Laudator Temporis Acti

Augustine, Sermons 142.5 (Patrologia Latina, vol. 38, cols. 780-781; tr. Edmund Hill):

However, your head was swollen with pride, and the very swelling made it impossible for you to come back through the narrow gate. The one who became the way cries out, Enter by the narrow door (Mt 7:13). You make an effort to enter, your swollen head prevents you; and your efforts are all the more damaging, the more your swollen condition gets in the way. The door's narrowness irritates your swollen head, and the irritation makes it swell all the more. If you go on swelling up, when will you ever get in? So you must get the swelling down, if you are keen to enter.

But how are you to get your head unswollen? You must accept the medicine of humility. To counter the swelling, you must drink a bitter, but wholesome draft; you must drink the draft of humility. Why should you constrict yourself? Your bulk doesn't let you through, a bulk that's swollen, not just big; if it's big, it's solid; if it's swollen it's just so much hot air.

Tumuerat autem superbia, et ipso tumore per angustum redire non poterat. Clamat ille, qui factus est via: Intrate per angustam portam. Conatur ingredi, impedit tumor; et tanto magis perniciose conatur, quanto magis impedit tumor. Tumidum enim vexat angustia; vexatus autem amplius tumebit. Amplius tumens, quando intrabit? Ergo detumescat, si cupit ingredi.

Unde autem detumescat? Accipiat humilitatis medicamentum. Bibat contra tumorem poculum amarum, sed salubre; bibat poculum humilitatis. Quid se artat? Non sinit moles, non magna, sed tumida; magnitudo enim soliditatem habet, tumor inflationem.

Hill changed the third person to the second.