Letters355 Letter CCCLV. To the same queen. (Circa A.D. 1142)
Letter CCCLV. To the same queen. (Circa A.D. 1142)
He recommends to her some Religious of Premontre, IK ho were making pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
You see how greatly I presume on your goodness, since I venture to recommend others also to you. However, it would be as unnecessary as presumptuous perhaps for me to say much in commendation of these brethren of Pre montre, for they so commend themselves by their own merit that they have no need to be commended by another person. They will be found, if I mistake not, men of wisdom, fervent in spirit, patient in tribulation, powerful in word and work. They have put on the whole armour of God, and have girded themselves with the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, not against flesh and blood, but against Spiritual wickedness in high places. Receive them as warlike, and yet peaceful: gentle towards men, warlike only towards evil spirits. Rather, I should say, receive in them Christ Himself, who is the cause of their pilgrimage.
Videtis quantum praesumam de vobis, cui audeo et alios commendare. Quanquam Praemonstratenses fratres istos magis fortassis superflue commendarim, quam temerarie. Sunt merito ita commendabiles suo, ut non egeant alieno. Invenientur, nisi fallor, viri consilii, spiritu ferventes, in tribulatione patientes, potentes in opere et sermone. Induerunt se armatura Dei; et gladio spiritus, quod est verbum Dei, sese accinxerunt, non adversus carnem et sanguinem, sed contra spiritualia nequitiae in coelestibus. Suscipite illos, tanquam bellatores pacificos, mansuetos ad homines, violentos ad daemones. Imo Christum in eis suscipite, qui est causa peregrinationis eorum.