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What is this? When such a glorious and extensive city celebrates a brilliant celebration (that’s what I call your inauguration), you make us even more depressed by remaining so stubbornly silent! If any other ordinary person had done this, I would easily understand the reason. I would explain this to myself by the fact that many, with elevation in service, usually rise together in arrogance. But when it comes to your magnificence - a person with a philosophical mood of thought, who perfectly comprehends the essence of these temporary and transient things, is not deceived by tinsel and signs and looks at things as they are, without embellishment, then I absolutely cannot understand the reasons for silence. That you love us now just as much as before, or even more than before, I am fully convinced of this. But why, with such a disposition towards us, you do not write anything for so long, I cannot say and I am completely perplexed by this very thing. Solve this riddle for us in your letter, if it’s not difficult and difficult. But before you write, tell those who delivered this letter to you, that is, my lord, the most honest and reverent presbyter, and those accompanying him, that this silence, of which we are sure, was not the result of negligence. It will be enough to say this in order for them to achieve favor with your honor. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” From Kukuz in 404 or 405. You might be interested in: