Et si sanctus erat ac potens virtutibus ille Columba vester, immo et noster si Christi erat, numquid praeferri potuit beatissimo apostolorum principi, cui Dominus ait: Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam, et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversus eam, et tibi dabo claves regni caelorum? Haec perorante Vilfrido, dixit rex: Verene, Colmane, haec illi Petro dicta sunt a Domino? Qui ait: Vere, rex.
And if he your father Columba (yea, and our father if he was Christs) was holy and mighty in works, can he by any means be chosen above the most blessed chief of the apostles, to whom our Lord said: Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, and I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven? When Wilfrid thus concluded the king said: Were these things, Colman, indeed spoken to that Peter of our Lord? And the bishop said: They were indeed, my lord king.
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