Letter 128: I am afraid that the vigor of your godly spirit has been overcome by old age, and that you can no longer keep your...
Letter 128
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To Candidus, Presbyter and Archimandrite.
I am afraid that the vigour of your godly soul has been overcome by old age, and that you do not keep your hands stretched out as usual. So Amalek is trying to win. May there be some to succour your weakness, as once of old Ur and Aaron supported the hands of the law-giver, that you may overthrow Amalek and save Israel. These are days when we specially need more earnest prayers, when Gentiles and Jews and every heresy are at peace, and the Church alone is beaten by the storm and surrounded by the boisterous billows.
We indeed specially need the aid of your prayers, for those whom we reckoned to be fighting on our side are fighting on that of our foes.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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