Just as in dead bodies worms are engendered by putrefaction, so in the souls of the lost there arises a perpetual remorse from the putrefaction of sin, the sting of conscience, the worm, as Pope Innocent the Third calls it, of the triple sting.
Gorputz hiletan usteldurak harrak sortzen dituen bezala, galduen arimetan ere bekatuaren ustelduratik etengabeko aladura jaiotzen da, kontzientziaren miztoa, Inozenzio Hirugarrena Aita Santuak deitzen dion bezala, ausiki hirukoitzeko harra.