Letter 132: I call both humble and magnanimous the person who accomplishes great things yet does not claim the glory of those...
The grace of teaching is not given to all, and those to whom it is given must exercise it with fear and trembling. For the teacher will be judged more strictly than the student, since he bears responsibility not only for his own soul but for the souls of those he instructs. Woe to the teacher who leads his pupils astray; it would be better for him never to have opened his mouth.
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Latin / Greek Original
ΡΜΘ΄. – ΘΕΟΔΩΡΩ
Διότι ἀναγκάζουσιν αἱ δόξαι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους.
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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