Letter 66: You have scorned temporal profit and chosen the divine reward instead.
To Apollonius.
My sickness was advancing as I would have wished, drawing me little by little out of the storm [of this life]. But since God has once more allowed me to remain, and has commanded me to abide amid the waves, help me toward the voyage with your intercessions, so that we may suffer nothing foreign to the calm.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἐμοὶ κατὰ γνώμην προὐχώρει ἡ ἀσθένεια, κατὰ μικρὸν με τῆς ζάλης ὑπεξάγουσα. Ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ πάλιν ὁ Θεὸς εἴασε μένειν τῶν κυμάτων ἐκέλευσε, βοηθεῖ πρὸς τὸν πλοῦν ταῖς πρεσβείαις, μή τι πάθωμεν (12) ἀλλότριον τῆς γαλήνης.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern isidore pelusium workflow v1.
Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/PatrologiaGraeca (PG vol.78)