Letter 1122: Scripture speaks with precision to those who read carefully.
On the text "If anyone wishes voluntarily to resolve the dispute, he said: If anyone is my neighbor..." Since...
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Latin / Greek Original
ἴπ ἐμά, « Αἱ ἵρδεε υοἰεπς εἐπιείΐρειιπι 7εδιἐβέεατε, ἀἰχὶ! : Εἰ φιιὶς πιθμ8 μτγοχὶπιις Ἧ Ὁ» Φ)υωτὶ5, αι υϑὶϊὶ φυοά ἴῃ Ενδη6 ἠϊοίυ πὴ Θ8ὶ ( Ἰοφίβρογο : ε Αἱ ΠΠ νοΐίθηβ δϑπηδιίρϑβιι πὶ) - ἤοαγα, εἰχὶϊ : Εἰ ᾳυ β δϑὶ Πι6118 γοχὶ πη ν Αὐὐ οἴζο. [μα ϑρογίίυβ ργοχίηυπὶ ἀυηπίαταϊι ἐγράψατο γραφὴν (ἢ γὰρ ἂν παρέστησεν αὑτὸν δί- χας ὧν ἔδρασεν ἀπαιτηθησόμενον ), ἀλλ᾽ οὖν γε ἔτε ἑναύλους ἔχει τὰς ὕδρεις. Ἐπεὶ οὖν δίχαιον αὑτὸν θεραπευθῆναι, ἄλλος () ἰατρὸς οὐχ ἔστι τῶν τοι- οὐτων παθῶν, οἷος, ἣ ὡς ὁ πλήξας αὐτὸς, παρα- σχευάσων () αὑτὸν ἀπολογήσασθαι τἀνδρί.
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- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.
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