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De vanitate calcanda. Vanitas quoque quam sit periculosa, brevibus de- monstratur verbis Salvatoris, qui suis discipulis laetantibus vanitate dixit: Vidi Salanam sicut fulgur de coelo cadentem (Luc. X, 18). Et Judaeis aliquando se justificantibus ait: Quod autem altum est hominibus, abominatio est in conspectu Domini (Luc. XVI, 15). His, et illius Pharisaei famosissimi se justificantis exemplo colligitur ( Luc. XVIII, 11 seq.), quod inte- remptrix sit omnium bonorum vanitas, et gloriatio elata: dum bona vane laudata Pharisaei perierint, et peccata publicani accusata evanuerint. Non exeat igitur verbum grande de ore monachi, ne suus grandis pereat labor.
On trampling down vanity. How dangerous vanity is too, is shown in a few words of the Savior, who said to his disciples when they were rejoicing in vanity: 'I beheld Satan falling like lightning from heaven' (Luke 10:18). And to the Jews, when they were at some time justifying themselves, he said: 'That which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of the Lord' (Luke 16:15). By these, and by the example of that most notorious Pharisee justifying himself (Luke 18:11 ff.), it is gathered that vanity and lofty boasting are the slayer of all good things: since the goods of the Pharisee, vainly praised, perished, while the sins of the publican, accused, vanished away. Let no grand word, therefore, go forth from the mouth of a monk, lest his own grand labor perish.
論踐踏虛榮。虛榮何等危險，也在救主的幾句話中顯明出來；當門徒因虛榮而歡喜時，祂對他們說：「我看見撒但從天上墜落，像閃電一樣」（路十18）。又當猶太人某時自稱為義時，祂對他們說：「人所尊崇的，在上帝面前卻是可憎惡的」（路十六15）。藉著這些話，並藉著那自稱為義、最為臭名昭著的法利賽人的例子（路十八11以下），便可得知：虛榮與高傲的自誇乃是一切美善之事的殺手：因為法利賽人被虛妄稱讚的善行歸於無有，而稅吏被自己控告的罪卻消失不見了。所以，不要讓誇大之言從修士口中出來，免得他自己誇大的勞苦歸於虛無。