57. [XXXII.]—Fraudulent Practices Pursued by Pelagius in His Report of the Proceedings in Palestine, in the Paper Wherein He Defended Himself to Augustin.
There is yet another point which I must not pass over in silence. In the paper containing his defence which he sent to me by a friend of ours, one Charus, a citizen of Hippo, but a deacon in the Eastern Church, he has made a statement which is different from what is contained in the Proceedings of the Bishops. Now, these Proceedings, as regards their contents, are of a higher and firmer tone, and more straightforward in defending the catholic verity in opposition to this heretical pestilence. For, when I read this paper of his, previous to receiving a copy of the Proceedings, I was not aware that he had made use of those words which he had used at the trial, when he was present for himself; they are few, and there is not much discrepancy, and they do not occasion me much anxiety.
CAPUT XXXII.
57. Est et aliud quod silere non debeo. In chartula defensionis suae, quam mihi per quemdam Charum nostrum Hipponensem civem, orientalem autem diaconum, misit, fecit aliquid, quod aliter se habeat, quam gestis episcopalibus continetur. Quod autem habent gesta, longe melius est ac firmius, et omnino enodatius pro catholica veritate contra illius haeresis pestem. Nam, cum eamdem chartulam legerem, priusquam ad nos gesta venissent, nesciebam ea ipsa verba posuisse, quibus, cum sibi adesset, usus est in judicio: pauca enim, et non multum aliter se habent, de quibus non nimis curo.