Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 03 — CLXII. Letter of Theodoretus to Andreas, Bishop of Samosata, written from Ephesus. [2268]
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 3
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Writing from Ephesus I salute your holiness, I congratulate you on your infirmity, and deem you dear to God, in that you have known what evil deeds have been going on here by report, and not by personal experience. Evil indeed! They transcend all imagination and all incidents of history; they compel a continual downpour of tears. The body of the Church is in peril of dismemberment;--nay, rather I may say it has received the first incision;--unless the wise Healer restore and re-connect the unsound and severed limbs. Once again the Egyptian is raging against God, and warring with Moses …
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