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| To Acacius the Presbyter.
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CVIII. To Acacius the
Presbyter.
True indeed is the promise of
David’s Psalm, for through him the Spirit of truth gave this
promise to them that believe, “Commit thy way unto the Lord,
trust also to him; and he shall bring it to pass; and he shall bring
forth thy righteousness as the light and thy judgment as the
noonday.”1843
This we find
too has come to pass in the case of your piety. For the great care you
bestow upon them that are weeping for their orphanhood, and your
struggles on behalf of the apostolic doctrines, are in every
one’s mouth, and so, as the prophets say, “Hidden things
are made manifest.” Since I too have heard of your piety’s
admirable exertions I write to salute you, most godly sir, and beseech
you to increase your glory by adding to your labours, and to fight on
behalf of the doctrine of the Gospels, that we may both keep the
inheritance of our fathers unimpaired, and bring our Master His talent
with good usury.1844
| 1844 On the care of orphans in the early church vide Ig. Ep. Smyrn. VI.
and Bp. Lightfoot’s note. At Constantinople the Orphanotrophus
was a priest of high rank. | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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