Talk:Athanasius of Naples

Regarding: 23:31, 8 January 2019‎ 128.138.65.219 (talk)‎ . . (3,351 bytes) -156‎ . . (Removed the quote from Engreen to avoid ambiguity. See Talk.)

This article quotes a Latin phrase but does not translate it or provide a meaning or motivation that explains why the quote is in the article.

In the context of this article, this line of untranslated Latin, quoted from Engreen [1] (also untranslated), perhaps implies the erroneous translation, "God does not love those who allow perfidy." The full quote, however, from a transcription of the original source [2], is "Probatur igitur germanus tuus non diligere deum, qui mandata eius, participando cum perfidis, non custodit."; which could be more accurately translated as, "Your brother is proven therefore not to love God, who, sharing with infidels, does not keep His commandments." The 'brother' in this case is Athanasius' brother Sergius II who, while Duke of Naples, maintained friendly relations with the Aghlabid Arabs [3], and was later deposed [4]. The 'commandments' reference the original letter's quotation of John 8:47 and John 8:51.

I simply propose that the line be struck until it is unambiguously re-cast with information from a reliable source, including a translation.

[1] Engreen, Fred E. "Pope John the Eighth and the Arabs." Speculum, Vol. 20, No. 3. (Jul., 1945), pp. 318–330. [2] Epistolae decretales summorum pontificum. Ferrarius. 1591. p. 290. [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergius_II_of_Naples [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius_of_Naples