{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/203/2030198.htm","path":"chr/ecf/203/2030198.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/203/2030198.htm","text":"IX. To an Anonymous Correspondent.\nYour 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\u2019s 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\u2019s good will is enough to make me very cheerful and if He is on my side I despise all my troubles as trifles. 1625\nProbably the condemnation referred to is the imperial Edict of March 449 relegating Theodoret to the limits of his own diocese. cf. Epp. 79. 80.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. III: The Ec...","type":"page"}