Letter 176: Those who are stung by the sharp goads of worldly reputation embrace voluntary hardship — they exhaust themselves...
If those stung by the sharp goads of worldly reputation embrace voluntary hardship, and those wounded by the glory of the perishable are consoled by the weight of transient labor, how much more ought we -- who are summoned not to perishable crowns but to imperishable glory -- to endure whatever befalls us with joy rather than complaint?
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Latin / Greek Original
δὲ αἰἰἰεία ἰαϑοτεῖ, φμϊαπὶ Οἰιγὶ εἰ πιο ΟοΥ. τχ, . δὲ αυἱΐ δευι}ὶ τυπάδηξ ἰαυἀϊΐδ ιϊηυ}} ἀρ ΔΠ, ἱπαοηῖθδ υὉ υβοϊρίυηϊ ᾿ΔθΟΓ; ποηῆηθ αυΐ οὦ- ᾿εδιὶβ αἱοτίς ( νυϊπογαι! δυηΐ, ἃ ρυογὶ Ἰὰ- νοτῖβ σοι οη(ἱ οΠηι μο τα ΡΔΓ ὁδὶ Εἰ οἱ τοῖς ὁξέσ: τῆς χοσμιχῆς δόξης χέντροις πλητ- τόμενοι πόνους αὐθαιρέτους ἀσπάζονται" οἱ τοῖς ὀξυτάτοις τῆς ὑπερχοσμίου εὐχλείας βέλεσι τετρω- μένοι πολλῷ μᾶλλον νεανιχῶς ἐπὶ τὸν τῶν πόνων ἀγῶνα ἀποδύεσθαι ἂν εἶεν δίχαιοι. ΥΑΠΙ ΓΕΟΤΙΟΝΕΚ ΕΥ̓ ΝΟΤΕ.. () ὑρσϑά,. αι. οἱ ΑἸ. μὴ φτγοάυσυμι μηδὲν. ροδϑίη. () Γέγονας ἰάδιι τπηυϊδιὶ ἴῃ γέγονεν. ἵν.
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- 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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