2.  I have also written at length to exhort our brethren at Colonia.  You, moreover, are bound rather to put up with their frame of mind than to increase their irritation, as though you despised them for their insignificance, or provoked them to a quarrel by your contempt.  It is only natural for disputants to act without due counsel, and to manage their own affairs ill with the object of vexing their opponents.  And no one is so small as not to be now able to give an occasion, to those who want an occasion, for great troubles.  I do not speak at random.  I speak from my own experience of my own troubles.  From these may God keep you in answer to your prayers.  Pray also for me, that I may have a successful journey, and, on my arrival, may share your joy in your present pastor, and with you may find consolation at the departure of our common father. i.e.Theodotus.  cf. Letter cxxi. and cxxx. pp. 193 and 198.