Cumque viderent pontificem celebratis in ecclesia missarum sollemniis, eucharistiam populo dare, dicebant, ut vulgo fertur, ad eum barbara inflati stultitia: Quare non et nobis porrigis panem nitidum, quem et patri nostro Saba, sic namque eum appellare consuerant, dabas, et populo adhuc dare in ecclesia non desistis? Quibus ille respondebat:
These princes, when they saw the bishop, after he had celebrated the solemnities of the mass in the church, give the people the sacrament, being puffed up with barbarous and rude folly, would say (as the common report is), Why dost thou not offer us also the white bread which thou didst both give to our father Saba (for so they were wont to call him) and which thou dost not yet cease to give the people in the church? To whom he answered:
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