忏悔录 Confessions | BookⅢ Chapter5 《圣经》的淡泊

BookⅢ Chapter5

《圣经》的淡泊

I resolved then to bend my mind to the holy Scriptures, that I might see what they were. But behold, I see a thing not understood by the proud, nor laid open to children, lowly in access, in its recesses lofty, and veiled with mysteries; and I was not such as could enter into it, or stoop my neck to follow its steps. For not as I now speak, did I feel when I turned to those Scriptures; but they seemed to me unworthy to he compared to the stateliness of Tully: for my swelling pride shrunk from their lowliness, nor could my sharp wit pierce the interior there of. Yet were they such as would grow up in a little one. But I disdained to be a little one; and, swollen with pride, took myself to be a great one.

为此，我决心要读圣经，看看内容如何。我现在懂得圣经不是骄傲者所能体味，也不是孩子们所能领会的，入门时觉得隘陋，越朝前越觉得高深，而且四面垂着奥妙的帷幕，我当时还没有入门的资格，不会曲躬而进。我上面说的并非我最初接触圣经时的印象，当时我以为这部书和西塞罗的典雅文笔相较，真是瞠乎其后。我的傲气藐视圣经的质朴，我的目光看不透它的深文奥义，圣经的意义是随孩子的年龄而俱增，但我不屑成为孩子，把我的满腔傲气视为伟大。

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BookⅠ

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