Letter 872: The spiritual life is a journey with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
To Timothy, scholastic [a lawyer].
One must be neither a boaster nor a flatterer; but, chastising the excess of both these vices, one should be free [in the sense of free-spirited, befitting a free man], inclining neither toward arrogance nor falling into servility.
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Latin / Greek Original
Οὔτε ἀλαζόνα εἶναι χρή, οὔτε κόλακα· ἀλλ' ἀμ-
φοτέρων τῶν κακιῶν (4) τούτων τὴν ἀμετρίαν κο-
λάζοντα, ἐλευθέριον εἶναι, μήτε εἰς αὐθάδειαν
ἀποκλίνοντα, μήτε εἰς δουλοπρέπειαν καταπί-
πτοντα.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
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