Letter CCXLIX.1356    Placed in 376.

Without address.  Commendatory.

I congratulate this my brother, in being delivered from our troubles here and in approaching your reverence.  In choosing a good life with them that fear the Lord he has chosen a good provision for the life to come.  I commend him to your excellency and by him I beseech you to pray for my wretched life, to the end that I may be delivered from these trials and begin to serve the Lord according to the Gospel.

ΑΝΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΟΣ ΕΠΙ ΑΝΔΡΙ ΕΥΛΑΒΕΙ

[1] Συγχαίρω τῷ ἀδελφῷ τῷδε καὶ τῶν ἐνταῦθα θορύβων ἀπαλλασσομένῳ καὶ τὴν σὴν εὐλάβειαν καταλαμβάνοντι. Ἀγαθὸν γὰρ αὐτῷ ἐφόδιον πρὸς τὸν ἐφεξῆς αἰῶνα τὴν μετὰ τῶν φοβουμένων τὸν Κύριον ἀγαθὴν διαγωγὴν ἐξελέξατο. Ὃν καὶ παρατιθέμεθά σου τῇ τιμιότητι καὶ παρακαλῶ δι' αὐτοῦ εὔχεσθαι ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐλεεινῆς ἡμῶν ζωῆς, ἵνα ῥυσθέντες τῶν πειρασμῶν τούτων ἀρξώμεθα δουλεύειν τῷ Κυρίῳ κατὰ τὸ Εὐαγγέλιον.