Letter 103 #catechesis/fathers/theodoret
Letters · Theodoret · Church Fathers
To the Count Apollonius.
The very godly bishops have been led to travel to the imperial city by the calumnies uttered against me, and I by their holinesses send your excellency my salutation, and pay the debt of friendship, not indeed to wipe out the cherished obligation, but to make it greater. For in truth the obligations of friendship are increased by their discharge. That I should now be reaping the fruits of calumny is not extraordinary, for, in that I am human, there is nothing that I must not expect. All troubles of this kind must be borne by them that have learned wisdom; one thing only is distressing— that harm should accrue to the soul.
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Translated by Blomfield Jackson. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series Vol. 3. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1892.
Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. fathers/2707103.htm
