To the Presbyter Theodotus

The struggles your piety has endured on behalf of the apostolic teachings are not unknown. They are often spoken of, both by those who have seen them for themselves and by others who have heard of them from these. Keep up your efforts, my dear sir, and fight for the teachings of the Fathers. For their sake I too am battered from every side; and as I take the shock of the great waves, I beg our Helmsman either to nod his head and scatter the storm, or by his grace to give those caught in the storm the strength to be brave. [a]