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E05093: Paulinus of Nola, writing in Latin in c.397 in Nola (southern Italy), refers to the Life of *Martin (ascetic and bishop of Tours, ob. 397, S00050) which its author, Sulpicus Severus, had recently sent him.
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posted on 2018-02-19, 00:00 authored by francesPaulinus of Nola, Letter 11.11
Te uero uicta lege membrorum et exteriore corrupto puram conspersionem parare et sine fermento azymum Christo confici eloquia tua tam facunda quam casta testantur. neque enim tibi donatum fuisset enarrare Martinum, nisi dignum os tuum sacris laudibus mundo corde fecisses. benedictus igitur tu homo domino, qui tanti sacerdotis et manifestissimi confessoris historiam tam digno sermone quam iusto affectu percensuisti. beatus et ille pro meritis, qui dignum fide et uita sua meruit historicum, qui et ad diuinam gloriam suis meritis et ad humanam memoriam tuis litteris consecratur. haec quoque uerba tua uellera sunt et dominum Iesum gratissimo tegmine cooperiunt, cuius --- supellectili pulchra ambiunt et ingenii tui floribus comunt. uestiet ille te uicissim agnus de suo uellere in retributionis die, mortale tuum de sua inmortalitate superinduens.
'But your words, as eloquent as they are chaste, bear witness that you have conquered the law of the members and the outer corrupt man, that you are preparing a pure paste, and that unleavened bed without yeast is being got ready for Christ. You would not have been privileged to tell of Martin if you had not made your mouth worthy of such sacred praise by means of a pure heart. So you are a man blessed before the Lord, since you have recounted, in language as apposite as your life is righteous, the history of this great priest who is most clearly a Confessor of the Church. He, too, is blessed as he deserves, for he has merited an historian worthy of his faith and life, he is destined for heavenly glory by his merits, and for fame amongst men by your writing. And these words of yours are your fleece, helping to cover with most welcome garment our Lord Jesus, whose limbs they cover with fine adornment, and they deck out with the bloom of your talent. The Lamb will in his turn clothe you with his fleece on the day of retribution, investing your mortal frame with his own immortality.'
Text: Hartel 1999. Translation: Walsh 1967.
Te uero uicta lege membrorum et exteriore corrupto puram conspersionem parare et sine fermento azymum Christo confici eloquia tua tam facunda quam casta testantur. neque enim tibi donatum fuisset enarrare Martinum, nisi dignum os tuum sacris laudibus mundo corde fecisses. benedictus igitur tu homo domino, qui tanti sacerdotis et manifestissimi confessoris historiam tam digno sermone quam iusto affectu percensuisti. beatus et ille pro meritis, qui dignum fide et uita sua meruit historicum, qui et ad diuinam gloriam suis meritis et ad humanam memoriam tuis litteris consecratur. haec quoque uerba tua uellera sunt et dominum Iesum gratissimo tegmine cooperiunt, cuius --- supellectili pulchra ambiunt et ingenii tui floribus comunt. uestiet ille te uicissim agnus de suo uellere in retributionis die, mortale tuum de sua inmortalitate superinduens.
'But your words, as eloquent as they are chaste, bear witness that you have conquered the law of the members and the outer corrupt man, that you are preparing a pure paste, and that unleavened bed without yeast is being got ready for Christ. You would not have been privileged to tell of Martin if you had not made your mouth worthy of such sacred praise by means of a pure heart. So you are a man blessed before the Lord, since you have recounted, in language as apposite as your life is righteous, the history of this great priest who is most clearly a Confessor of the Church. He, too, is blessed as he deserves, for he has merited an historian worthy of his faith and life, he is destined for heavenly glory by his merits, and for fame amongst men by your writing. And these words of yours are your fleece, helping to cover with most welcome garment our Lord Jesus, whose limbs they cover with fine adornment, and they deck out with the bloom of your talent. The Lamb will in his turn clothe you with his fleece on the day of retribution, investing your mortal frame with his own immortality.'
Text: Hartel 1999. Translation: Walsh 1967.
History
Evidence ID
E05093Saint Name
Martin, ascetic and bishop of Tours, ob. 397 : S00050Saint Name in Source
MartinusRelated Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - LettersLanguage
- Latin
