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Gregorius Juliano scriboni. Si sæcularibus officiis ordo suus et tradita a majoribus disciplina servatur, quis ferat ecclesiasticos ordines temeraria præsumptione confundi, audita negligere, et emendanda non bene remittendo postponere? Et quidem vos bene faciiis cbaritatem diligere, et ad concordiam suadcre. Sed quoniain 1 ci nostri consideratione compellimur ea quæ ad nostram notionem pervenerunt minime propter Deum irre luisila rclinquere, idcirco a veniente Maxiluo subti iter ab eo quæ de ipso dicta sunt perscrutari cur.ilimus.
額我略致書記官猶利安。若在世俗職務中尚且能保守其應有的秩序與先人所傳的規矩，誰又能容忍教會的職分被輕率的專擅所攪亂，容忍所聽聞之事被漠視，容忍當糾正之事因不當的寬縱而被拖延呢？你們珍愛愛德、勸人和睦，這誠然是好的。然而，既然出於對我們自身職守的顧念，我們為著天主的緣故，斷不可將已達於我們知悉的事置之不理，因此當瑪西模前來時，我們便留心細細向他查究那些關乎他本人的言論。
Gregory to Julian the notary. If in secular offices their proper order and the discipline handed down by our forebears is preserved, who could bear that ecclesiastical orders should be thrown into confusion by rash presumption, that what is heard should be neglected, and that things needing correction should be put off by an ill-advised leniency? And indeed you do well to cherish charity and to urge men toward concord. But since, out of regard for our own office, we are compelled by no means, for God's sake, to leave unexamined those matters that have come to our knowledge, therefore we have taken care, when Maximus came, to inquire subtly of him into the things that have been said concerning him.
549:2
Et confidimus de Creatoris nostri custodia quia, cognita veritate, a statu canonum et æquitatis rectitudine, nec gratia cujusquam nec culpa deflectimarf sed libenter quæ congruunt rationi servamus. Nam si, quod ab.it, ecclesiasticam sollicitudinem vjgoremque negligimus, perdit desidia d scipiinam, et animabus profecto fidelium nocebitur, dum talia a suis pastoribus exempla suscipiunt. Illud autem quod scribitis, quia Toluntas palatii et amor ab eo populi non discordet, hæc res a justitiæ nos zelo non revocat, nec intentionem nostram facit in requirenda veritate peccando deficere. Studendum ergo est, fili magnifice, ut amorem sibi Dei quisque conciliet.
我們信賴造物主的護佑：一旦真相明朗，我們便不致偏離教會法典的立場與公平的正直，既不因對任何人的偏袒，也不因任何人的過錯而動搖，反倒樂於持守合乎理性之事。因為若我們——但願不至如此——疏忽了教會的職守與熱忱，怠惰便會敗壞紀律，信徒的靈魂必受其害，因他們竟從自己的牧者身上領受這樣的榜樣。至於你所寫的，說宮廷的意願與百姓對他的愛戴並無牴觸，此事並不能使我們離開對公義的熱心，也不能使我們的用心在尋求真理時因犯罪而失敗。所以，尊貴的孩子，務要努力，好使各人為自己贏得天主的愛。
And we trust in the guardianship of our Creator that, once the truth is known, we shall not be turned aside from the standing of the canons and the rectitude of equity, neither by favour toward anyone nor by anyone's fault, but shall gladly keep what accords with reason. For if — which God forbid — we neglect the ecclesiastical care and vigour, sloth ruins discipline, and the souls of the faithful will surely be harmed while they receive such examples from their own pastors. But as for what you write, namely that the will of the palace and the people's love of it are not at variance with him, this matter does not call us back from our zeal for justice, nor does it make our intention fail by sinning in the search for truth. One must therefore strive, magnificent son, that each man may win for himself the love of God.
549:3
Nam sine divina gratia bumana dilectio quid dicam in posterum, dum modo quoque apud nos amplius nocet b ?
因為若沒有天主的恩典，那出於人的愛顧於將來又有何益處呢？既然就連如今在我們中間，它反倒造成更大的損害。
For without divine grace, what shall I say that human love profits hereafter, when even now among us it does the greater harm?