Troubles And Cure

Triplici loco laborat genus humanum: principio, medio, fine, id est, nativitate, vita, morte. Nativitas erat immunda, vita perversa, mors periculosa. Venit ergo medicus coelestis; et contra hunc triplicem morbum triplex attulit remedium. Natus enim est, vixit, obiit. Ejus nativitas purgavit nostram; ejus vita instruxit nostram; ejus mors destruxit nostram. Hugo De Sancte Victore, Miscellanea, Liber V, Tit XXV, De triplici labore hominis, et triplici ejus remedio Source: Migne PL 177.760a

The race of men labours in a threefold manner, in the beginning, in the middle and at the end, that is, in birth, in life, and at death. Birth was unclean, life perverse, death ruinous. Then the heavenly physician came and brought the remedy for this threefold sickness. For He was born, and He lived, and He died. His nativity cleansed ours, His life instructed ours, His death destroyed ours. Hugh Of Saint Victor, Miscellanea, Book 5, Chapter 25, On The Threefold Labour of a Man and His Threefold Remedy