Letter 159: You asked: why did the one who received five talents, doubled them, and the one who received two, get the same reward?
To Theodore. It is beneficial to have the opportunities of affairs taken away.
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Latin / Greek Original
ΡΛϚ΄. – ΘΕΟΔΩΡΩ
Τὰς ἀφορμὰς ἀπενεχθήναι τῶν πραγμάτων ὠφέλιμον.
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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