37. But you say that the grace of the mysteries
works in the font. What works, then, in penance? Does not
the Name of God do the work? What then? Do you, when you
choose, claim for yourselves the grace of God, and when you choose
reject it? But this is a mark of insolent presumption, not of
holy fear, when those who wish to do penance are despised by you.
You cannot, forsooth, endure the tears of the weepers; your eyes cannot
bear the coarse clothing, the filth of the squalid; with proud eyes and
puffed-up hearts you delicate ones say with angry tones, “Touch
me not, for I am pure.”