Letter 111
To Euandrius.
You make many of the orthodox laugh at you, calling your paltry fables [mytharia, little tales] "mysteries." Yet indeed every heresy outside the Church of Christ names its deranged notions "mysteries." In this way the Manichaeans too call the books of their impiety and lawlessness "mysteries" and "a treasure of good things"; for already the mystery of perdition is at work [cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:7].
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Latin / Greek Original
Καταγελᾷν σου πολλοὺς τῶν ὀρθοδόξων παρασκευάζεις, μυστήρια τὰ μυθάρια καλῶν. Πλὴν καὶ πᾶσα αἵρεσις ἔξω τῆς Χριστοῦ Ἐκκλησίας, μυστήρια ὀνομάζει τὰ παραφρονήματα. Οὕτω καὶ Μανιχαῖοι μυστήρια καὶ θησαυρὸν ἀγαθῶν ἀποκαλοῦσι τὰ βιβλία τῆς δυσσεβείας, καὶ τῆς παρανομίας· ἤδη γὰρ ἐνεργεῖται τὸ μυστήριον τῆς ἀπωλείας.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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