Letter
LXXXVII.
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Without address on the same
subject
.
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I am
astonished that,
with you to appeal to, so grave an offence should have been committed
against the presbyter as that he should have been deprived of his only
means of livelihood. The most serious part of the business is
that the perpetrators transfer the guilt of their proceedings to you;
while all the while it was your duty not only not to suffer such deeds
to be done, but to use all your authority to prevent them in the case
of any one, but specially in the case of presbyters, and such
presbyters as are in agreement with me, and are walking in the same way
of true religion. If then you have any care to give me
gratification, see that these matters are set right without
delay. For, God helping you, you are able to do this, and greater
things than this to whom you will. I have written to the governor
of my own country,
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that, if they
refuse to do what is right of their own accord, they may be compelled
to do so on pressure from the courts.
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Of the same
date as the preceding.
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Probably to
Elias.
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Πατρίς
. The
Ben. Ed suppose the reference to be here to Annesi.
cf.
Letters
viii. and li.