66:1
Factum quod litteris indicastis, levi ad me ante affatum vestrum rumore pervenerat. Cujus per sanctum Archidiam acerbitate comperta, si credere dignamini, non minus quam vos dolorem vestræ commotionis ingemui. Siquidem satis gravis exempli est, ut nunc sacerdotalis ordinatio a populis regenda dicatur: cum idcirco taotum in consecrandis episcopis plebibus servetur electio, ut assiduitas constitutionis velut per quoddam mandatum electis liceat legere quod videtur. Non autem vos pro novo debelis accipere, quid tribulandis nobis valeat comminisci clericalis nequitia, fulta subsidio insolentiae saecularis.
您藉書信所示知的那事，早在您的傳達之前，就已憑一絲風聲傳到了我這裡。藉聖阿爾基迪烏斯得知其中的苦痛之後，您若肯相信，我為您所受攪擾的憂傷而呻吟，並不亞於您。因為這實在是夠嚴重的先例：如今竟說司鐸的按立當由民眾治理——然而在祝聖主教時之所以為平民保留選舉權，惟一的緣由乃是：好使那定規的恆常性，彷彿藉某種授權，容許被選者選擇他們認為合宜的人。但您不當把這事當作新奇來接受——就是教士的邪惡，仗著世俗傲慢的扶持，能為使我們受苦而設想出甚麼來。
The deed which you indicated by your letters had reached me, before your address, by a slight rumor. Its bitterness having been learned through holy Archidius, if you deign to believe it, I groaned no less than you at the sorrow of your disturbance. For it is a precedent grave enough, that priestly ordination should now be said to be governed by the people—whereas election is preserved to the plebs in the consecrating of bishops only for this reason, that the steadfastness of the constitution may, as by a kind of mandate, allow those elected to choose what seems fit. But you ought not to receive as something new whatever clerical wickedness, propped by the support of secular insolence, may be able to contrive for our tribulation.
66:2
Puto sane dislrictioni ecclesiasticæ filii vestri expeti debere consensum, propter illos quorum abusioni consuetudinariæ parum de eXcommunicationibus curare decretum est. Liueras quoque quas ad presbylerum illicila præsumentem non minus pie quam regulariter direxistis, inspexi: in quibus vere plus quam persona meruit patientiae reservastis. Quapropter, licet salis diabolo in tam horribili rebellione licuerit, vos tamen sine aliqua animi perturbatione Dei ac vestram injuriam castigate. Et ne quid in posterum similis ausus arripiat, impensa districtione perspicite.
我確實認為，為著教會的紀律，理當徵求您兒子的同意，這是為了那些人的緣故——因他們慣常的濫用，以致有人裁定要對絕罰漠然視之。您那既合乎虔敬、又合乎規章寄給那擅行非法之事的長老的書信，我也已審閱：在其中，您所保留的忍耐，實在超過那人所配得的。因此，縱使魔鬼在如此可怕的悖逆中被容許得夠多了，您仍當心無擾動地懲治那對神、對您們自己所行的侵犯。並且，為使類似的膽妄日後無從得逞，請以充分的嚴厲加以查察。
I think indeed that the consent of your son ought to be sought for the ecclesiastical discipline, on account of those by whose habitual abuse it has been decreed to care little about excommunications. I have also examined the letters which you sent, no less piously than in accordance with the rule, to the presbyter who was presuming unlawful things: in which you truly reserved more of patience than the person deserved. Wherefore, although the devil has been permitted enough in so horrible a rebellion, do you nonetheless, without any perturbation of mind, chastise the injury done to God and to yourselves. And, that a like daring may seize nothing in the future, look to it with lavish severity.