55:1
At Valentinianus in Italia degens, fratris nece, atque hostis metu perterritus, simulatione oblatam pacem a Maximo, simulans ipse quoque libenter amplectitur. Cum interim Justina mater ejusdem, Arianae haereseos alumna, impietatis suae venena, quae, vivente viro, suppresserat, filio facile decepto fidenter aperuit. Igitur apud Mediolanum posita, conturbare Ecclesiarum statum, comminari sacerdotibus depulsiones, exilia, nisi Ariminensis concilii decreta, quibus fides patrum temerata fuerat, revocarent. Quo bello Ecclesiae murum et turrim validissimam pulsabat Ambrosium. Eumque minis, terroribus , atque omni oppugnationis genere fatigans, primum sibi aditum debellandae rimabatur Ecclesiae.
但瓦倫提尼安住在意大利，因兄長之死和懼怕仇敵而驚惶，自己也樂意接受馬克西穆斯假意提出的和平，他也同樣裝作如此。其間，他的母親優斯提娜——亞流異端的養女——把她在丈夫在世時所隱藏的不敬虔之毒，放膽向她易受欺哄的兒子揭露出來。於是她駐在米蘭，著手攪擾各教會的局面，威嚇祭司們，若不恢復違背列祖信仰的里米尼會議決議，便要將他們驅逐流放。在這場爭戰中，她攻擊教會的城牆和最堅固的高樓——安波羅修；她以威脅、恐嚇和各樣攻擊使他困乏，要尋出攻陷教會的最初入口。
But Valentinian, dwelling in Italy, terrified by his brother's death and by fear of the enemy, himself also gladly embraced the peace offered—in pretense—by Maximus, pretending likewise. Meanwhile Justina, his mother, a nursling of the Arian heresy, confidently disclosed to her easily deceived son the poisons of her impiety, which she had suppressed while her husband lived. Therefore, established at Milan, she set about to disturb the state of the Churches and to threaten the priests with expulsions and exiles, unless they should restore the decrees of the Council of Rimini, by which the faith of the fathers had been violated. In this war she battered Ambrose, the wall and strongest tower of the Church; and wearying him with threats, terrors, and every kind of assault, she sought to probe a first approach for storming the Church.
55:2
Sed quamvis illa Jezabel spiritu pugnaret armata, resistebat tamen Ambrosius, Eliae virtute repletus et gratia. Ipsa autem in Ecclesiis garrire, strepere, animare, et inflammare ad discordiam populos : sed quod minus res ex sententia cederet. injuriam putare, et pro hoc apud filium conqueri. Unde adolescentulus pro contumeliae invidia, quam falso conflaverat mater, accensus, armatorum globum ad Ecclesiam mittit: confringi januas, oppugnari sancta, Sacerdotem pertrahi, atque in exilium agi, protinus jubet. Sed tanta fuit perseverantia fidelium populorum, ut animas prius amittere, quam Episcopum mallent.
然而那耶洗別雖以其心靈為武裝爭戰，安波羅修卻得以堅立，他充滿了以利亞的能力和恩典。她自己在各教會中喋喋不休、喧嚷、煽動、激起民眾紛爭；但因事情不如她所願，她便視為冤屈，為此向兒子訴苦。於是那少年因母親憑空捏造的侮辱所招的怒氣被點燃，差派一隊武裝之人到教會去：他立即下令撞開門戶，攻襲聖物，把主教拖出去驅逐流放。但忠信民眾的堅忍何等之大，以致他們寧可喪命，也不肯失去他們的主教。
But although that Jezebel fought armed with her spirit, Ambrose nevertheless resisted, filled with the virtue and grace of Elijah. She herself, however, would prattle, clamor, incite, and inflame the peoples to discord in the churches; but because the matter turned out less according to her wish, she counted it an injury, and over this complained to her son. Hence the young man, kindled over the slight of an insult which his mother had falsely fabricated, sent a band of armed men to the Church: he ordered at once that the doors be broken open, the holy things assaulted, the Bishop dragged out and driven into exile. But so great was the perseverance of the faithful peoples, that they would rather lose their lives than their Bishop.