Being Done With Pride

Cum omni humilitate et mansuetudine, cum patientia. Qui terram et cinerem esse se novit, et post paululum in pulverem dissolvendum, numquam superbia elevabitur. Et qui Dei aeternitate perspecta, breve et pene ad puncti instar humanae vitae spatium cogitarit, ante oculos suos semper habebit interitum, et erit humilis atque dejectus. Corruptibile enim corpus aggravat animam, et terrenum hoc tabernaculum, sensum opprimit multa curantem. Propter quod cum omni humilitate dicamus: Domine non exaltatum cor ceum, neque elati sunt oculi mei. Omnis autem humilitas, non tam in sermone, quam in mente est, ut humiles non esse conscientia, noverit, numquam nos vel scire, vel intelligere, vel esse aliquid aestimemus. Mansuetudo quoque illa est, quae nulla passione turbatur: et specialiter ira et furore non rumpitur. Quam qui habuerit, beatitudinem, quae Domini voce promissa est, consequetur: ut possideat terram, id est, imperet corpori suo, domineturque subjecto; et haec sit ejus prima haereditas, in carne non carnaliter vivere. Sanctus Hieronymus, In Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios, Liber II, Cap IV Source: Migne PL 26.493c-494a

With all humility and meekness, and with patience. 1 He who knows himself to be earth and ashes, and that after a brief time that he must be resolved into dust, shall never be elevated by pride. And he who thinks of how the span of human life appears as a mere point in the sight of Divine eternity, having his death always before his eyes, he shall be humble and lowly. 'For the corruptible body burdens the soul and this terrestrial tabernacle weighs down the mind with many troubles.' 2 On account of which in all humility we say: 'Lord, my heart is not exalted, nor are my eyes lifted up.' 3 For nothing of humility is to be found in a mere word, but it is in the mind, that being humble we are conscious that we know should never think ourselves or understand ourselves or reckon ourselves something. And this is meekness, not to be troubled by any passion, especially the bursting forth of wrath and rage. He who has it is blessed and from it follows what the voice of the Lord has promised: that he shall possess the earth, 4 that is, he shall command his body, and ruling over it, subject it. And this is his primary inheritance, that in the flesh he does not live in the flesh. 5 Saint Jerome, Commentary On The Epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians, Book 2, Chap 4 1 Ephes 4.2 2 Wisd 9.15 3 Ps 130.1 4 Mt 5.4 5 Rom 8.9