This paper examines two interpretations of a passage in Descartes’s text. Johannes Clauberg and Benedict Spinoza comment on the same paragraph in the Principles of Philosophy (1646). Descartes, in the paragraph, argues that the same amount of motion remains in the universe because of God’s immutable essence and operation. On the one hand, Clauberg embraces Descartes’s physics in general but modifies it to suit the theological tradition of the Reformed church, which held the official confession for where his professional career mattered. Spinoza, on the other hand, gets rid of all traces of the biblical religion from Descartes’s physics. While particular theological (or anti-theological) positions of these thinkers dictate their interpretations of Descartes’s text, their solutions are surprisingly similar.

本文研究了笛卡尔文本中一段的两种解释。约翰内斯·克劳伯格（Johannes Clauberg）和本尼迪克特·斯宾诺莎（Benedict Spinoza）对《哲学原理》（1646）中的同一段发表了评论。笛卡尔在该段中认为，由于上帝的不变性和本质，宇宙中仍存在相同数量的运动。一方面，克劳伯格（Clauberg）大致接受笛卡尔的物理学，但对其进行了修改，以适应改革宗教堂的神学传统，该教会就其职业生涯至关重要的问题向官方表白。另一方面，斯宾诺莎摆脱了笛卡尔物理学的所有圣经宗教痕迹。这些思想家的特殊神学（或反神学）立场决定了他们对笛卡尔文本的解释，但他们的解决方案却出奇地相似。