Letter 98: We are distressed to see the tempest assailing the churches, but their Master and Ruler — through mighty billows —...
Letter 98
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To Pancharius.
We are distressed to see the tempest of the churches, but their Master and Ruler ever through mighty billows shows to men His own wisdom and power. He rebukes the winds and brings about a calm as He did when He was in the apostles boat. So though I am distressed, nevertheless because I know this power of our Saviour and am aware of what He arranges for us, even though adversity befall me, I give thanks and accept it as a gift of God. I have learned the lesson to care little for the present, and to wait for the expected blessings. But it behooves your excellency zealously to defend the apostolic faith, that you may receive from the God of all the recompense of such conduct.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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