It was to teach them, that the holiest amongst us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy, which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.

• 他要教育他们：我们当中最神圣的人无非比别人高得能够更清楚地分辨俯视下界的仁慈的上帝，能够更彻底地否定一般人翘首企望的人类功绩的幻影。