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Interim dictanda adversum fidem patrum Imperialia decreta mandantur Benevolo, tunc memoriae scriniis praesidenti. Sed ille cui ab incunabulis sacra fides, et venerabilis fuit, abnegat se impia verba posse proferre, et contra Deum loqui. Tum vero ne incoeptum reginae frustrari videretur, celsior ei honor promittitur, si impleret injuncta. Illo qui nobilior in fide esse quam in honoribus cuperet: Quid mihi, ait, pro impietatis mercede altiorem promittitis gradum? Hunc ipsum, quem habeo tollite: tantum mihi conscientia fidei duret illaesa. Haec dicens, ante pedes impia praecipientium cingulum jecit.
其間，那要頒佈、敵對列祖信仰的帝國詔令，被交託給當時掌管檔案文書處的貝內沃魯斯。但他從搖籃時起就以聖潔的信仰為可敬，於是拒絕，說他不能說出不敬虔的話，也不能說話敵對神。那時，惟恐女王的計謀落空，便應許他更高的尊位，只要他完成所吩咐的。但他渴望在信仰上比在尊位上更為高貴，便說：「你們為何以更高的等級作我不敬虔的工價？把我現有的這等級也奪去罷；惟願我信仰的良心於我得以無虧保全。」說著，他把職任的腰帶扔在那些命他行不敬虔之事的人腳前。
Meanwhile, the imperial decrees to be dictated against the faith of the fathers were committed to Benevolus, who then presided over the secretariat of records. But he, to whom the sacred faith had been venerable from his cradle, refused, saying that he could not utter impious words nor speak against God. Then indeed, lest the queen's undertaking should seem to be frustrated, a loftier honor was promised him if he would fulfill what was enjoined. But he, who desired to be more noble in faith than in honors: 「Why,」 he said, 「do you promise me a higher rank as the wage of impiety? Take away this very rank which I have: only let my conscience of the faith remain to me unharmed.」 Saying this, he cast his belt of office before the feet of those who were commanding impiety.
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Ambrosius vero adversum Reginae furorem, non se manu defensabat, aut telo, sed jejuniis continuatisque vigiliis sub altari positus: per obsecrationes defensorem sibi atque Ecclesiae Deum parabat. Dumque haec in longum diversis machinis et oppugnationibus nequam Justina moliretur, Maximus, qui se exuere tyranni infamia, et legitimum principem gestiret ostendere, datis litteris impium protestatur incoeptum, fidem Dei impugnari, et statuta catholicae Ecclesiae subrui, et inter haec appropinquare Italiae coepit. Quo Justina comperto, hoste simul atque impietatis conscientia perurgente, in fugam versa cum filio, exilia quae Dei sacerdotibus praeparabat, prima sortitur.
然而安波羅修對抗女王的暴怒，既不以手也不以兵器自衛，乃是俯伏在祭壇之下，以禁食和連續的儆醒守夜，藉懇求為自己和教會預備神作辯護者。當邪惡的優斯提娜以各樣詭計和攻擊長久籌謀這些事時，馬克西穆斯——他渴望脫去僭主的惡名，顯明自己為合法的君王——藉書信抗議這不敬虔的舉動，宣告神的信仰正受攻擊，大公教會的典章正被傾覆；其間他也開始逼近意大利。優斯提娜得知此事，同時被仇敵和自己不敬虔的良心所逼迫，便帶著兒子轉身逃亡，自己頭一個嘗到了她為神的祭司們所預備的流放。
Ambrose, however, against the queen's fury, defended himself neither with hand nor weapon, but, placed beneath the altar in fastings and continual vigils, by his supplications he prepared God as a defender for himself and the Church. And while wicked Justina was contriving these things at length with diverse machinations and assaults, Maximus—who longed to strip himself of the infamy of a tyrant and to show himself a legitimate prince—by a letter sent protested against the impious undertaking, declaring that the faith of God was being assailed and the statutes of the catholic Church overthrown; and amid these things he began to draw near to Italy. When Justina learned this, pressed at once by the enemy and by the conscience of her impiety, she was turned to flight with her son, and was the first to receive the exiles which she had been preparing for the priests of God.