Whatever any one required to be instructed in, by him, he would ever, in the first place, demand an account of the conditions of his life present and past, which he examined and judged, esteeming all other learning subsequent to that and supernumerary:
Zernahi ere galdegiten bazitzaion, lehendabizikoan galdegilea bazeraman bere orainaldiko eta iragan biziko baldintzez kontu ematera, ikertzen eta epaitzen baitzituzten, beste edozein ikasbide haren ondokoa eta soberazkoa zela gogoan harturik.