Letter 124: Many people — for it would be wrong to blame everyone — do evil without ever being taught, yet cannot understand the...
Do not be puffed up with pride. The one who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted. This is not merely a warning but a law of the spiritual order, as fixed and certain as the law by which water seeks its level. Pride lifts the soul only to let it fall from a greater height.
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Latin / Greek Original
ΟΔ΄. – ΘΕΟΔΩΡΩ ΣΟΦΙΣΤΗ
ΡΜΑ΄. – ΚΟΜΙΤΙ
Μὴ ὑπερηφανεύεσθαι.
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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