Into this also had I fallen, but Thy
right hand upheld me, and took me thence, and Thou placedst me where I
might recover. For Thou hast said unto man, Behold, the fear of the
Lord is wisdom, and, Desire not to seem wise; because they who
affirmed themselves to be wise, became fools. But I had now found
the goodly pearl, which, selling all that I had, I ought to have
bought, and I hesitated.
To Simplicianus then I went, the father of Ambrose (a Bishop now) in
receiving Thy grace, and whom Ambrose truly loved as a father. To
him I related the mazes of my wanderings. But when I mentioned that
I had read certain books of the Platonists, which Victorinus, sometime
Rhetoric Professor of Rome (who had died a Christian, as I had heard),
had translated into Latin, he testified his joy that I had not
fallen upon the writings of other philosophers, full of fallacies
and deceits, after the rudiments of this world, whereas the Platonists
many ways led to the belief in God and His Word. Then to exhort me
to the humility of Christ, hidden from the wise, and revealed to
little ones, he spoke of Victorinus himself, whom while at Rome he had
most intimately known: and of him he related what I will not
conceal.
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