Roman Letters

Letter 142: On "Do not practice your righteousness before others to be seen by them" [Matthew 6:1].

Isidore of Pelusium→Retiios|c. 401 AD|Isidore of Pelusium|AI-assisted
monasticism
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To Basil. To the Comes. One must reprove one's own faults.

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Latin / Greek Original

CXLIΙ. - ΑΔ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΟΥ.
ΡΝΘ΄. – ΚΟΜΙΤΙ
Ἐλέγχειν μὲν τὸ οἰκεῖον.

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Revision history

  1. 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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