So, since these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and stay calm and not do anything rash.

but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

These practices indeed have the appearance [that popularly passes as that] of wisdom in self-made religion and mock humility and severe treatment of the body (asceticism), but are of no value against sinful indulgence [because they do not honor God].

As the truth of Christ is in me, my boast [of independence] will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia (southern Greece).