Letter 126: It was not the power of the message alone, my admirable friend, but also the lives of those who proclaimed it —...
Flee the passion from which emptiness corrupts. For every disordered attachment hollows out the soul, leaving it a shell without substance, a form without content. The one who clings to what is passing loses even himself, since he has exchanged the eternal for the ephemeral and traded solid ground for shifting sand.
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Latin / Greek Original
ΟϚ΄. – ΕΥΔΟΞΙΩ ΕΠΑΡΧΩ
ΡΜΓ΄. – ΚΟΜΙΤΙ
Φεύγειν τὸ πάθος, ἐξ οὗ τὸ κενὸν λυμαίνεται.
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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