But if you are swept away by the flood, it might be your body, your life, or something else that belongs to them that gets carried away. Your mind and understanding cannot be swept away. Think about it this way — a candle's light stays bright until someone puts it out. Should truth, justice, and self-control stop shining in you while you still exist?
But if thou beest carried away with the flood, it must be thy body perchance, or thy life, or some other thing that belongs unto them that is carried away: thy mind and understanding cannot. Or should it be so, that the light of a candle indeed is still bright and lightsome until it be put out: and should truth, and righteousness, and temperance cease to shine in thee whilest thou thyself hast any being?