2:1
Legi libros, quos transmisisti, stilo breues, doctrina uberes, lectione expeditos, instructione perfectos, menti tuae et pietati pares. nec miror, quod tam utile ac pulchrum opus ad institutionem potissimum sanctorum ac beatorum pignorum condidisti. cum enim eximium in eis templum deo aedificaueris, doctrina nonae eruditionis quasi summum aedificii tui culmen ornasti, et ut indoles sanctae aeque doctrina ac uita inlustrarentur, quos morali institutione formaueras, spiritali instructione decorasti. superest ut dominus deus noster, cuius dono admirandissimi iuuenes tales sunt, pares eos faciat libris tuis, id est, ut quicquid illi continent in mysterio, hoc uterque illorum habeat in sensu.
我已讀過你所寄來的書卷，文體簡潔，學識豐富，讀來流暢，教導完備，與你的心思和虔敬相稱。我也不希奇，你所撰寫如此有益又優美的著作，主要是為了教導聖潔蒙福的兒女。因為你既在他們裡面為神建造了一座卓越的殿宇，就以那九重博學的教導，彷彿以你建築的最高頂端加以裝飾；並且為要使這些聖潔的稟賦既藉生活、也藉學識而得光彩，你已把那藉道德教導所塑造的人，又以屬靈的教導加以裝飾。剩下的，就是願我們的主神——賴祂的恩賜，這些最可欽佩的青年才成為如今這般——使他們與你的書卷相稱，就是說，願那些書卷在奧祕中所包含的一切，他們二人都能在悟性中領受。
I have read the books which you sent, brief in style, rich in learning, easy in the reading, perfect in instruction, equal to your mind and piety. Nor do I wonder that you composed so useful and beautiful a work chiefly for the instruction of holy and blessed offspring. For since you have built in them an excellent temple to God, you have adorned it, as it were, with the very summit of your building, by the teaching of a nine-fold erudition; and that these holy natures might be made illustrious by learning as well as by life, those whom you had formed by moral instruction you have graced by spiritual teaching. It remains that the Lord our God, by whose gift these most admirable young men are such as they are, may make them equal to your books—that is, that whatever those books contain in mystery, each of these two may possess in understanding.
2:2
et quia iam dispensatione diuina atque iudicio etiam magistri ecclesiae esse coeperunt, donet hoc benignissima dei pietas, ut doctrina illorum fructus sit ecclesiarum et tuus, profectuque excellentissimo tam illum ornent, a quo sunt geniti, quam eos quos ipsi institutione sua generauerint. mihique hoc, etsi non inter omnia, certe uel post omnia misericors deus tribuat, ut qui fuerunt discipuli quondam mei, sint nunc cotidie oratores mei. uale, mi domine et dulcis meus.
既然如今，藉著神聖的安排與判斷，他們甚至已開始作教會的教師，願神最仁慈的憐憫賜下這事，使他們的教導成為眾教會的果子，也成為你的果子，並使他們以最卓越的長進，既榮耀那生他們的人，也榮耀那些他們藉自己的教導所生的人。願憐憫的神也把這事賜給我——縱使不在萬事之中，至少在萬事之後——使那些從前作我門徒的人，如今天天作我的代禱者。願你平安，我的主，我甜蜜的人。
And since now, by divine dispensation and judgment, they have even begun to be teachers of the Church, may the most kind piety of God grant this, that their teaching may be the fruit of the churches and yours, and that by a most excellent advancement they may adorn both him from whom they were begotten, and those whom they themselves shall have begotten by their own instruction. And to me too may the merciful God grant this—if not among all things, at least after all things—that those who were once my disciples may now daily be my intercessors. Farewell, my lord and my sweet one.