Note what comes from this present history: first it is obvious that you should not be Judah without Simeon, that is if you wish to be a warlord, obviously a preacher would not be so daring or trusting beyond measure without sacred scripture, because it is impossible that you would not be conquered.Nota, quod ex presenti historia nascitur, primum scilicet: Noli esse Iudas sine Simeone, i. e. si vis esse dux belli, scilicet predicator, non sis audax aut nimium confidens sine sacra scriptura, quia impossibile est quin vincaris.
For the hearing of the gospel is [listening] as if the Lord is at hand, as if we are hearing Christ speaking; in fact what utterance he [the preacher] was making was form the mouth of the Lord, and scripture is on account of us, and was kept for us, and has been recited on account of us, and on account of pastors shall be read aloud, and until the end of the world.Nam euangelium audiendum est, quasi dominum presentem, quasi Christum loquentem audiamus: quod enim pretiosum sonabat de ore Domini, et propter nos scriptum est et nobis servatum et propter nos recitatur et propter pastores recitabitur et donec seculum finiatur.
When two people hear the gospel or the words of the gospel, one impious, the other pious, and are of the sort where they are of very limited intelligence, the first says: "he spoke nonsense," the other says: "he spoke truth and what he says is good, but we are not intelligent, and so on."Cum enim duo audiunt euangelium seu verba euangelii, unus impius, alter pius, et talia sunt, ut forte non intelligant, unus dicit: 'nihil dixit', alter dicit: 'verum dixit et bonum est, quod dixit, sed nos non intelligimus etc.'
A fellow board-member has translated this last for me (but without having seen the context) as: Διὸ λίαν ἀνάγκη ἐστὶ τὸν ὁμολογητὴν ἢ κηρύσσονα ἔχειν καὶ εἰδέναι τὴν ἁγίαν γραφὴν καὶ τὴν αὐτῆς σύνεσιν.Ideo valde necessarium est habere et scire confessorem seu predicatorem sacram scripturam et eius intelligentiam.
For that reason there is an extreme necessity for the confessor or preacher to know the holy scripture and to have his own understanding.