Letter 800

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

To the Same Person.

One must not despair of being saved through the compassion of Christ. Behold, even now he speaks through the prophet: "I do not desire the death of a sinner, but his turning back." [cf. Ezekiel 33:11] Turn back to me after your sin. "Does not he who falls rise again?" [Jeremiah 8:4] Let us therefore rise.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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

Οὐκ ἀπελπιστέον σωθῆναι δι’ εὐσπλαγχνίας Χριστοῦ. Ἰδοὺ καὶ νῦν διὰ τοῦ προφήτου· «Οὐ βούλομαι ἁμαρτωλοῦ θάνατον, ἀλλ’ ἐπιστροφήν.» Πρὸς με ἀνάστρεφον μετὰ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν. «Μὴ ὁ πίπτων οὐκ ἀνίσταται;» Ἀναστῶμεν τοιγάρτοι.

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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