Letter from Paulos and Tapiam to Nepheros and Ophellios asking for prayers TM 33555AlexandriaIV

[recto] To Ophellios and the other beloved brothers, Paulos and Tapiam, greetings in the Lord. First of all we pray night and day that our letter may be delivered to you in good health of soul and body, and then also now to remind your kindness that in your prayers you remember to name us, on account of our sojourn abroad, and our children. For I, Tapiam, fell ill and am still bedridden. We beg you, therefore, pray for our full recovery; for before this too our children fell ill and through your prayers they recovered. For we believe that the Lord will hear you, since you are righteous. For we too pray to reach our end in our own house, and we wish very soon to be released from the hardship of the world among our own people, if the Master deems us worthy to be kept safe in our sojourn abroad. And you, lord brother Nepheros, make a few loaves for us from the wheat that Papnouthis owes and send them to us, so that I may find them when I am with my children; for I wish, with God, to come up to you and to have them on the boat. We greet all the beloved brothers by name, and the virgins of God, and our father Horion and the mother Tienor and Pinas and all our other brothers [margin] by name. May divine providence keep you in good health always in soul and body. [verso] To my lords, the beloved brothers Nepheros and Ophellios and the others, Paulos […]