Letter 1243: For fear of presumption, a terrible ill from which one can escape with difficulty, lest we remain on earth and be...
For fear of presumption, a terrible ill from which one can escape with difficulty, lest we remain on earth and be deprived of the heavenly rewards, the Lord said: “Now let us leave this place!” [John 14:31] Indeed, having engaged His own power in the word which He spoke, He delivered his true disciples from tyrannical passions and made them pass into the celestial assembly. The French editor, Pierre Evieux, tells is that the following letter is also preserved in the catenas on Romans found in two manuscripts, Vatican. gr. 762 (10th c.) and Vienna. Theol. gr. 166 (14th c.). In Romans 1:32, Paul condemns people who, not merely commit a sin, but even approve of those who do the same. Theologios queries why it is wrong to consider those who encourage sin in others as worse than those who actually commit the sin themselves. Isidore’s reply is interesting as showing that some were willing to suppose a corruption in the text here.
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