For this cause, if I come, I will advertise his works which he doth, with malicious words prating against us. And as if these things were not enough for him, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and them that do receive them he forbiddeth, and casteth out of the church.
Glossa Ordinaria
I will admonish. That is, I will bring them into the knowledge of all by reproving them more openly; of which things he has no precedent anywhere, but he does them and devises new ones, prating, using false arguments to refute us and so to draw you back from the faith. Just as we ought not by our own fault to stir up the tongues of detractors, lest they themselves perish, so those stirred up by their own malice we ought to bear with an even mind, that our merit may increase — and sometimes to restrain them, lest while they spread reports about us they corrupt the hearts of those who might have heard good things.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.