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Gregorius a Dono episcopo Messanensi. Et sacrorum canonum (Grat. 12, q. 2, c. 14), et legalia statuta permittunt ministeria Ecclesiae pro captivorum esse redemptione vendenda.
Gregory to Donus, bishop of Messina. Both the sacred canons and the legal statutes permit the vessels of the Church to be sold for the redemption of captives.
額我略致墨西拿主教多努斯（Donus）。無論是神聖的教規，還是律法的規章，都准許教會的器皿為贖回俘虜而變賣。
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Ei ideo quoniam Faustinus lator praesentium, ut filias suas de jugo potuissset captivitatis exuere, trecentorum triginti solidorum probatur debitum contraxisse, ex quibus triginta redditis, ad reliquae quantitatis restitutionem eum certum est non posse sufficere, freternitatem tuam his hortamur affatibus ut de argento Meriensis Ecclesiae, b cujus miles esse dignoscitur, quod apud vos est, quindecim ei libras accepto ab eo c desuscepto dare modis omnibus debeatis, ut eo venundato, et restituto debito, 887 necessitate valent obligationis absolvi. Sed et illud fraternitas vestra debet esse sollicita, ut siquidem de prædicta Ecclesia a usuafc argentum est, suprascriptam quantitatem accipiat;
And therefore, since Faustinus, the bearer of these presents, in order that he might loose his daughters from the yoke of captivity, is proved to have contracted a debt of three hundred and thirty solidi, of which thirty having been repaid, it is certain that he cannot suffice for the restitution of the remaining sum, we exhort your Fraternity with these words that, from the silver of the Church of Meria—of which he is known to be a soldier—which is with you, you ought by every means to give him fifteen pounds, taking from him a receipt, so that, this being sold and the debt restored, he may be able to be freed from the necessity of the obligation. But your Fraternity ought also to be careful of this, that if indeed the silver of the aforesaid Church is in use, he should receive the above-mentioned sum;
因此，既然本信的送呈者福斯定諾（Faustinus），為要解救他的女兒們脫離俘虜之軛，已被證實背負了三百三十索里迪（solidi）的債務，其中三十已償還，而餘下之數他確實無力償清，我們便以此言勸勉您的弟兄之情：從梅利亞（Meria）教會存於您處的銀器中——他被公認是該教會的兵役者——您務必想盡辦法交給他十五磅，並向他索取收據，好使那銀器賣出、債務清償之後，他能從這義務的壓迫中得釋放。但您的弟兄之情也當留意此事：倘若前述教會的銀器尚在使用中，他就當領受上述之數；
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alioquin de sacratis vos vasis hac in re eam quam prædiximus quantitatem præbere necesse est. Nam (Gral. t2, q. 2, c. 16) sicut omnino grave est frustra ecclesiastica ministeria venundare, sic iterum culpa est, imminenti hujusmodi necessitate, res maxime desolatae Ecclesiae captivis suis præponere, et in eorum redemptione ceseare.
otherwise, it is necessary that you furnish from the consecrated vessels, in this matter, the sum which we have mentioned above. For, as it is altogether grave to sell the vessels of the Church without cause, so again it is a fault, when a necessity of this kind is imminent, to prefer the property of an utterly destitute Church to its own captives, and to cease from their redemption.
否則，在此事上，您就必須從那些已祝聖的器皿中，撥出我們上面所提及之數。因為，正如無故變賣教會的器皿是極為嚴重的，同樣地，當這樣的急需臨到時，若把一個赤貧教會的財產看得比它自己的俘虜更重，而停止贖回他們，這也是一種過失。