Your ancestors Patera and Delphidius, of which one taught rhetoric at Rome before I was born, and the other, when I was a youth, elevated all of Gaul with his talent in both prose and verse, were asleep and silent, but now they rebuke me for daring to even mutter a word to their descendant. Yet, perhaps you seek to test me more than you seek my doctrine, and you wish to know what I think about what you have heard from others. And from the farthest boundaries of Gaul you call on me as I am hiding away in the rural part of Bethlehem to respond to a few small questions about Holy Scripture, sending along a little commentary in the hands of a man of God, my son Apodemius-as if you do not have eloquent men in your own province, men who are perfect in the law of God. While I have never seen your face, I know you very well because of the ardor of your faith.
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