Letter 847: The priesthood is a sacred trust, not a career.
To Palladios.
That false doctrine [kakodoxia, heterodoxy] is a grievous thing, and that the labors of those mastered by it are profitless.
Recover yourself, my excellent friend, and recover your understanding, which has fallen sick and been corrupted, and has passed into non-being; for that, perhaps, would have been the lesser evil; but it has turned aside into false doctrine.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ὅτι χαλεπὸν ἡ κακοδοξία καὶ ἀνόνητοι τῶν ταύτῃ κεκρατημένων οἱ πόνοι.
Ἀνάκτησαι σαυτόν, ὦ βέλτιστε, τὴν ὑπόληψιν, οὗ νοσήσασαν καὶ διαφθαρεῖσαν, καὶ εἰς τὸ μὴ ὂν χωρήσασαν· ἧττον γὰρ ἂν ἦν ἴσως κακόν· ἀλλ᾽ εἰς κακοδοξίαν τραπεῖσαν.
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