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has this never occurred to your mind ? however pertinacious they were with you, was it not your part, sire, to be all the more pertina- cious in your resistance, for the glory of the Most High, the true and living God, and to refuse them what was inconsistent with the Sacred Law ? Who grudges your giving what you choose to others ? we do not pry into AMBROSE AT FLOREN'CE. 99 your liberality, nor envy the advantages of others : but we are interpreters of your faith. How will you offer your gifts... to Christ ? Emperor though you are, you ought to be, all the more, the servant of (iod. How will the priests of Christ dispense your gifts ? " The letter, as we might expect, had no effect. It was more imi)ortant for Arbogastes to conciliate a party at Rome than to procure the doubtful advantage of the bishop's residence at Milan : he boasted, we are told, to some Frankish chiefs of being the prelate's jntimate acquaintance and dear friend : but this was only because of the exalted idea they entertained of his power ; the wily barbarian had no objection to be thought to stand in amicable relations to one whose friendship was supposed to ensure victory : but he did not want him in the capital.
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