No sooner had I reached the city, therefore, than I went forthwith to the legate; to him I submitted my book for examination and judgment, declaring that if I had written anything repugnant to the Catholic faith, I was quite ready to correct it or otherwise to make satisfactory amends.

The legate directed me to refer my book to the archbishop and to those same two rivals of mine, to the end that my accusers might also be my judges.

So in my case was fulfilled the saying: "Even our enemies are our judges" (Deut.

Xxxii, 31).
These three, then, took my book and pawed it over and examined it minutely, but could find nothing therein which they dared to use as the basis for a public accusation against me.

Accordingly they put off the condemnation of the book until the close of the council, despite their eagerness to bring it about.