22:1
Fecit pietas vestra rcm sollicitam, sollicitudinem tam porrigendo de nobis, quam de vobis nostram credendo. Nam revera nuntio vestri discessus accepto, in summo metu trepidatione perpendimus: quia nobis diversis nuntiis dicebatur, vos dominorum quibus observatis accitu, cunctos pariter evocatos. Unde faciebat hoc meorum conscientia peccatorum, ut quantum mihi pauciores remanserant, tanto intelligerem remanentibus plus timendum. Sed Deo gratias, qui prospero reditu, in lætitiam vestros, vosque revocavit in patriam. Servet Christus hanc, quod superest, desidcriis communibus libertatem, ut nobis et consolari absentiam vestram sit possibile, et ad praesentiam pervenire.
您的虔敬做了一件令人牽掛的事:您既為我們伸出關懷,又相信我們對您也懷有同樣的關切。因為實在說,一得您動身離去的消息,我們便在極度的驚懼中戰兢揣度:因為各樣傳聞告訴我們,您所事奉的諸位主上把您們一同召去了。因此,我因自知有罪,越發覺得留下的人越少,留下者越當懼怕。但感謝天主,祂以順利的歸程叫您的人回到喜樂中,也叫您回到本鄉。願基督在此後為我們共同的心願保守這份自由,使我們既能為您的不在而得安慰,也能得見您的親臨。
Your piety has done an anxious thing, both by extending your solicitude concerning us, and by believing in ours concerning you. For in truth, when we received the news of your departure, we weighed it with trembling in the utmost fear: because we were told by various reports that you had all alike been summoned together at the calling of the lords whom you serve. Hence the consciousness of my sins wrought this: that the fewer remained to me, the more I understood was to be feared by those remaining. But thanks be to God, who by a prosperous return called your people back into joy, and you back into your homeland. May Christ preserve, for what remains, this liberty for our common desires, so that it may be possible both for us to console ourselves in your absence, and to attain to your presence.