Complete Works of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Volume 3

V. referring to Pope Nicholas V and the happiness of BENEDICT XIV, as it pertains to the glory of letters, I suspect and admire. You will also grant pardon, if I now pray and beseech YOUR HOLINESS, that in this Edition, to which I have certainly contributed all the study that could be desired by the Librarian of the S. R. E. Holy Roman Church, and sometimes even my own money, so that the labors of learned men may be remunerated by the offices of Pontifical beneficence, from which it may be clear that there is nothing that the most auspicious literature currently lacks from those times of Nicholas V. A very rare and most illustrious example, which you exhibit to the eyes of all, MOST BLESSED FATHER, who, even among Pontifical cares, continue to enrich with new additions every day the most wise Volumes already composed by You concerning Beatification and Canonization—which even the Heterodox themselves receive with great applause, as the Leipzig Journals original: "Ephemerides Lipsienses" bear witness—and having thus increased them, you decorate the Paduan types original: "Patavinos typos" with them; your example of this kind, I say, brings not only the curators of the Edition of S. Ephrem Saint Ephrem, but also as many as are occupied in Rome or elsewhere in publishing learned books, to the greatest hope that, with you as Pontiff, BENEDICT XIV, nothing will be lacking for their comforts and ornaments. And if they truly attain this, all good men augur that it can easily happen that in these times also, the yield of illustrious talents may be seen at Rome, from whose celebrity of name honor and grace accrue to the Apostolic See, and that splendor of the Roman Court comes about, which, as those same good men understand, borrowed only from doctrine and piety, becomes it.