38. К нему же

I have just written the previous letter when I see the most honest and reverent Aphraat. He pestered us so persistently - he didn’t want to leave here and threatened not to even take our letter if I didn’t accept everything you sent, that I finally decided to give this matter a turn that would certainly please your nobility and completely calm your moderation. Aphraat will tell you about him, and you told him to be the executor of this good order. Of course, you understand how much the cause will gain both from his personal presence in Phenicia and from the generosity of your magnificence. The Lord will reward you for both, that is, both for the fact that you will provide such generous assistance to the people who preach the word of God to the pagans in Phenicia and are trying to establish churches there, and for the fact that you will choose and send such a zealous person to console them, especially at this time, when they are in extreme difficulty and are suffering oppression from many. So, taking into account the high importance of this great deed, do not delay Aphraates at all, and immediately equip him there on the road, in full confidence, my most venerable master, that with this good zeal you will earn yourself a generous reward from the man-loving God. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” You might be interested in: