Golden Epistles of the Ancient Christians

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...Isidore often very earnestly punished hypocrisy and other sins, for which reason the pious jurist Konrad Rittershusen Cunradus Rittershusius (1560–1613) was a German scholar known for editing classical and patristic texts held them in such high regard and published a portion of them. He is also rightly to be placed among the witnesses of the truth original: "Zeugen der Wahrheit"; a term used by historians like Matthias Flacius Illyricus to identify figures throughout history who supposedly upheld the true Gospel against Roman Catholic "corruption" because he was very zealous for what is good, although he did so mostly according to the Law The author suggests Isidore's focus was more on moral rules (the Law) than on the inner spiritual freedom of the Gospel: as a discerning original: "cordater"; from the Latin 'cordatus', meaning wise or prudent reader will notice when he takes these few excerpts original: "excerpta" to heart. However, as to whether he attained the living and full knowledge of Jesus Christ in power, only a few traces are found in these letters; the rest is mostly mixed with human erudition.

LXXV. to LXXIX.

Gregory the Great original: "Gregorius M." (Magnus); Pope Gregory I (c. 540–604 AD), one of the four Great Latin Fathers left behind a great many letters among his other writings. Most are filled with external and worldly affairs, or even with the superstition with which those times were already heavily infected. However, the few that are included here must not be considered unedifying. If this good man had not been too distracted by the extensive nature of external governance, which was already leaning heavily toward the Papal monarchy, one might perhaps have had more from him. As it is, however, one must be satisfied that this much good still remained in the Church at that time.

LXXX.

Now we come more and more into the sorrowful times of decline, as it continued to increase. Therefore, it is no wonder that so little edifying material is to be found in such writings