Letter 7017: This letter survives only in fragmentary form, with the manuscript text too damaged to reconstruct reliably.
[This letter survives only in fragmentary form, with the manuscript text too damaged to reconstruct reliably.]
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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I have received your letter, my reverend brethren, but it told me nothing that I did not already know, for the whole country round about was already full of the report announcing the disgrace of that one among you who has fallen, and through lust of vain glory has brought on himself very shameful dishonour, and has through his self-love lost the...
1. I have received your reverence's letter and I am delighted at the title which you have felicitously applied to the writing which they have composed in calling it a writing of divorcement. Matthew 19:7 What defense the writers will be able to make before the tribunal of Christ, where no excuse will avail, I am quite unable to conceive.
The fame of your literary cultivation made me desire your acquaintance long ago, but I put off the duty of writing...
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If I were to fail to write to any one else I might possibly with justice incur the charge of carelessness or forgetfulness. But it is not possible to forget you, when your name is in all men's mouths. But I cannot be careless about one who is perhaps more distinguished than any one else in the empire.