itted. Therefore not every blackening of a good name is backbiting. On the contrary, It is written ( Eccles. 10:11 ): "If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth." I answer that, Just as one man injures another by deed in two ways---openly, as by robbery o…

, quam sua in publico proferre; quorum scientiam Salomon serpenti in abscondito mordenti comparavit (Eccl. X, 11) . Vestra vero nulli contemnenda auctoritas nostrae devotioni mandavit, contra novas haereticae pravitatis inventiones aliquid scribere atque libello respondere, quem…