Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Letters/Letter 9

''IX. To an Anonymous Correspondent.''

Your piety is annoyed and distressed at the sentence passed on me unjustly and without a trial. I am comforted that you are so feeling. Had I been justly condemned I should have been sorry at having given my judges reasonable grounds for what they have done, but, as it is, my conscience is quite clear, and I feel joyful and exultant and look forward to the remission of other sins on account of this injustice. Naboth lives in men&#8217;s memories only because he suffered that unjust death. Only pray that we be not abandoned of God and let the enemy continue to do his worst. God&#8217;s good will is enough to make me very cheerful and if He is on my side I despise all my troubles as trifles.