128. К бывшему консулярию Феодоту 105

May all blessings come upon you for receiving your son with such honor. He himself openly told us about this, wanting to testify to his gratitude to his father and at the same time to please us. The reception given to him is doubly pleasant to us: because, firstly, his well-being together constitutes our own well-being; and secondly, because we can attribute a significant share in the increase in your goodwill towards him to the influence of our letter. Continue, my dear and most noble ruler, to take care of this wonderful branch of your family. How to care? Constantly support in your son and develop in him a love for that most excellent way of philosophical life, which he is now going through. Then your wonderful industry will soon bear fruit for us, because noble souls are completely alien to the slowness that characterizes plants planted in the bowels of the earth. As soon as a wonderful desire for virtue arises in them, they already rise in their stature to the height of the sky itself and become so fruitful that the abundance and dignity of their fruits overshadow all wealth, since these fruits do not perish along with this life, but pass with us into the future life. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” Probably in 406, like the next letter to Bishop Elpidius. You might be interested in: