Tunc ait Aedan, nam et ipse concilio intererat, ad eum de quo agebatur sacerdotem: Videtur mihi, frater, quia durior iusto indoctis auditoribus fuisti, et non eis iuxta apostolicam disciplinam primo lac doctrinae mollioris porrexisti, donec paulatim enutriti verbo Dei, ad capienda perfectoria et ad facienda sublimiora Dei praecepta sufficerent.
Then Aidan (for he also was himself present at the council) saith unto the priest whose case was in question: Methinketh, brother, that you have been more rigorous than reason would have with unlearned hearers, and that you have not, according to the apostles instruction, first given them the milk of milder doctrine, until by little and little, nourished with the word of God, they were able to receive the more perfect things and fulfil the higher commandments of God.
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