Sed quia, quos ueritatis inimicus et pietatis hostis perturbatione inquietudinis repleuerat, spiritus diuinus aufugerat, et super inquietos ac tumidos idem dei spiritus requiescere non poterat, ut Iudei quondam Stephanum se redarguentem non ferentes duris dissecabantur cordibus et in eum stridebant dentibus, sic sanis reuerendi antistitis consiliis infrementes insanis clamoribus insonant et iam iamque in reuerendum pontificem irruere impetu facto festinant: hastis sabula litorea spargunt, ethera uocibus impetunt et, ne uera peroranti ac utilia persuadenti uulgus adquiescat, incommodis quibusque propositis dissuadendo insistunt.

But those whom the enemy of truth and adversary of piety had filled with frenzy had been abandoned by the Spirit of God; and upon the restless and swollen in spirit that same divine Spirit could not remain. And just as the Jews of old, unable to endure Stephen as he reproved them, were cut to the heart and gnashed their teeth at him, so these men, raging against the sound counsel of the venerable bishop, roared with mad shouts and rushed forward, already eager to fall upon him.

They hurled their spears into the sandy shore, assaulted the air with their cries, and — lest the crowd should heed one who spoke truth and offered sound counsel — opposed him relentlessly, stirring up every kind of hostility to turn the people away from his words.