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To Candidus, Presbyter and Archimandrite.
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To Candidus, Presbyter and Archimandrite.

CXXVIII. To Candidus, Presbyter and Archimandrite. 1934

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 p. 301 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.

Footnotes
  1. 300:1934

    Garnerius would date this letter at the time of the council of Chalcedon.

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