Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 35

Without address.

I written to you about many people as belonging to myself; now I mean to write about more.&#160; The poor can never fail, and I can never say, no.&#160; There is no one more intimately associated with me, nor better able to do me kindnesses wherever he has the ability, than the reverend brother Leontius.&#160; So treat his house as if you had found me, not in that poverty in which now by God&#8217;s help I am living, but endowed with wealth and landed property.&#160; There is no doubt that you would not have made me poor, but would have taken care of what I had, or even added to my possessions.&#160; This is the way I ask you to behave in the house of Leontius.&#160; You will get your accustomed reward from me; my prayers to the holy God for the trouble you are taking in shewing yourself a good man and true, and in anticipating the supplication of the needy.