Except that Hilary, a man by nature gentle and peaceable, and at the same time learned and most apt for persuading, managed the affair more diligently and more aptly. He also published books concerning the faith, nobly written, in which he so diligently set forth both the cunning of the heretics, and the deceptions of our own, and an ill-credulous simplicity, that he might correct, by the most perfect instruction, both those present and those placed far off, to whom he could not himself dispute by living voice. Thus these two men, like certain magnificent lights of the world, irradiated Illyricum, Italy, and the Gauls with their splendor, so that all the darknesses of the heretics, even from hidden corners and recesses, were put to flight.