Letter 798
To Nilus.
Upon certain of those who are unwilling to repent of their own faults, the Lord brings affliction and bodily torment, so that through the punishment of those persons the harmonious and more sensitive souls, before they suffer anything grievous, may come to amendment, and may not linger in any defect, even if it seems a slight one.
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Latin / Greek Original
Τισὶ τῶν μὴ θελόντων ἐπὶ τοῖς ἰδίοις σφάλμασι μετανοεῖν, ἐπιφέρει Κύριος θλῖψιν καὶ βασανισμὸν σώματος, ὅπως διὰ τῆς ἐκείνων κολάσεως οἱ ἐμμελεῖς καὶ εὐαισθητότεροι, πρὶν τι σκυθρωπὸν ὑποστῆναι, εἰς διόρθωσιν ἔλθωσι, καὶ μὴ χρονίζωσιν ἐν τινὶ ἐλαττώματι, κἂν βραχὺ τοῦτο δοκῇ.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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