NOTE: — 4 —

... [the] orthodox religion of the most true-born sons of her travails, wounded in spirit by such nation-hating ravings of theirs, and so as not to give place in the fertile field of the mind of not even one of the true-born sons of our ancestral holy church to the corrupting spread of their thorn-bearing roots, having brought [that work], you presented it to us along with your particular written supplication, requesting of us to uproot them. Wherefore we also, having taken heart at such God-pleasing zeal of yours, according to the allowance of our own capacity and according to the assistance of divine grace, in the midst of our prolonged [and] soul-wasting infirmities, set [our] hand on the 20th of November in the year 1859, through the words [that are] according to God, to refute one by one the feeblemindedness of their confessions appearing in that writing; and we hope that this manner of our labor...