154. К ним же

We bring you great gratitude for your unyielding perseverance, diligence and care, for all your labors and efforts and for the truly long journey that you have made for the good of the church. The more those who throw everything into confusion expose themselves to condemnation, the higher will be your reward for your patient diligence to correct what others have done wrong. We would like to come to you and have the happiness of personally seeing your reverence, but since the inevitable conditions of exile life do not allow us this, then, having with difficulty finally found the person going to you, my lord, the most honest and reverent presbyter, we are sending with him this letter to bring you due greetings and thank you for everything past, and for everything present, and for everything in general that you have done to eliminate evil. Even if at the end of everything not the slightest success was achieved, you have done your job, and therefore you have the fullest reward from the man-loving God for the tireless zeal and self-sacrifice with which throughout the entire time you tried to heal the evil that happened. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” You might be interested in: