Letter 105: We have heard from many quarters of your piety's efforts on behalf of true religion.
Letter 105
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To Eulogius the Œconomus.
We have heard from many sources of your piety's efforts on behalf of true religion. It is therefore right that you should readily succour one who is calumniated for the same cause, and should refute the reviler's lies. You, O godly Sir, know what I hold, and what I teach, and that no one has ever heard of my preaching two sons. Exert, I implore you, in this case too your divine energy, and stop the mouths of the evil speakers. In conflicts of this kind one must help not only one's friends but even those who have caused us pain.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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