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

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To the presbyter Pœonius.<br />

Letter CXXXIV. 2442<br />

You may conjecture from what it contains, what pleasure you have given me by your<br />

letter. <strong>The</strong> pureness of heart, from which such expressions sprang, was plainly signified by<br />

what you wrote. A streamlet tells of its own spring, <strong>and</strong> so the manner of speech marks the<br />

heart from which it came. I must confess that an extraordinary <strong>and</strong> improbable thing has<br />

happened to me. For deeply anxious as I always was to receive a letter from your excellency,<br />

when I had taken your letter into my h<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> had read it, I was not so much pleased at<br />

what you had written, as annoyed at reckoning up the loss I had suffered in your long silence.<br />

Now that you have begun to write, pray do not leave off. You will give me greater pleasure<br />

than men can give by sending much money to misers. I have had no writer with me, neither<br />

caligraphist, nor short-h<strong>and</strong>. Of all those whom I happen to employ, some have returned<br />

to their former mode of life, <strong>and</strong> others are unfit for work from long sickness.<br />

2442 Placed in 373.<br />

To the presbyter Pœonius.<br />

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