I gladly receive that the offices of charity are a concern to your love; and I exhort that you make use of them more frequently: since it pertains to the benefit of the whole Church, when we come to know the things which are done. But in what solicitude it befits your love to be vigilant you undoubtedly understand; because you recognize that some remnants of depraved men have settled among you, in the suppressing, or rather — as far as the Lord gives aid — the abolishing of which we desire you to press on urgently: lest, which God forbid, under some sloth of leniency, the things which have been more tardily destroyed should regain strength. Given on the third day before the Ides of March, Valentinian Augustus being consul for the eighth time.
Thanks be to God, that in all things which pertain to the state of the Church and to the sacrament of the faith, in nothing has the diligence of your love failed me, which I understand to keep watch vigilantly, lest the snares of the heretics avail to obtain anything against the evangelical and apostolic doctrine. Since indeed, as you deign to indicate, those things which the Eutychianists strove to stir up after the death of Prince Marcian of venerable memory, have been destroyed by your efficacy and that of those whom the Spirit of God has stirred up with you, the very truth pleading its own cause:
because there is nothing more fruitful unto eternal blessedness, both for your Fraternity and for all the faithful of Christ, and especially for the glorious and catholic Augustus (as we prove), than that those things which were founded by the very author of our hope should be violated by no wickedness of perverse men, but should abide in secure peace unto the perpetual tranquility of the Church. What therefore has, with the Lord's help, been piously and profitably taken care of, let it be fortified by persevering work. For certain rumors are brought to us concerning the audacities of the Alexandrian people, which we cannot for that reason more fully indicate, because we have not yet fully come to know the deeds which are reported.
SedhocvobisprouniversaliEcclesialaborandumest, utsiverasuntquæactadicuntur, sanctæChalcedonenaisynodopræjudicarenonpossint,utquæinstruenteSpiritusanctoadtotiusmundisalutemdefinitasunt, inviolatapermaneant, Dat. kal. Junii, ConstantinoetRufocoss.
But this must be labored for by you on behalf of the universal Church, that if those things which are said to have been done are true, they may not be able to prejudice the holy Council of Chalcedon, so that the things which, by the Holy Spirit instructing, were defined for the salvation of the whole world, may remain inviolate. Given on the Kalends of June, Constantine and Rufus being consuls.