therefore also we await the coming of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who will render to those who live devoutly the crown of glory, but to those who provoke Him will repay a fitting recompense for their boldness. These things we direct to your charity in reply to the little books which you took care to send to us, declaring that certain pestilent men, putting forth monstrous words, have rushed upon your province, wishing by certain writings and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called to pervert the simple and unadorned beauty and steadfastness of the right faith. But I once again admonish you with the words of blessed Paul (Col. II. 8):
See that no one deceives you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men who give empty counsel, and not according to Christ. For no one can lay another foundation of the holy faith besides that which is laid, which is Christ Jesus. Stand therefore in one spirit, of one mind, laboring together for the faith of the Gospel, and in nothing be terrified by your adversaries (Phil. I), keeping the traditions which you have received, whether from the holy and most blessed Fathers who are known to have promulgated the faith at Nicaea, or from the holy and venerable Basil, Gregory, and the rest who held the same mind—whose names are written in the book of life.
I and those who are with me greet most warmly the whole brotherhood that is with you in Christ. [These words are lacking in the Greek.] Given at Constantinople, in the consulship of the most pious Theodosius Augustus for the fifth time and of Valentinian for the fourth.