12:1
Tantum debet actionem populi actio transcendere præsulis, quantum distare solet a grege vita pastotis. Oportet namque ut metiri sollicite studeat quanta tenendae rectitudinis necessitate constringitur, sub cujus aestimatione populus grex vocatur. Sit ergo necesse cst cogitatione mundus, actione praecipuus, discretus iu bilentio, utilis in verbo, singulis compassione proximus, prae cunctis contemplatione suspensus, bene agentibus per humilitatem socius, contra delinquentium vitia per zelum justitiae erectus, internorum curam in exteriorum occupatione non minuens t exteriorum providentiam in internorum sollicitudine non relinquens.
長上的舉止當超越子民的舉止，正如牧人的生活素來與羊群有別。因為他必須殷勤地細心衡量：在他的估量之下子民被稱為羊群，他自己是被何等維護正直的必要所約束。所以他必須：思想純潔，行動卓越，靜默中有分辨，言語中有裨益，對各人以體恤相親，在眾人之上以默觀被舉起，藉謙遜作行善者的同伴，藉義德的熱忱挺立以抗過犯者的惡習，不因外務的忙碌而減少對內在之事的照顧，也不在對內在之事的掛慮中放棄對外在之事的料理。
So much ought the conduct of the prelate to transcend the conduct of the people, as the life of the shepherd is wont to differ from the flock. For it is needful that he study to measure carefully by how great a necessity of maintaining rectitude he is constrained, under whose estimation the people is called a flock. It is necessary therefore that he be pure in thought, foremost in action, discreet in silence, useful in speech, near to each one in compassion, before all in contemplation lifted up, an ally through humility to those who do well, erect through zeal for righteousness against the vices of offenders, not lessening the care of inward things in the occupation of outward ones, nor forsaking the provision of outward things in the solicitude for inward ones.
12:2
Sed haec quae breviter enumerando perstrinximus, paulo latius repli cando disseramus.
然而，這些我們在列舉中簡略觸及的事，讓我們稍加詳盡地展開來論述。
But these things which we have briefly touched upon in enumerating, let us set forth by unfolding them a little more amply.