Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VIII:
The Letters.: To Jovinus, Bishop of Perrha.

p. 192 Letter CXVIII. 2393

To Jovinus, Bishop of Perrha. 2394

You owe me a good turn.  For I lent you a kindness, which I ought to get back with interest;—a kind of interest, this, which our Lord does not refuse.  Pay me, then, my friend, by paying me a visit.  So much for the capital; what of the increment?  It is the fact of the visit being paid by you, who are a man as much superior to me, as fathers are better than children.

Footnotes

Placed at the end of 372 or the beginning of 373.

The mss. vary between Jovinus and Jobinus.  cf. Theodoret, Ecc. Hist. iv. 13.