Against the Donatists · Appendix 2. The trial before Zenophilus13

1'Were the people of God there?'

2Saturninus said:

3'They were shut up in the big shed.'

4Zenophilus said:

5'Is it certain that everything which Nundinarius says is true?'

6Saturninus said:

7'It is all true.'

8Zenophilus said:

9'And what do you say?'

10Victor said:

11'All is true, my Lord.'

12Nundinarius said:

13'Purpurius the Bishop took away a hundred pieces of money.'

14Zenophilus said to Nundinarius:

15'Of whom in your opinion ought we to ask questions about the four hundred pieces of money?'

16Nundinarius said:

17'Let Lucianus the Deacon be brought forward, for he knows everything.' |374

18Zenophilus said to Nundinarius:

19'Do these men know about it?'

20Nundinarius said:

21'No.'

22Zenophilus said:

23'Let Lucianus be brought forward.'

24Nundinarius said:

25'They do know that the four hundred pieces of silver were received, but they do not know that the Bishops shared them.'