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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.
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。
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.