Letter 1012: [Bishop Avitus to the Bishop of Jerusalem.

[Avitus the bishop to the pope of Jerusalem.] The lord King Gundobad to Avitus, bishop of Vienne. Concerning a prophetic reading I have judged that your Holiness should be consulted, a copy of which reading I have appended below. And therefore, whether these times have now already come to pass, or whether they are yet to come, deign to declare in your writing. Out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many peoples and rebuke strong nations even afar off. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. And nation shall no longer lift up sword against nation, and they shall no longer stand to make war. And each one shall rest under his own vine and under his own fig tree: and there shall be none who shall cast them into fear.

[Avitus episcopus papae Hierosolymitano]. Domnus Gundobadus rex Avito Viennensi episcopo. De prophetica lectione sanctitatem vestram censui consulendam, cuius lectionis exemplar subter adieci. Et ideo utrum iam tempora ista fuerint, an futura sint, scripto vestro declarare dignamini. Ex Sion procedet lex et verbum domini ex Hierusalem. Et iudi- cabit inter plebes multas et redarguet gentes validas usque longe. Et concident gladios suos in aratra et lanceas suas in falces. Et iam non extollet gens super gentem gladium, et iam non stabunt belligerare. Et requiescet unus quisque sub vinea sua et sub ficu sua: et non erit qui in timorem mittat eos.