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364 XLVIII. Ðætte on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða þe ða halgan æ ryhtlice ongietan ne cunnon; on oðre wisan ða þe hie ryhtlice ongietað, & ðeah for eaðmodnesse swugiað ðæt hie hie ne bodiað.

On oðre wisan sint to manianne ða þe ða halgan æ ryhtlice ongietan ne cunnon; on oðre þa þe hie ryhtlice ongietan cunnon, & ðeah for eaðmodnesse swugiað ðæt hie hie ne bodiað. Ða sint to manianne þe þa æ ryhtlice ne ongietað, ðætte hie geðencen ðætte hie ðone halwyndan drync ðæs æðelan wines ne gehwierfen him selfum to attre, & ðæt isen ðæt hie men mid lacnian sculdon, ðæt hie mid ðæm hie selfe to feore ne gewundigen, ðylæs hie mid ðy tole ðæt hale lic gewierden þe hie sceoldon mid ðæt unhale awegaceorfan. Eac hie sint to manianne ðæt hie geðencean ðæt ða halgan gewritu sint us to leohtfatum gesealde, ðæt we mægen gesion hwæt we don scylen on ðisse niht, ðæt is ðis andwearde lif, swæ swæ ðæt liohtfæt lieht on niht urum eagum, ðætte ða gewritu on dæg liehten urum mode. Ac ðonne hwa ne con ða ryhtlice ongietan, ðonne bið him ðæt lioht aðiestrod. Ne gehwierfde hiene næfre ðæt unryhtwise ingeðonc to ðæm won andgiete, gif he ær nære aðunden on ofermettum. Ac ðonne hie wenað ðæt hie selfe wisran sien ðonne oðre, ðonne forhycgeað hie ðæt hie folgien oðrum monnum æfter betran ondgiete, & wilniað ðæt hie gegitsien & gelicetten æt ðæm ungetydum folce wisdomes naman. Higiað ðonne ealle mægene ðæt hie ðæt gedwellen ðæt oðre menn XLVIII. That those who cannot rightly understand the holy law are to be admonished in one way; in another those who understand it rightly, and yet for humility refrain from preaching it.

Those who cannot rightly understand the holy law are to be admonished in one way; in another those who can understand it rightly, and yet from humility refrain from preaching it. Those who do not understand the law rightly are to be admonished not to turn the salutary draught of noble wine into poison for themselves, and not to wound themselves mortally with the lancet with which they should cure men, lest they destroy the sound flesh with the instrument that should cut away the