Letter 205: If words alone could destroy wickedness, every teacher would be a savior.
Isidore of Pelusium→Theodore|c. 406 AD|Isidore of Pelusium|To Theodore (recipient)|AI-assisted
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To Theodore.
The good are gathered into vessels, and the bad are cast outside the dragnet [an allusion to the parable of the net, Matthew 13:47-48]; that is, I say, when the Church of the Lord is searched through, since all were sealed with the name of Christ and were united into one harmony. And there are gathered into vessels, that is, into the eternal dwellings, the dispositions that have remained in the truth; but there are cast outside the kingdom the heretical ones and those opposed to right belief.
The good are gathered into vessels, and the bad are cast outside the dragnet [an allusion to the parable of the net, Matthew 13:47-48]; that is, I say, when the Church of the Lord is searched through, since all were sealed with the name of Christ and were united into one harmony. And there are gathered into vessels, that is, into the eternal dwellings, the dispositions that have remained in the truth; but there are cast outside the kingdom the heretical ones and those opposed to right belief.
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