Ep. LXXII.

Do not let your troubles distress you too much.  For the less we grieve over things, the less grievous they are.  It is nothing strange that the heretics have thawed, and are taking courage from the springtime, and creeping out of their holes, as you write.  They will hiss for a short time, I know, and then will hide themselves again, overcome both by the truth and the times, and all the more so the more we commit the whole matter to God.

[72] ΓΡΗΓΟΡΙΩΙ ΝΥΣΣΗΣ

Μὴ σφόδρα δάκνου τοῖς λυπηροῖς. Ἃν γὰρ ἧττον λυπώμεθα, ἧττόν ἐστι λυπηρά. Οὐδὲν δεινὸν εἰ ἀνεθάλφθησαν οἱ αἱρετικοὶ καὶ τῷ ἔαρι θαρροῦσι τῶν φωλεῶν ἐξερπύσαντες, ὡς γράφεις. Μικρὰ συριοῦσιν, εὖ οἶδα, εἶτα καταδύσονται, καὶ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ καὶ τῷ καιρῷ πολεμούμενοι, καὶ τόσῳ μᾶλλον ὅσῳπερ ἂν τῷ Θεῷ τὸ πᾶν ἐπιτρέπωμεν.