The cross-references, in the comments below, are left untranslated. They are mainly citations of other passages in the _Decretum_ itself. Such references as XVI. quaest III. nemo are to be read, Case XVI, question III, in the section beginning _Nemo_; XLVIII dist. sit rector means Distinction XLVIII, in the section beginning _Sit rector_. Several of the references in this selection are incorrect. The gloss on this page belongs to the first line of text on page 60. It forms, with the Summaries on later pages, a complete analysis of the text. It indicates, first, the five subdivisions of the _distinctio_; second, its general purport. Later summaries analyze small portions of the text. (Cf. the description of the lecture by Odofredus, p. 111.) This division is divided into five sections; the second begins: "Then why ..." (p. 68); the third begins: "The report has come to as" (p. 74); the fourth begins: "Christians are forbidden" (p. 75); the fifth begins: "As therefore is evident" (p. 75). John of Fa.[A] Summary. Here follows the thirty-seventh division in which the question is asked whether it is fitting that the clergy be made acquainted with profane literature, that is, the books of the heathen. And first he proves that they should not be read (as far as "But on the other hand," p. 64). Then he proves the opposite and afterwards gives the solution (to "Then why," p. 68). The first two chapters are plain. [SHALL PRIESTS BE ACQUAINTED WITH PROFANE LITERATURE, OR NO?] =But the question (_h_) is asked whether these men should be made acquainted with profane literature.= Here is what is written upon the matter in the fourth Carthaginian Council: =A Bishop should not read the books of the (_i_) heathen.= A bishop should not read the books of the heathen: those of heretics he may read carefully, either of necessity (_k_) or for some special reason. So Jerome to Pope Damasus on the prodigal son: =Priests are blameworthy who, to the neglect of the Gospels, read comedies.= We see priests of God, to the neglect of the Gospels and the Prophets, reading comedies, singing the Amatory words of bucolic verses, keeping Vergil in their hands, and making that which occurs with boys as a necessity (_k_) ground for accusation against themselves because they do it for pleasure. Idem: =They walk in the vanity and darkness of the senses who occupy themselves with profane learning.[B]=