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唯独借信

凌风 译

全地上的物再沒有比我更邪恶卑贱
如果沒有你，我的人生只有悲惨。
现在，我的灵陷在诸多的错失里面，
软弱，疲倦，不坚，恳求你的赦免。
至高的主啊！向我伸展那施恩的鍊，
那鍊，与各样神圣的恩赐相连：
我以信心的极限倾诉灵魂的深愿，
逃避肉慾，它的路引向死亡阴间。
有了稀有恩赐中最大的恩赐，仍然
愿求更加丰盛；还再要求更加添，
因为世界不能夠给真实的满足平安，
唯独借着信，使我的內心成为
涌流出悲苦眼淚的泉源，真实悔罪：
此外再沒有別的钥匙能开启天堂门限。

　　米开朗基罗（Michelangelo, di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1475-1564），意大利雕塑家，画家，建筑师，诗人。

By Faith Alone

No earthly object is more base and vile
Than I, without Thee, miserable am.
My spirit now, midst errors multiform,
Weak, wearied, and infirm, pardon implores.
O Lord most high! extend to me that chain
Which with itself links every gift divine:
Chiefest to my faith I bid my soul aspire,
Flying from sense, whose path conducts to death.
The rarer be this gift of gifts, the more
May it to be abound; and still the more,
Since the world yields not true content and peace
By faith alone the font of bitter tears
Can spring within my heart, made penitent:
No other key unlocks the gates of heaven.

Michelangelo, 1475-1564
Italian sculptor, painter, & architect