Nilus of Ancyra→Berimus|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Berimus the Protos [proteuon, a leading citizen / chief civic magistrate].
Even if, as you say, you are without confidence [parrhesia, the boldness of free access to God] and unclean, do not cast yourself into despair; for you have confidence in the blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God. For he himself accepted death on behalf of impious, and unclean, and unconfident men. And he himself promises in the prophet Isaiah, saying: And it shall come to pass in that day, when the good Lord is also willing to be well pleased, that, as you make confession with tears, you shall find rest from the pain of your transgressions and from the harsh slavery in which you were enslaved to the demons through shameful conduct. And again he says: The dead shall rise -- not only bodily then, in the universal resurrection of the dead, but also now, already from this present moment, those shall be raised up spiritually who lie wickedly idle upon the earth, entombed in various base deeds. For having received the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit, as it is written, let us groan, awaiting adoption as sons, and after baptism the redemption of our body -- that is, the freedom of a body that has been enslaved and worn down by sin. For the creation, he says, shall be set free -- from the slavery and the corruption into the glory of freedom, and incorruption, and everlastingness, and unchangeableness, and joy unspeakable, and the wearing of the crown.
To Berimus the Protos [proteuon, a leading citizen / chief civic magistrate].
Even if, as you say, you are without confidence [parrhesia, the boldness of free access to God] and unclean, do not cast yourself into despair; for you have confidence in the blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God. For he himself accepted death on behalf of impious, and unclean, and unconfident men. And he himself promises in the prophet Isaiah, saying: And it shall come to pass in that day, when the good Lord is also willing to be well pleased, that, as you make confession with tears, you shall find rest from the pain of your transgressions and from the harsh slavery in which you were enslaved to the demons through shameful conduct. And again he says: The dead shall rise -- not only bodily then, in the universal resurrection of the dead, but also now, already from this present moment, those shall be raised up spiritually who lie wickedly idle upon the earth, entombed in various base deeds. For having received the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit, as it is written, let us groan, awaiting adoption as sons, and after baptism the redemption of our body -- that is, the freedom of a body that has been enslaved and worn down by sin. For the creation, he says, shall be set free -- from the slavery and the corruption into the glory of freedom, and incorruption, and everlastingness, and unchangeableness, and joy unspeakable, and the wearing of the crown.
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