62. К Арматию

What does it mean? You give us complete freedom to freely dispose of people belonging to you for our needs and deprive us of what we especially need, that is, your letters, which would bring us news about your health. Or don’t you know that this is precisely what is most dear and desired by sincere and sincere friends, like us now? So, if you want, my most honest lord, to do us a favor, then cancel the order given to your people to serve us in bodily needs (since we have no need for anything like that - everything flows like a river for us) and provide us yourself, through a small amount of paper and ink, the greatest favor, which we especially want to receive from you. It consists of you constantly writing to us about your health and that of your entire home. If it were possible for us to see each other, then I would ask, as the greatest mercy, that you give me the pleasure of personally seeing a friend who loves us so dearly, like you, and get yourself out of the house. But since the fear induced by the Isaurians prevents this, then comfort us without stinting with your letters, and then all our desires will be satisfied by you. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” You might be interested in: