synderlice wilnige, ac his nihstena god he sceal tellan him selfum. Be ðæm is awriten ðæt mon sceolde writan on ðæm hrægle ðe Aron bær on his breostum, ðonne he inneode beforan Gode, ða lare & ða domas & ða soðfæstnesse. Đa domas he bær on his breostum beforan Gode [&] Israhela bearna simle. Swa sceal se sacerd gitt simle ða domas beran awritene on his breostum Israhela bearna, ðæt is ðæt he ðara ðing þe him underðiedde bioð for ðæm ege anum ðæs godcundan [innecundan] deman innweardlice undersece, ðætte sio mennisce olicung for nanum freondscipe ðærto ne gemenge, forðonþe he bið to Cristes bisene & to lis anlicnesse ðær gesett [aset]. & ðeah for ðære geornfulnesse ðære ryhtinge ne sie he to hræd ne to stið to ðære wrace, ac ðonne he bið ongieten æfstig wið oðerra monna yflu, anscunige he eac bis agenu, ðylæs a smyltnesse ðes domes hine gewemme [oððe] se dyrna æfst oððe to hræd irre. Ac gif he geðencð ðone ege ðæs deman þe ofer eall sitt, ðonne ne stirð he no his hieremonnum butan miclum ege. Ac se ege ðonne he geeаðmet ðæt mod he hit geclænsað, ðylæs sio dyrstignes [gedyrstignes] his modes hiene to upahebbe, oððe ðæs flæsces lustfulnes hiene besmite, oððe ðurh þa wilnunga ðissa eorðcundlicra ðinga ðæt mod aðistrige se forhwirfeda gewuna gemalicnesse, sio oft ðæt mod ðæs recceres astyreð. Ac hit is micel ðearf ðæt mon hiere swiðe hrædlice wiðbrede, ðylæs sio scyld be hiene ðurh scinnesse [scirnesse] costað for his luste & for his wacmodnesse hiene oferswiðe; forðon gif hio ne bið hrædlice aweg adrifen, he bið ofslegen mid ðæm [ðy] sweorde ðære geðafunge.
bound and still is ever to consider how he can discern good and evil, and then to consider carefully how and when he is to teach each one, and what is most profitable for them, and not desire to appropriate anything to himself only, but reckon the prosperity of his neighbours as his own. About which it is written that on the robe which Aaron wore on his breast when he entered before God were to be written the instruction, judgments, and truth. He ever bore on his breast before God the judgments of the children of Israel. Thus the priest must still always bear the judgments of the children of Israel written on his breast, that is, that he must zealously serve the interests of those under his care solely from his awe of the inner Judge, that no human flattery be mingled therewith through friendship, for he is placed there to serve as an example and type of Christ.
