Letter from Pennes to apa Paieous with prayers and greetings TM 16857Herakleopolites bzw. Kynopolites

[column 1] [To our lord and] brother […] apa Paieous, Pennes, [in the Lord very many] greetings. [Before all things] I pray to the Lord God […] having brought with […] the one who has all things […] of the brothers toiling together […] the disposition toward the brother […] you especially that with God […] one another the […] which advances among us […] this. I pray therefore to the ever-remembered God at all hours for you and for [the brothers] in Christ; for indeed it is fitting to remember one another in the Lord Christ for the health of us both; and doing this we shall be called Christians in Christ. And this I hold in my breast, that even if we are far from one another, in the faith of the ever-remembered God and our Saviour we […] and on him [column 2] is our salvation, being by the power of Christ with those who practise his great power and who have held fast to the name. I greet you much and all the brothers by name who are with you, and the blessed Paulos greets you and the brothers with you, and all the brothers with us greet you together with all the brothers with you. Your love has appeared in all things, that which is proclaimed beforehand, especially that attested to us by Psais and Harpokras, fishermen, so that it has also been counted together with the other acts of love. And doing this we shall be called fellow-Christs. [verso] […] to apa Paieous […]os. […]