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To Pelagius, 3120 bishop of the Syrian Laodicea.<br />

Letter CCLIV. 3119<br />

May the Lord grant me once again in person to behold your true piety <strong>and</strong> to supply in<br />

actual intercourse all that is wanting in my letter. I am behindh<strong>and</strong> in beginning to write<br />

<strong>and</strong> must needs make many excuses. But we have with us the well beloved <strong>and</strong> reverend<br />

brother Sanctissimus, the presbyter. He will tell you everything, both our news <strong>and</strong> the<br />

news of the West. You will be cheered by what you hear; but when he tells you of the troubles<br />

in which we are involved he will perhaps add some distress <strong>and</strong> anxiety to that which already<br />

besets your kindly soul. Yet it is not to no purpose that affliction should be felt by you, able<br />

as you are to move the Lord. Your anxiety will turn to our gain, <strong>and</strong> I know that we shall<br />

receive succour from God as long as we have the aid of your prayers. Pray, too, with me for<br />

release from my anxieties, <strong>and</strong> ask for some increase in my bodily strength; then the Lord<br />

will prosper me on my way to the fulfilment of my desires <strong>and</strong> to a sight of your excellency.<br />

3119 Placed in 376.<br />

3120 cf. Letter xcii. p. 177. On Pelagius bishop of the Syrian Laodicea, see <strong>The</strong>od., H.E. iv. 13 <strong>and</strong> v. 8.<br />

Philostorg., H.E. v. 1. Sozomen, H.E. vi. 12, <strong>and</strong> vii. 9.<br />

To Pelagius, bishop of the Syrian Laodicea.<br />

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