Letter 116: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...
Where it is the concern of charity to keep the commandments, even if something should happen that could move anyone's spirit, nevertheless, so that those things which we have spoken of previously regarding the practice of concord may be properly guarded, such things ought to be calmly passed over; because surely, if anything of this kind should arise from ignorance, it can receive its excuse from that very simplicity.
Our God has established his Church by his own ordinance, and what is known to have been arranged by divine precepts can in no way be disregarded, and it is not fitting for you to be ignorant of the knowledge or understanding of these things. In doing [what is right, you must follow the established order]...
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Latin / Greek Original
^^' l^^j^c Hormisdae papae ad Dorotheum Thessalonicensem episeopuin.
Litteris Dorothei quum deprehendisset , eum ita pacii esse studiosum, ut Umen
humanis adhuc rationihus duceretur, eum hortatur, ut omni timore ac vano studio
ahjecto avitam fidem integram servare laboret,
Dilectissimo f ratri Dorotheo episcopo Hormisda^)
episcopus.
1. Ubi caritatis interest semare praecepta, etiamsi aliquid tale
eveniat quod cujuslibet possit animos commovere, tamen nt ea quae^
concordiae conversatione praediximus debeant custodiri, oportet
aequanimiter praetermitti; quia utique si quid ignorantia tale pro-
veniat, excusationem potest de ipsa simplicitate recipere. Suam Deus
noster Ecclesiam propria ordiuatione constituit, et') quod divinis
praeceptis noscitur esse dispositum, nullatenus poterit praeteriri,
cujus notitiam vel scientiam te non convenit^) ignorare. In faciendo
<) Ita G* a*. b cc emendanmt sub conservatione , et conBentit quod ad cal-
ccm epistolae sequentis Bubjicitur: hoc quod a patribus nostris accephmiu conscr
vantes,
') Magis placeret quae de concordiae conservatione. Mox post opartel
nimiter praetermitti, subintellige scrupulum ilhany quo timeret alicigiis i
commovere. Oportet enim, ut apertius epist. 9 n. 3 idem papa docet, M imter-
est fidei, quidquid ad gratiam hujus saeculi pertinet respuatur,
') In vulgatis ut quod; orationis series postulat et quod, £t freqQaia quh
dem in veteribus libris mutatio particulao et in ut, et vicissim. '
EPISTOLAE 4 — 6. 747
Eoque bona laudamur^ et tunc yerborum culius omatur^ quando (a. 515.)
i conyenientia rite conjungii
2. Litteras siquidem per Patricium filium nostrum spectabUem
om tuae suscepimus caritatis^ in quibus speramus^) opus plenum
probabile reperire^ ut nihil esset quod ab integritate unitatis
emeret. Sed quia in his ipsis hunc promittis affectum^ qui nos
hoc quod praediximus possit specialiter provocare^ Domino nostro
^ces effiindimuS; ut ipse cujus et causa tractatur^ abstersis yel
putatis universis scandalis ex ®) Ecclesia sua, sub uno consensu et
"ili faciat fide connexos: nec in sacerdotibus suis quidquam re-
iri patiatur^ quod^) cujuslibet aut odiis propriis aut inanibus in-
iionibuS; aut hominibus in injuriam Dei^ quod nefas est^ yelle
cere^ et non magis universa secundum beatum apostolum saecu-
a contemnentem a spe non possit exorbitare futura. Hortor
pter commune remedium, invito pro salute fidelium, propter gene-
m suadeo medicinam. Quis namque contentus est hos videre
M>s, quonnn potest unitate gloriari? Unde opus est labore com-
i^ ut hoc; quod a patribus nostris accepimuS; conservantes se-
®) in illo possimus divino adstare judicio.
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