23.  Better, I know well, and far more precious than eye can see, is thy present lot, the song of them that keep holy-day,23    Ib. xlii. 4. the throng of angels, the heavenly host, the vision of glory, and that splendour, pure and perfect beyond all other, of the Trinity Most High, no longer beyond the ken of the captive mind, dissipated by the senses, but entirely contemplated and possessed by the undivided mind, and flashing upon our souls with the whole light of Godhead:  Mayest thou enjoy to the full all those things whose crumbs thou didst, while still upon earth, possess through the reality of thine inclination towards them.  And if thou takest any account of our affairs, and holy souls receive from God this privilege, do thou accept these words of mine, in place of, and in preference to many panegyrics, which I have bestowed upon Cæsarius before thee, and upon thee after him—since I have been preserved to pronounce panegyrics upon my brethren.  If any one will, after you, pay me the like honour, I cannot say.  Yet may my only honour be that which is in God, and may my pilgrimage and my home be in Christ Jesus our Lord, to Whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be glory for ever.  Amen.

ΚΓʹ. Κρείσσω μὲν οὖν εὖ οἶδα καὶ μακρῷ τιμιώτερα τὰ παρόντα σοι νῦν ἢ κατὰ τὰ ὁρώμενα, ἦχος ἑορταζόντων, ἀγγέλων χορεία, τάξις οὐρανία, δόξης θεωρία, τῆς τε ἄλλης καὶ τῆς ἀνωτάτω Τριάδος ἔλλαμψις καθαρωτέρα τε καὶ τελεωτέρα, μηκέτι ὑποφευγούσης τὸν δέσμιον νοῦν καὶ διαχεόμενον ταῖς αἰσθήσεσιν, ἀλλ' ὅλης ὅλῳ νοῒ θεωρουμένης τε καὶ κρατουμένης, καὶ προσαστραπτούσης ταῖς ἡμετέραις ψυχαῖς ὅλῳ τῷ φωτὶ τῆς θεότητος. Πάντων ἀπολαύοις, ὧν ἔτι ὑπὲρ γῆς εἶχες τὰς ἀποῤῥοίας διὰ τὸ γνήσιον τῆς πρὸς αὐτὰ νεύσεως. Εἰ δέ τίς σοι καὶ τῶν ἡμετέρων ἐστὶ λόγος, καὶ τοῦτο ταῖς ὁσίαις ψυχαῖς ἐκ Θεοῦ γέρας, τῶν τοιούτων ἐπαισθάνεσθαι, δέχοιο καὶ τὸν ἡμέτερον λόγον ἀντὶ πολλῶν καὶ πρὸ πολλῶν ἐνταφίων, ὃν Καισαρίῳ μὲν πρὸ σοῦ, καὶ σοὶ μετ' ἐκεῖνον ἀποδεδώκαμεν, ἐπειδή γε ἀδελφῶν ἐπιταφίοις ἐταμιεύθημεν. Εἰ δὲ καὶ ἡμᾶς τιμήσειέ τις μεθ' ὑμᾶς τοῖς ἴσοις, οὐκ ἔχω λέγειν: πλὴν τιμηθείημέν γε μόνον τὴν ἐν Θεῷ τιμὴν, καὶ παροικοῦντες καὶ κατοικοῦντες ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν, ᾧ ἡ δόξα καὶ τῷ Πατρὶ σὺν ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. Ἀμήν.