Inter spirituales suos liberos eum maiorem qui ampliori spiritus gratia sit praeditus aestiment, quomodo terreni parentes quem primum partu fuderint, eum principium liberorum suorum cognoscere, et ceteris in partienda sua haereditate praeferendum ducere solent.
Let them then reckon him as the eldest son among their spiritual children, who is thus endowed with more abundant spiritual grace, just as earthly parents are wont to acknowledge their firstborn son as the chief of their offspring, and to consider him to be preferred before the rest, when they divide their inheritance.
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