Quote from Letter 6,63 to Maurice Tiberius Augustus. August 596
I beseech the Christianity of your Lordship, that, for the sake of the salvation of your soul and for the lofe of your most pious son, you issue a strict order, commanding that those whom you find out to be of this sort [the Donatists], shoul dbe punished.
With a removing hand you should prevent the ruin of those who are perishing, and apply the medicine of correction to insane minds, and cure them of their diseases of error.
Thus, when the gloom of ruinous depravity has been driven away by the remedy of your pious precaution, let true faith spread the rays of our Redeemer. For those who you defend externally against the enemy, you free also internally from the poison of the devil's deceit, which is a more glorious achievement.
I beseech the Christianity of your Lordship, that, for the sake of the salvation of your soul and for the lofe of your most pious son, you issue a strict order, commanding that those whom you find out to be of this sort [the Donatists], shoul dbe punished.
With a removing hand you should prevent the ruin of those who are perishing, and apply the medicine of correction to insane minds, and cure them of their diseases of error.
Thus, when the gloom of ruinous depravity has been driven away by the remedy of your pious precaution, let true faith spread the rays of our Redeemer. For those who you defend externally against the enemy, you free also internally from the poison of the devil's deceit, which is a more glorious achievement.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 448
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