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Qui enim propriis abundat bonis, sæculi thesauros non requirit, bona enim propria, honestas, sobrietas, misericordia, etc. Desiuit: meas divitias exemplo Lazari sinus Abrahæ et beatitudo suscipiet. Uterque indicatus sermodicitur depromptus ex eodem cod. Paris. 3776, sed potius fragmenta inscribenda sunt, quæ sancti Maximi nomine exornari non merentur. Ea tamen ut specimen insipidi auctoris, a quo aliqui serroones ex descriptis rejectisque prodierunt, exhibemus.
'For he who abounds in his own goods does not seek the treasures of the world; for a man's own goods—honesty, sobriety, mercy,' etc. It ends: 'my riches, as in the example of Lazarus, the bosom of Abraham and blessedness shall receive.' Each of these indicated sermons is said to be drawn from the same Paris codex 3776, but they should rather be entitled fragments, which do not deserve to be adorned with the name of Saint Maximus. Yet we exhibit them as a specimen of the insipid author, from whom some of the sermons among those described and rejected came forth.
「凡在自己美德中富足的人，就不追求今世的財寶；因為人自身的美德——誠實、節制、憐憫」等等。結尾為：「我的財富，正如拉撒路為例，有亞伯拉罕的懷抱與福樂來接納。」據稱這兩篇所指的講道皆取自同一巴黎 3776 號抄本，但它們其實更應題為殘篇，不配以聖馬克西姆斯之名裝飾。我們仍將它們列出，作為那位無味作者的樣本，那些被記述並被摒棄的講道中，有幾篇正是出自他手。