APIS Translation (English)
"(Christian sign) First I greet the honor of your Paternity. As to what your Kindness wrote me concerning the peasant: I do not restrain you from your demanding of him (the equivalent of) all that you do for him. And concerning the brother Theodore, the brother whom you sent me with the letter: I had him speak with him. Question him; he will tell you what he said. Be so good, pray for us. I greet the brethren who are with you.";Verso: "Give it to my father, the great X man, Apa Dorotheos, the Father Superior (of the Mount). From the least, John."