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智慧篇
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For your judgments are great, and hard to interpret; therefore undisciplined souls went astray. For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power, they, prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night, kept close beneath their roofs, lay exiled from the eternal providence. For while they thought that they were unseen in their secret sins, they were divided from one another by a dark curtain of forgetfulness, stricken with terrible awe, and very troubled by apparitions. For neither did the dark recesses that held them guard them from fears, but terrifying sounds rang around them, and dismal phantoms appeared with unsmiling faces. And no power of fire prevailed to give light, neither were the brightest flames of the stars strong enough to illuminate that gloomy night; but only the glimmering of a self-kindled fire appeared to them, full of fear. In terror, they considered the things which they saw to be worse than that sight, on which they could not gaze. The mockeries of their magic arts were powerless, now, and a shameful rebuke of their boasted understanding: For those who promised to drive away terrors and disorders from a sick soul, these were sick with a ludicrous fearfulness. For even if no troubling thing frighted them, yet, scared with the creeping of vermin and hissing of serpents, they perished trembling in fear, refusing even to look at the air, which could not be escaped on any side. For wickedness, condemned by a witness within, is a coward thing, and, being pressed hard by conscience, always has added forecasts of the worst. For fear is nothing else but a surrender of the help which reason offers; and from within, the expectation of being less prefers ignorance of the cause that brings the torment. But they, all through the night which was powerless indeed, and which came upon them out of the recesses of powerless Hades, sleeping the same sleep, now were haunted by monstrous apparitions, and now were paralyzed by their soul’s surrendering; for sudden and unexpected fear came upon them. So then whoever it might be, sinking down in his place, was kept captive, shut up in that prison which was not barred with iron; for whether he was a farmer, or a shepherd, or a laborer whose toils were in the wilderness, he was overtaken, and endured that inescapable sentence; for they were all bound with one chain of darkness. Whether there was a whistling wind, or a melodious sound of birds among the spreading branches, or a measured fall of water running violently, or a harsh crashing of rocks hurled down, or the swift course of animals bounding along unseen, or the voice of wild beasts harshly roaring, or an echo rebounding from the hollows of the mountains, all these things paralyzed them with terror. For the whole world was illuminated with clear light, and was occupied with unhindered works, while over them alone was spread a heavy night, an image of the darkness that should afterward receive them; but to themselves, they were heavier than darkness.
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注释 · Haydock（1859，公有领域）12 条注释
注释为英文 George Leo Haydock 神父的 19 世纪天主教注释，按原版呈现。
这些注释保留了其时代的论争：有些对犹太民族或其他基督徒措辞严厉。今天教会的训导并非如此：不可把基督之死归咎于犹太民族（《教会对非基督宗教态度宣言》4；《天主教教理》597–598），其他团体的基督徒是我们在主内的弟兄姊妹（《大公主义法令》3）。 基督徒合一
智慧篇 17:1
Ver. 1. Souls. The Egyptians, who were punished with horrible darkness, as they had followed an unjust, dark, and cruel policy against the Hebrews.
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Ver. 2. Providence, and day-light, like incorrigible slaves, in prison. C. --- The Egyptians were three days in darkness, (Ex. x. 22.) and the Gentiles continued without faith in God, till after Christ's resurrection. W. --- Only few served him, before that glorious event.
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Ver. 3. Sins. This interior darkness was punished with the exterior one. C. ---
Forgetfulness. Of each other, being concerned only for themselves, (H.) or they seemed to be forgotten by Providence, or buried in Lethean, most dismal obscurity. The interpreter thus mentions Cocytus, without sanctioning poetical fables. Job xxi. 33. M. --- Exceeding. Greek, "spectres." C.
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Ver. 6. Fire. Like lightning, which would not allow them leisure to distinguish objects. C.
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Ver. 7. Rebuked. Or chastised. H. --- The magicians could not imitate this miracle, nor secure themselves from its horrors. C.
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Ver. 9. Fear. the Egyptians kept serpents in their houses, and fed them. But now, neglecting to shew this attention, they were affrighted with their hissing.
--- Air. Or could live. They seemed to wish for death, (C.) like the damned, but it fled from them. H.
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Ver. 10. Things. The wicked are most cowardly. C. --- "Crimes may be safe; they cannot be secure." Sen. ep. xcvii.
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Ver. 11. Thought. And giving way to despair, when it is extreme.
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Ver. 12. Expectation. Or fear. Such an one is filled with a mortal anxiety.
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Ver. 14. Them. From the sight of spectres, and remorse of conscience.
↑ 14智慧篇 17:15
Ver. 15. Irons. Darkness forced them to stay where they were. C.
↑ 15智慧篇 17:17
Ver. 17. Birds. Nothing can afford comfort to the affrighted. M.
↑ 17许可: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · 致谢与许可