Letter 918
To Didymus the Reader [a lector, the clerical order charged with reading Scripture aloud in church].
Let us not be slothful, nor let us be negligent in praying, and in singing psalms, and in studying the teaching of the Holy and adorable Spirit. For indeed within the utterances of the God-inspired Scripture the kingdom of heaven lies hidden, and it is revealed to those who persevere in prayer, and in stillness, and in psalms, and in the readings, by which the mind is accustomed to be illumined.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Μὴ κατοκνῶμεν, μηδὲ κατολιγωρῶμεν προσεύχεσθαι, καὶ ψάλλειν, καὶ μελετᾶν διδασκαλίαν τοῦ ἁγίου καὶ προσκυνητοῦ Πνεύματος. Ἐν γὰρ δὴ τοῖς βήμασι τῆς θεοπνεύστου Γραφῆς ἐγκέκρυπται ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἀποκαλύπτεται δὲ τοῖς προσκαρτεροῦσιν εὐχῇ, καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ, καὶ ψαλμοῖς, καὶ τοῖς ἀναγνώσμασιν, ἐξ ὧν εἴωθεν ὁ νοῦς καταλάμπεσθαι.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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