Letter 128
To a Bishop
Expelled from his Bishopric because he was unwilling to subscribe to the Arian dogma.
You have recovered what you were, you have not lost it. For when one is struck off from the list of impiety, he is not at the same moment deprived of the throne of piety. Welcome this banishment of yours from Egypt, and believe that it was also to you that the prophet cried aloud, 'What has thou to do with the land of Egypt, that thou shouldest drink from the water of Geon?' (Cf. Jer. ii.18). It is a race which has for a long time been rebellious to God and an enemy of the Holy Fathers.