Letter 109: Chrysostom recalls Rufinus from Antioch and asks him to remember the exile in Cucusus.

I know the firmness of your love. We were with you only a short time in Antioch, most honored and reverend master, but we had great experience of your piety, good sense, and affection for us. Though much time has passed since then, we keep our love for you fresh, and we imagine your presence as if we had seen you yesterday. We therefore write and ask you always to remember us. We have been carried to Cucusus, the most desolate place in the world, and almost every day we are besieged by the attacks of the Isaurians. Yet even in such hardship, if we can be confident of your love and know clearly that we enjoy your genuine affection, we will receive no ordinary comfort.

ΡΘʹ. Ῥουφίνῳ ἐπισκόπῳ. Οἶδά σου τῆς ἀγάπης τὸ στεῤῥόν. Ὀλίγα μέν σοί ποτε συνεγενόμεθα ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ, δέσποτά μου τιμιώτατε καὶ εὐλαβέστατε, πολλὴν δέ σου πεῖραν τῆς εὐλαβείας καὶ τῆς συνέσεως εἰληφότες, καὶ τῆς περὶ ἡμᾶς ἀγάπης. Ἐξ ἐκείνου, καίτοι πολλοῦ μεταξὺ γενομένου τοῦ χρόνου, τὴν περὶ σὲ ἀγάπην ἀκμάζουσαν διατηροῦμεν, καὶ ὡς χθὲς καὶ πρώην σε ἑωρακότες, οὕτως σου φανταζόμεθα τὴν παρουσίαν. ∆ιὸ καὶ ἐπιστέλλομεν, καὶ παρακαλοῦμεν μεμνῆσθαι ἡμῶν διηνεκῶς. Ἀπήχθημεν εἰς χωρίον τῆς καθ' ἡμᾶς οἰκουμένης ἐρημότατον, τὴν Κουκουσὸν, καὶ καθ' ἑκάστην σχεδὸν τὴν ἡμέραν ὑπὸ τῆς τῶν Ἰσαύρων πολιορκούμεθα ἐφόδου. Ἀλλ' ὅμως, καὶ ἐν τοσαύταις ὄντες περιστάσεσιν, ἢν θαῤῥῶμεν περὶ τῆς ἀγάπης τῆς ὑμετέρας, καὶ ἴδωμεν σαφῶς, ὅτι γνησίας ἀπολαύομεν διαθέσεως, οὐ τὴν τυχοῦσαν καὶ ἐν ταῖς θλίψεσι ταύταις καρπωσόμεθα τὴν παράκλησιν.