992. He had wooden shoes, which he threw at the [fleeing] spirits. This symbolizes the fact that such people look with scorn on final achievements, and throw them at those who constitute the province of the kidneys, because the kidneys evacuate the more unclean watery substances.
992. That spirit had wooden shoes which he cast at the renal spirits. This signified that such a spirit esteems effects or ultimates as of little value; and they cast them at those who constitute the province of the kidneys, because these evacuate the more unclean things of the serum.
992. Calceamenta habebat lignea, quae projecit ad spiritus, quod 1
significat, quod tales vilipendant 2
effectus seu ultima, quae projiciunt ad eos qui renum provinciam constituunt, quia sera immundiora evacuant.
Footnotes:
1. The Manuscript has quae
2. This is how it appears in J.F.I. Tafel's edition; the Manuscript has vilipendat