1:1
Cum me libellos tuos mecum relaturum praecedentibus litteris indicassem, instantiam et exactionem pueri quem miseras lentare nullatenus potui. emisi itaque florulenta beatitudinis tuae opera non parum anxius, ne necdum descripta tam iugiter tam grauiter ruentibus imbribus labefactarentur. percurri ea semel tantum uniuersa miratus. concedat dominus, ut speciosa haec in Christo instructionum nostrarum gloriae tuae opera te in paginis tuis duce aliquando percenseam. hoc unum precor, ne me diu his institutionibus fraudari feras, sed unum me de iuuenibus tuis, quorum haec eruditioni ordinasti, habens hoc instantius habere me haec uelis, quo me magis aeui senium cum iuuentae imperitia premit.
我在先前的書信中已表明要親自把你的小書帶回，但對於你所差來的那少年的催促與索求，我實在無法稍加拖延。因此，我懷著不小的憂慮，把你那滿是花香、最為蒙福的兩卷著作都寄了出去，唯恐它們尚未抄錄，便要被那連綿不絕、傾瀉而下的大雨損壞。我只匆匆通讀了一遍，便滿心驚歎。願主使我有朝一日，在你親自於你書頁中的引領之下，能細細品味這些在基督裡華美、為你榮耀而作的教導之作。我只懇求這一件事：不要讓我長久被剝奪這些教誨，而要把我算作你門下的少年之一——你正是為他們的學習而編訂了這些——並更迫切地願我擁有這一切，因為我年邁之老與少年之無知正一同壓在我身上。
When in my earlier letter I had indicated that I would bring your little books back with me, I could in no way slow the insistence and exaction of the boy whom you had sent. And so, not a little anxious, I dispatched both volumes of your most blessed and flowery work, lest, not yet copied out, they should be damaged by rains falling so continuously and so heavily. I ran through them all but once, in wonder. May the Lord grant that someday, under your guidance in your own pages, I may review these works of our instruction, lovely in Christ, to your glory. This one thing I beg: do not suffer me to be cheated for long of these teachings, but counting me as one of your young men, for whose learning you arranged these things, may you wish me to possess them all the more urgently, the more the old age of my years presses upon me together with the inexperience of youth.
1:2
memorem te mei dominus ad profectum ecclesiae suae diu semet, beatissime papa.
至蒙福的父啊，願主長久使你記念我，以促進祂教會的進益。
May the Lord long keep you mindful of me, for the advancement of his Church, most blessed father.