Gregory to Honoratus, deacon of Salona. Recognizing those writings, contrary to us, which you and your bishop have directed against us, we grieved, because between you charity recognizes nothing. Nevertheless we command you to administer in the office of your order; and if there, by prevailing grace, the cause of your scandal can be settled, we believe it will have profited your soul greatly. But if discord has so armed its factions among you that your will must remain in the swelling of scandal, do you come without distinction to our hearing, and let your bishop direct on his behalf whatever instructed person he shall have chosen; so that, all things weighed by careful reason, we may be able to determine what shall have seemed right to the parties.
But we wish you to know that we shall strictly require all things of you; because whether it be the treasures of your own church, or those gathered from various churches, they are now kept under all solicitude and fidelity. And if anything of them shall have perished, whether through negligence or through the fraud of anyone, you are bound in this guilt, who by the order of the archdeaconate are the more strictly implicated in the custody of that same church.