Letter 4029: The utility of heavenly counsel is never wasted on those who seek it with a sincere heart.
To the Pope, from Ennodius.
The utility of heavenly counsel is never wasted on those who seek it with a sincere heart. I write to Your Holiness not because I presume to deserve your attention, but because the matter at hand deserves it — and the cause of God can never be brought too often before His chief shepherd on earth. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
XXVIIII. PAPAE ENNODIVS.
Caelestis utilitatem sequacium cura disponit: inauspicata
bene de deo merentibus dona tribuuntur: ingerit superna dispensatio
etiam quod supplicare humanitas non praesumit
agnouerunt aduersarii sedis uestrae quo propugnante uincantur,
quod proxime de Aquileiensi redemptor noster persona reserauit.
et ideo inter excellentia munerum diuinorum peto, ut mei corona
uestra meminisse non abnuat. inuitat enim ad famulandum
plurimos qui quamuis longe positum diligit obsequentem. uale.
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