Letter 67: It was really your task, my good sir, to summon the rest to the feast of the dedication as well.
Letter 67
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To Maranas.
It was your work, my good Sir, to call the rest also to the feast of the dedication. Through your zeal and energy the holy temple has been built, and the loud-voiced heralds of the truth have come to dwell therein, and guard them that approach there in faith. Nevertheless I write and signify the season of the feast.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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