211. К Маркиану и Маркеллину

What is this? Having such love for us (as we are not unaware of this, despite the distance separating us from you, thanks precisely to the strength and ardor of your love), you are silent and will not write to us even once! You are making a real mystery out of this for us. The reason that you give in your letter to my lord, the most reverent presbyter Constantius, is not at all sufficient. However, I don’t analyze it exactly. Let it be so and let this be the reason for your silence; but now it too is being eliminated: we write to you first, testifying to your gratitude for the sincere love that you keep for us with such invariability, and we earnestly ask you, as far as possible, to write to us constantly. That you would not have hesitated to personally come to us here if your modesty had not presented yourself with the obstacles you point out, I have no doubt at all; I’m even ready to say that, by the will of your will, you seem to have already arrived to us. But since in reality this cannot yet be accomplished, give us comfort with your letters, conveying in them the good news about your health, as well as the health of your entire home. Constantly receiving notifications of this kind from you, we will find great consolation for ourselves in your letters, even if we lived in a wilderness even more cruel than this. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” You might be interested in: