# VINCENT LIRINENSIS (5th cent. A.D.) 17

Vincent of Lérins, VINCENT LIRINENSIS (5th cent. A.D.), 17. Latin.

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Suspicatur P. Macedo respexisse Gelasium Pontificem ad hunc Vincentii locum, dum in Epist. ad Episcopos per Picenum constitutos, vocat delirum quemdam senem Pelagianum muscam morituram, quum vulgata lectio, ut ille loquitur, habeat muscae morientes; unde in Comment. Eccl. Polem. cap. XI, infert Lirinensem non fuisse Pelagiana lue infectum. Poterat addere, appellari etiam ranam a Gelasio. «Oblatus est nobis, inquit, miserabilis senex Seneca nomine, in Pelagianae voraginis coeno, sicut de quibusdam in Apocalypsi legimus, velut una ranarum imprudenter immersus. At Gelasio notum fuisse Vincentii opus, non credo: alioquin illi meritum rependisset honorem in recensione librorum, et testimonium illud Eccl. 10, v. 1, de muscis morituris forte legit in Optato Milevitano lib. 7, num. 4, vel Augustino lib. 2 cont. Ep. Petiliani cap. X, ubi ait: «Propter numerositatem muscis arbitror esse comparatos; sed hi exterminant oleum suavitatis, qui non ipsam Dei gratiam, sed hominum mores intuentur.»

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