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

Without inscription: about Therasius. 2271
Letter LXXVII. 2270
One good thing we have certainly gained from the government of the great Therasius
and that is that you have frequently paid us a visit. Now, alas! we have lost our governor,
and we are deprived of this good thing too. But since the boons once given us by God remain
immovable, and, although we are parted in body, abide fixed by memory in the souls of
each of us, let us constantly write, and communicate our needs to one another. And this
we may well do at the present moment, when the storm for a brief space has cried a truce.
I trust that you will not part from the admirable Therasius, for I think that it is very becoming
to share his great anxieties, and I am delighted at the opportunity given you both of seeing
your friends and of being seen by them. 2272 I have much to say about many things, but I
put it off till we meet, for it is, I think, hardly safe to entrust matters of such importance to
letters.
2270 Of the same date as the preceding.
2271 Perhaps to Elpidius. Therasius is probably the governor referred to in Letter xcvi. to Sophronius.
2272 The text is here corrupt. The Ben. Ed. say “corruptissimus.”
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