Paraphrasis in Dionysium Areopagitam

public assemblies were held every day. And the mourners would cease, and they would watch, and they would spend those joyful days in feasting. Now the Hilaria Days of Joy is a Roman festival specific to the honor of their mother of the gods. Since "today" is always present, the discourse implies that one should always admonish the one who is not good. Some, therefore, ignorantly say the opposite, using the apostolic statement that says, "A man who is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject," not understanding the power of what was said, which is clarified most clearly by the following statements. For the rejection after the first and second admonition is irrational when the teacher proceeds to the rejection, knowing that such a person is perverted and is secretly self-condemned; for it is clear that the condition of those approaching is revealed to the holy teachers. Others have understood "after the first and second admonition" as meaning "after the teaching from the Old and New Testaments." Thus, he says Carpus was grieved because of the one led astray by another, and it was necessary to provide for both and, by admonishing, to always lead them to the divine knowledge, as both the one who was led astray and the one who led astray were already about to be judged for the disputes for which, perhaps, the one was led astray and the other was led astray—not that the dispute was the cause of the one being led astray and the other being led astray, but the cause of both the one who led astray having gone on to lead astray, and the one who was led astray having accepted the things of the error, was a certain dispute which the one later led astray had with someone. Since he could not silence the other's boldness, he inclined toward the error; for this is what the following [text] also signifies, and that those who are irrationally bold are compelled to be sober—that is, those unjust ones because of whom the one led astray gave himself over to the error...