Primo in loco beatissimi sacerdotes praebuerunt adversariis copiam disputandi, quae sola nuditate verborum, diu inaniter et aures occupavit et tempora: deinde antistites venerandi, torrentes eloquii sui cum apostolicis et evangelicis imbribus profuderunt: miscebatur sermo proprius cum divino, et adsertiones molestissimas lectionum testimonia sequebantur: convincitur vanitas, perfidia confutatur; ita ut ad singulas verborum obiectiones errare se, dum respondere nequiit, fateretur: populus arbiter vix manus continet, iudicium tamen clamore testatur.
First of all the blessed bishops gave their adversaries leave to speak, which for long time vainly occupied both the time and ears of the people with nought but naked words: after, the venerable bishops poured out the streams of their own eloquence with speech of apostles and evangelists like showers of rain: they joined with their own words the words of God, and after the grievous assault of their own declarations they read the witness of others upon the same: the vanity of heretics is convicted, unbelief is confuted; so that at every objection they were forced to confess their error, not being able to answer them: the people that was umpire had much to do to keep their hands from them, yet shewed their judgment by their shouting.
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