We have not a mountain to go to the top of it, and to 1behold all the battles of the Churches, as Moses here on the top of an hill beheld the Israelites fighting. We must have knowledge of foreign affairs (as Nehemiah had) by report. If that report be false, how shall we order our prayers? Yet there is commonly such uncertainties in rumours and reports, as fame is said to be an evil thing. For even then when it declares some truth, it is not free from the blame of lying, in that it taketh away from the truth, or addeth thereto, or some way or other altereth it. It is not therefore without cause said, that fame useth to lie.
We have not a mountaine to go to the top of it, and to 1behold all the battels of the Churches, as Moses here on the top of an hill beheld the Israelites fighting. We must have knowledge of forraigne affaires (as Nehemiah had) by report. If that report be false, how shall we order our prayers? Yet there is commonly such uncertainties in rumors and reports, as fame is said to be an evill thing. For even then when it declares some truth, it is not free from the blame of lying, in that it taketh away from the truth, or addeth thereto, or some way or other altereth it. It is not therfore without cause said, that fame useth to lie.
- 1Cur malum fama? quia velox, an quia plurimum mendax? quae ne tune quidem cum aliquid veri affert, sine mendacij vitio est, detrahens, adjiciens, demutans de veritate. Tertul in A polo. get. cap. 8. Solet sama mentiri. Aug. Bonefac. Epist. 106.
