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| To Magnus Antoninus the Presbyter.
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CXXIX. To Magnus
Antoninus the Presbyter.1935
| 1935 Garnerius supposes that this Antoninus is the same as the
Antoninus mentioned as living in Theodoret’s Religious History
and thinks that the Solitary may have become an Archimandrite after 445
when the Religious History was written, but the mss. vary as to the superscription of the letter, which
may be addressed to Magnus, Antonius and others. |
Sailors at night are cheered by
the sight of the harbour lights, and so are they who are in peril for
the sake of the apostolic faith by the zeal of them that share the
faith. We have great comfort in what we hear of your godliness’s
efforts on behalf of the divine doctrines, for this mind has been given
you by the Giver of all good gifts and for the safe keeping of these
doctrines you undergo every toil. Now I, comforted by your zeal, make
an insignificant return, calling on you to persevere in your divine
labours, to despise your adversaries as an easy prey, (for what is
weaker than they who are destitute of the truth?) and to trust in Him
who said “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee,”1936
and “Lo I am with you alway even
unto the end of the world.”1937
Help me
too with your prayers that I may confidently say “The Lord is on
my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?”1938
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