23.2
For, because of me, a thing that redounds to his merit and my judgement, he did not disdain to approach the native land which he had contemned, nor did he flee the toil of so long a journey, especially grievous as it was to him because of the many infirmities that had so long afflicted him. And even in those years, when I was too close a friend of the world and obstinate toward God, as an honest seducer he turned me with his gentle hand to the love of Christ.
(trans. Deferrari 1952: 381, altered by J. Szafranowski)