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though he in no manner ceased of (or from) his malice. Forsooth over this he was filled with pride, and breathed fire in (his) soul against (the) Jews, and commanding the need for (it) to be hast(en)ed, it befell, that he going in fierceness fell down off the chariot, and that the members were travailed with the grievous hurtling (al)together of (his) body.

And he that seemed to himself for to command also to (the) waves of the sea, and over man’s manner was filled with pride, and for to weigh in (the) balance the heights of (the) hills, was then made low [or meeked] to (the) earth, and was borne in a bier, either (a) horse-litter, and witnessed in (or by) himself [or witnessing in himself] the open virtue (or the manifest power) of God;

so that (the) worms boiled out of the body of the unpious man, and the quick (or the living) fleshes of him floated out in sorrows. Also with the savour of him, and stinking, his host was grieved;

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