de veris ac falsis Doctoribus.

the divine Augustine original: "Diuus Augustinus" most correctly, by which the foolish, that is, those ignorant of doctrine, ought to be moved so that they may arrive at wisdom. Therefore, we see that both by Augustine himself and by other orthodox authors, very brief Catecheses instructional manuals for beginners have been written to inform those unlearned in the Christian faith, which contain, almost without disputation on either side, only those things that may suffice, not so that you might be able to fully judge and discern true doctrine from false yourself, but so that you might certainly believe with assent and a certain understanding those things which the authority of teachers, and indeed of the Church itself, has rightly persuaded you. When the Sectarii sectarians similarly use this method of teaching the unlearned, briefly and in summary in their own catechisms, are they not by this very fact compelled to admit that, by the authority of teachers, without the judgment and comprehension of doctrine, men can be prudently led to believe? Therefore, the divine Augustine most rightly shows the clarity of the authority that exists in the Church to the unlearned, in order to show the thing upon which they ought to rely in believing, when he makes a certain catechumen a convert under instruction ask in this way: "By what manifest sign," he says, "shall I, still an infant and not yet able to discern the liquid truth from so many errors, Lib. de vti- lit. creden- di. c. 16. Lib. de Ca- techi. ru- dib. cap. 26. Lib. 13. contra Faust. cap. 13.