CHAP. I. — It is sufficiently clear from the discourse of your Fraternity which we have received, how pious and praiseworthy a care you have lately expended upon the grief of all the Churches, by making known to us what things you have learned to have been done at Alexandria to the reproach of the Christian religion, so that the glorious and most clement emperor might, even by my prayers, be entreated concerning remedies to be provided. Whose faith indeed is so laudable and whose devotion so ready, that the things which were fitting for ecclesiastical peace, without the intercession of anyone, as you yourself indicate, he freely bestowed, repelling all the snares of the heretics; who reckoned that they had found an opportunity of the time, wherein to annul the decrees of the holy Council of Chalcedon. CHAP. II.
— But thanks be to God, who after the departure of Marcian of holy and venerable memory, has by the choice of all provided such a prince, that in his virtues both the Roman commonwealth and the Christian religion might rejoice. Following therefore the exhortation of your love, as far as I ought I have supplicated the glorious prince, that heretical audacity might no longer be able to claim anything for itself in the invasion of the Alexandrian Church; but that, a wholesome end being set to its nefarious attempts, provision might be made both for ecclesiastical liberty and for peace. It remains that your Fraternity too, from the opportunity of the presence of the most faithful emperor, strive more earnestly to entreat his mind concerning the decrees of the holy Council of Chalcedon being preserved without any retraction;
...so that those things which were decreed under the inspiration of God may suffer no corruption from any change. But to what advancement the care of this devotion proceeds, you ought to instruct me by the frequent letters of your Charity, that we may alike glory in the Lord over the holy zeal of our most clement prince. Given on the fifth day before the Ides of July, in the consulship of Constantine and Rufus.