Letter 8032: I have received reports of your conduct and I am pleased by them.
AD DOMINICUM.
Modestiam illius, charitatem, atque aposloliee gedis
revereniliam laudat.
Gregorins Dominico episcopo Carthaginensi.
Scripta $sanclitatis vestrz#, que latore presentium
« De Eudoxio hzretico vide que diximus ad epist.
4 lib. vi, nunc lib. vu. Gus8anv.
Eersr. XXXI. — * Castelliense monasterium a
Cassiodoro exstructum et tanti viri secessu nobilita-
tum prope Squillacium «rat. De quo consule Viuam
Cas+iodori ejus voperibus premissam in novissima
Editione, parte 1, {F 6 et $eq. Vide eltiam Cagsiodo-
rum de institntione divinarum literarum, c. 29.
Eersr. XXX [AL. 15, bb. 1x, ind. 4]. — * A ple-
risque Mss. abest hzc epislola. Ex omnibus Valicavis
Solus eam exhibet Codex A. Legitur quoque in San
Victorino.
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SANCTI GREGORIH MAGNI
deferente 8uscepimus, ita 8acerdotalem modestiam A propositum, velle cujusquam monasterii privilegiaolim
luquebantur, ut auctoris sui corporalem nobis quo-
dammodo prxsentiam blandirentur. Nec enim s8ermo
rarus aliquid officit, ubi manet in animis continuus
dilectionis afſectus. 921 Magna autem charitalis
rirtus est, dilecte frater, quz sincerilatis $Uuz vin-
culo alterna mutuo afſectu corda constringit, et ea a
graliz non $sinit compage dissolvi : disjuncta conjun-
git, unita custodit, et ignotos $ibi imagine reddit co-
ginitos per amorem. Quisquis igitar in hujus cardine
mentem figit, eum de Supernz patriz habitaculo cu=-
juslibet adversitatis impulsio non evellit, quoniam
quocunque 8$e verterit, * a mandatorum limine non
excedit. Unde et in ejusdem charitatis laude per
egregium przedicatorem dicitur : » Qur es! vinculum
perſectionis (Coloss. 11, 14). Quantz itaque sil laudis
zspicimus, quz perſectionem non solum in menle ge-
nerat, sed etiam ligat. Quia igitur hnjus virtutis igne
SUCCEnSUM tuarum te prodit locutio litterarum, uberi
in Domino exsultatione l:tificor, atque opto ut hxc
in te magis magisque resplendeat, quia lux gregis
est, pastoris flamma. © Decet enim, decet dominicum
zacerdotem moribus 'et vila clarescere, quatenus
in eo lanquam in vite $suz speculo plebs commissa
et eligere quod sequatur, et videre possit quod cor-
rigat.
Scientes prxeterea unde in Africanis partibus sum-
pserit ordinatio sacerdotalis exordium, laudabiliter
agitis quos sedem apostolicam diligendo ad officii
veslri originem prudenti recordatione recurritis, el
probabili in ejus affectu constantia permanetis. Cer-
tum quippe est quia vestro honori additis 4 quidquid
ei reverentie ac devolionis sacerdolaliter exhibetis,
quia per hoc ut vicaria erga vos dilectione astringi
debeat, invitatis.
Quod superest, charissime ſrater, omnipoteniem
Dominum assidua oratione POSCamus , quatenus cor-
dis nostri gressus in veritatis 8uz tramitem dirigat;
et ut ad ccelestia regaa perducat, nominis officium
protectionis suz gratia operibus nos exhibere con-
cedat. * Mense Augusto, indictione prima.
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