Letter 909
To Panegyrius the Deacon.
If you long to enter into the kingdom of the heavens, draw affliction to yourself; for the one who is not afflicted will by no means enter, because the gate is narrow [cf. Matthew 7:14].
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Ἐὰν γλίχῃ εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν, τὴν θλῖψιν ἐπίσπασαι· ὁ γὰρ μὴ θλιβόμενος οὐδαμῶς εἰσελεύσεται, διότι στενή ἐστιν ἡ πύλη.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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