57:1
Invidus certe, qui alienum bonum, suum facit invidendo supplicium, nulla videtur ad invidendum concupiscentia provocari, sed tantum superbiæ morbo vexari. Sed si animi ejus m pestem qua præcipitatur n incensus, subtiliter alteque rimemini, invenietis eum et perditionis ejus 0 cupidine, cujus cupit interitum, et p superbiæ malo teneri, quo sibi jugiter ingemiscii meliorem cui invidet, anteferri. Quis facile potest q quale sit hoc malum verbis exprimere, r quo invidus odio hominis persequitur divinum munus in homine, cum potius amari homo debeat, etiam pro sui meriti sanctitate? Tantos invidus habet s justa poena tortores, quantos invidiosus habuerit laudatores.
嫉妒的人實在藉著嫉妒，使別人的福分成了自己的刑罰，他似乎不是被甚麼私慾激動去嫉妒，乃單單被驕傲的疾病所折磨。但你若細密深入地探究他靈魂中那使他被點燃而墜落的瘟疫，就會發覺他既被一種貪慾所轄制——貪戀他所嫉恨之人的滅亡，又被驕傲之惡所轄制——他不住地哀嘆那比他更好、他所嫉妒的人被高過自己。誰能輕易用言語表達這是何等的惡呢？嫉妒的人竟以恨人的心，逼迫人裡面那神聖的恩賜——其實那人倒當被愛，甚至因他自己功德的聖潔之故。嫉妒的人因公義的刑罰，受多少折磨者，正如被嫉妒的人有多少稱讚者。
The envious man indeed, who makes another's good his own torment by envying, seems to be provoked to envy by no concupiscence, but only to be vexed by the disease of pride. But if you search subtly and deeply into the plague of his soul by which, inflamed, he is hurled down, you will find him held both by a lust for the ruin of the one whose destruction he desires, and by the evil of pride, by which he ceaselessly groans that the better man, whom he envies, is preferred to himself. Who can easily express in words what kind of evil this is, whereby the envious man, with hatred of the man, pursues the divine gift in the man — when rather the man ought to be loved, even for the holiness of his own merit? The envious man has, by just penalty, as many tormentors as the envied man has had praisers.
57:2
Siquidem invidiosum facit excellentia meriti, invidum poena peccati: nec ei aB homine potest adhiberi remedium, cujus est vulnus occultum.
原來功德的卓越使人成為被嫉妒的對象，罪的刑罰卻使人成為嫉妒的人：而他的傷既是隱藏的，就沒有人能為他施行甚麼補救。
For indeed excellence of merit makes a man enviable, the punishment of sin makes a man envious: and no remedy can be applied to him by man, whose wound is hidden.