我言此、免爾曹以為我寄書驚爾、

我说这话，免得你们以为我写信是要威吓你们；

我说这话，免得你们以为我写信是要恐吓你们。

我说这话，免得你们以为我写信是要恐吓你们。

我不想你们认为我写信是要威吓你们。

不要以为我写信是用来吓你们。

我不愿看起来像是在用书信恐吓你们。

我說這話，免得你們以為我寫信是要威嚇你們；

我說這話，免得你們以為我寫信是要恐嚇你們。

我說這話，免得你們以為我寫信是要恐嚇你們。

我不想你們認為我寫信是要威嚇你們。

不要以為我寫信是用來嚇你們。

免得我似乎藉着信去嚇唬你們。

我不願看起來像是在用書信恐嚇你們。

我言此、免似以書驚爾、

蓋余不欲以書驚爾、

予作此言、庶免書面威脅之嫌。

I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters.

Don’t think that I’m trying to scare you with my letters.

I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters.

I’m not trying to frighten you by my letters.

I don’t want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters.

for I do not want to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

lest I seem to terrify you by letters.

that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

I don’t want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters.

That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,

that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

有人言、我書嚴厲、及至晤會時、身弱言陋、

然主若許我、我必速來、其時我所欲知者、非誇者之言、乃其能也、因天主國不在言、惟在能、爾何所欲、欲我就爾以杖乎、抑欲我就爾以慈愛及溫柔之意乎、

故時未至、爾勿擬議人、迨主降臨、彼將光照幽暗之隱事、且明顯中心之計謀、其時各由天主、必得所宜之褒獎、