[9]--Charityoperates in some persons so as to carry them almost entirely out ofthemselves. Heretics join Jesus Christ with what is defiled, giving a deadly poison in a mixture of wine and honey which they who take, drink with pleasure their own death without knowing it. Seefragments of his life compiled by Dynamius, extant in Bollandus, withten preliminary observations. This holydoctor of Spain died about the year 596, on the 27th of February, asMabillon proves from his epitaph.
He was married before he was ordained bishop;but lived continent from that time, as the laws of the church required. Our saint invested with that sacred character, returnedto his flock, and settled the churches which he had founded in goodorder: then leaving them to the care of St. Hejustifies against his cavils the history of the Tower of Babel: and inhis fifth book, the Ten Commandments; showin In his last sickness he still continued to offer dailythe holy sacrifice as long as he was able to move.
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