Letter 215: Chrysostom praises Pelagius's kindness and asks for continuing news of his health.

I know your gentleness, fairness, kindness, sweetness, the warmth of your love, and the genuineness of your disposition toward us. For that reason I greet your Honor with great eagerness and make this plain: wherever I am, I carry you in my thoughts. So that we may receive another joy, not only from writing but also from learning about your health, keep telling us these things. Even if we were carried into a harsher wilderness than this one, letters like these from people who love us would give us great gladness.

ΣΙΕʹ. Πελαγίῳ πρεσβυτέρῳ. Οἶδά σου τὸ πρᾶον, τὸ ἐπιεικὲς, τὸ χρηστὸν, τὸ γλυκὺ, τὸ θερμὸν τῆς ἀγάπης, τὸ γνήσιον τῆς διαθέσεως τῆς περὶ ἡμᾶς. ∆ιὸ καὶ προσαγορεύω σου τὴν τιμιότητα μετὰ πολλῆς τῆς προθυμίας, καὶ δῆλον ποιῶ, ὅτι ὅπουπερ ἂν ὦ, ἐπὶ διανοίας σε περιφέρω. Παρακαλῶ τοίνυν, ἵνα καὶ ἑτέραν δεχώμεθα τὴν εὐφροσύνην, μὴ μόνον ἀπὸ τοῦ γράφειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ μανθάνειν τὰ περὶ τῆς ὑγείας τῆς σῆς, δήλου ἡμῖν ταῦτα συνεχῶς. Κἂν γὰρ εἰς χαλεπωτέραν ταύτης ἐρημίαν ἀπενεχθῶμεν, δεχόμενοι τοιαῦτα παρ' ὑμῶν τῶν ἀγαπώντων ἡμᾶς γράμματα, πολλῆς ἀπολαυσόμεθα τῆς εὐφροσύνης.