§13Coronant et publicos ordines laureis publicae causae, magistratus vero insuper aureis, ut Athenis, ut Romae.
They also crown public orders with laurel for public reasons, and magistrates moreover with golden ones, as at Athens, as at Rome.
Superferuntur etiam illis Hetruscae.
Etruscan crowns are also placed upon them.
Hoc vocabulum est coronarum quas gemmis et foliis ex auro quercinis ab Iove insignes ad deducendas tensas cum palmatis togis sumunt.
This is the name of the crowns which they, distinguished by Jupiter with gems and leaves of gold from the oak, assume to escort the ceremonial chariots with embroidered togas.
Sunt et provinciales aureae, imaginum iam, non virorum, capita maiora quaerentes.
There are also provincial golden crowns, now of images, not of men, requiring larger heads.
Sed tui ordines et tui magistratus et ipsum curiae nomen ecclesia est Christi.
But your orders and your magistrates, and the very name of the senate-house, is the church of Christ.
Illius es, conscriptus in libris vitae.
You are His, enrolled in the books of life.
Illic purpurae tuae sanguis domini et clavus latus in cruce ipsius; illic securis ad caudicem iam arboris posita; illic virga ex radice Iesse.
There, your purple is the blood of the Lord, and your broad stripe is upon His cross; there, the axe is already laid at the root of the tree; there, is the rod from the root of Jesse.
Viderint et publici equi cum coronis suis.
Let public horses also look to themselves with their crowns.
Dominus tuus, ubi secundum scripturam Hierusalem ingredi voluit, nec asinum habuit privatum.
Your Lord, when according to scripture He wished to enter Jerusalem, did not even have a private ass.
Isti in curribus et isti in equis, nos autem in nomine domini dei nostri invocabimus. Ab ipso incolatu Babylonis illius in Apocalypsi Iohannis submovemur, nedum a suggestu.
"Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will call upon the name of the Lord our God." By the very habitation of that Babylon in the Apocalypse of John we are removed, much more from the dais.
Coronatur et vulgus nunc ex principalium prosperitatum exultatione, nunc ex municipalium sollemnitatum proprietate.
The populace is also crowned, now from exultation in imperial prosperities, now from the peculiarity of municipal solemnities.
Est enim omnis publicae laetitiae luxuria captatrix.
For the luxury of all public joy is a captivating thing.
Sed tu peregrinus mundi huius, civis civitatis supernae Hierusalem.
But you are a stranger to this world, a citizen of the city above, Jerusalem.
Noster, inquit, municipatus in caelis. Habes tuos census, tuos fastos, nihil tibi cum gaudiis saeculi, immo contrarium debes.
"Our citizenship," it says, "is in heaven." You have your own census, your own calendars, you have nothing to do with the joys of the world; rather, you owe the contrary.
Saeculum enim gaudebit, vos vero lugebitis. Et, puto, felices ait legentes, non coronatos.
"For the world shall rejoice, but you shall lament." And, I think, He pronounces blessed those who read, not those who are crowned.
Coronant et nuptiae sponsos, et ideo non nubemus ethnicis, ne nos ad idololatrian usque deducant, a qua apud illos nuptiae incipiunt.
Marriage also crowns spouses, and for this reason we do not marry pagans, lest they lead us even into idolatry, from which among them marriage begins.
Habes legem a patriarchis quidem, habes apostolum in domino nubere iubentem.
You have a law from the patriarchs indeed, and you have the apostle commanding to marry in the Lord.
Coronat et libertas saecularis.
Secular freedom also crowns.
Sed tu iam redemptus es a Christo, et quidem magno.
But you have already been redeemed by Christ, and indeed at a great price.
Servum alienum quomodo saeculum manumittet? Etsi libertas videtur, sed et servitus videbitur.
How shall the world manumit another's servant? Even if it seems to be freedom, yet it will also be seen as servitude.
Omnia imaginaria in saeculo et nihil veri.
Everything is imaginary in the world, and nothing is true.
Nam et tunc liber hominis eras, redemptus a Christo, et nunc servus es Christi, licet manumissus ab homine.
For even then you were a free man of man, redeemed by Christ, and now you are a servant of Christ, although manumitted by man.
Si veram putes saeculi libertatem, ut et corona eam consignes, redisti in servitutem hominis, quam putas libertatem, amisisti libertatem Christi, quam putas servitutem.
If you think the freedom of the world is true, so that you seal it with a crown, you have returned into the servitude of man, which you think is freedom, and you have lost the freedom of Christ, which you think is servitude.
Numquid et agonisticae causae disputabuntur, quas statim tituli sui damnant, et sacras et funebres scilicet? Hoc enim superest, ut Olympius Iupiter et Nemeaeus Hercules et misellus Archemorus et Antinous infelix in Christiano coronentur, ut ipse spectaculum fiat, quod spectare taedet.
Shall athletic contests also be discussed, which their very titles condemn immediately, being indeed both sacred and funeral? For this is what remains: that Olympian Jupiter, and Nemean Hercules, and poor little Archemorus, and unhappy Antinous should be crowned in a Christian, so that he himself becomes a spectacle which it is tedious to behold.
Universas, ut arbitror, causas enumeravimus, nec ulla nobiscum est; omnes alienae, profanae, illicitae, semel iam in sacramenti testatione eieratae.
We have enumerated, as I think, all the occasions, and none is with us; all are foreign, profane, illicit, already once abjured in the witness of our oath.
Hae enim erant pompae diaboli et angelorum eius, officia saeculi, honores, sollemnitates, popularitates, falsa vota, humana servitia, laudes vanae, gloriae turpes, et in omnibus istis idololatriae in solo quoque censu coronarum, quibus omnia ista redimita sunt.
For these were the pageants of the devil and his angels: the offices of the world, honors, solemnities, popularities, false vows, human services, empty praises, disgraceful glories, and in all these, idolatry exists even in the mere census of the crowns with which all these things are wreathed.
Praefabitur quidem Claudius etiam caelum sideribus apud Homeri carmina coronatum, certe a deo, certe homini; igitur et homo ipse a deo coronandus est.
Claudius indeed prefaces that even the heaven is crowned with stars in Homer's poems, certainly by God, certainly for man; therefore, man himself must also be crowned by God.
Ceterum a saeculo coronantur et lupanaria et latrinae et pistrinae et carcer et ludus et ipsa amphitheatra et ipsa spoliaria ipsaeque libitinae.
But by the world are crowned brothels, latrines, mills, prison, school, the amphitheaters themselves, the stripping-rooms, and the undertakers themselves.
Quam sacer sanctusque, quam honestus ac mundus sit habitus iste, noli de uno poetico caelo, sed de totius mundi commerciis aestimare.
How sacred and holy, how honorable and clean this habit is, do not judge from one poetic heaven, but from the traffics of the whole world.
At enim Christianus nec ianuam suam laureis infamabit, si norit, quantos deos etiam ostiis diabolus adfinxerit, Ianum a ianua, Limentinum a limine, Forculum et Carnam a foribus et eardinibus, etiam apud Graecos Thyraeum Apollinem et Antelios daemonas.
But indeed, the Christian will not defile even his door with laurels, if he knows how many gods the devil has attached even to entrances: Janus from the door, Limentinus from the threshold, Forculus and Carna from the folding-doors and hinges, and even among the Greeks, Apollo of the Gateway and the demons facing the sun.