忏悔录 第一卷 第五章 第二段

作者：奥古斯丁
  翻译：邹光

我灵魂的房屋对你的进入来说是太狭小了，请你把它扩大些。它已经败坏了，请你把它修复。这屋里有许多处对你来说，一定是不堪入目;我承认，我知道。但谁来打扫它呢？除了向你，我能向谁求告呢？“请你清除我隐秘的过错，” 啊，我的神，“保守你的仆人，使他们不出外邦人常有的偏差。”“我相信，所以我这样说。”但是你，啊，我的神，你是知道的。我不是向你承认了我的过犯，啊，我的神，你不是清除了我心中的邪恶吗？”我不与你争辩，因你是真理本身。我也不愿欺骗我自己，免得我的邪恶向它自己撒谎。我不与你争辩，因为“主耶和华阿，你若究察邪恶，谁能站得住呢。”

 6. The house of my soul is too narrow for thee to come in to me; let it
   be enlarged by thee. It is in ruins; do thou restore it. There is much
   about it which must offend thy eyes; I confess and know it. But who
   will cleanse it? Or, to whom shall I cry but to thee? "Cleanse thou me
   from my secret faults," O Lord, "and keep back thy servant from strange
   sins." [15] "I believe, and therefore do I speak." [16] But thou, O
   Lord, thou knowest. Have I not confessed my transgressions unto thee, O
   my God; and hast thou not put away the iniquity of my heart? [17] I do
   not contend in judgment with thee, [18] who art truth itself; and I
   would not deceive myself, lest my iniquity lie even to itself. I do
   not, therefore, contend in judgment with thee, for "if thou, Lord,
   shouldst mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?" [19]

忏悔录 第一卷 第五章

作者：奥古斯丁
 翻译：邹光

第五章
谁能带我去你里面安息？谁能送你进入我的心田，胜过偏差，让我的偏差被涂抹，让我可以拥抱你，我唯一至宝？你对我来说是什么？求你怜悯，让我能够这样说。我对你是什么，而你竟命我爱你？如果我不爱你，你就对我发怒，并用严重的灾祸威胁我？如果我不爱你，这仅仅是小小的不幸吗？对我来说不是这样。啊，我的主，我的神，以你的怜悯告诉我，你对我来说是什么？“对我的灵魂说，我让你得救。”这样说，我就能听见。请开启我心灵的耳朵，我的神，“请你对我的灵魂说，我让你得救。”我将紧跟这声音，我将紧紧抓住你。不要向我掩面。即使我会死，请让我看见你的面容，免得我真的死了。

 CHAPTER V

    5. Who shall bring me to rest in thee? Who will send thee into my heart
   so to overwhelm it that my sins shall be blotted out and I may embrace
   thee, my only good? What art thou to me? Have mercy that I may speak.
   What am I to thee that thou shouldst command me to love thee, and if I
   do it not, art angry and threatenest vast misery? Is it, then, a
   trifling sorrow not to love thee? It is not so to me. Tell me, by thy
   mercy, O Lord, my God, what thou art to me. "Say to my soul, I am your
   salvation." [14] So speak that I may hear. Behold, the ears of my heart
   are before thee, O Lord; open them and "say to my soul, I am your
   salvation." I will hasten after that voice, and I will lay hold upon
   thee. Hide not thy face from me. Even if I die, let me see thy face
   lest I die.