at si videtur humilitas nostrae professionis habenda contemptui, quia Christo res humanas vitasque medicaturo putrium conscientiarum ultro squalens ulcus aperimus, quod in nostri ordinis viris, etsi adhuc aliquid de neglegentia fetet, iam tamen nihil de superbia tumet, noveris volo non, ut est apud praesulem fori, sic esse apud iudicem mundi.
But if the lowliness of our profession seems to you worthy of disdain because we clerics take it upon ourselves to reveal the unsightly wounds of mouldering guilt to Christ who offers his healing touch to human concerns and human lives (and in men of our profession those wounds may still fester a little from neglect, but they are completely cured of the swelling of pride), I would have you know that before the judge of all the earth it is not as before the judge of an earthly court.
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