Quote from Letter5,45 to Sabinian, deacon in Constantinopel. 1 June 595
For he has even come to this, that he has sent the Council's acts here, with the chance use of the priest John, in which he called himself the 'universal' patriarch on almost every line, But I hope in almighty God that our celestial Majesty is destroying that man's hypocrisy.
Yet I am suprised that he was able to deceive your Beloved into allowing his Lordship the emperor to be persuaded to send over his own letter about this case to me, in which he advised me that I should make peace with that bishop. For if the emperor wants to uphold justice, he ought to have advised him to refrain from that proud title, and there would have been peace between us at once.
I suspect, however, tht you did not consider at all how cunninly our afaoresaid brother, John, did this. For he did it so that our Lordship the emperor would be listenend to, and John whould seem to have been confirmed in his vanity, or he would not be listened to by me, and his mind would be irritated against me.
But we follow the path of righteousness, fearing nothing in this case other that the almighty Lord. Therefore, let your Beloved be in no way afraid, and for the sake of truth, despise all of those things that you see elevated in this world with the appearance of Truth, but contrary to it, and trust in the grace of almighty God and in the assistance of Saint Peter (..).
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