1.  WHEN  our  son  Leporius,  whom  for  his  obstinacy  in  error
you  had  justly  and  fitly  rebuked,  came  to  us  after  he  had  been
expelled  by  you,  we  received  him  as  one  afflicted  for  his  good,
whom  we  should,  if  possible,  deliver  from  error  and  restore  to
spiritual  health.  For,  as  you  obeyed  in  regard  to  him  the
apostolic  precept,  "  Warn  the  unruly,"  so  it  was  our  part  to  obey
the  precept  immediately  annexed,  "  Comfort  the  feeble-minded,
and  support  the  weak." l  His  error  was  indeed  not  unimportant,
seeing  that  he  neither  approved  what  is  right  nor  perceived  what
is  true  in  some  tilings  relating  to  the  only-begotten  Son  of  God,
of  whom  it  is  written  that,  "  In  the  beginning  was  the  Word.
