APPENDIX: LOVE; MAN; NATIONS ｜ 附录：爱・人・列国

ENLOVE. [Love is the greatest thing that God can give us, for Himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God, for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the bond of perfection: it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the greater commandment, and it is all the commandments, for it is the fulfilling of the law. It does the work of all other graces, without any instrument but its own immediate virtue. For as the love of sin makes a man sin against all his own reason, and all the discourses of wisdom, and all the advices of his friends—and that without temptation and without opportunity—so does the love of God make a man chaste without the laborious arts of fasting and exterior discipline, and temperate in the midst of feasts. It is a grace that loves God for Himself, and our neighbors for God. The consideration of God's goodness and bounty, and the experience of those profitable and excellent emanations from Him, may be—and most commonly are—the first motive of our love; but when we have once entered, and have tasted the goodness of God, we love the spring for its own excellency, passing from passion to reason, from thanking to adoring, from sense to spirit, from considering ourselves to a union with God. And this is the image and little representation of heaven: it is beatitude in picture, or rather the infancy and beginnings of glory. Jeremy Taylor.]

BSBColossians 3:14 And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

中爱。〔爱是神所能赐给我们的最大之物，因为他自己就是爱；爱也是我们所能献给神的最大之物，因为它同时把我们自己也献上，并把凡属我们的一并带去。使徒称它为全德的联络：它是旧的，也是新的；它是那更大的诫命，它也是全部的诫命，因为爱就完全了律法。它做成其他一切恩德的工作，除了它自身直接的效力之外，不用任何别的器具。因为，正如爱罪能使一个人违背自己一切的理性、违背智慧的一切训诲、违背朋友的一切劝告去犯罪——而且是在无人试探、也无机可乘的情况下——照样，爱神也能使一个人贞洁，用不着禁食与外在克制那些辛苦的功夫；能使他在筵席之中仍然节制。这是一种恩德：它爱神，是为神自己的缘故；爱邻舍，是为神的缘故。思想神的良善与厚赐、经历从他而来那些有益而美好的流溢，这些可能是（通常也确实是）我们爱的最初动因；但我们一旦进去了，一旦尝过了神的美善，我们爱那泉源就是因它自身的优美了——由激情转入理性，由感谢转入敬慕，由感官转入灵，由顾念自己转入与神联合。而这正是天堂的图像与小小的写照：是画中的至福，或者更该说，是荣耀的婴孩期与开端。杰里米·泰勒（Jeremy Taylor）〕

ENMAN: the unity of the race. [The unity of the race of man would follow from the religious doctrine of the unity of God. Given in thought one God, and man His son, the mind will inevitably gravitate to the view of the unitary origin of man. The moment that monotheism is planted, that moment some Paul will say, "God hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth"—and that is the philosophy of the first chapters of Genesis. We are not very soon to remove that philosophy from its base: it stands, and it will stand. Caverno.] NATIONS: race problems and Genesis 10. [Philology is a late-born science. That the history of men, and of their race relations, can be shown by the study of their language is an achievement, we may say, of the scholarship of this century; at any rate, wide confidence in the trustworthy results of philological investigation is a growth of this century. But now philology, with its keen detective apparatus, turns back upon the race problems set forth in the tenth chapter of Genesis, and declares that they were in the main correctly solved. It calls upon us to reverence the solid scientific character of the ancient scholarship behind this record, and to reverence the trustworthiness of ancient tradition. Caverno.]

BSBActs 17:26 From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

中人：人类同源。〔人类同为一族这一点，可以从『神是独一的』这一宗教教义推出。心思里一旦确立了『神只有一位、而人是他的儿子』，就必然会向『人类同出一源』的看法倾斜。一神信仰被种下的那一刻，就会有某个保罗说出这样的话：『他从一本造出万族的人，住在全地上』——而这正是创世记头几章的哲学。我们不会很快就把这套哲学从它的根基上挪走：它立得住，将来也立得住。卡维诺（Caverno）〕列国：种族问题与创世记第十章。〔语言学是一门晚生的科学。人类的历史、以及各族之间的关系，可以藉着研究他们的语言而显明出来——我们可以说，这是本世纪学术的一项成就；无论如何，人们对语言学研究之可靠结果的普遍信任，是本世纪才成长起来的。而如今，语言学带着它那套敏锐的侦查装备，回过头来看创世记第十章所列出的种族问题，宣告说：那些问题在大体上是被正确解答了的。它促使我们敬重这份记录背后那份古代学术扎实的科学品格，也敬重古代传统的可靠。卡维诺（Caverno）〕

EN[Philology and the Babel story. Confusion of tongues would tend to dispersion, and dispersion would tend to confusion of tongues: either, as cause, would produce the other, and the effect would double back and reproduce the cause. The philologists have invented no better theory of the origin of language than this Babel story; in fact, philology has no other theory than that embodied in this story. The story of the confusion of tongues, then, is not a wild invention of the fancy of untutored man: it is a synthesis which holds within itself a credible mode of origin for every dialect of every language spoken by man. Caverno.]

BSBGenesis 11:9 That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

中〔语言学与巴别的故事。口音混乱会导致分散，而分散又会导致口音混乱：两者中任何一个作为原因，都会产生另一个；而结果又会回过头来，再造出原因。语言学者们并没有发明出比这个巴别故事更好的语言起源理论；事实上，语言学除了这故事中所含的那一套之外，并没有别的理论。可见，口音混乱的故事并不是未开化之人凭空狂想的产物：它是一个综合的说法，其中含有一种可信的模式，足以说明人类所说的每一种语言、每一种方言的由来。卡维诺（Caverno）〕