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Gregorius Cypriano diacono. Obitum a Theodori episcopi dilectionem tuam jam credimus cognovisse. Sed quia ipse testamentum dicitur condidisse, subtiliter, ne quid de rebus Ecclesix suae consumpsisset, te oportet inquirere. Et siquidem eum exinde aliquid incongrue minuisse didi ceris, ita age ut res ipsae ab co cujus interest modis omnibus reparentur. Clerurn vero et populum loci ipsius admonere te convenit, ut, omni dilatione post. posita, eligant qui sibi, revelante b neo, debeat episcopus ordinari. (Grat. Caus. 12, q. 5, c. 2.)
Gregory to Cyprian the deacon. We believe that your beloved self has already learned of the death of Theodore the bishop. But since he himself is said to have made a will, it behooves you subtly to inquire whether he had consumed anything of the goods of his Church. And if indeed you shall have learned that he thereby diminished anything unfittingly, so act that those goods be by all means restored by him whom it concerns. But the clergy and people of that place it becomes you to admonish that, all delay being set aside, they choose one who, God revealing it, ought to be ordained bishop for them. (Gratian, Cause 12, q. 5, c. 2.)
額我略致執事西彼連。我們相信你所親愛的，已得知主教特奧多祿的死訊。但既然據說他自己立了遺囑，你就當細心查究，看他是否曾耗費了他教會產業中的任何東西。倘若你查明他因此不合宜地減損了任何東西，就當如此行事，使那些產業務要由當事人歸還。至於那地方的神職與百姓，你當勸誡他們，撇下一切拖延，揀選一位靠天主的啟示當為他們祝聖為主教的人。（格拉提安，案件十二，問五，章二。）