Letter 68
Full of hope since you announced your forthcoming visit, I'm putting the spur to those already hurrying, and I ask your help in this: urge forward as champion what others have already set in motion. My memory of your kindness will stand forever, and it won't stay silent — provided you see to the tasks my brothers have delegated. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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When at a subsequent period Rufinus gave to the world what was in Jerome's opinion a misleading version of Origen's First Principles, he appealed to this letter as giving him ample warranty for what he had done. See Letters LXXX, and LXXXI, and Rufinus' Preface to the περί ᾿Αεχῶν in Vol. iii.