Letter 9161: My representatives have given me a very favorable account of your efforts in bringing schismatics back to the unity...
liesponsalium nostrorum relatione compcrimus, quod pro amore unitatis ccclesiae
tantus voB divini zcli ardor accc'nderit, ut, quoscumque valucritis, non desinatis in Binum
matris ccclesiae revocare atquc ut bonus fidelisque famulus lucnim cotidic de accvpto
dono tuo domino redemptori nostro cum* summa mentis intcntione facere non desistasV
£t quidem venientem ad nos, ut potuimus, ex corporalis visuB oHteusione didicimus,
bonum vero, quod ex divina inspiratione in mentis tuac caritatc manebat occultum,
desidcrabilius nunc operis attcstatione ^* cognoscimus. Unde" divinae misericordiae
gratiaB inelfabili laude redderites hortamur dilectionem tuam atque quibus valeraus am-
monitionibus confortamua, ut quantum de accepti talcnti occultatione'' occultantis pocna
pcrturbat, tantum lucrum facientium atquc pcr hoc dc caeleatis regni pcrccptione
laetantium doroinicac vocis invitatio te desidcrabilitcr appetenda corroborct, Scire
< namquo tc convenit, dilectissimc fili, quod fruetus huius qucm apprehcndisti studii ro-
tributionis suae careat fine. Et idcirco pracpedicDtium te nulla, vcl si cst, debct
contrarietas pcrturbarc, quia, quantura ex difficultate causae bonum perBci Domino co-
opcrante valuerit, tanto tibi erit et gloriosior" rctributionis spcs. Extollcntior' □amquc
nascitur ex dcBperationc victoria, quaecumque laboris nimii fuerit adcpta sudoribus.
TiilueritU Ct.3; pirtueritii Vatk. A (ed. M). ') «cismsticiB C2.3. >") aduralioiiB C7; Hdurstiunem C3;
abortatiuue C2, *ed cott. m. 2; amore rel nni. coiii. i/omnweii. ") coutiuua C'2. ") buos C/. '') amplLun
hMailare Vat.A (ed.M). ■») disp. ope C3. ') hoc verb. om., led m. 2 add. C2. •) exiBlel, tU videtur, Cl,
IX, lei. •) om. verba cui
I edd.; ut de eodd. n. ^) ita mc
in excflUentioT eorr. C2.
IX, 161. Moitalo aHas igitoli
JUg. Grio. 11.
-. m HltMt. Cl.2. «) ila H
mCt: gtorioBius C2; glorioKi C
luK «ri,- noWia quidam in Uigtria fiiit
iM adetar. - Cf. ep. IX, 148
,GoogIe
162 GBEGORII I. EEGISTRI
CogDOTimue etiara, quods TheodoBius'' filius noatcr tui' sequax boDlquc cooperator^
etudii pariter tccum in sollicitudine lucrandarum animarum eoUerter invigilet. Cui
omDipotentem Deum interceseione bcati Petri apoatolurum priucipie retributorem citiue
eese confidimue.
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