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I bid. — Et redigentur in lutum cervices vestrae. 43. Sicut per oculum visus, sic per cervicem sole(??) superbia designari. Cervix itaque in lutum redigitur, cum superbus quisque humiliatur in morte, et elata cam tabescit in putredine. Intueamur enim qualia in sepulcris jaceant divitum cadavera, quae illa in ex- stincta carne sit imago mortis, a quae tabes cor- ruptionis. Et certe ipsi erant qui extollebantur hono- ribus, habitis rebus tumebant, despiciebant caeteros, et quasi solos se esse gaudebant; et dum non per- penderent quo tendebant, nesciebant quid erant. Sed in lutum cervix redacta est, quia despecti jacent in putredine, qui tumebant in vanitate.
同上：「你們的頸項必歸於淤泥。」四十三、正如視覺以眼睛為表號，驕傲以頸項為表號。因此，頸項歸於淤泥，是當每個驕傲人在死亡中被降卑，那曾高抬的頸項在朽壞中腐爛之時。讓我們觀看富人的屍首怎樣躺在墳墓裡——那熄滅的肉體中有何等死亡的形象，何等敗壞的腐臭。這些人的確就是那曾被尊榮高抬、因所擁有的財物而自腫、藐視眾人、彷彿以為惟獨自己存在而歡喜的人；他們既不衡量自己的去向，就不知道自己是什麼。但頸項歸於淤泥，因為那曾在虛妄中自腫的人，如今被藐視地躺在腐臭之中。
Ibid.: 'And your necks shall be reduced to mire.' 43. As sight is signified by the eye, so pride by the neck. The neck, then, is reduced to mire when every proud man is humbled in death, and the neck once lifted up rots in corruption. For let us behold what manner of corpses of the rich lie in the tombs — what image of death there is in the extinguished flesh, what rottenness of corruption. And surely these were the very men who were exalted with honours, who swelled with the possessions they held, who despised others, and rejoiced as though they alone existed; and while they did not weigh whither they were tending, they knew not what they were. But the neck is reduced to mire, because they lie despised in rottenness who once swelled in vanity.
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In lutum cervix redigitur, quia quantum carnis potentia valeat, tabes corruptionis probat. Sequitur:
頸項歸於淤泥，因為肉體的能力究竟有多大，敗壞的腐臭便為此作證。接著說：
The neck is reduced to mire, because how much the power of the flesh avails, the rottenness of corruption proves. There follows: