[Donatus moralisatus]

For Job referring to Job 7:5 and 30:19 in the Vulgate spoke in the person of every man:

I am joined to dust, and I am assimilated to ash and cinders.

For what else are we but full of the rot of vices? We are like ash, quickly inflaming and provoking others to anger, or inflicting harm or scandal upon them. We are like cinders, quickly clinging to vanities, quickly provoked to anger, or inflamed by avarice, just as the cinder is light, dry, and worthless, left behind after the fire has consumed it. For we too are light, dry, and empty from the lack of the moisture of divine grace, small from pusillanimity, and consumed by the fire of carnal concupiscence. As sinners, let us return to him, considering that the beginning referring to a grammatical principle in Donatus is of the same genus of signification as the word. Likewise, let us be conformed to the will of God, since we are made in the image of God. For he is worthy of reproach who teaches what is right but lives in a wrong manner. Therefore, we are to be reproached even more strongly if, depicted in the image of God, we are said to be like him, yet through an enormous life, we differ from him.