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

To the clergy of Samosata.
I too, because of its having been already allowed me to be near you, cannot disregard your
position. So on the arrival of the very devout brother Theodorus the sub-deacon, and his
report that your Church is in distress and disturbance, being deeply grieved and much
pained at heart, I could not endure to keep silence. I implore you to fling away all controversy
with one another, and to make peace, that you may avoid giving pleasure to you opponents
and destroying the boast of the Church, which is now noised abroad throughout the world,
that you all, as you are ruled by one soul and heart, so live in one body. Through your reverences
I salute all the people of God, both those in rank and office and the rest of the clergy.
I exhort you to keep your old character. I can ask for nothing more than this because by
the exhibition of your good works you have anticipated and made impossible any improvement
on them.
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