51 surviving letters between Isidore of Pelusium and Peter, spanning 401-425 AD.
On the text: "Do not practice your almsgiving before others" [Matthew 6:1].
On the text: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" [John 2:19].
Even during the tyranny of Eusebius — as you have written — when the friends of virtue were being destroyed, no one...
They stood firm against the passions — the very passions they had previously acknowledged defeat against.
The usurper must be reprimanded — not to gratify those who are watching, and not to make a point at his expense, but...
On "heap burning coals on his head" [Romans 12:20]: repaying evil with good is not merely a clever strategy for...
We owe thanks for everything — not merely for the blessings we recognize as blessings, but also for the trials we...
Truth is powerful, Peter — and often silent.
The priesthood is a sacred trust, not a career.
“On haughtiness, self-conceit, and humility.”
“To Peter.”
“To Peter, a monk.”
“To the same person.”
“To Peter, the Corrector [corrector, a Roman provincial governor].”
“To Peter, archimandrite [head of a monastery].”
“To Peter, the city councillor.”
“To Peter the Scholasticus [an advocate, lawyer].”
“To Peter the Lector [anagnostes, a reader in the church].”
“To Peter, an archimandrite.”
“On rulers.”
“To Peter Since you have written, "What is the meaning of, 'They shall beat their swords into plowshares'?”
“To Peter the Corrector [corrector, a Roman provincial governor].”
“To Peter, the Reader [lector/anagnostes].”
“To Peter the monk.”
“To Peter the Scholasticus [a lawyer or advocate].”
“To Peter the Scholasticus [an advocate or man of legal learning].”
The spiritual life is a journey with a beginning, a middle, and an end.