4. But though many may heap up teachers according to their desires, and banish sound doctrine, yet from the company of the Saints the preaching of truth can never be exiled. From our exile we shall speak by these our writings, and the Word of God which cannot be bound will run unhindered, warning us of this time which the Apostle prophesied. For when men shew themselves impatient of the true message, and heap up teachers according to their own human desires, we can no longer doubt about the times, but know that while the preachers of sound doctrine are banished591    Reading “exsulantibus” with the Benedictine Edition (Paris, 1693); Migne (Paris, 1844), “exultantibus.” truth is banished too. We do not complain of the times: we rejoice rather, that iniquity has revealed itself in this our exile, when, unable to endure the truth, it banishes the preachers of sound doctrine, that it may heap up for itself teachers after its own desires. We glory in our exile, and rejoice in the Lord that in our person the Apostle’s prophecy should be fulfilled.

4. Hilarius in exsilio liber ac laetus.---Sed licet nunc a multis, coacervantibus sibi secundum desideria sua magistros, sana doctrina exsulet; non tamen a sanctis quibusque praedicationis veritas exsulabit. Loquemur enim exsules per hos libros, et sermo Dei, qui vinciri non potest, liber excurret, de hoc eodem apostolicae prophetiae admonens tempore: ut cum auditus veritatis impatiens deprehenditur, et secundum desideria humana coacervati magistri reperiuntur, 0346C jam de tempore non ambigatur; sed in eo coexsulare, exsultantibus sanae fidei praedicatoribus, veritas intelligatur. Ac de temporibus non queremur: quin etiam gaudebimus, quia iniquitas se per hoc exsilii nostri tempus ostenderit, quo veritatis impatiens sanae doctrinae praedicatores, ut secundum desideria sua coacervet sibi magistros, relegat: exsilio nostro laetantes et exsultantes in Domino, constitisse in nobis plenitudinem apostolicae prophetiae.