Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VII/Letters of Gregory Nazianzen/Miscellaneous Letters/To Theodore, Bishop of Tyana/Letter CXV

Ep. CXV.

(Sent about Easter 382 with a copy of the Philocalia, or Chrestomathy of Origen&#8217;s works edited by himself and S. Basil.)

You anticipate the Festival, and the letters, and, which is better still, the time by your eagerness, and you bestow on us a preliminary festival.&#160; Such is what Your Reverence gives us.&#160; And we in return give you the greatest thing we have, our prayers.&#160; But that you may have some small thing to remember us by, we send you the volume of the Philocalia of Origen, containing a selection of passages useful to students of literature.&#160; Deign to accept this, and give us a proof of its usefulness, being aided by diligence and the Spirit.