56. ut possit res Dei cum gratiarum actione celebrari, cf. 'Dei res agitur' (supra).
57. John xiv, 27.
58. nam cum ego a milite essem ass .... separatus. In the MS. four letters are wanting. Dom John Chapman suggests that they arc us et ( assus et ), and I have translated this.
59. et in illo venissem. This probably is corrupt. Ziwsa remarks 'Hic locus perobscurus medelam eludere videtur.' The sense seems sufficiently clear. Fortis came to the same pass as Silvanus, and gave up the books. In illo venit. He will not name the deed. Then he begged God's pardon and himself forgave Silvanus.
60. cum iniuria tali. Fortis had been tortured, and at last had given way----so he says----if we are to believe him.
61. et remisi tibi. He then forgave Silvanus, as he himself hoped to be forgiven.
62. eorum, sive a te ad illos perductus sum. This is hopelessly corrupt. We seem to want something, like quomodo, sicut et tu, ad illud perductus sum; and so I have translated it, placing, however, the passage in square brackets.
63. et vos reconciliamini pace, ut . . . possimus cum gaudio pacem celebrare. Pacem, that is the Peace of Easter. It is a play upon words, unless indeed for Pacem we should read Pascha, as below.
64. There is here a lacuna of nine lines, at the end of which doubtless there were the usual introductory words for a new letter: Item alia recitata.
65. lapidarentur. [Cf. n. 7, p. 359.]
66. 1 Cor. vi. 5, 6.
67. vos nunc in iudicio contenditis. Ziwsa reads cum in iudicia non intenditis ----that is 'when you do not give your minds to judgement.'
68. ut cum Pace Pascha celebremus (cf. supra 'cum gaudio Pacem [Pascha (?)] celebrare').
69. dabitis [ operam ] quamplurime, tu possessor Donati Presbyter. It is printed in this way by both Du Pin and Ziwsa. But Possessor must be here the proper name of a Bishop (cf. the famous eighth century African Bishop, whose letter to Pope Hormisdas, about Scythian monks, is well known).
70. singuli.
71. qui omnia scitis actum. Ziwsa reads acta for actum.
72. date operam. Date takes up dabitis above----an anacoluthon.
73. fratri Silvano Sabinus. These words are not found in Ziwsa, nor are they in the MS. They were added by Baluzius, who writes 'certa est haec restitutio.' He says that Sabinus was a Numidian Bishop.
74. The MS. has a play upon words, ad fratrem nostrum Fortem, fortem et gravem querelam referens. Ziwsa, however, (following Deutsch) omits the second fortem.
75. Gravitati tuae.
76. Si enim aedificium terrae structum sit, non additur quid caeleste, quod per manum sacerdotis aedificatur?
77. 1 Cor. i, 19.
78. John iii, 19.
79. sicuti et tu facis.
80. Cf. Is. i, 16, 18.