Scripsi autem haec de persona et operibus viri praefati; nequaquam in eo laudans vel eligens hoc, quod de observatione paschae minus perfecte sapiebat: immo hoc multum detestans, sicut in libro quem de temporibus composui, manifestissime probavi; sed quasi verax historicus, simpliciter ea quae de illo sive per illum sunt gesta, describens, et quae laude sunt digna in eius actibus laudans, atque ad utilitatem legentium memoriae commendans:
Now this much have I written of the person and works of the aforesaid man; by no manner of means choosing out this for commendation in him that he had imperfect understanding of the observation of Easter: nay, rather much abhorring him in this, as I have evidently declared in the book I have written concerning times; but as a true historian setting down in singleness of heart those things which were done of him or through him, and praising those things in his acts which are deserving of praise, and commending them also to be remembered of readers for their profit:
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