38 “Why did you turn aside?”`
then
said Evangelist,＂Are
you not the man found crying outside the walls of the City of Destruction?＂
Christian: Yes, I am the man. Evangelist: Did I not direct you to the narrow gate? Christian: yes.
Evangelist: How is it then that you are so quickly turned aside? Christian: Right after I had gotten out of the Slough of Despond, I met a gentleman who persuaded me that I might find a man in the village before me who could take off my burden. Evangelist: Who was he? Christian: He looked like a gentleman and talked to me until I yielded. So I came here. But when I got to this hill I was afraid it would fall on my head, so I dared not go forward lest I be crushed to death.
「你為何離棄正路？
然後傳道說：你豈不是我在將亡城外遇見的那個哭泣的人麼？」
基督徒：「是的，我是那人。」傳道：「我不是指示你要去窄門麼? 」
基督徒：「是的。」
傳道：「那麼為什麼這麼快就離開正路?」
基督徒: 「就在我離了憂鬱潭後我遇見一位紳士，他勸我到前面村莊去找一個人，他能拿去我的重擔。」
傳道：「他是誰？」
基督徒：「他看來像一位紳士，對我講了許多話直到他將我說服，所以我來到這裏，但當我來到這山，我怕這山會倒落在我頭上，因此我不敢再前進恐怕我會粉身碎骨而死。」
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39 Evangelist continues to question Christian.
Evangelist: What did this man say to you? Christian: He asked where I was going, and I told him.
Evangelist:
And what did he say then？Christian:
He asked if I had a family. I said I had, but that I was weighed down by
this burden on my back I could net enjoy them as I used to do. Evangelist:
And what did he say then? Christian: He told me to get rid of my burden
quickly. When I told him I was going to the narrow gate to get directions to
the place of deliverance. he said he would show me a better and a shorter
way, one not so attended with difficulties as the way you set me in. so I
believed him and turned out of the right way and came there in the hope of
getting rid of my burden sooner. But when I got here and saw things as they
are, I stopped for fear. Now I don’t know what to do.
傳道繼續問基督徒
傳道：「這人對你說些什麼話？」
基督徒：「他問我到那裏去，我就告訴他。」
傳道：「他又說些什麼？」
基督徒：「他問我有無家庭，我說我有。但我因我背上重擔的壓力沉重，我不能再像以前那樣享受家庭之樂了。」
傳道：「他後來又說什麼？」
基督徒：「他告訴我當快快除去我的重擔，當我對他說我要去窄門，那裏能指示我得救的路。他說，他可以指示我一條更好的捷徑，不會遇見你指示我所走道路上的那些艱難。所以我就相信了他的話，離開了正確的道路而來到這裏，原希望能早日解脫重擔。但當我來
到這裏看到實情，我就恐懼而停止前進。現在我不知道當怎樣做了。」
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40. Evangelist sternly rebukes Christian.
Evangelist:
Still a white and listen, that I may show you the words of God. Christian
stood trembling as Evangelist read from the Word:＂See
that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused
him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away
from him that speaketh from heaven＂(Heb.12:25).He
said moreover,＂Now
the just shall live by faith; but if any man drawback, my soul shall have no
pleasure in him＂(Heb.10:38).Evangelist
then applied these words to Christian.＂You
have turned aside from the way of peace into this dangerous place and almost
lost your life.＂
傳道嚴厲地責備基督徒
傳道：「站住靜聽，我要將上帝的話指示你。」
基督徒戰競地站立聽傳道讀 上帝的話：「你們總要謹慎，不可棄絕那向你們說話的。因為那些棄絕在地上警誡他們的尚且不能逃罪何況我們違背那從天上警誡我們的呢？」（來12:25）他又說：「祇是義人必因信得生。他若退後我心裏就不喜歡他。」（來10:38）然後傳道將這些話用在基督徒身上說：「你曾離棄平安的正路而進入危險之地，並且幾乎喪命。」
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41. Christian bitterly repeats.
Hearing
these words, Christian fell down and cried out,＂Woe
is me, for I am undone!＂but
Evangelist caught him by the hand, saying, All manner of sin and blasphemies
shall be forgiven unto men. Be not faithless but believing
(cf.Matt.12:31;John 20:27).Christian revived and stood trembling before.
Evangelist: Evangelist continued,＂Give more earnest heed to the things I an going to show you. I will show you who it was that deluded you and to whom be sent you. The man that met you is Worldly
Wiseman. He is well named, because he is worldly and he loves morality and the laying up of virtue. He will not listen to the teaching of the cross and salvation.＂
基督徒悲悽地痛悔
聽了這些話後，基督徒俯伏在地呼叫說：「我有禍了，我沒有生路了！」但傳道拉著他的手說：「人一切的罪和褻瀆的話都可得赦免。只要信，不可懷疑。」（太12:31，約20:27）基督徒復甦過來在傳道面前戰競地站著。傳道繼續說：「對於我要指示你的事，你當更熱心地注意，我要指明那誘惑你的是誰，他叫你去尋找的是誰。你所遇見的人名叫世智，他名符其實，因為他是屬世界的，他喜歡道義和外表的善行，他卻不願意聽十字架和救恩的道理。」
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42. Three errors in Worldly Wiseman’s advice.
There were three errors in Worldly Wiseman’s advice: he turned you out of the true way, he tried to make the cross odious to you, he sent you on the way that leads to death.
世智的勸告有三項錯誤
在世智的勸告中有三項錯誤：
1.他使你轉離真理的道路。
2.他使你厭惡十字架。
3.他將你送往死亡的道路。