Letter 3039: Dispute has arisen between your brother bishop Adrian and others in your ecclesiastical province.
AD EPISCOPOS CORINTHI10S,
Diaconum mittit , qui de audita Adrianum _ inter
et episcopos ejus accusalores reconciliatione in-
quirat,
Gregorius universis episcopis Corinthiis.
Desiderii nostri est ad concordiam * redire discor-
des, et unitos esse in gratia eos quos divisos ab alte-
rutra dilecti'one voluntatis facit esse GY diversitas.
Scripta igitur ſraternitatis vestre relegentes, agnovi-
mus quod hi, qui contra Þ Adrianum fratrem et co-
episcopum nostrum aliqua dixerant, modo cum eodem
episcopo in amicitiam convenissent, et magna nobis
ad prexsens fſacta est de eorum unilate l:etitia. Sed
quoniam ea quze dicta Sunt indiscussa remanere non
patimur, Sedis nostrz diaconum ad ea investiganda
dirigimus ; quia nuntiati nos facinoris qualitas vehe-
menter impellit nt ea quz audivimus dissimulare
nullatenus debeamus , przsertim cum accusatores et
accusatum inter $e fecisse gratiam indicastis, hoe
nobis necesse est sublilius perscrutari, ne fortasse
eorum sit comparala concordia ; quz $i, quod absit,
non ex charitate, sed ex przemio ſacta constiterit,
majori hoc emendatione plectendum est. Nam nos
qui canonice, revelante Deo, mala, si quidem vera
sunt, resecare precedentia lestinamus, commissam
postmodum culpam Sine vindicta nulla ratione di-
miltimus ©. |
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