Final Exhortation to Unity

We thought it sufficient to have completed the main part of our exposition and to add the rest from home—for, as you say, Didymus will provide a wise starting point and an even wiser one—and we believe these things have been written without delay. It is enough to add a brief exhortation.

For we urge you to remain sons of peace, so that you may fulfill the apostolic command, being of one mind and having shared in the sufferings for Christ. Do not give the evil one an opportunity to divide those who are well-joined, nor make yourselves more easy prey to the wolves by confirming their wishes through schism. For I have learned how many labors you have endured for the sake of orthodoxy. Therefore, having overcome the threats and the pressures from the opponents, do not give any occasion for division, lest hatred, if it should find a place, should creep in shortly and lay great precipices before you.

But also in the doxologies, the Spirit must be co-doxologized with the Father and the Son, and know this: that those who sin by the unforgivable sin through blasphemy against the Spirit (Matt 12:31), they in vain turn away from fellowship with the Arians. For with them they shall be condemned. But we wish for you to have kept the body of the church without strife, to live peacefully in the remaining time of this present age, and to stand gloriously before the judgment seat of Christ (2 Cor 5:10) on the day of judgment.