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LXXXVII. To Domnus, Bishop
of Apamea.1793
| 1793 Domnus of Apamea is to be distinguished from Domnus II, bishop of
Antioch the recipient of Letters XXXI, CX, CXII and CLXXX. He was
present at Chalcedon in 451. This letter may be placed in
448–9. |
The law of brotherly love
demanded that I should receive many letters from your godliness at this
time. For the divine Apostle charges us to weep with them that weep and
rejoice with them that do rejoice.1794
| 1794 Romans xii.
15.
Observe the inversion. | I have not
received a single one, although just lately I was visited by some of
the pious monks of your monastery with the pious presbyter Elias.
Nevertheless I have written, and I salute your holiness; and I make you
acquainted with the fact that the consolation of the Master has stood
me in stead of all other, for in truth not even had I as many mouths as
I have hairs on my head, could I worthily praise Him for my being
deemed worthy of suffering on account of my confession of Him, and for
the apparent disgrace which I hold more august than any honour. And if
I be banished to the uttermost parts of the earth all the more will I
praise Him as being counted worthy of greater blessings. Nevertheless I
hope your holiness will put up prayers for the quiet of the holy
churches. It is because of the storm that is assailing them that I wail
and groan and lament. That quiet, as I know, was driven away by the
Osrhoene clergy,1795
| 1795 The action of the Osrhoene clergy here referred to is their
accusation of Theodoret’s friend Ibas of Edessa. The
“sentence” was that of excommunication delivered by Ibas.
The leaders of the cabal against him were instigated by Uranius, bishop
of Himeria, one of Ibas’s suffragans. cf. note on p.
291. | who poured out
countless words against me, although I had no share in their
condemnation, nor in the sentence passed upon them; on the contrary, as
your holiness knows, I besought that the communion might be
given to them at Easter. But slanderers find no difficulty in saying
what they like. My consolation lies in the blessing of the Master who
said, “Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake;
rejoice and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for
so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.”1796
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