{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/208/2080159.htm","path":"chr/ecf/208/2080159.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/208/2080159.htm","text":"Letter LXXXVI. 2293\nTo the Governor. 2294\nI know that a first and foremost object of your excellency is in every way to support the right; and after that to benefit your friends, and to exert yourself in behalf of those who have fled to your lordship\u2019s protection. Both these pleas are combined in the matter before us. The cause is right for p. 175 which we are pleading; it is dear to me who am numbered among your friends; it is due to those who are invoking the aid of your constancy in their sufferings. The corn, which was all my very, dear brother Dorotheus had for the necessaries of life, has been carried off by some of the authorities at Berisi, entrusted with the management of affairs, driven to this violence of their own accord or by others\u2019 instigation. Either way it is an indictable offence. For how does the man whose wickedness is his own do less wrong than he who is the mere minister of other men\u2019s wickedness? To the sufferers the loss is the same. I implore you, therefore, that Dorotheus may have his corn returned by the men by whom he has been robbed, and that they may not be allowed to lay the guilt of their outrage on other men\u2019s shoulders. If you grant me my request I shall reckon the value of the boon conferred by your excellency in proportion to the necessity of providing one\u2019s self with food.\nOf the same date as the preceding.\n174:2294\nProbably to Elias. Three manuscripts add \u201cof recommendation on behalf of presbyters about the carrying off of corn.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VIII: The Letters.: To the Governor.","type":"page"}