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Letter XXXVII.2020
| 2020 Of the same
time as the preceding. |
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I look with suspicion on
the multiplication of letters. Against my will, and because I
cannot resist the importunity of petitioners, I am compelled to
speak. I write because I can think of no other means of relieving
myself than by assenting to the supplications of those who are always
asking letters from me. I am really afraid lest, since many are
carrying letters off, one of the many be reckoned to be that
brother. I have, I own, many friends and relatives in my own
country, and I am placed in loco parentis by the
position2021
| 2021 By some
supposed to be that of a bishop; but Maran, who dates the letter
before the episcopate, thinks the use of the phrase is justified by
our understanding the presbyterate to be meant. Vide
Prolegomena. | which the Lord has
given me. Among them is this my foster brother, son of my nurse, and I pray that the
house in which I was brought up may remain at its old assessment, so
that the sojourn among us of your excellency, so beneficial to us all,
may turn out no occasion of trouble to him. Now too I am
supported from the same house, because I have nothing of my own, but
depend upon those who love me. I do then entreat you to spare the
house in which I was nursed as though you were keeping up the supply of
support for me. May God in return grant you His everlasting
rest. One thing however, and it is most true, I think your
excellency ought to know, and that is that the greater number of the
slaves were given him from the outset by us, as an equivalent for my
sustenance, by the gift of my father and mother. At the same time
this was not to be regarded as an absolute gift; he was only to have
the use for life, so that, if anything serious happen to him on their
account, he is at liberty to send them back to me, and I shall thus in
another way be responsible for rates and to
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