To Florus 2.2

And since we suffer the loss of raising a trophy for the churches’ salvation—a trophy that discerning judges would have awarded our just cause with remarkable support—at least the crowd’s approval should have no further power to insult us. Of the two groups I have mentioned, one would then help us and the other do us no harm, if the first possessed authority or the second a sense of shame. But affairs are deeply confused, and fools are very numerous. The church is being robbed of reason’s steering gear so that popular doctrine can sail on with its horn held high.