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| To Theophilus the Bishop.
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CCXLV.3081
To Theophilus the Bishop.3082
| 3082
i.e.of Castabala, who had accompanied Eustathius to
Rome, and was closely associated with him. cf. p.
198. |
It is some time since I
received your letter, but I waited to be able to reply by some fit
person; that so the bearer of my answer might supply whatever might be
wanting in it. Now there has arrived our much beloved and very
reverend brother Strategius, and I have judged it well to make use of
his services, both as knowing my mind and able to convey3083
| 3083 διακομίσαι
. Two mss. have διακονῆσαι. | news of me with due propriety and
reverence. Know, therefore, my beloved and honoured friend, that
I highly value my affection for you, and am not conscious so far as the
disposition of my heart goes, of having at any time failed in it,
although I have had many serious causes of reasonable complaint.
But I have decided to weigh the good against the bad, as in a balance,
and to add my own mind where the better inclines. Now changes
have been made by those who should least of all have allowed anything
of the kind. Pardon me, therefore, for I have not changed my
mind, if I have shifted any side, or rather I should say, I shall still
be on the same side, but there are others who are continually changing
it, and are now openly deserting to the foe. You yourself know
what a value I put on their communion, so long as they were of the
sound party. If now I refuse to follow these, and shun all who
think with them, I ought fairly to be forgiven. I put truth and
my own salvation before everything.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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