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ホウプフル　しかし、天の門で入門のゆるしを得るための証明書をとられなかったのは不思議ではありませんか。

クリスチャン　不思議です。しかし、とりませんでした。もっとも、とりそこなったのはその人の機転がきいたからというわけではないのです。襲われて気を取り乱していましたので、物をかくす力もわざもなかったのですから。そこであの大切なものをとりそこなったというのは、その人の努力というよりは更に多く善き摂理によるのです。

Hope. But is it not a wonder they got not from him his certificate by which he was to receive his admittance at the Celestial Gate?

Chr. 'T is a wonder but they got not that, though they missed it not through any good cunning of his; for he being dismayed with their coming upon him, had neither power nor skill to hide anything: so 't was more by good providence than by his endeavour that they missed of that good thing.

"That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us."
~ 2 Timothy 1:14 ~

"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:"
~ 2 Peter 2:9 ~