1.  You have done well to write to me.  You have shewn how great is the fruit of charity.  Continue so to do.  Do not think that, when you write to me, you need offer excuses.  I recognise my own position, and I know that by nature every man is of equal honour with the rest.  Whatever excellence there is in me is not of family, nor of superfluous wealth, nor of physical condition; it comes only of superiority in the fear of God.  What, then, hinders you from fearing the Lord yet more, and so, in this respect, being greater than I am?  Write often to me, and acquaint me with the condition of the brotherhood with you.  Tell me what members of the Church in your parts are sound, that I may know to whom I ought to write, and in whom I may confide.  I am told that there are some who are endeavouring to deprave the right doctrine of the Lord’s incarnation by perverse opinions, and I therefore call upon them through you to hold off from those unreasonable views, which some are reported to me to hold.  I mean that God Himself was turned into flesh; that He did not assume, through the Holy Mary, the nature φύραμα. of Adam, but, in His own proper Godhead, was changed into a material nature. φύσις.