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I bid. — Et deprecabuntur faciem tuam plurimi. 40. Recti non ambiunt intercessores pro aliis videri. — Neque enim justi viri idcirco se per innocentiae itinera arcta custodiunt, ut ab aliis exorentur. Sed sive haeretici, seu perversi quilibet, per hoc quod inter homines quasi innocenter vivunt, vide(??)i inter- cessores pro hominibus volunt; et cum sancta lo- quentes insinuant, quod ipsi appetunt, hoc aliis pro magno pollicentur; dumque caelestia praedicant, in suis repente sponsionibus ostendunt quod amant. Sed ne diu terrena pollicendo patescant quod sunt, ad verba rectitudinis citius recurrunt. Unde mox subditur.
Ibid. — And many shall entreat your face. 40. The upright do not covet to be seen as intercessors for others. — For righteous men do not keep themselves within the narrow paths of innocence for this end, that they may be entreated by others. But whether heretics, or the perverse of any kind, by the fact that they live as it were innocently among men, wish to be seen as intercessors for men; and when they insinuate holy things by their speech, they promise to others as something great what they themselves covet; and while they preach heavenly things, they suddenly show in their own pledges what they love. But lest, by long promising earthly things, they lay open what they are, they more quickly recur to words of rectitude. Whence at once it is added.
同上——「必有許多人懇求你的臉。」四十、正直人並不貪圖被人看作替他人代求者。——因為義人並非為此緣故將自己約束在清白的窄路之中，好使他們被別人所懇求。但無論是異端，或任何邪僻之人，藉著他們在人中彷彿清白地生活這一點，願被人看作替眾人代求者；並且當他們以言語灌輸聖潔之事時，便將自己所貪圖之事當作大事應許給別人；並且當他們宣講天上之事時，卻在自己的許諾中突然顯露所愛之物。但為免長久應許世俗之事而暴露其真相，他們便更快地回到正道之言。故此隨即補充說。