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Gregorius a Marcello proconsuli Da'matix. Epistolam magnitudinis vestræ suscepimus, in qua vos nostram incurrisse b ingratiludinem indicastis, atque ob hoc per directam satisfactionem habere nostram velle vos gr liam. Et quidem tanta ad nos de vestra maguitudine p rvencrunt quanta a lideli viro minime co imi:ti debuerant. Vos enim tanti mali de causa Maximiomnes astruunt auctores existere, per quos spoliatioillius Ecclesiae vel tantaruin animarumperdilio, atque inauditæ praesumptionis andacia sumpsit initium.
格里高利致達爾馬提亞的代執政官馬爾克盧斯。我們已收到你尊大之閣下的書信，你在其中表明自己已招致我們的不悅，並為此願藉直接呈上的補贖來得我們的恩顧。誠然，關乎你尊大之閣下的種種傳聞已傳到我們這裏，這些事斷不當由一個忠信之人所行。因為眾人都聲稱，你們正是那禍及馬克西穆斯之大惡的肇事者，藉著你們，那教會之被劫掠、如此眾多靈魂之淪喪，以及聞所未聞之僭妄的膽大妄為，便有了起頭。
Gregory to Marcellus, proconsul of Dalmatia. We have received the letter of your Greatness, in which you have indicated that you have incurred our displeasure, and that on this account, by a satisfaction directly rendered, you wish to have our favour. And indeed such reports have reached us concerning your Greatness as ought by no means to have been committed by a faithful man. For all assert that you are the authors of the cause of so great an evil against Maximus, through whom the spoiling of that Church and the perdition of so many souls, and the audacity of unheard-of presumption, took its beginning.
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Et quidemquod nostram vos velle gratiam habere p< titis, convenit nt Redemptori nostro pro his talibus satisfacere tota intentionementis, ut dignum est, cum lacrymis debeatis, quia * si illi satisfactum non fuerit, quid nostra relaxitiovel gratia poterit cei te conferre ? Dum tamen adhuc in præsumptorum ruinisvel errantium defensionibus inesse vos cernimus, qualis vel Deo, vel hominibus vestra sit satisfactio non videmus. Tunc enim Deo et luminibus se satisfacere magnitudo vestra patenter evidenterque cognoscat, si et devia ad rectitudinem, et præsumpliva ad huMilitatis normam a reducal. Quod si factum fuerit, per hoc vos et Dei percepturos et bominum gratiam cognoseatis.
至於你所求的——就是你願得我們的恩顧——實在合宜的是，為著這樣的行為，你理當以全副心意、並以眼淚向我們的救贖主獻上補贖；因為若不向祂補贖，我們的赦免或恩顧又能確實給你帶來甚麼呢？然而，只要我們仍看見你陷在那些僭妄者的敗亡與那些迷途者的辯護之中，我們就看不出你向神或向人所作的補贖是何等樣式。因為到那時，願你尊大之閣下公然明白地知道，你是向神並向人補贖了，若你既把那偏離的事挽回正直，又把那僭妄的事挽回謙卑的準則。這若成就了，你便當知道，你必藉此既得神的恩顧，也得人的恩顧。
And indeed, as for what you ask—that you wish to have our favour—it is fitting that for such deeds as these you ought, as is fitting, to make satisfaction to our Redeemer with the whole intent of your mind and with tears; for if satisfaction be not made to Him, what can our remission or favour confer upon you for certain? Yet so long as we perceive you to be still involved in the ruins of the presumptuous and in the defences of the erring, we do not see of what sort your satisfaction is either to God or to men. For then let your Greatness openly and evidently know that it makes satisfaction to God and to men, if it both recall the devious things to rectitude and the presumptuous things to the norm of humility. And if this be done, know that thereby you will receive both the favour of God and that of men.