Epistula ad Philippenses

But I have neither perceived nor heard any such thing among you, among whom the blessed Paul laboured, who are praised in the beginning of his Epistle.[*](The Greek was perhaps τοῖς οὖσιν ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐπιστολαῖς αὐτοῦ, and ought to be rendered who were his epistles in the beginning, with a reference to II Cor. 3, 2.) For concerning you he boasts in all the Churches who then alone had known the Lord, for we had not yet known him.

Therefore,[*](The treatment of Valens) brethren, I am deeply sorry for him [*](i.e. Valens) and for his wife, and may the Lord grant them true repentance. Therefore be yourselves also moderate in this matter, and do not regard such men as enemies, but call them back as fallible and straying members, that you may make whole the body of you all. For in doing this you edify yourselves.