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| To Longinus, Archimandrite of Doliche.
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CXXXI. To Longinus,
Archimandrite of Doliche.1954
| 1954 Sent presumably at the same time as the preceding. Nothing is
recorded of Longinus. It will be remembered that the name, recorded
also in the Acts of Linus as that of an officer commanding the
executioners of St. Paul, is assigned by tradition to the soldier who
wounded the Saviour’s side. |
You have shewn alike your zeal
for the true religion, and your love for your neighbour, both of which
are at the present time clearly connected, for it is for the sake of
the apostolic decrees that I am being attacked, because I refuse to
give up the heritage of my fathers, and prefer to undergo any suffering
to looking lightly on the robbery of one tittle from the faith of the
Gospel. You have accepted fellowship in my sufferings, not only by
comforting me by means of your letter, but further by sending to me the
very honourable and pious Matthew and Isaac. You shall hear, I am well
assured, from the lips of the righteous Lord, “I was in prison,
and ye visited me.”1955
We are small and
of no account, and burdened by a great load of sins, but the Lord is
bountiful and generous. He remembers the small rather than the great,
and says, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of
these”1956
“which believe in me”1957
“ye have done it unto me.”1958
I pray you in that you are conspicuous
for right doctrine, and shine by worthiness of life, and therefore have
great boldness before God, help me in your prayers, that I may be able
“to stand,” to use the words of the Apostle,1959
| 1959 Eph. iv. 14, and vi.
11.
As in the case of the former citation Theodoret seems to be quoting
from memory, and coupling the two passages in which the word
μεθοδεία occurs. “Wiles” fits in better with the evident
allusion to Eph. vi. 11, than the periphrasis
by which A.V. renders iv.
14,
and for which the revisers substitute “the wiles of error.”
“μεθοδεία” may be exactly described as “ἡ ἀποστολικὴ
φωνή,” for it occurs
nowhere but in these two passages. | “against the wiles of error,”
escape the sins of the destroyer, and stand, though with little
boldness, in the day of the appearing before the righteous
Judge.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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