Letter from Rabbula to Andrew of Samosata

The letter of Mar Rabbula, bishop of Edessa, to Andrew of Samosata. To my lord, honored in all things and beloved of God, bishop Andrew, Rabbula. While I was eager to meet with your God-fearingness, at the time of the illness that befell the body, at the time of the harshness of winter, and at the time of the heat, the approach to your God-fearingness was cut off. For formerly, when everything was hidden together with one another, from that which is revealed by good things, I was kept at a distance. Now, however, I am compelled to write to your God-fearingness, a memorandum of what came into my hands, by which the beginning of the Twelve Chapters is established, which were set down by the God-fearing bishop Cyril. First, then, I was informed that the book of Diodorus and Theodore is the one in which, while in a hidden manner they were all speaking against him, openly they were against him. When, however, the chapters of your own holiness were being sealed, I was amazed. It was right that I write this, and through those who write with your own diligence I will make known. The conflict of the minds has greatly disturbed me, and especially after the reconciliation, that two parties on account of one matter entered into you as if at the wonder of the Anastasis in the midst of Constantinople, saying: I confess the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom I have entrusted this whole thing, I am far from it, as if everything in joy I accepted that I might endure, or that I might participate in blasphemy, something like this.