Letter 1509: Prayer is not the manipulation of God but the alignment of our will with his.
I wrote to Zosimus to desist from his licentiousness; but he wallows all the more in the mire...
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Latin / Greek Original
"Εγραψα ἐγὼ Ζωσίμῳ ἀποστῆναι τῆς ἀσελγείας· αὐτὸς
δὲ πλέον ἐγκαλινδεῖται τῷ βορβόρῳ· τί τοῦτο πρὸς
ἐμὲ; Οὐδὲν πλὴν εἰ μὴ τὴν ἀθυμίαν εἴποι τις ἄν.
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- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.
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