2. Whereas, therefore, in every question, which relates to life and conduct, not only teaching, but exhortation also is necessary; in order that by teaching we may know what is to be done, and by exhortation may be incited not to think it irksome to do what we already know is to be done; what more can I teach you, than what we read in the Apostle? For holy Scripture setteth a rule to our teaching, that we dare not “be wise more than it behoveth to be wise;”1    So V. but be wise, as himself saith, “unto soberness, according as unto each God hath allotted the measure of faith.”2    Rom. xii. 3 Be it not therefore for me to teach you any other thing, save to expound to you the words of the Teacher, and to treat of them as the Lord shall have given to me.

2. Cum igitur in omni quaestione quae ad vitam moresque pertinet, non sola doctrina, verum etiam exhortatio sit necessaria; ut doctrina quid agendum sit noverimus, exhortatione autem excitemur, ne pigeat agere quod agendum esse jam novimus: quid ego amplius te doceam, quam id quod apud Apostolum legimus? Sancta enim Scriptura nostrae doctrinae regulam figit, ne audeamus sapere plus quam oportet sapere; sed sapiamus, ut ipse ait, ad temperantiam, sicut unicuique Deus partitus est mensuram fidei (Rom. XII, 3). Non sit ergo mihi aliud te docere, nisi verba tibi doctoris exponere, et de iis quod Dominus dederit disputare.