Letter 214: Chrysostom tells Sebastianus that love overcomes bodily separation and asks for health news.

Although we are separated from your Honor in body, we are bound to you by love. Wherever we may be, even if we are carried to the very ends of the inhabited world, we carry your disposition in our memory. I do not think I need to doubt that you also keep us constantly in mind. I know the genuineness of your feeling, the firmness of your love, and the steadiness of your mind. So I ask you to keep writing to us, and to send us the good news of your health. We are very eager to learn it, and even while living in the wilderness we will draw much comfort from such letters.

ΣΙ∆ʹ. Σεβαστιανῷ πρεσβυτέρῳ. Εἰ καὶ τῷ σώματι κεχωρίσμεθά σου τῆς τιμιότητος, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῇ ἀγάπῃ σοι συνδεδέμεθα, καὶ ὅπουπερ ἂν ὦμεν, περιφέρομέν σου τὴν διάθεσιν ἐπὶ τῆς μνήμης, κἂν εἰς αὐτὰ τῆς οἰκουμένης ἀπενεχθῶμεν τὰ τέρματα. Ὅτι δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ἄληστον ἔχεις τὴν μνήμην ἡμῶν, οὐδὲν οἶμαι δεῖν ἀμφιβάλλειν. Οἶδα γάρ σου τὸ γνήσιον τῆς διαθέσεως, τῆς ἀγάπης τὸ στεῤῥὸν, τὸ ἀπερίτρεπτον τῆς γνώμης. ∆ιὸ καὶ παρακαλοῦμεν συνεχῶς ἡμῖν ἐπιστέλλειν, καὶ τὰ περὶ τῆς ὑγείας τῆς σῆς εὐαγγελίζεσθαι. Σφόδρα γὰρ ἡμῖν περισπούδαστον περὶ ταύτης μανθάνειν· καὶ πολλὴν καὶ ἐν ἐρημίᾳ διατρίβοντες ἀπὸ τῶν τοιούτων γραμμάτων καρπωσόμεθα τὴν παράκλησιν.