Letter 125: The person who not only defends those who have been wronged but also takes care that no one is wronged in the first...
We ought to help one another. For we are members of one body, and when one member suffers, all suffer together. He who refuses aid to his neighbor in need has severed himself from the body of Christ and made himself an outcast by his own cruelty. Extend your hand, then, while it is still called "today."
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Latin / Greek Original
ΟΕ΄. – ΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΩ ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΕΙ
ΡΜΒ΄. – ΔΗΜΑΡΧΩ
Ἀλλήλοις βοηθεῖν.
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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