Hormisdas, Bishop, to Justin Augustus.

With the sequence of your letters, strong through the aid of religion, and with the most desired congratulation of your devotion received, we have given thanks to the Divinity, because you have given proof that what we might have urged can easily be done by you.

Hence it is that, because you spontaneously desire what is praiseworthy, the lineage of your race has worthily attained the summit of sovereignty. Wherefore, persist and press forward with souls of religious vigor, so that, just as your lineage merited the height of empire for the beginning of its good will, eternal triumphs of glory may be yours through perfection.

See with what desire the world, long mocked, urges itself toward the joys of peace. Look upon the spirits of all, raised by the presumption of your favor with the certain hope of rest.

There is no room for doubt to insert itself, no room for any ambiguity to arise, when you testify—what we indeed well know—that the prayers of a religious prince contribute to the harmony of the Churches.

Wherefore, giving thanks to your great magnanimity, we entreat with as much supplication as we can that the name of Acacius, with his followers, which fully hinders the joy of the Churches’ unity, be removed by the order of condemnation.

For we have sent legates suited to the quality of this cause who, being present, may ensure that the beginning of joy you have given can be fulfilled according to what is contained in our mandates.