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Gregorius a Constantio episcopo Mediolanensi. Scripta fraternitatis vestræ suscipiens magnas omnipotenti Deo gratias retuli, quia ordinationis vestræ merui celebratione relevari. Quod "crn Nx superno munere in electionem vestram concorditer omnium convenit assensus, hoc fraternitas tua cum summa debet consideratione pensare, quia post Deum valde est debitrix eis qui sibi vos præferri tam sub. dita mente voluerunt. Decet igitur vos sacerdotali benignitate eorum muribus in omnibus respunderc, eorumque necessitatibus b pia compassione coucurrerc.
額我略致米蘭主教君士坦提烏斯。當我收到您弟兄之情的書函時，我向全能的天主獻上大大的感謝，因我蒙恩得以因您的祝聖典禮而得寬慰。既然藉著上天的恩賜，眾人的贊同和諧一致地匯集於對您的選立上，您的弟兄之情就當以至高的省察來衡量此事：即在天主之後，您深深虧欠那些以如此謙卑順服之心願意讓您被舉薦超乎他們自己的人。因此，您理當以司祭的仁慈在一切事上回應他們的行止，並以虔敬的憐憫奔赴他們的需要。
Gregory to Constantius, bishop of Milan. On receiving the writings of your Fraternity, I rendered great thanks to Almighty God, because I was deemed worthy to be relieved by the celebration of your ordination. And since by the supernal gift the assent of all concordantly came together in your election, your Fraternity ought to weigh this with the highest consideration: that, after God, you are greatly a debtor to those who with so submissive a mind willed you to be preferred to themselves. It befits you therefore to answer their conduct in all things with priestly kindness, and to run to their needs with pious compassion.
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Si quorum forMasse sunt vitia, hæc maturis objurgationibus e increpato, ut ipsa quoque sacerdotalis indignatio virtuti sit admista dulcedinis, quatenus ei tunc a subjectis amari debeat, etiam cum graviter metuitor. Quae res personam vestram apud eorum judicium ad magnam quoque reverentiam adducit, quia sicut præceps furor usitatusque despicitur, ita contra culpas discreta indignatio plerumque quo tarda tuelit, eo amplius fit timenda. Joannes vero subdiaconus noster multa nobis bona ture fraternitatis rediens nuntiavit. De quibus omnipotentem Deum petimus, ut haec qui 682 cœpit, ipse perficiat; quatenus te interius exteriusque profecisse, et nunc inter homines, et post inter angelos ostendat.
若或有人染有惡習，當以成熟的責備矯正之，好使司祭的義憤也調和以德行的甘甜，如此縱使你被人深深敬畏，屬下仍當愛戴你。此事也使你的身分在他們的判斷中大得敬重；因為正如魯莽而慣常的暴怒為人所鄙視，反之，對過犯所發出的審慎義憤，其動作愈是遲緩，便愈使人敬畏。我們的副助祭若望歸來時，向我們稟報了關於你弟兄之情的許多善事。為此我們祈求全能的天主，願那開始了這些事的主，親自使之成全；好使祂顯明你在內在外都有長進，如今在人間，日後在天使中間。
If perchance any have vices, rebuke these with mature reproofs, so that even the priestly indignation may be tempered with the sweetness of virtue, so that you may then be loved by your subjects even when you are gravely feared. This matter also brings your person, in their judgment, to great reverence as well; because just as headlong and habitual rage is despised, so, on the contrary, discreet indignation against faults, the more slowly it moves, the more it is to be feared. And John our subdeacon, on returning, announced to us many good things of your Fraternity. Concerning which we ask Almighty God that He Himself who has begun these things may perfect them; so that He may show you to have advanced both inwardly and outwardly, both now among men and hereafter among the angels.
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Præterea pallium ad sacra missarum solemnia utendum ex more transmisimus. Sed peto ut dum luc suscipitis, ejus bonorem ac gemum ex humilitate vindicetis.
此外，我們按照慣例送上聖帶（pallium），供您在彌撒神聖大典中使用。但我懇求您：當您領受其尊榮之時，也要以謙卑來守護它的榮譽與尊嚴。
Moreover, we have transmitted, according to custom, the pallium to be used at the sacred solemnities of the Masses. But I beg that, while you receive its honour, you may vindicate its honour and dignity by humility.