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Gregorius Maximiano episcopo Syracusano. Frequenter ane admonuisse vos recolo ut in pro-, ferenda sententia esse præcipites nullatenus deberetis. Et nunc ecce cognovi quia reverendissimum virum abbatem a Eusebium commota furore vestra. fraternitas cxcommunicavit. Quod ego valde miratus sum, ut non antiqua ejus conversatio, non actas longa, non regritudo diuturna ab ira vestrum animum flecteret. Quilibet enim in eo fucrit excessus, ipsa ægritudinis afflictio ei debuit pro Oagello sufficere. Quem enim divina disciplina conterit, ei Inmana flagella addi superfluum fuit.
Gregory to Maximianus, bishop of Syracuse. I recall that I have frequently admonished you that you ought in no way to be precipitate in pronouncing sentence. And now behold, I have learned that your Fraternity, moved by fury, has excommunicated a most reverend man, the abbot Eusebius. At which I marveled greatly, that neither his ancient manner of life, nor his long age, nor his lasting sickness, could bend your mind from wrath. For whatever excess there may have been in him, the very affliction of his sickness ought to have sufficed him for a scourge. For to him whom the divine discipline crushes, it was superfluous that human scourges be added.
額我略致敘拉古主教瑪西米安。我記得我曾屢次告誡你，你在宣布判決之時絕不可魯莽。而如今看哪，我得知你的弟兄之情因盛怒而把一位極可敬之人、院長尤西比烏斯處以絕罰。對此我甚為詫異，因為他昔日的品行、他的高齡、他長久的病患，都不能使你的心從忿怒中回轉。因為無論他有何過度之處，單是他病患的折磨就本應足以作他的鞭笞。因為凡神聖的管教所摧折之人，再加上人為的鞭笞便是多餘的了。
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Sed fortasse ideo excedere in tali persona permissus es, ut cautior in vilioribus fias, et diu trutines, cum aliquem per sententiam ferire disponis. Eumdem tamen praefatum virum quanto furore exasperasti, tanta nunc dulcedine consolare, quin valde injustum est, 598 ut qni te plus amaverunt, ipsi te sine causa atrociorem contra se sentiant.
But perhaps you were for this reason permitted to transgress in such a person, that you may become more cautious in lesser ones, and may long weigh the scales when you dispose to strike anyone by sentence. Yet that same aforesaid man, with however great fury you have exasperated him, now with as great sweetness console; for it is very unjust that those who have loved you more should, without cause, feel you more savage against them.
但你或許正是為此緣故被容許在這樣一個人身上有所過失，好使你在較小之人身上更加謹慎，並在你有意以判決擊打某人之時，長久地權衡輕重。然而，那同一位上述之人，你以何等的盛怒激怒了他，如今就當以何等的甘甜安慰他；因為那些更愛你的人竟無緣無故地感到你對他們更為兇暴，這是極不公義的。