Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Series 2 - The Still Small ...

To Sophronius the Master.
to the Treasury, so that the property may be kept there, and the Treasurer may give answer
to those who attack it and demand their proofs; for we are not adapted for such business.
Your excellency may be informed that, so long as it was possible, no one went away without
getting what he wanted, and each one carried off what he demanded without any difficulty.
The consequence indeed was that a good many were sorry that they had not asked for more
at first; and this made still more objectors, for with the example of the earlier successful
applicants before them, one false claimant starts up after another. I do then entreat your
excellency to make a stand against all this and to come in, like some intervening stream,
and solve the continuity of these troubles. You know how best you will help matters, and
need not wait to be instructed by me. I am inexperienced in the affairs of this life, and
cannot see my way out of our difficulties. Of your great wisdom discover some means of
help. Be our counsellor. Be our champion.
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