De Textore Catharo (Epigr. XIX)
The Weaver's Presumption
A weaver mistakenly equates his earthly craft with the divine calling of the apostles, leading him to distort the scriptures.
When the Weaver reads that fishermen were called to pursue the Lord's holy work, he too invades the divine art of the Spirit, thinking the thread of a net less worthy than his own, and now he twists long webs from the warp of Scripture, becoming a master of both kinds of weaving.
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Cum piscatores Textor legit esse vocatos, Ut sanctum Domini persequerentur opus; Ille quoque invadit Divinam Flaminis artem, Subtegmen reti dignius esse putans, Et nunc perlongas Scripturae stamine telas Torquet, et in textu doctor utroque cluet.
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