352:1
Gregorius Felici episcopo a Sardica. Qualiter obedientia vel sit reverentia praepositis exhibenda, ex tUIS quoque subjectis ipse non ambigis. In qua re valde eat utile, si id quod diseiplinæ vigor imponit, nullo cogente, humilitas laudanda servaverit. Pervenit itaque ad nos quod fraternitas tua Joanni fratri nostro, primae Justinianae episcopo, secundum morem parere despiciat, et nec decreto ejus nec relationi, quam ad nos diremit, juxta consuetu dinem voluisse subscribere. Quod si ita est, contrista mur, quia superbiae de te manifestum praebes indicium. Quod quam sit, praecipue in sacerdote, cutpahile, divinæ clamant admonitionis eloquia.
貴格利致塞爾底卡主教斐理斯。當如何向管轄你的人表示順從或敬重，你自己從你的下屬身上便不會不明白。在這事上，若紀律的效力所加諸的，能由那當受讚美的謙卑在無人強迫之下加以持守，便極為有益。因此，有消息傳到我們這裡：說你弟兄不屑照常規順從我們的弟兄、第一查士丁尼主教約翰，也不願照慣例在他的裁決上、或在他呈給我們的報告上簽署。倘確是如此，我們就憂愁，因為你在自己身上顯出驕傲的明證。而那驕傲——尤其在司祭身上——是何等當受責備，神的訓誨之言正大聲宣告。
Gregory to Felix, bishop of Sardica. In what manner obedience or reverence is to be shown to those set over you, you yourself do not doubt from your own subordinates. In which matter it is very useful, if what the vigor of discipline imposes, humility, deserving of praise, should preserve with no one compelling it. It has come to us, therefore, that Your Fraternity disdains to obey, according to custom, John our brother, bishop of the First Justiniana, and has been unwilling to subscribe, according to custom, either to his decree or to the report which he sent to us. If this is so, we are grieved, because you give a manifest sign of pride in yourself. And how blameworthy that is, especially in a priest, the utterances of the divine admonition cry aloud.
352:2
Propterca 736 bortamur ut mentis tumore deposito, ordinatori tuo ante dicto fratri et coeposcopo nostre humilem te exhibere ac parere non desinas, quatenus et Deus gaudeat in fraternitatis vestræ concurdia, et alii de tc sumant bonitatis exemplum. Nam ii, quod non credimus, te in superbia permanere contigerit, districtam b canonicamque disciplinæ Cor rectionem, coratumaciæ tuae nos scito ulciscenter imponere. c Bene ergo facis, talem te sponte salubri consideratione præbere, qualis esse d canonica coerctione exigente compelleris.
因此，我們勸勉你：放下你心中的膨脹，不住地向你上述的授秩者、我們的弟兄和同工主教顯出謙卑與順從，好叫神既因你弟兄的和睦而喜樂，別人也從你身上取得良善的榜樣。因為，倘（我們並不相信）你竟落到固執於驕傲的地步，你當知道，我們必作你頑梗的懲治者，施加嚴厲而合乎教規的紀律糾正。因此你這樣行是好的：憑著有益的思量甘心自願地使自己成為那樣的人，就是照教規約束所要求你被迫成為的那樣。
Therefore we exhort you that, laying aside the swelling of your mind, you cease not to show yourself humble and obedient to your aforesaid ordainer, our brother and fellow bishop, so that both God may rejoice in the concord of your Fraternity, and others may take from you an example of goodness. For if, which we do not believe, it should befall you to persist in pride, know that we, as an avenger of your obstinacy, shall impose the strict and canonical correction of discipline. Well therefore do you act, to offer yourself of your own accord, by wholesome consideration, such as you would be compelled to be by the demand of canonical constraint.
352:3
Nam nec tibi denno post nostram admenitionem licebit ad tuae voluntatis arbitrium contra morem majoribus tuls inobedicutem existere, nec tantae tius indisciplinationis ecclesiastieam cognoscas dissimulare vel differre vindiclalu.
因為在我們的勸誡之後，你不得再照自己意志的判斷，違背常規對你的長上悖逆，你也不當以為教會對如此大的不守紀律的懲罰可以被假裝忽略或延遲。
For it will not be lawful for you again, after our admonition, to be, according to your own will's judgment, disobedient to your superiors contrary to custom, nor should you think that the ecclesiastical vengeance for so great an indiscipline may be dissembled or deferred.