智慧篇:Chapter 14

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智慧篇:Chapter 14

智慧篇	Wisdom
¹再如：有个准备航海的人，行将在怒涛中航行之际，竟向一块比自己乘的船还易坏的木头呼求。	¹Imagine someone who is about to set sail and cross the raging sea. He calls upon a piece of wood far more fragile than the boat that carries him.
²船固然是因求财的贪心发明的，亦是匠人以智慧造成的；	²In fact, this boat has been built with gain in mind and proceeds from the wisdom of the shipwright.
³但最后，父啊！还是你的照顾在驾驶，因为原是你在海洋中划出了一条路线，在波浪中开辟了一条安全的路径，	³But it is your providence, Father, that guides it, for you are the one who prepares a path through the sea and a safe way over the waves.
⁴表示你能救人脱离各种危险，连没有技术的人，也能航海。	⁴By this we understand that you are able to save us from any danger, and even the unskilled are able to sail.
⁵你决不愿使你智慧的工作弃之不用，因此，人将生命托给一片小木，藉一叶扁舟，经过巨涛而平安到达海岸。	⁵People are the work of your wisdom and you do not want them to remain idle. So they trust their lives to a small plank of wood and cross the sea safe and sound on a raft.
⁶其实，在当初，当那些傲慢的巨人被灭绝的时候，世界的希望逃入了一叶扁舟，经你手的驾驶，才得给后世留下了新生的苗裔。	⁶At the beginning of time when proud giants perished, the hope of the world took refuge on a raft and, led by your hand, left to the world the seed of a new race.
⁷木头如使用得当，是可祝福的；	⁷Blessed be the wood by which salvation was carried out!
⁸但是，人手造的木偶和木偶的制造者，却是可诅咒的：制造者，因为他造了木偶；木偶，因为虽是腐败的东西，竟被称为神。	⁸But cursed be the idol and its maker, the idol made by human hands, this corruptible thing that is called a god, and the craftsman for having fashioned it.
⁹不虔敬的人，与他行的不虔敬的事，同样为天主所憎恶；	⁹They are hateful to God, both the godless and the fruit of his godlessness;
¹⁰所以，木偶与造木偶的，都必遭受惩罚。	¹⁰the maker will be punished together with his work.
¹¹为此，天主必要惩罚列邦的偶像，因为偶像在天主的造物中，成了可憎之物，成了人们灵魂的障碍，作了愚人脚前的陷阱。	¹¹Therefore the idols of the nations will also be judged. They have come to be the most abominable among the creatures of God. They are a stumbling block to the spirit of man, and the feet of the foolish are caught in the snare.
¹²发明偶像，是淫乱的开端；创造偶像，是人生的腐败。	¹²The invention of idols was the origin of licentiousness; when they were invented, life became corrupt.
¹³起初原无偶像，也不能永久长存；	¹³For in the beginning they did not exist and they will not exist forever.
¹⁴由于人的虚荣心，偶像才进入了世界；为此，已注定很快就要结束。	¹⁴Human vanity introduced them into the world, and God has set a term for them.
¹⁵一个父亲因他儿子的夭折，甚为悲伤，遂为自己早死的儿子立像，他虽是已死的人，如今却敬之如神，并传令家属礼拜献祭。	¹⁵Suppose a father, overwhelmed by grief for a child so swiftly taken from him, has an image made of him. From that time on a dead creature will be honored as a god, because the father handed on to his dependents secret rites and celebrations.
¹⁶这种不虔敬的事，相沿日久，便成了习俗，以致守如法律；再加上君王的命令，雕像遂受崇拜。	¹⁶Time will consolidate this unholy practice and eventually it will be observed by law. It has also happened that sculptured images were venerated by order of sovereigns.
¹⁷住在远方的人，不能当面尊敬国王，便由远方设想君王的相貌，为所要尊敬的君王，制造一座可见的肖像，向那不在跟前的，殷勤献媚，如同就在跟前一样。	¹⁷Those who lived far away and were unable to honor them personally had copies made, that they might honor them as if present by means of their image.
¹⁸艺术家的野心，把那些不认识君王的人，也都诱来，为扩大这项敬礼；	¹⁸The ambition of the artist helped the veneration grow among those who did not even know the sovereign.
¹⁹艺术家原为讨有权威者的欢心，就竭力运用自己的技术，使君王的肖像格外美丽；	¹⁹As he wished to please his master, he made the portrait more attractive than reality,
²⁰民众受了这精美手工的吸引，不久以前那当人尊敬的，现在却奉之为神了。	²⁰and the people, seduced by the perfection of art work, began to worship someone previously honored as a man.
²¹这便成了人生的隐祸，因为遭受不幸，或受暴君压迫的人们，将「那不可道出的名字」，加给了木石。	²¹In this way the image became a pitfall for the living, for people bent down, either by misfortune or tyranny, gave to stones and wood the incommunicable Name.
²²他们对天主的认识错到如此地步，还以为不足；甚至愚昧使他们生活在强烈的战斗中，还将这样的大祸，称为和平。	²²But it was not enough for them to err in their knowledge of God; in the great trouble to which ignorance condemned them, they have called such an evil situation peace.
²³因他们祭杀孩童，或举行秘密祭礼，或仪式怪诞的狂欢宴会。	²³With the sacrificial murder of children in their initiations, with secret mysteries and wild ceremonial orgies,
²⁴谁也不顾及生活与婚姻的纯洁，遂彼此陷害残杀，以奸淫加害于人。	²⁴they no longer keep their lives and marriages pure; they treacherously murder one another or wound others through adultery.
²⁵于是，混乱到处丛生：流血、杀人、盗窃、欺骗、缺德、失信、暴乱、违约、	²⁵Everywhere it is a welter of blood, murder, fraud and theft, corruption, treachery, riots, perjury;
²⁶陷害忠良、忘恩负义、玷辱灵魂、同性淫乱、婚姻混杂、通奸淫乱。	²⁶on all sides harassment of good people, forgetfulness of favors, the pollution of souls and sins against nature, widespread disorder in marriage, adultery, debauchery.
²⁷崇拜虚无的偶像，实是万恶的起源、由来和结局。	²⁷Indeed the worship of gods which do not even deserve a name, is the beginning, cause and effect of every evil.
²⁸这些人行乐发狂，预言虚妄，生活邪辟，妄发虚誓，	²⁸Others delight in raving or uttering false prophecies; they live wickedly and casually perjure themselves.
²⁹因为他们信赖无生命的偶像，自以为妄发虚誓，不会受罚。	²⁹As they deal with lifeless images, they do not fear any punishment for their false oaths,
³⁰但是，正为了这两件事，他们必受公义的处罚：因对天主没有正确的认识，因而崇拜偶像；又因诡计多端，妄发虚誓，因而轻视圣洁。	³⁰but a double punishment awaits them: as idolators for their base concept of God, as frauds for taking false oaths in defiance of all that is holy.
³¹因为，那常追击不义者违法行为的，并不是「赖以发誓者」的力量，而是天主对犯罪者的惩罚。	³¹Though the idols by which they swore are powerless, justice that pursues sinners always overtakes the sin of the wicked.

智慧篇:Chapter 14

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