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Et tamen illae cicatrices Christiano proelio insculptae et utique inuidiosae apud Christum, quia uicisse cupierunt, et sic quoque gloriosae, quia non uincendo cesserunt, in quas adhuc et diabolus ipse suspirat, cum sua infelicitate, sed casta, cum paenitentia maerente, sed non erubescente ad Dominum, de uenia denuo dimittetur eis, qui piaculariter negauerunt. Solis illis caro infirma est. Atquin nullatam fortis caro quam quae spiritum elidit. Text edited by Charles Munier (1993). Transcribed by Roger Pearse (2002).
然而那些在基督徒之戰中刻下的傷痕，在基督面前確實令人稱羨，因為它們曾渴望得勝，甚至如此榮耀，因為它們並非因得勝而退讓，連魔鬼自己至今仍為之嘆息——這些傷痕帶著它們的不幸，卻是貞潔的；帶著哀慟的悔改，卻在主面前並不羞愧——為了這些，論到赦免，也將再次赦免那些在如此罪咎重壓之下否認主的人。唯獨為著這些人，肉體才是軟弱的。然而，沒有一種肉體像那壓碎靈的肉體那樣剛強。此文本由查爾斯·穆尼耶編訂（1993），羅傑·皮爾斯轉錄（2002）。
And yet those scars, engraved in the Christian battle and certainly held in envy before Christ, because they desired to conquer, and even so glorious, because they yielded not by conquering, upon which even the devil himself still sighs — with their unhappiness, yet chaste; with a mourning penitence, yet one not blushing before the Lord — for these too, concerning pardon, it shall again be remitted to those who denied under such pressure of guilt. For those alone the flesh is weak. And yet no flesh is so strong as that which crushes out the spirit. Text edited by Charles Munier (1993). Transcribed by Roger Pearse (2002).