People were never taller than six or seven feet during the previous 5,670,000,000 years, he will say, because they were filled with cupidity, wrath, folly, pride, impurity, sloth, and other passions, but now that they have overcome their desires they are 160 feet tall, so they shouldn't be surprised that the cassock and almsbowl won't fit.
他指出過去五十六億七千萬年前，人類因為充滿了貪、瞋、癡、濁、驕、慢等慾望，所以身體十分卑小，高不過六尺；現在人們這些慾望都很淡薄，身長都有十六丈高，也難怪會穿不下。