Sermons & Letters 117

It is always pleasing to me to address your charity, and to discharge the affection of a greeting: since I both know you to be a praiseworthy guardian of a most sincere faith, and one who is not carried about by every wind of doctrine, but stands firmly upon the foundation of the prophets and apostles, which is Christ: so that, when the Son of Man comes in His Divinity for the purgation of the whole world, you may be found in the election the wheat of eternity, who may be worthy to be treasured up in the granaries. Having therefore received your letters through my son Parthenius, discharging a reciprocal greeting, I exhort your blessedness, dearest son, that you be not confounded concerning the Gospel of the generation of the Lord Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham according to the flesh:

since this faith conquers the world, when one believes that Christ Jesus is the Son of God. But if any questions of faith are found, we admonish you to write to us more fully concerning those things which pertain to the common benefit, we gladly receiving those who shall have brought them.