Letter
CCLV.
3121
To Vitus, bishop of Charræ.
3122
Would
that it were possible for
me to write to your reverence every day! For ever since I have
had experience of your affection I have had great desire to converse
with you, or, if this be impossible, at least to communicate with you
by letter, that I may tell you my own news and learn in what state you
are. Yet we have not what we wish but what the Lord gives, and
this we ought to receive with gratitude. I have therefore thanked
the holy God for giving me an opportunity for writing to your reverence
on the arrival of our very well beloved and reverend brother
Sanctissimus, the presbyter. He has had considerable trouble in
accomplishing his journey, and will tell you with accuracy all that he
has learnt in the West. For all these things we ought to thank
the Lord and to beseech Him to give us too the same peace and that we
may freely receive one another. Receive all the brethren in
Christ in my name.
3121
Placed in
376.
3122
cf
.
Letter
xcii. p. 177. Vitus of
Charræ (Haran) was bishop of Constantinople in 381.
(Labbe, ii. 955.)
cf
. Sozomen,
H.E.
vi.
33.