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In hac tranquillitate et domini servitute heretica in his provinciis exorta tempestas cuncta turbavit et in tantam rabiem concitata est, ut nec sibi nec ulli bonorum parceret. Et quasi parum esset hic universa movisse, navem plenam blasphemiarum Romano intulit portui invenitque protinus patella operculum et Romanae fidei purissimum fontem lutosa caeno permiscuere vestigia. Nec mirum, si in plateis et in foro rerum venalium pictus ariolus stultorum verberet nates et obtorto fuste dentes mordentium quatiat, cum venenata spurcaque doctrina Romae invenerit, quos induceret. Tunc librorum περὶ ἀρχῶν infamis interpretatio, tunc discipulus ὄλβιος vere nominis sui, si in talem magistrum non inpegisset, tunc nostrorum διάπυρος contradictio et Pharisaeorum turbata schola. Tunc sancta Marcella, quae diu coniverat, ne per aemulationem quippiam facere crederetur, postquam sensit fidem apostolico ore laudatam in plerisque violari, ita ut sacerdotes
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quoque nonnullos monachorum maximeque saeculi homines in adsensum sui traheret hereticus ae simplicitati inluderet episcopi, qui de suo ingenio ceteros aestimabat, publice restitit malens Deo placere quam hominibus.
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