" But he, not containing himself for joy, went
with him. And having been admitted to the first Sacrament and become a
Catechumen, not long after he further gave in his name, that he
might be regenerated by baptism, Rome wondering, the Church rejoicing.
The proud saw, and were wroth; they gnashed with their teeth, and
melted away. But the Lord God was the hope of Thy servant, and he
regarded not vanities and lying madness.
To conclude, when the hour was come for making profession of his
faith (which at Rome they, who are about to approach to Thy grace,
deliver, from an elevated place, in the sight of all the faithful,
in a set form of words committed to memory), the presbyters, he
said, offered Victorinus (as was done to such as seemed likely through
bashfulness to be alarmed) to make his profession more privately:
but he chose rather to profess his salvation in the presence of the
holy multitude. "For it was not salvation that he taught in
rhetoric, and yet that he had publicly professed: how much less then
ought he, when pronouncing Thy word, to dread Thy meek flock, who,
when delivering his own words, had not feared a mad multitude!"
When, then, he went up to make his profession, all, as they knew
him, whispered his name one to another with the voice of
congratulation.
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