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| To Jobius, Presbyter and Archimandrite.
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CXXVII. To Jobius,
Presbyter and Archimandrite.1930
| 1930 Jobius was an orthodox archimandrite of Constantinople, and
subscribed the deposition of Eutyches by the hand of his deacon Andreas
at Constantinople in 448. (Labbe iv, 232) In 450 Leo addresses him with
other archimandrites (Ep. LXXI page 1012). This letter seems to have
been written about the time of the Latrocinium. |
The patriarch Abraham won a
victory in his old age.1931
The great Moses
was now an old man when, so long as he stretched out his hands in
prayer, he vanquished Amalek.1932
The divine
Samuel1933
was an old man when he put the
aliens to flight. These are emulated by your venerable old age. In our
wars for true religion’s sake you are playing the man, and
championing the cause of the gospel doctrines, and putting young men in
the shade by the vigour of your spirit.
I rejoice to hear it, and am
glad, and long to embrace your right venerable gray hairs. This I
cannot do, for your reverence is kept at home by your years, and I am
kept in durance here by the imperial decree. But I cheat my love by
this letter, and give your piety this most loving embrace. I call upon
you in your prayers to help the churches now whelmed in the storm, and
to win for me the divine support, assailed as I am for the sake of the
doctrines of the gospel, and standing sorely in need of help from
above. E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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