17:1
Jejunia certe valido corpori imponenda sunt; et quos rebellis caro lege vitiorum impugnat, jejunio attenuandi sunt jugi. Subjuganda est jejuniis caro rigida, et eatenus refrenanda, ut tegi mentis et imperiis animæ subjaceat ut ancilia. Et quam debilitavit jugis infirmitas, si eam jejuniis temperes, tantum. que sumas quantum saluti sufficiat, non peccabis Meliorem tamen judica eam quae salatis robore infirmitatis non egeat remedio. Nec debet scandalizari quae sana est, si remissius vel indulgentius quæ infirma est alitur; sed magis eo se meliorem sanctioremque esse consideret, quod fragilibus rebus non indiget, quibus eget infirmitas.
禁食確實當加於強健的身體；那些被悖逆的肉體按諸惡之律所攻擊的，當以持續的禁食使其消瘦。剛硬的肉體當以禁食制伏，並當約束到一個地步，使它如婢女般服於心思的管轄和魂的命令。那被持續軟弱所削弱的，你若以禁食調節她，使她只取足以維持健康的份量，她便不算犯罪。然而那因健康的強壯而不需軟弱之補救的，你當判她為更佳。健康的人也不該因軟弱的人得稍寬鬆或稍寬厚的飲食而跌倒；倒要因此認定自己更佳更聖，因她不需那軟弱所需的脆弱之物。
Fasts indeed are to be imposed on a strong body; and those whom the rebellious flesh assails by the law of vices are to be wasted by continual fasting. The stiff flesh is to be subjugated by fasts, and so far to be restrained that it may lie subject to the rule of the mind and the commands of the soul, as a handmaid. And her whom continual infirmity has weakened, if you temper her with fasts, and she takes only as much as suffices for health, she will not sin. Yet judge her the better who, by the vigor of health, does not need the remedy of infirmity. Nor ought she who is healthy to be scandalized, if she who is infirm is fed more remissly or indulgently; but rather let her consider herself the better and holier for this, that she does not need the frail things which infirmity requires.
17:2
Illa autem quae infirmitatis obtentu meretur aliquid lenius, sii prae caeteris humilis dolentque se non posse quae aliae possunt; et abstinentiam tempore laxatam non reputet virtuti, sed infirmitati.
但那以軟弱為由而得稍寬待遇的，當在眾人面前謙卑，並為自己不能行別人所能行之事而憂傷；她也不該把那暫時放寬的禁戒算為德行，乃要算為軟弱。
But she who under the pretext of infirmity merits something more lenient, let her be humble before the rest, and grieve that she cannot do what the others can; and let her not reckon her abstinence, relaxed for a time, to virtue, but to infirmity.