Nilus of Ancyra→Capito|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Capito the Steward.
Do not love your hands, praising them and counting yourself blessed, as though it were through them that you maintain both your own household and many other vagabonds and worthless men; rather, give thanks to God, who both gave you your hands and provides for you. But if, forgetting God, you worship your hands, be afraid, lest at some time your hands be paralyzed through infirmity, or be withered away.
Do not love your hands, praising them and counting yourself blessed, as though it were through them that you maintain both your own household and many other vagabonds and worthless men; rather, give thanks to God, who both gave you your hands and provides for you. But if, forgetting God, you worship your hands, be afraid, lest at some time your hands be paralyzed through infirmity, or be withered away.
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