Letter 151

Nilus of Ancyrathe Decurion|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted

To the Same Person.

Narrow is the gate, and afflicted is the road that leads away to life, and few are those who find it [Matthew 7:14]. If, then, those who find it are few, fewer still would be those who have the strength to enter; and they have not entered because of their own negligence.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.

Latin / Greek Original

Στενὴ ἡ πύλη, καὶ τεθλιμμένη ἡ ὁδὸς ἡ ἀπάγουσα εἰς τὴν ζωήν, καὶ ὀλίγοι εἰσὶν οἱ εὑρίσκοντες αὐτήν. εἰ τοίνυν οἱ εὑρίσκοντες ὑπάρχουσιν ὀλίγοι, ὀλιγώτεροι ἂν εἶεν οἱ εἰσελθεῖν ἐξησχοῦντες· οὐκ εἰσελήθασι δὲ διὰ οἰκείαν ἀμέλειαν.

Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: project source import

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