Letter 118: A certain man — not only superior to shameful gain but one who distributed his own possessions to those in need —...
A certain man who was not only superior to shameful profits but also distributed his own property to those in need, having learned that he had received a few fish from someone who had sworn falsely, dared to release the man — as far as it depended on him — from his sin. Groaning deeply, he uttered that Demosthenic saying, as it seems to me. For even if what I am about to say will seem rather harsh, I will say it and not conceal it: for this very thing he deserved to be punished with death, so that this law might be established among the impious. But this man, being exceedingly grieved...
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Latin / Greek Original
ΡΛΕ΄. – ΘΕΟΔΩΡΩ
Μὴ φθονεῖν τοῖς καλοῖς.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.
Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/PatrologiaGraeca (PG vol.78)
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