Letter 1087: The cross — foolishness to the world — is the power of God.
The catena author omitted the first 16 lines, beginning thus: At the coming, and in warfare...
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Latin / Greek Original
Р. 1087. — Сав. II, ке. 410.
Catenæ auctor omisit 16 lineas priores, incipiens
in hunc modum: Ἐν τῇ παρουσία, και πολεμμιά
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- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.
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