Letter 475: The apparent good and the genuine good are often different things, Timotheos.
Textual variants: "of the soul" versus "of the soul indeed"; "to save a soul" versus "a soul to save"; "ministry" versus "service"; "with sweat" versus "from sweat."
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Latin / Greek Original
P. 475. - LIB. 11, ΕΡ. 144.
Ρ. 190, lit. Ε, lin. 1. Ρ. τῆς ψυχῆς. cat. τῆς μὲν
ψυχῆς. ibid. 3. Ρ. τὸ σώζειν ψυχήν, cat. τὸ ψυχὴν
σώζειν. ibid. 4. Ρ. διακονίαν, cat. ὑπηρεσίαν. ibid.
5. Ρ. μεθ' ιδρώτων, cat. ἐξ ἰδρώτων.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.
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