So likewise those unrighteous judges who pervert their judgments,
always for gain, and not for justice,
and always offer their justice for sale,
and thus sell themselves for the sake of money,
then shall they have in the end, for their unrighteousness,
eternal torments with the treacherous devil.
The righteous judge must judge ever aright,
and ever further justice for the love of God,
seeing that bribes blind, even as books tell us,
the minds of men who wickedly take them [Prov. xxii. , Vulg.],
and thus pervert their judgments into injustice.
None of God's thanes may decide a cause for gain,
but maintain the judgment, if he be the Lord's man,
without miserable bribes, ever for the right,
that he may receive his reward in the eternal life.
Likewise some men sell even a church for hire,
as it were worthless mills, the glorious House of God,
which was dedicated to God for His service,
for that Christianity which Christ Himself founded;
but it befitteth not that men make God's House
like unto a mill, for vile toll;
and he who doeth it shall sink [or sinneth] very deeply.
May the Creator, who created us as men, shield us
from the deceit of the devil who layeth snares about us,
and mercifully bring us to the eternal life,
wherein is everlasting glory for ever and ever. Amen.
