by Qimmik » Sat May 04, 2013 3:49 pm
Here's the translation. See for yourself if this isn't pretty bizarre:
That seductive speech of yours struck me as extremely unpleasant and annoying, since you are contriving to defraud me and to forcibly eject me from the rank and distinction I’ve held until now and throw me into the disgrace of this age, than which nothing is more unstable, nothing more decadent. And if you stake your reputation on that, and display that, as if everything were permissible to you, if you alone obtain that, and take advantage of it willingly, don’t you understand that there will come a time when it will escape you like a sleeper’s dream and will dissipate like pre-dawn dew? [It's a little hard to see what he's driving at here without more context.] For my part, I’m an old man, more than 80 years old, and throughout my whole life, in a uniform and constant course, I have served God with maximum devotion, and now I beg the higher powers again and again to shield me from such a great evil, that I should deviate from this practice of piety and betray the faith I’ve given to God, and, putting him in second place, worship the sun, something he created, and put it ahead of him.
