Ceterum tonsuram eam quam magum ferunt habuisse Simonem, quis, rogo, fidelium non statim cum ipsa magia primo detestetur, et merito exsufflet adspectu? Quae in frontis quidem superficie coronae videtur speciem praeferre; sed ubi ad cervicem considerando perveneris, decurtatam eam quam te videre putabas invenies coronam; ut merito talem Simoniacis et non Christianis habitum convenire cognoscas: qui in praesenti quidem vita a deceptis hominibus putabantur digni perpetuae gloria coronae; sed in ea quae hanc sequitur vitam, non solum omni spe coronae privati, sed aeterna insuper sunt poena damnati.
For the rest, as touching that fashion of shaving which Simon the magician is said to have used, what believer, I ask, would not straight at the first sight thereof abhor and rightly cast it forth together with his magic? Which indeed seemeth to shew the likeness of a crown in the outermost part of the head, but when a man cometh near and beholdeth the hinder part, he shall find that which seemed to him to be a crown, to come very short thereof; so that we may rightly understand that such a fashion suiteth not Christians, but Simoniacs: who in this present life indeed were thought by persons misled to be worthy of the glory of an everlasting crown; but in the life which followeth are not only deprived of all hope of a crown, but (which is more) are condemned to eternal punishment.
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