{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/208/2080352.htm","path":"chr/ecf/208/2080352.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/208/2080352.htm","text":"Letter CCLXXIX. 3238\nAlthough so numerous are my letters, conveyed to your excellency by as many bearers, yet, having regard to the especial honour you have shewn me, I cannot think that their large number causes you any annoyance.\nI do not hesitate therefore to entrust to this brother the accompanying letter: I know that he will meet with all that he wishes, and that you will count me but as a benefactor in furnishing occasion for the gratification of your kind inclinations. He craves your advocacy. His cause he will explain in person, if you but deign to regard him with a favourable eye, and embolden him to speak freely in the presence of so august an authority. Accept my assurance that any kindness shewn to him, I shall regard as personal to myself. His special reason for leaving Tyana and coming to me was the high value he attached to the presentation of a letter written by myself in support of his application. That he may not be disappointed of his hope; that I may continue in the enjoyment of your consideration; that your interest in all that is good may, in this present matter, find scope for its full exercise\u2014are the p. 312 grounds on which I crave a gracious reception for him, and a place amongst those nearest to you.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VIII: The Letters.: To Modestus the Prefect.","type":"page"}