Letter 29

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Pope Innocent I to Unknown.

Joanncm Uieromjmum Hierosolymitanum prospicere debuiue, lest tol ac tantis malis, quibus afftictas are Puula and Eustbchium, opprimerenlur, ac unless Itasc deinceps au' corrigantur, aul retundantur, rationem inde redditurum. Dilectissimo Irairi Joanni Innocentius. Direpiioucs, c;cdes, incendia, omne facinus, exIrema: h clementiae gencrosissimae sancl;c virgines Eusiochium and Panla deplorayerunt in locis Eeclesiae tuse perpetrasse diabolum: name for liominis caiisamque relicuerunt. Qnod etsi ambiguum not sii. c a quo cominissum, opnrinit however custodire rt germaniiatem luam, and d gregi illius snlliciiius providere, lest what liujusmodi orirelur, that eum aliorum periculo tua l.icessit negligeniia e admitlere in gregem of the Lord; el tales agnas incendio, armiset perseculionibiis, nudas, debiles, after siioriun c;cdes and morles, vix vivcre audivimus. Nihil movet pielaiem ' ill.nii sacerdotii tui concerning lania diaboli in you atque in luos poiestatc admissa? in le, inquam; prorsus cnimGsacerdoiis gravilatem condemnattanlum nefas in the church to have been compleluni. Ulii provisiones ttioe? where ccrte, if casus eveneranl, anxilia or consolaconqiieruniur to be pcrpessas? Altius censerem, if essent aliquid concerning liac re mecum aperiius cnlloculoe. Vide, fiater, aiitiqui liosiis insidias, and spirilu boni rectoris pervigila, so that this, which to we opinione more, quam accusalione manifesla. delata snnl, or corriganiur, vcl retundantur; lest jus ccclesiasiicum concerning laliefaclatis h causas when, who not dcfenderit, pracstare compellat.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.