Augustine's line helps us: without the written word we cannot know the apostolic point
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Bellarmine's Augustine citation cuts his own way.
If it is not written, we who never heard Paul cannot know it.
So Augustine denies certain knowledge of apostolic preaching from tradition alone.
Certainty rests on sacred Scripture — our claim, not Rome's oral bank.
Latin
XXI. Locus autem Augustini, quem pro se affert Bellarminus, mirifice pro nobis facit. Nam ibi dicit Augustinus quando hoc scriptum non est nos non posse id scire, cum Apostolum ipsi docentem non audiverimus. Unde manifestum est Augustinum non putasse quicquam certi posse haberi de Apostolorum praedicatione, ex traditione sola, sed tantum ex Scriptura sacra, quod certe nos volumus.