Letter 89
Whether this letter will find you still at Milan is anyone's guess. But I thought it would be a breach of friendship if I stopped replying to your letters just because of the uncertainty.
So without hesitation I've entrusted this simple greeting to chance. If it does reach you, please let me know by sending a reply — so that the return of your words proves the arrival of mine.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
Related Letters
Replying to the preceding letter Jerome again congratulates Theophilus on the success of his efforts to put down Origenism, and informs him that they have already borne fruit as far west as Italy. He then asks him for the decrees of his council (held recently at Alexandria). The date of the letter is 400 A.D.