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| To the Patrician Senator.
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XLIV. To the
Patrician1687
| 1687 From the time of the Emperor Constantine the title patrician
designated a high court functionary. | Senator.
Thanks be to the Saviour of the
world because to your greatness He is ever adding dignity and honour.
The reason of my not writing up to this time to exhibit the delight
which I have felt at the colophon1688
| 1688 Cf. note on page 262. | of your
honour, has been my wish not to trouble your magnificence. At the
moment of my now thus writing, the district which Providence has
committed to my care stands as the proverb has it on a razor’s
edge.1689
You will remember the visitation which
was made at the time when we first were benefited by your presence
among us; how it was with difficulty established in the time of the most
excellent prefect the Lord Florentius;1690
| 1690 To
the same Florentius is addressed the important letter LXXXIX wherein
Theodoret defends himself from charges of heterodoxy. Before 449 he had
six times attained the high position of Prefect of the East. |
and how it was confirmed by the present holder of the office. An
individual who bears the name of bishop, but of ways unworthy even of
stage players, has fled from the episcopal synod at a time when he was
lying under sentence of excommunication and is endeavouring to
calumniate and discredit the visitation, while through his hatred to
the illustrious Philip he assails the truth. I therefore beseech your
excellency to make his lies of none effect, and that the visitation
lawfully confirmed may remain undisturbed. It is indeed becoming to
your greatness to reap the fruit of this good deed among the rest, to
receive the acclamations of those whom you are benefiting, and so to do
honour at once to the God of all and to his true servant the very man
of God the Lord Jacob,1691
| 1691 i.e. the ascetic mentioned in letter XLI. | who joins with me
in sending you this supplication. Had it been his wont to write he
would have written himself.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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