Quote from Letter 5,32 to Cyprian, deacon. 20 April 595
And so, with al virtue and with all urgency let your Beloved take care to show your zeal in this case towards our almighty God, and to exhibit worthy opposition to His foes with the infliction of punishments, so that you fulfill what has been written: 'Do I not hate them, O Lord, that hate you? I am nog grieved with those who rise up against you?' If therefore your Beloved is inflamed with the zeal, let punishment be shown against those who have abandoned God and harmed Him with their evil deeds. But if you are unable to carry this out correctly therein, men of this sort ought to be sent over to us, provided that it can be shown that they can be convicted there without any difficulty. But because I think that this is impossible, you ought to apply a strict and severe punishment there.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, translated by John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMPS, 2004), II,
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