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Gregorius Adriano notario. Pervenit ad nos (Grat. 26, q. 5, c. 8) quod quosdam B incantatores atque sortilegos fueris insecutus. Et omnino nobis sollicitudinem zclumque tuum gratum fuisse cognoscas; sed moleste tulimus quod te dubitare ne ab eis nobis contra experientiam tuam subripi potuisset didicimus, cum certus esse ac scire debueris hoc tibi apud nos ad commendationem magis proficere, non ad culpam ascribi. Et ideo stud i tui sit sollicite quaerere, et quoscunque hujusmodi inimicos Chri-ti inveneris, ita districta ultione corrigere, at et nos de ex pcrienlia tua melius debeamus habere judicium, et Deo nostro te, quod maxime atudendum est, valeas commendare b.
Gregory to Adrian the notary. It has come to us that you have prosecuted certain enchanters and casters of lots. Know that your care and zeal have been altogether pleasing to us; but we were grieved to learn that you had doubts whether, contrary to your own tried experience, we could have been misled by them, since you ought to have been certain and to have known that this counts rather to your commendation with us, and is not reckoned as a fault. And therefore let it be your earnest endeavour to seek diligently, and whatever enemies of Christ of this kind you find, to correct them with such strict retribution that both we may form a better judgment of your proven worth, and you may be able to commend yourself to our God, which is what one must above all strive after.
額我略致公證員亞德里安。我們得知你已追究了某些行使咒術與占卜的人。你當知道，你的關切與熱心對我們是極為可喜的；但我們感到不安，因為得知你竟疑慮，唯恐他們能違背你自身的經驗而蒙蔽我們——你本應確信並明白，此事在我們面前反而更增你的美譽，絕不會被算作過錯。因此，願你殷勤查究，凡遇見這一類基督的仇敵，都以嚴厲的懲處加以矯正，使我們既能對你的可靠有更好的判斷，你也能將自己薦於我們的天主面前，這正是最當竭力追求的。