[229] The Buddha, the Blessed One, rebuked them: "It is unbecoming, foolish men (moghapurisā), unsuitable, improper, unworthy of an ascetic, not allowable, not to be done. How indeed could you, foolish men, for the sake of your stomachs, speak praise of one another's superhuman states (uttarimanussadhamma) to householders? It would be better for you, foolish men, that your bellies be slit open with a sharp cattle-butcher's knife than that praise of one another's superhuman states be spoken to householders for the sake of the stomach. For what reason? Because from that cause, foolish men, one might incur death or death-like suffering (dukkha), but not on that account, with the breaking up of the body, after death, would one be reborn in the plane of misery (apāya), a bad destination, the lower world, hell; whereas from this cause, foolish men, with the breaking up of the body, after death, one would be reborn in the plane of misery, a bad destination, the lower world, hell. This, foolish men, is neither for the confidence of those without confidence, nor for the increase of those already confident …" Having rebuked them and given a talk on the Dhamma, he addressed the bhikkhus.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.