If I could speak as you deign to believe, Latin speech would inopportunely grate upon Greek ears. But since in our tongue that will be the more intelligible which shall have been the less polished, in the letters which you have ordered to be offered through my fellow servant, even faults may be dictated with security. Certainly they themselves, by whatever interpreter they may scrutinize what we wish to say, I have come to know in the accustomed address, pious in condescension — if it may be said, by the interpreting proof of a most pious lord. For the rest, may Christ repay you in turn for the perseverance of grace which you preserve toward your special servants.
This too is shown to be such in this very youth whom you send: since, considering in neither case an advantage, but in both a reward, you have as it were nourished a son for yourselves, and as it were return a foster-child to his father.