψηλῶν καθέδρας καί ἡγεμονίας λαοῦ ἐπί ἁρμάτων προερχομένη καί προπεμπομένη φαντάζεται

Whenever the desiring part of the soul is stirred up over the passions, and unions, and delights, and enjoyments of this life, the soul likewise sees such things in its dreams; but if its irascible part is enraged, beastlike, against those of its own kind, it dreams of assaults of wild beasts and wars and battles with serpents, contending as though in courts of law with those against whom it is at odds; but if its reasoning part is puffed up with arrogance and pride, it imagines itself sprouting wings and being snatched up into the air, and sitting on lofty thrones, and going forth as ruler of a people upon chariots, escorted and sent forth in procession.

每當靈魂的慾望部分因今生的種種情慾、苟合、逸樂與享受而受到煽動，靈魂在夢中也同樣看見這類景象；若其怒氣部分因對同類發怒而變得野蠻，便夢見猛獸的襲擊、與蛇類的戰爭與爭鬥，彷彿在法庭上與那些與自己爭執的人相持不下；若其理性部分因自負與驕傲而膨脹，便幻想自己生出羽翼，被提升至空中，坐在崇高的寶座上，乘車前行，作為統治百姓的君王，前呼後擁、盛大出巡。

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Μόνων ἐκείνων εἰσίν ἀληθῆ τά ὁράματα, ἅ οὐδέ χρή καλεῖν ἐνύπνια ἀλλ ὁράσεις καί ὀπτασίας, ὧν ὁ νοῦς ἁπλοῦς ἐγένετο ἐξ ἐπιδημίας τοῦ Πνεύματος καί ἐλεύθερος ἀπό πάσης ὀχλήσεως καί δουλείας τῶν παθῶν, () ὧν ἡ σχολή περί τά θεῖα πᾶσα καί ἡ μελέτη περί μελλόντων ἀμοιβῶν καί ἀνταποδόσεων, ὧν ἡ ζωή ὑπέρ τήν τῶν ζώντων ζωήν ἀμέριμνος, ἀπερίσπαστος, ἥσυχος, καθαρά, μεστή ἐλέους, σοφίας, γνώσεως οὐρανίου καί καρπῶν ἀγαθῶν τῶν γεωργουμένων ὑπό τοῦ Πνεύματος, τῶν δ ἄλλως καί οὐχ οὕτως ἐχόντων, ψευδῆ καί συγκεχυμένα καί τό ὅλον ἀπάτη σαφής

True visions belong only to those whose mind has become simple through the visitation of the Spirit, and free from all disturbance and enslavement to the passions — those whose entire occupation is with divine things and whose meditation concerns the rewards and recompenses to come, whose life, beyond the life of ordinary living beings, is free from care, undistracted, tranquil, pure, full of mercy, wisdom, heavenly knowledge, and good fruits cultivated by the Spirit — such visions ought not even to be called dreams, but rather sights and apparitions. But for those who are otherwise disposed and do not have such qualities, their visions are false and confused, and altogether manifest deception.

唯有那些藉著聖靈的臨在而心智變得純一、並從一切紛擾與情慾的奴役中得釋放的人，其異象才是真實的——這些人專務於屬神的事，思念的是將來的獎賞與報應，他們的生命超越尋常活人的生命，無憂無慮、不被分心、寧靜、純淨，充滿憐憫、智慧、屬天的知識與聖靈所耕耘出的美好果實；他們所見的不當稱為夢，而應稱為異象與顯現。至於那些性情不同、不具此等特質的人，他們的異象則是虛假紊亂的，整體而言，顯然是欺騙。

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Ἐγώ δέ οὐδέτερον τούτων τοῦ ἑτέρου προκρίναιμι, οὐδέ τόν μέν ἐπαίνου τόν δέ ψόγου ἄξιον εἴποιμι ἄν, ἀλλ ἐν παντί καί ἐν πᾶσιν ἔργοις καί πράξεσιν ὁ διά Θεόν καί κατά Θεόν βίος παμμακάριστος

But I would not prefer either of these to the other, nor would I say that one is worthy of praise and the other of blame; rather, in everything and in all works and deeds, a life lived for God's sake and according to God is most blessed of all.

至於我，這兩者我並不偏重其一，也不會說其中一者當受稱讚、另一者當受責備；而是要說：無論何事、何種工作與作為，凡為神的緣故並照著神而過的生活，都是最為有福的。

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Καθάπερ ἐκ διαφόρων ἐπιστημῶν καί τεχνῶν ὁ τῶν ἀνθρώπων συνίσταται βίος, ἄλλου ἄλλην ἐργαζομένου δηλονότι καί συνεισφέροντος, καί ἀλλήλοις οὕτω μεταδιδόντες καί ἐξ ἀλλήλων μεταλαμβάνοντες ζῶσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, τάς σωματικάς χρείας τῇ φύσει παρέχοντες, οὕτως ἔστιν ἰδεῖν καί ἐπί τῶν πνευματικῶν, ἄλλου ἄλλην ἀρετήν μετιόντος καί ἑτέρου ἑτέραν βίου ὁδόν διανύοντος, εἰς ἕνα σκοπόν ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων τούτων οἱ πάντες συντρέχουσιν

Just as human life is constituted from various sciences and arts, each person plainly working at one and contributing it, and thus people live by sharing with one another and receiving from one another, providing for nature's bodily needs, so likewise one can see the same in spiritual matters: one person pursuing one virtue, another traversing a different path of life — from both of these together, all converge upon a single goal.

正如人類的生活是由各種學問與技藝所構成的，各人顯然從事不同的一門並有所貢獻，人們如此彼此授受、彼此領受，供應本性肉身的需要；照樣，在屬靈的事上也可見到相同情形：有人追求這一種美德，有人走另一條人生的道路，然而不論何種美德或道路，眾人都朝著同一個目標奔赴匯聚。

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Σκοπός πάντων τῶν κατά Θεόν ἀγωνιζομένων ἐστί τό εὐαρεστῆσαι Χριστῷ τῷ Θεῷ καί τήν καταλλαγήν διά τῆς τοῦ Πνεύματος μετουσίας πρός τόν Πατέρα λαβεῖν καί τήν ἑαυτῶν σωτηρίαν διά τούτου πορίσασθαι˙ τοῦτο γάρ πάσης ψυχῆς καί παντός ἀνθρώπου σωτηρία ἐστίν˙ οὗ μή γενομένου, κενός ὁ κόπος καί ματαία ἡ ἐργασία ἡμῶν, ἀνόνητός τε πᾶσα βίου ὁδός ἡ μή πρός τοῦτο τόν ἐν αὐτῇ τρέχοντα φέρουσα

The goal of all who strive according to God is to be well-pleasing to Christ our God, and to obtain reconciliation with the Father through participation in the Spirit, and thereby to secure their own salvation; for this is the salvation of every soul and of every human being. And if this does not come about, our labor is empty and our work is vain, and every path of life is useless which does not carry the one running upon it to this end.

凡按神而奮鬥之人，其共同目標乃是討神—基督的喜悅，並藉分享聖靈而與父和好，藉此獲致自己的救恩；因為這正是每個靈魂、每個人的救恩所在。若此事不成，我們的勞苦便是空的，我們的工作便是徒然的；任何一條人生道路，若不能將在其上奔跑的人引向此一目標，便毫無益處。

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Ἔοικεν ὁ τόν κόσμον ἅπαντα καταλείψας καί () πρός τό ὄρος ὡς πρός ἡσυχίαν ἀναχωρήσας κἀκεῖθεν ἐπιδεικτικῶς γράφων πρός τούς ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ, τούς μέν μακαρίζων τούς δέ κολακεύων καί ἐπαινῶν, τῷ γυναικός πόρνης δυσείμονός τε καί παγκάκου διαζευχθέντι καί εἰς χώραν μακράν ἀποδημήσαντι πρός τό ἀπαλλαγῆναι καί τῆς μνήμης αὐτῆς, εἶτα ἐπιλαθομένῳ τοῦ σκοποῦ δι ὅν τό ὄρος κατειλήφει καί πρός τούς τῇ πόρνῃ ἐκείνῃ συναναστρεφομένους, ἵν εἴπω, καί συμμιαινομένους γράφειν ὀρεγομένῳ καί αὐτούς μακαρίζοντι˙ ὅς εἰ καί μή τῷ σώματι ἀλλά γε τῇ καρδίᾳ πάντως καί τῷ νοΐ συμπασχει ἐκ προθέσεως τοῖς τοιούτοις ἀποδεχόμενος οἱονεί τῆς μετ ἐκείνης αὐτῶν συμπλοκῆς

He who has forsaken the whole world and withdrawn to the mountain, as it were for the sake of stillness, and yet writes from there ostentatiously to those in the world — blessing some and flattering and praising others — resembles a man who has divorced a wretchedly-clad and utterly wicked harlot wife and journeyed to a far country in order to be rid even of the memory of her, but who then forgets the purpose for which he had taken to the mountain, and desires to write also to those who still consort with, and are defiled along with, that harlot — I mean to say — praising them too. Such a man, even if not in body, yet certainly in heart and mind, sympathizes deliberately with such people, embracing, as it were, their intercourse with her.

有人捨棄了整個世界，退隱山中，彷彿是為了追求靜默，卻又從那裡誇耀地寫信給世上的人，或稱他們有福，或加以奉承讚美——這樣的人，就好比一個人休掉了一個衣衫襤褸、萬般邪惡的娼妓妻子，遠走他方，欲擺脫連她的記憶也一併除去，然而後來卻忘記了自己上山的目的，竟又渴望寫信給那些仍與那娼妓來往、被她玷污的人（容我這樣說），並稱他們有福。這樣的人，即使肉身未曾參與，其內心與理智也必定是出於本意而與這些人同感，彷彿也接納了他們與那娼妓的苟合。

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Ὅσῳ οἱ ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ κόσμου στρεφόμενοι καί καθαρεύοντες τάς αἰσθήσεις καί τάς καρδίας ἀπό πάσης πονηρᾶς ἐπιθυμίας, ἐπαινετοί καί μακάριοι, τοσοῦτον οἱ ἐν ὄρεσι καί σπηλαίοις ἐνδιαιτώμενοι, εἰ τῶν ἐπαίνων καί μακαρισμῶν καί τῆς δόξης ἐφίενται τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ψεκτοί καί ἀπόβλητοι˙ ὡς γάρ μοιχεύοντες παρά τῷ τάς καρδίας ἡμῶν ἐρευνῶντι Θεῷ ἔσονται

To the same degree that those who live in the midst of the world, and yet keep their senses and hearts pure from every wicked desire, are praiseworthy and blessed, to that same degree those who dwell in mountains and caves, if they crave the praises and blessings and glory of men, are blameworthy and to be rejected; for before God who searches our hearts, they will be as adulterers.

正如那些身處世俗之中、卻使感官與心靈潔淨、遠離一切邪惡慾望的人，是何等地當受稱讚、何等有福，同樣地，那些隱居山洞之人，若渴慕世人的稱讚、祝福與榮耀，也是何等當受責備、應被棄絕；因為在那鑒察我們內心的神面前，他們無異於行淫之人。

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αὐτοῦ καί τό ὄνομα καί τήν πολιτείαν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ, ἐκπορνεύει, κατά τόν πάλαι τῶν Ἰουδαίων λαόν, ἀπό Θεοῦ, ὡς φησίν ὁ Δαβίδ

...both his name and his conduct in the world, he commits fornication away from God, just as the people of the Jews did of old, as David says.

……他的名聲與他在世上的行事為人，都如同古時猶太百姓一般，離棄神而行淫，正如大衛所說。

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Ὁ πίστει τῇ πρός τόν Θεόν ἀδιστάκτῳ τῷ κόσμῳ καί τοῖς ἐν κόσμῳ ἀποταξάμενος πιστεύει ὅτι ἐλεήμων ἐστί καί οἰκτίρμων ὁ Κύριος καί προσδέχεται τούς ἐν μετανοίᾳ προσερχομένους αὐτῷ

He who, with unwavering faith toward God, has renounced the world and the things in the world, believes that the Lord is merciful and compassionate, and receives those who come to him in repentance.

凡以對神堅定不疑的信心棄絕世界與世上事物的人，都相信主是滿有憐憫與慈悲的，並樂意接納那些懷著悔改前來就近祂的人。

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Εἰδώς δέ ὅτι δι ἀτιμίας τιμᾷ τούς δούλους αὐτοῦ διά πτωχείας ἄκρας πλουτίζει αὐτούς καί δι ὕβρεων καί ἐξουδενώσεως δοξάζει αὐτούς καί διά θανάτου τῆς αἰωνίου ζωῆς μετόχους αὐτούς καί κληρονόμους ἀποκαθιστᾷ, κατεπείγεται ὠς ἔλαφος διψῶσα ἐπί τήν ἀθάνατον πηγήν δι αὐτῶν καί πρός τό ἄναντες ἐν αὐτοῖς ὡς ἐν κλίμακι βαίνει, δι ἧς ἄγγελοι μέν () ἀναβαίνουσι καί κατέρχονται πρός βοήθειαν τῶν ἀνερχομένων

And knowing that he honors his servants through dishonor, enriches them through utter poverty, glorifies them through insults and contempt, and through death restores them as partakers and heirs of eternal life, such a person presses on, like a thirsting hart, toward the immortal fountain by means of these very things, and through them climbs the ascent as upon a ladder — by which angels ascend and descend to help those who are climbing.

他知道主是藉著羞辱來尊榮祂的僕人，藉著至極的貧窮使他們富足，藉著凌辱與輕視使他們得榮耀，藉著死亡使他們成為永生的有分者與承受者，於是他便像乾渴的鹿一樣，透過這一切迫切奔向那不朽的泉源，藉著這一切攀登上升的路，彷彿沿著一座梯子而行，天使們正是藉著這梯子上上下下，扶助攀登之人。

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Θεός δέ ἄνωθεν τήν κατά δύναμιν ἡμῶν πρόθεσιν καί σπουδήν ἀναμένων κάθηται, οὐχ ὅτι πονοῦντας ἡμᾶς ὁρᾶν τέρπεται ἀλλ ὡς ὄφλημα θέλων τούς μισθούς διδόναι ἡμῖν ὁ φιλάνθρωπος

And God sits above, awaiting our purpose and zeal according to our capacity — not because he delights in seeing us toil, but because, being the lover of mankind, he wishes to give us the rewards as though they were a debt owed.

而神則從上方等候著我們按自己能力所付出的心志與努力——並非因祂喜見我們受苦，而是這位愛世人的神，願意將賞賜如同償還債務一般賜給我們。

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Τούς ἀδιστάκτως αὐτῷ προσερχομένους οὐκ ἐᾷ ὅλως καταπεσεῖν ὁ Κύριος ἀλλ ἀδυνατοῦντας βλέπων αὐτούς συνεργεῖ καί βοηθεῖ, ὀρέγων αὐτοῖς χεῖρα δυνάμεως ἄνωθεν καί πρός ἑαυτόν ἐπανάγει˙ συνεργεῖ δέ φανερῶς τε ἅμα καί ἀφανῶς, ἀγνώστως καί γνωστῶς, μέχρις οὗ πᾶσαν ἀνελθόντες τήν κλίμακα αὐτῷ προσεγγίσωσι καί ὅλοι ὅλῳ ἑνωθῶσι καί ἁπάντων ἐπιλαθωνται τῶν ἐπιγείων, συνόντες αὐτῷ ἐκεῖσε, εἴτε ἐν σώματι εἴτε καί ἐκτός σώματος, οὐκ οἶδα, καί συμπολιτευόμενοι καί τῶν ἀπορρήτων ἐπαπολαύοντες ἀγαθῶν

The Lord does not allow at all those who approach him without wavering to fall utterly, but seeing them powerless, works together with them and helps them, extending to them a hand of power from above, and leads them back to himself. He works together with them both visibly and invisibly, unknowingly and knowingly, until, having ascended the whole ladder, they draw near to him and are wholly united to the Whole, and forget all earthly things, being present with him there — whether in the body or outside the body, I do not know — living as citizens together with him, and enjoying the ineffable good things.

凡毫不猶疑地就近祂的人，主決不容他們徹底跌倒，反倒見他們軟弱無力便與他們同工並施以幫助，從上伸出大能的手扶持他們，帶領他們歸回自己身邊；祂或明或暗、或使人不覺或使人覺察地與他們同工，直到他們登盡整座梯子、來到祂面前，全人與全體合而為一，忘卻一切地上之事，與祂同在彼處——是在身內還是在身外，我不知道——與祂一同過著同一國度的生活，並享受那不可言喻的美善。

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Δίκαιόν ἐστι τῇ ζεύγλῃ πρῶτον τῶν ἐντολῶν τοῦ Χριστοῦ ὑποτιθέναι τούς αὐχένας ἡμῶν καί μή παροιστρεῖν μηδέ ὀπισθοποδεῖν, ἀλλ ὀρθῶς καί προθύμως μέχρι θανάτου βαίνειν ἐν αὐταῖς καί ἑαυτούς ἡμᾶς νεουργεῖν τόν νέον ὄντως Θεοῦ παράδεισον, μέχρις οὗ μετά Πατρός ὁ Υἱός διά τοῦ Ἁγίου εἰσέλθῃ καί ἐγκατοικήσῃ Πνεύματος ἐν ἡμῖν˙ καί τηνικαῦτα ὅταν ὅλον αὐτόν κτησώμεθα ἔνοικον καί διδάσκαλον, ᾧ τινι ἄν ἐξ ἡμῶν προστάξῃ καί οἵαν ἐμπιστεύσῃ διακονίαν, ταύτην ἐγχειρισθήσεται καί κατά τό ἐκείνῳ δοκοῦν ποιήσει προθύμως˙ οὐκ ἔξεστι δέ πρό καιροῦ ταύτην ἐπιζητεῖν ἀλλ οὐδέ διδομένην ἐξ ἀνθρώπων λαβεῖν καταδέχεσθαι, ἀλλἐμμένειν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν καί Θεοῦ καί τό πρόσταγμα αὐτοῦ ἀπεκδέχεσθαι

It is right for us first to submit our necks to the yoke of Christ's commandments, and neither to grow restive nor to draw back, but to walk uprightly and eagerly in them even unto death, and to fashion ourselves anew as the truly new paradise of God, until the Son, together with the Father, enters through the Holy Spirit and dwells within us. And then, when we have acquired him entirely as indweller and teacher, whatever ministry he may enjoin upon any of us and entrust to us, that one will take it in hand and will do it eagerly according to what seems good to him. It is not permitted to seek this before the proper time, nor even to accept it if it is given by men, but rather to abide in the commandments of our Master and God, and to await his command.

我們理當首先讓自己的頸項就範於基督誡命的軛下，既不狂躁反抗，也不向後退縮，反倒正直而甘心地在其中行走，直至於死，並使自己重新被塑造成神真正的新樂園，直到聖子偕同聖父藉聖靈進入並住在我們裡面。到那時，當我們全然得著祂作為內住者與導師，無論祂差派我們當中何人、託付何種職事，那人便會領受並照祂所悅意的甘心去行。但這職事不可在時候未到之先便去尋求，即或有人給予，也不可貿然接受；反倒應當持守我們的主宰、我們神的誡命，等候祂的吩咐。

1:3692

Μετά τό ἐγχειρισθῆναι διακονίαν ἡμᾶς θείων πραγμάτων καί ἐν αὐτῇ διαπρέψαι, εἰ ἐπιτραπῶμεν ὑπό τοῦ Πνεύματος πρός ἑτέραν μεταβῆναι διακονίαν ἤ ἐργασίαν ἤ πρᾶξιν, () μή ἀντιτείνωμεν

After being entrusted with a ministry of divine matters and excelling in it, if we are permitted by the Spirit to pass over to another ministry or work or task, let us not resist.

在我們受託負責屬神事物的職事、並在其中表現卓越之後，若聖靈允准我們轉往另一項職事、工作或作為，我們就不應加以抗拒。

1:3693

Ὁ γάρ Θεός οὔτε ἀργούς ἡμᾶς εἶναι ἐν μιᾷ καί τῇ αὐτῇ ἐργασίᾳ ἐν ᾗ ἠρξάμεθα μέχρι τέλους ἐμμένειν βούλεται, ἀλλά προκόπτειν καί ἀεικινήτους εἶναι πρός τήν τῶν κρειττόνων ἐπιτυχίαν, τῷ θείῳ δηλαδή καί μή τῷ οἰκείῳ στοιχοῦντας θελήματι

For God does not wish us to be idle, remaining to the end in one and the same work in which we began, but to make progress and to be ever in motion toward the attainment of better things — following, that is, the divine will and not our own.

因為神並不願意我們懶散地停留在一開始所從事的同一項工作上直到終了，而是要我們不斷進步，時時朝向更美好的成就邁進，也就是要遵循神的旨意，而非自己的意願。

1:3694

Ὁ τό ἴδιον θέλημα νεκρόν ἐργασάμενος ἀθέλητος πάντως ἐγένετο˙ ἀθέλητον δέ τῶν ὄντων καί ζώντων καί κινουμένων οὐδέν, εἰ μή μόνα τις εἴποι τά ἀναίσθητα καί ἀκίνητα˙ τά γάρ φυτά, εἰ καί κινεῖται καί αὔξει ἀλλ οὐ λέγομεν φυσικῷ θελήματι τήν κίνησιν ποιεῖσθαι καί τήν αὔξησιν, ἄψυχα γάρ˙ πᾶν δέ ἔμψυχον καί φυσικόν ἔχει θέλημα

He who has put his own will to death has altogether become without will; but among things that exist, live, and move, none is without will, except one might say only those things that are without sense and without motion. For as for plants, even though they move and grow, we do not say that they produce their motion and growth by natural will, since they are without soul; but everything that is ensouled also has a natural will.

那使自己的意志歸於死地的人，便完全成了無意志之人；然而在一切存在、有生命、能運動之物中，沒有一樣是無意志的，除非說那些無知覺、不能動的東西。因為植物雖然也會動、也會生長，我們卻不說它們是憑自然的意志來運動與生長，因它們是無魂之物；凡有魂之物，皆有其自然的意志。

1:3695

Ὁ οὖν ἀσκήσει καί σπουδῇ τό οἰκεῖον ἀπονεκρώσας θέλημα καί ἀθέλητος γεγονώς πάντως τῆς οἰκείας ἐξέστη φύσεως καί ἐν τῷ θέλειν μηδέν οὐδέ καλόν τι ἤ κακόν δύναται ἐνεργεῖν

He, then, who through ascetic effort and diligence has put to death his own will and become altogether without will, has thereby departed from his own nature, and, willing nothing, is able to perform neither good nor evil.

因此，那藉著苦修與努力使自己的意志歸於死地、以致完全成為無意志之人的人，便由此脫離了自己本有的本性；既無所意願，便既不能行善，也不能行惡。

1:3696

αὐτοῦ καί τήν προϋποδεξαμένην τόν σπόρον γῆν καί τήν ῥίζαν ἐφ ἥν ἐνεκεντρίσθη τό ἀκατανόητον καί ἄφραστον ἐκεῖνο καί ζωηφόρον φυτόν

...his own [will], and the earth that had already received the seed, and the root onto which that incomprehensible, ineffable, and life-giving plant was grafted.

……他的〔意志〕，以及那預先接受種子的土地，以及那不可理解、不可言喻、賜生命的植物被接枝於其上的根。

1:3697

Ὁ ἐκκόπτων τό ἴδιον θέλημα διά τόν τοῦ Θεοῦ φόβον, ἀγνώστως οὕτως ὡς οὐκ οἶδεν, ὁ Θεός χαρίζεται αὐτῷ τό ἑαυτοῦ θέλημα καί ἀνεξάλειπτον αὐτῷ διατηρεῖ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ καί διανοίγει τούς ὀφθαλμούς τῆς διανοίας αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἐπιγινώσκειν αὐτό καί ἰσχύν δίδωσι τοῦ () ἐκπληροῦν αὐτό

To him who cuts off his own will out of the fear of God — unknowingly, in a way he himself does not perceive — God grants his own will and preserves it indelibly in his heart, and opens the eyes of his understanding so that he may come to know it, and gives him strength to fulfill it.

凡因敬畏神而砍除自己意志的人，神便在他不知不覺、渾然不察的情況下，將祂自己的旨意賜給他，並使之在他心中永不磨滅地保存下來，又開啟他悟性的眼睛使他能認識這旨意，並賜他力量去成就它。

1:3698

Ταῦτα δέ ἡ χάρις τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἐνεργεῖ καί χωρίς αὐτῆς γίνεται οὐδέν

These things the grace of the Holy Spirit works, and without it nothing comes to pass.

這一切都是聖靈的恩典所成就的，若無此恩典，一事也不能成。

1:3699

Ὅταν πάσῃ ἰσχύϊ, προθυμίᾳ καί προαιρέσει μεθ ὁρμῆς ἀκατασχέτου τά ὑπ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ μυστικῶς ἡμῖν καί ἀγνώστως διδασκόμενά τε καί ἐντελλόμενα ἐκπληρώσωμεν μηδέν ὅλως ἐλλείψαντες, τότε ἡμῖν, ὡς πιστοῖς καί ὑπηκόοις, ὡς ἀληθινοῖς μαθηταῖς καί φίλοις, ἀποκαλύπτεται φανερῶς καθώς πάλαι τοῖς ἁγίοις αὐτοῦ μαθηταῖς καί ἀποστόλοις ἀπεκαλύφθη καί πᾶσι τοῖς δι αὐτῶν πιστεύσασιν εἰς τό ὄνομα αὐτοῦ˙ καί τότε γινόμεθα υἱοί Θεοῦ κατά χάριν, ὡς φησίν ὁ Παῦλος˙ Ὅσοι Πνεύματι Θεοῦ ἄγονται οὗτοί εἰσιν υἱοί Θεοῦ˙ εἰ δέ υἱοί, καί κληρονόμοι, κληρονόμοι μέν Θεοῦ, συγκληρονόμοι δέ Χριστοῦ

When, with all our strength, with eagerness and free choice and with unrestrainable impulse, we fulfill, without leaving out anything at all, those things which are mystically and unknowingly taught and commanded to us by God himself, then he is revealed to us openly, as to faithful and obedient ones, as to true disciples and friends, just as of old he was revealed to his holy disciples and apostles, and to all who through them believed in his name. And then we become sons of God by grace, as Paul says: 'As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God; and if sons, then heirs also — heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.'

當我們竭盡全力，以熱切、自由的意願並不可遏止的衝勁，毫無遺漏地成就神自己以奧祕方式、在我們不知不覺中所教導、所吩咐的事時，祂便向我們顯明——如同向信實、順服之人，如同向真實的門徒與朋友——正如祂古時向祂聖潔的門徒與使徒顯明，也向一切藉他們而信入祂名的人顯明一樣；那時我們便按著恩典成為神的兒子，正如保羅所說：『凡被神的靈引導的，都是神的兒子；既是兒子，就是後嗣，是神的後嗣，和基督同作後嗣。』

1:3700

Τῶν καταξιωθέντων γενέσθαι μετά Θεοῦ ἐν τῇ συναφείᾳ τοῦ Πνεύματος καί τῶν ἀπορρήτων αὐτοῦ ἀγαθῶν ἀπογεύσασθαι οὐδείς δόξης τῆς ἀτίμου καί καταπτύστου ἐρᾷ προσφερομένης αὐτῷ παρά ἀνθρώπων, ἀλλ οὐδέ χρυσίου ἤ ἱματισμοῦ ἤ λίθων τῶν νομιζομένων παρά τοῖς ἀνοήτοις τιμίων˙ οὐ πλούτῳ ῥέοντι προστίθεται τῇ καρδίᾳ, οὐ παρά βασιλέων καί ἀρχόντων γνωρίζεσθαι βούλεται, τῶν οὐκ ἀρχόντων ἀλλ ὑπό πολλῶν κυριευομένων˙ οὐ μέγα τι τούς τοιούτους ἡγεῖται καί ὑψηλόν, οὐδέ προξένους οἴεται εἶναι αὐτούς πλείονος δόξης τοῖς πλησιάζουσιν αὐτοῖς, οὐδέ τινος οὐδαμῶς ἑτέρου τῶν ἐπιφανῶν καί λαμπρῶν ἀνθρώποις ἐπιθυμήσει, ὡς οὐδέ πλούτου εἰς πενίαν τις κατελθεῖν ἤ ἀπό ἀρχῆς καί ἐξουσίας μεγίστης καί περιβλέπτους ἀξιώματος εἰς ἀδοξίαν ἐσχάτην καί ἀτιμίαν καταπεσεῖν

None of those who have been deemed worthy to come to be with God in union with the Spirit, and to taste of his ineffable good things, longs for the dishonorable and contemptible glory offered to him by men, nor for gold, or clothing, or stones considered precious by the senseless; he does not set his heart upon overflowing wealth, nor does he wish to be recognized by kings and rulers — rulers who are not truly rulers but are themselves mastered by many things; he does not consider such men to be anything great or lofty, nor does he suppose that they procure any greater glory for those who draw near them, nor will he desire anything else at all among the things esteemed illustrious and splendid by men — no more than one would desire to descend from wealth into poverty, or to fall from the greatest rule and authority and conspicuous rank into the utmost disgrace and dishonor.

凡蒙允與神同在、與聖靈聯合、並得以嚐味祂那不可言喻之美善的人，沒有一個會渴慕人所奉上的那卑賤、可鄙的榮耀，也不渴慕金子、衣裳，或愚昧人所看重的寶石；他不將心思放在滾滾而來的財富上，也不願被君王與掌權者所賞識——那些人其實並非真正的掌權者，反倒受制於眾多事物；他不將這等人視為何等偉大崇高，也不認為他們能為親近他們的人帶來更大的榮耀，更不會渴望世人所推崇的顯赫光榮中任何其他之物——就如同沒有人會渴望從富裕淪落至貧窮，或從極大的統治權柄、顯赫的地位墮入極度的恥辱與卑賤一樣。

1:3701

Εἰ πάντων σου τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων τήν ἄφεσιν ἔλαβες, εἴτε δι ἐξαγορεύσεως, εἴτε διά τῆς ἀμφιάσεως τοῦ () ἁγίου καί ἀγγελικοῦ σχήματος, πόσης σοι τοῦτο ἔσται ἀγάπης καί εὐχαριστίας καί ταπεινώσεως αἴτιον, ὅτι μυρίων ὑπάρχων τιμωριῶν ἄξιος, οὐ μόνον τούτων ἀπηλλάγης ἀλλά καί υἱοθεσίας καί δόξης καί οὐρανῶν ἠξίωσαι βασιλείας

If you have received forgiveness of all your sins, whether through confession, or through the putting on of the holy and angelic habit, how great a cause of love and thanksgiving and humility this should be for you — that, though deserving countless punishments, you have not only been delivered from them, but have also been deemed worthy of adoption, of glory, and of the kingdom of heaven.

若你已經領受了赦免一切罪過，無論是藉著認罪告解，或是藉著披上聖潔的天使之服（修道聖衣），這對你而言，該是何等大的愛、感恩與謙卑的緣由啊——因為你本是應受無數刑罰的人，不但得以脫離這一切，反倒蒙允得著兒子的名分、榮耀，以及天國。

1:3702

Ταῦτα στρέφων ἐν διανοίᾳ καί διά παντός ἐνθυμούμενος, ἕτοιμος ἔσο καί προπαρασκευάζου μή ἀτιμάσαι τόν σέ τιμήσαντα καί τά μυρίᾳ συγχωρήσαντα πταίσματα, ἀλλ ἐν πᾶσιν ἔργοις σου δοξάσαι καί τιμῆσαι αὐτόν, ἵνα καί αὐτός σε μειζόνως ἀντιδοξάσῃ, ὅν τιτίμηκεν ὑπέρ ἅπασαν τήν ὁρωμένην κτίσιν, καί φίλον αὐτοῦ γνήσιον ὀνομάσει σε

Turning these things over in your mind and pondering them continually, be ready and prepare yourself in advance not to dishonor him who has honored you and forgiven your countless offenses, but rather to glorify and honor him in all your works, so that he too may glorify you in return all the more — you whom he has honored above all visible creation — and may call you his genuine friend.

常在心中反覆思想這些事，時時記念，要預備好自己，不去羞辱那尊榮你、赦免你無數過犯的主，反倒在你一切行為中榮耀祂、尊崇祂，好使祂也加倍地以榮耀回報你——祂已使你尊貴超乎一切可見的受造之物——並要稱你為祂真實的朋友。

1:3703

Ὅσῳ ψυχή τιμιωτέρα τυγχάνει τοῦ σώματος, τοσοῦτον ὁ λογικός ἄνθρωπος κρείσσων τοῦ παντός κόσμου ἐστί

To the degree that the soul happens to be more precious than the body, to that same degree the rational human being is superior to the whole world.

靈魂比身體更為尊貴到何等程度，有理性的人也就比全宇宙更為優越到何等程度。

1:3704

Μή γάρ, τά μεγέθη τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ κτισμάτων κατανοῶν, διά τοῦτο τιμιώτερά σου ταῦτα εἶναι νόμιζε, ἄνθρωπε, ἀλλά πρός τήν δοθεῖσάν σοι χάριν ἀποβλέψας καί τῆς νοερᾶς καί λογικῆς σου ψυχῆς τήν ἀξίαν καταμαθών, ἀνύμνει τόν ὑπέρ τά ὁρώμενα ἅπαντα τιμήσαντά σε Θεόν

Do not, then, O man, upon considering the magnitude of the creatures within it, think for that reason that they are more precious than you; but rather, looking to the grace given to you, and learning well the worth of your intellectual and rational soul, sing the praises of the God who has honored you above all visible things.

所以，人啊，不要因你思量宇宙萬物的浩大，就認為這些比你更為尊貴；反倒要仰望所賜給你的恩典，深切體認你那具有理智、理性之靈魂的價值，並頌揚那位使你尊貴超乎一切可見之物的神。

1:3705

Σκοπήσωμεν πῶς δοξάσομεν τόν Θεόν˙ δοξάζεται δέ παρ ἡμῶν οὐκ ἄλλως ἤ ὡς παρά τοῦ Υἱοῦ ἐδοξάσθη

Let us consider how we shall glorify God; for he is glorified by us in no other way than as he was glorified by the Son.

讓我們思考當如何榮耀神；因為祂被我們榮耀的方式，無非就是祂被聖子所榮耀的那種方式。

1:3706

κληθῆναι καταδεξάμενον, καί δοξασθῶμεν παρ αὐτοῦ τῇ δόξῃ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, ᾗ εἶχε πρό τοῦ τόν κόσμον γενέσθαι παρ αὐτοῦ˙ τάδε εἰσίν ὁ σταυρός, ἤγουν ἡ νέκρωσις τοῦ κόσμου παντός, αἱ θλίψεις, οἱ πειρασμοί καί εἴ τι ἕτερον τῶν παθημάτων Χριστοῦ˙ ἅ ὑποφέροντες ἐν ὑπομονῇ πολλῇ, μιμούμεθα τοῦ Χριστοῦ τά παθήματα καί δοξάσομεν δι αὐτῶν τόν Πατέρα ἡμῶν καί Θεόν, ὡς υἱοί αὐτοῦ χάριτι καί συγκληρονόμοι Χριστοῦ

...having consented to be so called, let us also be glorified by him with the glory of Jesus, which he had before the world came to be from him. And these are: the cross, that is, the putting to death of the whole world, afflictions, temptations, and whatever other sufferings of Christ there may be — which, if we endure with much patience, we imitate the sufferings of Christ, and through them we shall glorify our Father and God, as his sons by grace and joint-heirs of Christ.

……甘願被如此稱呼，好叫我們也被祂以耶穌在世界從祂被造以先所有的榮耀來榮耀。這榮耀就是：十字架，也就是治死全世界；還有患難、試探，以及基督所受的其他一切苦難——我們若以極大的忍耐承受這些，便是效法基督的苦難，並藉此榮耀我們的父神，如同祂憑恩典所生的兒子，且是基督的同承受產業者。

1:3707

() Ψυχή ἡ μή τελείως τῆς σχέσεως καί προσπαθείας τῶν ὁρωμένων εὐαισθήτως ἀπαλλαγεῖσα, τά ἐπισυμβαίνοντα αὐτῇ λυπηρά καί τάς ἐπερχομένας αὐτῇ ἐπηρείας παρά τε δαιμόνων καί ἀνθρώπων ἀλύπως φέρειν οὐ δύναται, ἀλλ οἷον συνδεδεμένη τῇ προσπαθείᾳ τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων πραγμάτων, ζημίαις δάκνεται χρημάτων καί ἀποστερήσεσιν ἄχθεται πραγμάτων καί πληγαῖς ἐπιφερομέναις αὐτῆς σώματι σφοδρῶς ὀδυνᾶται

A soul that has not been perfectly and sensibly freed from attachment to and passionate concern for visible things cannot bear without grief the sorrows that befall it and the assaults brought upon it by demons and men; but, as though bound fast to attachment to human affairs, it is stung by losses of money, burdened by deprivations of possessions, and grievously pained by blows inflicted upon its body.

凡未曾完全且敏銳地擺脫對可見之物的依戀與掛慮的靈魂，便不能無憂地承受臨到它的愁苦，以及魔鬼與世人所加諸的欺凌；反倒彷彿被綁縛於對人間諸事的掛慮，因錢財的損失而刺痛，因財物的被奪而煩惱，又因加諸其身體的鞭傷而極其痛苦。

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Εἴ τις σχέσεως καί ἐπιθυμίαις τῶν αἰσθητῶν ἀπέρρηξε τήν ψυχήν αὐτοῦ καί Θεῷ ταύτην συνέδησεν, οὐ μόνον τῶν περί αὐτόν χρημάτων καί κτημάτων καταφρονήσει καί ὡς ἐπί ἀλλοτρίοις καί ξένοις στερούμενος αὐτῶν ἀλύπως διατεθῇ, ἀλλά καί τά ἐπιφερόμενα τῷ σώματι αὐτοῦ ἀνιαρά μετά χαρᾶς καί τῆς προσηκούσης εὐχαριστίας ὑπομενεῖ, βλέπων ἀεί, κατά τόν θεῖον ἀπόστολον, τόν μέν ἔξω φθειρόμενον ἄνθρωπον, τόν δέ ἐντός ἡμέρᾳ καί ἡμέρᾳ ἀνακαινούμενον

If someone has torn his soul away from attachment to and desire for sensible things and bound it to God, he will not only despise the money and possessions around him, and, being deprived of them as though they were foreign and alien things, remain unaffected by grief, but he will also endure with joy and due thanksgiving the afflictions brought upon his body, seeing always, according to the divine apostle, that the outer man is perishing while the inner man is being renewed day by day.

若有人已將自己的靈魂從對感官之物的依戀與慾望中掙脫出來，並將它繫於神，他不但會輕看周遭的錢財與產業，並在被奪去這些如同外人之物時無憂無慮，甚而還會以喜樂並理當的感恩之心，忍受加諸其身體的苦難；因他常照使徒所言，看見外在的人日漸朽壞，內在的人卻日日更新。

1:3709

Ἄλλως δέ οὐκ ἔνι τάς κατά Θεόν θλίψεις μετά χαρᾶς ὑπενεγκεῖν, γνώσεως γάρ τελείας ἐν τούτοις χρεία καί σοφίας πνευματικῆς˙ ὁ δέ τούτων ἐστερημένος ἐν σκότει ἀγνωσίας καί ἀνελπιστίας ἀεί πορεύεται, μή δυνάμενος τό φῶς τῆς ὑπομονῆς καί τῆς παρακλήσεως ὅλως θεάσασθαι

But otherwise it is not possible to bear afflictions for God's sake with joy, for perfect knowledge and spiritual wisdom are needed in these matters; and he who is deprived of these always walks in the darkness of ignorance and hopelessness, unable to behold at all the light of patient endurance and of consolation.

然而，若非如此，便無法以喜樂之心忍受為神而來的患難，因這需要完全的知識與屬靈的智慧；凡缺乏這些的人，常行走在無知與絕望的黑暗中，全然不能得見忍耐與安慰之光。

1:3710

Πᾶς δοκησίφρων ἐκ μαθηματικῆς ὤν ἐπιστήμης μυστήρια Θεοῦ παρακύψαι καί ἰδεῖν οὐκ ἀξιωθήσεταί ποτε, ἕως ἄν ταπεινωθῆναι πρῶτον θελήσῃ καί μωρός γένηται, σύν τῇ οἰήσει καί ἥν κέκτηται γνῶσιν ἀποβαλών

No one who is conceited on account of mathematical science will ever be deemed worthy to glimpse and behold the mysteries of God, until he is willing first to be humbled and become a fool, casting away, along with his self-conceit, the knowledge he has acquired.

凡因精通數學之學而自負自恃的人，永不能蒙允窺視並得見神的奧祕，除非他先甘願自卑、成為愚拙，將自負連同所擁有的知識一併棄絕。

1:3711

Ὁ γάρ τοῦτο ποιῶν καί σοφοῖς τά θεῖα ἐν ἀδιστάκτῳ πίστει ἀκολουθῶν, ὑπό τούτων χειραγωγούμενος, συνεισέρχεται μετ αὐτῶν ἐν πόλει ζῶντος Θεοῦ, καί ὑπό τοῦ θείου Πνεύματος ὁδηγούμενος καί φωτιζόμενος, ὁρᾷ καί διδάσκεται ἅπερ οὐδείς τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων εἶδεν () ἤ ἰδεῖν ἤ μαθεῖν ποτε δύναται, καί τηνικαῦτα γίνεται Θεοῦ διδακτός

For he who does this, and follows in unwavering faith those who are wise in divine things, being led by the hand by them, enters together with them into the city of the living God, and, guided and illumined by the divine Spirit, he sees and is taught what no other man has ever seen or can ever see or learn; and then he becomes taught of God.

因為那行此事、以毫不猶疑的信心跟從那些通曉神聖事理之智者的人，蒙他們牽引，便與他們一同進入永生神的城；又蒙神聖之靈引導光照，得見並蒙教導那從未有他人得見、也永不能得見或學得之事，此時他便成為蒙神親自教導的人。

1:3712

Τούς διδακτούς Θεοῦ οἱ μαθηταί τῶν σοφῶν τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου ἀνθρώπων ἡγοῦνται μωρούς, αὐτοί ὄντες ἐν ἀληθείᾳ μωροί, ἐκ μεμωραμένης σοφίας στομωθέντες τῆς θύραθεν, ἥν ἐμώρανεν ὁ Θεός, κατά τόν θεῖον ἀπόστολον, καί ἥν ἡ θεολόγος φωνή ἐπίγειον οἶδε, ψυχικήν, δαιμονιώδη, μεστήν ἐριθείας καί φθόνου

Those taught by God are considered fools by the disciples of the wise men of this age—who are themselves in truth the fools, having been trained in the foolish wisdom of the outsiders, which God has made foolish, according to the divine apostle, and which the theologian's voice calls earthly, natural, demonic, full of contentiousness and envy.

神所教導的人，被今世智者的門徒視為愚拙；然而他們自己才是真正的愚拙人，因他們是被那外邦的、已被神弄成愚拙的智慧所鍛鍊——正如那神聖使徒所言；而那神學家之聲又稱這智慧為屬地的、屬血氣的、屬鬼魔的，滿了紛爭與嫉妒。

1:3713

Ἔξω γάρ ὄντες οἱ τοιοῦτοι τοῦ θείου φωτός, τά ἐν αὐτῷ ἰδεῖν μή δυνάμενοι θαύματα, τούς αὐλιζομένους ἐν τῷ φωτί καί τά ἐν αὐτῷ βλέποντας καί διδάσκοντας ὡς πεπλανημένους λογίζονται, πεπλανημένοι ὄντες αὐτοί καί ἄγευστοι τῶν ἀπορρήτων ἀγαθῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ

For such people, being outside the divine light and unable to see the wonders within it, regard those who dwell in the light and see and teach the things within it as deceived—while they themselves are the ones deceived, and have no taste of the ineffable good things of God.

因這等人身處神聖之光以外，不能得見其中的奇事，便把那安居於光中、得見並教導其中之事的人，視為受迷惑者；殊不知受迷惑的正是他們自己，且他們對神那不可言喻的美善毫無嘗味。

1:3714

Διά τοῦτο μόνον παραβάλλειν καί βλέπειν τοῖς ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ θέλουσιν οἱ χάριτος πεπληρωμένοι καί τετελειωμένοι τῇ γνώσει καί σοφίᾳ τῇ ἄνωθεν, ἵνα μισθόν τινα προξενήσωσιν αὐτοῖς δι ὑπομνήσεως τῶν ἐντολῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ καί δι ἀγαθοεργίας, εἴ ἄρα γε ἀκούσωσιν, εἰ ἄρα γε συνήσουσιν καί πεισθήσονται, ἐπειδή οἱ μή τῷ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἀγόμενοι Πνεύματι ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ περιπατοῦσι καί οὐκ οἴδασιν οὔτε ποῦ ὑπάγουσιν, οὔτε ἐν τίσι προσκόπτουσι

For this reason alone do those who are filled with grace and perfected in knowledge and wisdom from above wish to associate with and look upon those in the world—that they might procure for them some reward by reminding them of God's commandments and by doing good, if perhaps they will hear, if perhaps they will understand and be persuaded; since those who are not led by the Spirit of God walk in darkness and know neither where they are going nor at what they are stumbling.

正是為此緣故，那些滿有恩典、又在從上而來的知識與智慧上得以成全的人，才願意與世上的人來往交接，藉著提醒他們神的誡命、並行善事，好為他們掙得一些賞報——倘若他們肯聽，倘若他們肯領悟並信服；因為凡不受神的靈引導的人，都行在黑暗中，既不知道自己往哪裡去，也不知道在何處跌倒。

1:3715

ἡμέρας εὐχόμενοι ὑπέρ τῆς σωτηρίας αὐτῶν˙ ὑπέρ γάρ ἄλλου τινός οὐδέποτε λυπηθήσονται οἱ τῷ Θεῷ ἀδιαλείπτως συνόντες καί ὑπερεμπιπλάμενοι παντός ἀγαθοῦ

...praying by day for their salvation; for those who are unceasingly present with God and abundantly filled with every good thing will never grieve over anything else.

……日夜為他們的救恩祈求；因為那些不住地與神同在、又滿得一切美善之充溢的人，永不會為別的任何事憂傷。

1:3716

() Ὅτι καί νῦν εἰσιν ἀπαθεῖς καί ἅγιοι καί πεπληρωμένοι τοῦ θείου φωτός, ἀναστρεφόμενοι ἐν μέσῳ ἡμῶν, τοσοῦτον τά μέλη νεκρώσαντες ἑαυτῶν τά ἐπί τῆς γῆς ἐκ πάσης ἀκαθαρσίας καί ἐμπαθεστάτης ἐπιθυμίας, ὡς μή μόνον ἀφ ἑαυτῶν ποτε μή λογίζεσθαι ἤ ποιῆσαι ὁρμᾶν τό κακόν ἀλλά μηδέ ὑφ ἑτέρου πρός τοῦτο ἑλκόμενοι, ἀλλοίωσίν τινα τῆς παρούσης αὐτοῖς ἀπαθείας ὑφίστασθαι ᾔδεσαν ἄν, εἴπερ εἰδότες ἦσαν τά καθ ἑκάστην ἀναγινωσκόμενα θεῖα λόγια καί ψαλλόμενα παρ αὐτῶν οἱ τοῖς τοιούτοις τήν μωρίαν ἐπιφημίζοντες καί διαπιστοῦντες περί θείων πραγμάτων διδάσκουσιν ἐν σοφίᾳ τοῦ Πνεύματος

That even now there are men free from passions, holy, and filled with the divine light, living in our very midst, who have so thoroughly mortified their members that are upon the earth, from all uncleanness and most passionate desire, that not only would they never of themselves conceive or set out to do evil, but even if drawn to it by another they would recognize this as some alteration of the dispassion now present in them—if only those who ascribe folly to such men, and disbelieve concerning divine matters, had known the divine words that are read and sung daily by them, who teach in the wisdom of the Spirit concerning things divine.

說明即便如今，在我們中間仍有無情慾、聖潔、滿有神聖之光的人，他們如此徹底地治死了自己在地上的肢體，除去了一切污穢與最強烈的情慾，以致不但永不會自己思念或著手作惡，即或被他人引誘去做，他們也會察覺這是他們目前所擁有的無情慾狀態的某種變異——倘若那些將愚拙加諸這等人身上、且不信神聖事理的人，曾曉得這些人每日所誦讀吟唱的神聖話語，這些人乃是憑聖靈的智慧教導有關神聖之事的。

1:3717

Εἰ γάρ ἐν γνώσει τελείᾳ ἐγένοντο τῆς θείας Γραφῆς, ἐπίστευον ἄν τοῖς ὑπό Θεοῦ λαληθεῖσι καί δωρησθεῖσιν ἡμῖν ἀγαθοῖς˙ ἐπεί δέ ἀμέτοχοι τῶν τοιούτων ἐξ οἰήσεως καί ἀμελείας εἰσί καλῶν, καί τούς μετεσχηκότας καί περί τοιούτων διδάσκοντας ἀπιστοῦντες ἐνδιαβάλλουσιν

For if they had come to perfect knowledge of the divine Scripture, they would believe the good things spoken by God and given to us as gifts; but since, through conceit and negligence, they are without a share in such good things, they both disbelieve and slander those who have partaken of them and teach concerning them.

因為他們若對神聖經文有完全的知識，就必信服神所曉諭、並賜給我們的那些美善之事；但既然他們因自負與怠惰，未能有份於這些美善，便既不信、又毀謗那些已經有份於此、並教導這等事的人。

1:3718

Τίς ὁ σκοπός τῆς ἐνσάρκου οἰκονομίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγου, ὁ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ θείᾳ Γραφῇ ἀνακηρυττόμενος καί παρ ἡμῶν μέν ἀναγινωσκόμενος, μή ἐπιγινωσκόμενος δέ, ἤ πάντως ἵνα μετεσχηκώς τῶν ἡμετέρων κοινωνούς τῶν ἐκείνου ποιήσῃ ἡμᾶς;

What is the purpose of the incarnate economy of God the Word, proclaimed throughout all the divine Scripture, and read by us yet not recognized—if not surely that, having partaken of what is ours, he might make us partakers of what is his?

神——聖言——的成肉身經綸，其宗旨為何？這經綸在全部神聖經文中被宣告出來，我們雖誦讀卻不曾真正認識；豈不正是要藉著祂親自有份於我們所有的，使我們也成為祂所有之事的有份者嗎？

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