SANCTI HILARII LIBER DE SYNODIS, SEU DE FIDE ORIENTALIUM.
41. Ut essentiae nomine, ita sunt unum essentiae genere. 0513C
58. Filius ex Dei substantia, non ut creaturae ex voluntate. 0520C
71. Et pie dici potest, et pie taceri. ---Non est, 0527B
78. Orientalium laus ob haeresim coercitam. ---O 0530C 0531A 0531B
82. Quo sensu judicio communi damnetur. ---Sed 0535A
83. Quod pie a Nicaena synodo susceptum, non debeat 0535B improbari. 0535C
6. Now I beseech you by the mercy of the Lord, that as I will in this letter according to your desire write to you of divine things and of the witness of a pure conscience to our faith, no one will think to judge me by the beginning of my letter before he has read the conclusion of my argument. For it is unfair before the complete argument has been grasped, to conceive a prejudice on account of initial statements, the reason of which is yet unknown, since it is not with imperfect statements before us that we must make a decision for the sake of investigation, but on the conclusion for the sake of knowledge. I have some fear, not about you, as God is witness of my heart, but about some who in their own esteem are very cautious and prudent but do not understand the blessed apostle’s precept not to think of themselves more highly than they ought3 Rom. xii. 3.: for I am afraid that they are unwilling to know all those facts, the complete account of which I will offer at the end, and at the same time they avoid drawing the true conclusion from the aforesaid facts. But whoever takes up these lines to read and examine them has only to be consistently patient with me and with himself and peruse the whole to its completion. Perchance all this assertion of my faith will result in those who conceal their heresy being unable to practise the deception they wish, and in true Catholics attaining the object which they desire.
6. Qua conditione debeat legi. Operis utilitas.---Oro autem vos per Domini misericordiam, ut quia mihi ad vos de divinis, ut 462 voluistis, rebus et de fidei nostrae intemerata conscientia erit per has litteras sermo, ne quisquam de me ante sermonis consummationem per litterarum exordia existimet judicandum. Iniquum est enim, non comperta usque ad finem ratione dictorum, praejudicatam sententiam ex initiis quorum causa adhuc ignoretur afferre: cum non de 0484B inchoatis ad cognoscendum, sed de absolutis ad cognitionem sit judicandum. Est enim mihi non de vobis, ut Dominus sensui meo conscius est, sed de quibusdam nimium apud se cautis et prudentibus metus, non intelligentibus per beatum Apostolum sibi, ne supersaperent, praeceptum (Rom. XII, 3): quos vereor nolle omnia ea, quorum absolutio a me in consummatione erit praestanda, cognoscere, dum verum intelligi ex iis quae absolventur evitant. Sed quisque haec legenda et cognoscenda susceperit, modum sibi atque mihi patientiae fidelis indulgeat, et usque ad absolutionem universa percenseat. Forte enim omnis hic fidei meae sermo praestabit, ut neque furtivi haeretici quod volunt fallant, et perfecti catholici quod desiderant consequantur.