To our dearest brother Bishop Dorotheus, Bishop Hormisdas.

Where it is of interest to charity to keep the precepts, even if something happens that might move anyone’s spirits, it must still be overlooked equanimously that what we have previously said about the conversation of concord should be maintained, because indeed if anything arises out of ignorance, it can receive an excuse from simplicity itself. Our God has established His Church by His own ordination, which is known to be arranged by divine precepts, and cannot in any way be bypassed, whose knowledge or understanding you should not be ignorant of. For in doing good we are praised, and then the cultivation of words is adorned when it rightly joins together things that are fitting. Indeed, we have received letters through Patricius, our distinguished son, of your charity, in which we hope to find a full and commendable work, so that there would be nothing that could separate from the integrity of unity. But because in these same letters you promise this affection, which can specially provoke us to what we have previously said, we pour out prayers to our Lord, that He, whose cause is being discussed, having wiped out or removed all scandals, and His Church, may make them connected under one consensus and equal faith: nor allow anything to be found in His priests that anyone’s own hatreds, or vain intentions, or the desire to please men at the expense of God, which is abominable, and not rather all things, according to the blessed apostle, despising worldly things, cannot stray from the hope of the future. I urge for the common remedy, I invite for the salvation of the faithful, I persuade for the general medicine. For who is content to see these divided, whose unity can be glorified! Hence the need is for common labor, so that what we have received from our Fathers, preserving it according to his guidance, we may stand at the divine judgment.