Letter 809: The spiritual life is a journey with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
The return of the beast of burden he makes the beginning of what will be a truce and reconciliation. For unless the man is utterly ungrateful, he would certainly have...
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Latin / Greek Original
P. 809. Lin. ІІ, БР. 271.
Τὴν ἀπόδοσιν τοῦ ὑποζυγίου ἀρχὴν ποιεῖται σπον-
δῶν ἔσεσθαι καὶ καταλλαγῶν· εἰ μὴ γὰρ τελέως
ἐστὶν ἀχάριστος, πάντως ἂν τὴν ψυχὴν ἡμέρωται -
ἐπίτασις δὲ τοῦ προτέρου τὸ δεύτερον.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.
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