Letter XXXVI.
2019
Without address
.
It
has, I think, been long
known to your excellency that the presbyter of this place is a foster
brother of my own. What more can I say to induce you in your
kindness, to view him with a friendly eye, and give him help in his
affairs? If you love me, as I know you do, I am sure that you
will endeavour, to the best of your power, to relieve any one whom I
look upon as a second self. What then do I ask? That he do
not lose his old rating. Really he takes no little trouble in
ministering to my necessities, because I, as you know, have nothing of
my own, but depend upon the means of my friends and relatives.
Look, then, upon my brother’s house as you would on mine, or let
me rather say, on your own. In return for your kindness to him
God will not cease to help alike yourself, your house, and your
family. Be sure that I am specially anxious lest any injury
should be done to him by the equalization of rates.
2019
Placed before
370.