Perchance, some of Thy servants, my
brethren, may say that I sinned in this, that with a heart fully set
on Thy service, I suffered myself to sit even one hour in the chair of
lies. Nor would I be contentious. But hast not Thou, O most merciful
Lord, pardoned and remitted this sin also, with my other most horrible
and deadly sins, in the holy water?
Verecundus was worn down with care about this our blessedness, for
that being held back by bonds, whereby he was most straitly bound,
he saw that he should be severed from us. For himself was not yet a
Christian, his wife one of the faithful; and yet hereby, more
rigidly than by any other chain, was he let and hindered from the
journey which we had now essayed. For he would not, he said, be a
Christian on any other terms than on those he could not. However, he
offered us courteously to remain at his country-house so long as we
should stay there. Thou, O Lord, shalt reward him in the
resurrection of the just, seeing Thou hast already given him the lot
of the righteous.
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