For, since nothing of pleasure and pain in this life can bear any proportion to the endless happiness or exquisite misery of an immortal soul hereafter, actions in his power will have their preference, not according to the transient pleasure or pain that accompanies or follows them here, but as they serve to secure that perfect durable happiness hereafter.
Zeren, ezein plazer ez oinazek ezin duenez ukan arimak gero izanen duen amaigabeko zorionarekin edo sekulako zorigaitzarekin proportziorik, gizaki horrek egin ahal dituen ekintzak ez dira hobetsiko ekintzokin batera edo ondoren hemen izanen duen atsegin edo oinaze iragankorraren arabera, baizik geroko zorion bete eta iraunkorra segurtatzeko balio duten neurrian.