While we rehearse in our memory the
stories in the divine scriptures and weigh the merits of God’s various elect
and do a mental comparison of your divinely inspired zeal, we realize that you,
our pre-eminent son and spiritual compater, have shown forth in these
days as a new Moses. For he was commanded by the divine majesty to rescue the
people of Israel from oppression by those who were afflicting them, while you, outstanding
and pre-eminent king, have been divinely inspired to set free God’s holy,
universal, catholic and apostolic church. Through him God gave the Hebrew
people the commandments of the law on Mount Sinai and made him shine with the
light of his own glory. (Codex Epistolaris Carolinus: Letters
from the Popes to the Frankish Rulers, 739-791 [trans. Richard Price; Translated
Texts for Historians 77; Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021], 219, emphasis added)
