Letters20 Letter XX. To HAIMKRIC, THK CHAXCELLOR, ox THE SAME SUBJECT To the illustrious Lord HAIMERIC, Chancellor of the Holy Roman See, Brother BERXARD, of Clairvaux, health and prayers. (Circa A.D. 1127)
Letter XX. To HAIMKRIC, THK CHAXCELLOR, ox THE SAME SUBJECT To the illustrious Lord HAIMERIC, Chancellor of the Holy Roman See, Brother BERXARD, of Clairvaux, health and prayers. (Circa A.D. 1127)
Since I have once begun, permit me to speak to you, even though I shall make myself importunate; but importunate for charity, truth, and justice. For although I am not of sufficient importance to have at Rome business of my own, yet I do not regard any of the affairs of God as things in which I have no concern. Wherefore, if I have with you still the favour which many people suppose, permit me to beg you to forward the deputies of the Lord Archbishop of Rheims in their present business. I am sure that they neither resist for themselves nor ask from another anything but what is just.
Viro illustri domino HAIMERICO sanctae Romanae sedis cancellario, frater BERNARDUS de Clara-Valle, salutem et orationem.
Quia semel coepi, loquar, et loquar ad vos: eroque importunus, sed importunus charitatis, sed veritatis, sed justitiae. Nam etsi tanti non sum, ut Romae habeam propria negotia, nulla tamen quae Dei esse constiterit, a me duco aliena. Quapropter si verae id mihi gratiae apud vos manet quod multorum habet opinio, liceat illud obsecro legatis domini archiepiscopi Remensis in praesenti negotio experiri. Nil quippe eos, nisi quod justum est, perferre vel quaerere suspicamur.