Epistle
LXVII.
To Peter, Subdeacon.
Gregory to Peter, &c.
If with kind disposition we meet the needs of our
neighbours by shewing compassion, we shall undoubtedly find the
Lord
mercifully inclined to our
petitions. Now we have learnt that Pastor, who labours under
exceeding weakness of sight, having a wife and two slaves, who also had
formerly been with the glorious lady Jonatha, is suffering from great
need. Wherefore, we admonish thy Experience, by the writing of
this present order, not to delay giving him for his sustenance three
hundred
modii
of wheat, and also as many
modii
of beans,
which may afterwards be charged in thy accounts. So act, then, as
both thyself to obtain the benefit of reward for thy good service, and
to carry our orders into effect. In the month of
August.