我們裡面有許多冒犯我主上帝的罪，這當然會使他不高興：這些罪有憤怒、急躁、貪財、貪婪、放縱、仇恨、惡毒等--這些都是大罪。
These are great sins, which everywhere in the world go on with power, and get the upper hand. Yet these are nothing in comparison of condemning of God's Word;
它們在世界各地都大量發生著，並且占了上風。但都不能與藐視上帝的話相比；
yea, all these would remain uncommitted, if we did but love and reverence that. But, alas! the whole world is drowned in this sin.
是的，只要我們熱愛和敬拜上帝的話，所有這些都可以免於責難。但是，唉！整個世界都已經墜入罪惡中。
No man cares a flip for the gospel, all snarl at and persecute it, holding it as no sin. I behold with wonder in the church, that among the hearers, one looks this way, another that; and that among so great a multitude, few come to hear the sermon.
沒有人再去碰碰福音書，全都在與它為難，對著它咆哮，並也不把這看成是罪惡。我驚訝地注意到，在教會聽眾中一些人這樣看，一些人那樣看，並且那裡聚集著那麼多人，卻幾乎沒有人聽佈道。
This sin is so common, that people will not confess it to be like other sins; every one deems it a slight thing to hear a discourse without attention, and not diligently to mark, learn and inwardly digest it. It is not so about other sins;
這罪惡太平常了，人們不會像懺悔其他罪一樣去懺悔它。所有人都把這看作一件小事：聽講道時心不在焉，不勤奮地去紀錄學習並進行深入的理解消化。他們對待其他的罪行並不是這樣......
--The Table Talk of Martin Luther
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