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(4) "For regarding the souls of such men I have spoken unto you aforetime in a similitude, saying: 'If thy brother sinneth against thee, bring him over between thee alone and him. If he hearkeneth unto thee, thou wilt win thy brother; if he hearkeneth not unto thee, take with thee yet another. If he hearkeneth not unto thee and the other, bring him to the assembly. If he hearken not unto the others, let him be for you as a transgressor and as a stumbling-block.'--That is: If he is not usable in the first mystery, give him the second; and if he is not usable in the second give him the three, assembled together, which is 'the assembly'; and if he is not usable in the third mystery, let him be for you as a stumbling-block and as a transgressor.

(6) Let thy (Richter) Judging alone, or else thou wilt receive thy evil Wages for it; therefore I will have thee faithfully warned of it. Tarry till thou comest into the other Life, for then the heavenly Gate will be opened to thee, and then thou also wilt understand this. Now observe the Depth. [Gregory Richter, the Primate or Superintendant of the Clergy of Gorltiz.]

(52) Therefore take heed what thou dost, and consider what thou art; thou judgest others, and art blind thyself.

(102) Judge not, else here thou runnest counter against a strong Gate, and wilt be imprisoned; if the Wrath-fire catches thee, then thou wilt remain eternally therein.

(2) And similarly, if he afford any cause for conflict or punishment, or retribution or enmity, he gives occasion for persecution. Wherefore, then, we are enjoined not to cling to anything that belongs to this life; but "to him that takes our cloak to give our coat," not only that we may continue destitute of inordinate affection, but that we may not by retaliating make our persecutors savage against ourselves, and stir them up to blaspheme the name.

(55) And again: "Let not your almsgiving and faithfulness lapse." And: "Poverty brings a man low, but the hands of the energetic are made rich." And he adds: "Behold the man who has not given his money on usury is accepted." And does he not declare expressly, " A man's wealth is judged to be his soul’s ransom"? Just as the world is composed of opposites, of heat and cold, dry and wet, so also is it made up of givers and receivers. Again when he says, "If you would be perfect, sell your possessions and give to the poor," he convicts the man who boasts that he has kept all the commandments~ from his youth up. For he had not fulfilled "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Only then was he taught by the Lord who wished to make him perfect, to give for love's sake.

(68) If not, then a Hell or Hole, Burrow or Dungeon, shall be given to him for an everlasting Prison, and there shall He together with his Sons be Prisoners for ever: And you shall take heed lest a Court of Justice be held, and pass upon you also.