6:1
Et sunt nonnulli qui ex sola humilitate refugiunt, ne eis quibus se impares aestimant praeferantur. Quorum profecto humilitas, si cæteris quoque virtutibus cingitur, tunc ante Dei oculos vera est, cum ad respuendum hoc quod utiliter subire praecipitur pertinax non est. Neque enim vere humilis est, qui soperni nutus arbitrium ut debeat d praeesse intelligit, et tamen praeesse contemnit. Sed diviuis dispositionibus subditus, atque a vitio obstinationis alienus, cum sibi regiminis culmen imperatur, si jam donis praeventus est, quibus et aliis prosit, et ex corde debet fugere, et invitus obedire.
And there are some who shrink back from humility alone, lest they be set above those to whom they esteem themselves unequal. Whose humility, indeed, if it is also girded about with the other virtues, is then true before the eyes of God, when it is not obstinate in refusing that which it is profitably commanded to undertake. For neither is he truly humble who understands that the decision of the supernal will is that he ought to preside, and yet scorns to preside. But being subject to the divine dispositions, and a stranger to the vice of obstinacy, when the summit of governance is commanded him, if he is already forestalled with gifts whereby he may profit others also, he ought both from the heart to flee it, and unwillingly to obey.
也有些人單因謙卑而退避，恐怕被置於那些他們自以為不及之人的上面。這等人的謙卑，若也以其餘眾德為束帶，便在神眼前為真實——也就是當它對那有益地被命令承擔之事不固執拒絕之時。因為一個人若明白至高旨意的裁定乃是他當作首領，卻仍鄙棄作首領，他便不是真正謙卑。乃是順服神聖安排、與固執之惡無分的人，當治理的高位被命令於他、而他已預先被賜下可使他人也得益處之恩賜時，他理當既從心裡逃避它，又不情願地順服。