S. AURELII AUGUSTINI HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI IN EPISTOLAM JOANNIS AD PARTHOS TRACTATUS DECEM .
TRACTATUS III. De eo quod sequitur, Pueri, novissima hora est usque ad id, Cap.
TRACTATUS IV. De eo quod sequitur, Et verax est, et non est mendax usque ad id, Cap. et cap.
TRACTATUS V. In id quod sequitur, Omnis qui natus est ex Deo, non facit peccatum usque ad id, Cap.
TRACTATUS VI. In illud, Et in hoc cognoscimus quia ex veritate sumus usque ad id, etc. Cap. et cap.
TRACTATUS VII. Ab eo quod sequitur, Jam vos ex Deo estis filioli usque ad id, Cap.
TRACTATUS VIII. De eo quod sequitur, Si diligamus invicem, Deus in nobis manebit usque ad id, Cap.
TRACTATUS IX. De eo quod sequitur, In hoc perfecta est dilectio in nobis usque ad id, Cap.
13. I suppose the thing is now made manifest to you my brethren: this great and most concerning secret and mystery.297 Sacramentum. What is the force of charity, all Scripture doth set forth; but I know not whether any where it be more largely set forth than in this Epistle. We pray you and beseech you in the Lord, that both what ye have heard ye will keep in memory, and to that which is yet to be said, until the epistle be finished, will come with earnestness, and with earnestness hear the same. But open ye your heart for the good seed: root out the thorns, that that which we are sowing in you be not choked, but rather that the harvest may grow, and that the Husbandman may rejoice and make ready the barn for you as for grain, not the fire as for the chaff.
13. Puto manifestatum esse vobis magnum et necessarium secretum et sacramentum, fratres mei. Quid valeat charitas, omnis Scriptura commendat; sed nescio si alicubi amplius quam in ista Epistola commendetur. Rogamus vos et obsecramus in Domino, ut et illa quae audistis memoria teneatis; et ad ea quae adhuc dicenda sunt, donec finiatur ipsa Epistola, intenti veniatis, intenti audiatis. Aperite autem cor ad semina bona: exstirpate spinas, ne effocetur in vobis quod seminatur, sed potius crescat seges; et gaudeat agricola, et horreum vobis praeparet tanquam frumentis, non ignem tanquam paleis.