Letter 856: The spiritual life is a journey with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
To Peter.
I greatly admire the courage of the renowned Paul [the Apostle], how even while on trial he addressed the assembly, and while being called to account he went on teaching. For it belongs to a teacher to speak with authority, but to a man on trial to measure his words by the occasion. Yet he moved in the opposite direction; for he had within himself the One who supplies and presides over wisdom.
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Latin / Greek Original
Δίαν θαυμάζω τοῦ ἀοιδίμου Παύλου τὴν ἀνδρίαν, πῶς καὶ κρινόμενος ἐδημηγόρει, καὶ εὐθύνας ἀπαιτούμενος ἐδίδασκε. Διδασκάλου μὲν γάρ ἐστι τὸ μετ’ ἐξουσίας λέγειν, κρινομένου δὲ τὸ μετρεῖν τῷ καιρῷ τοὺς λόγους. Ἀλλ’ οὗτος εἰς τοὐναντίον ἐχώρει· εἶχε γὰρ ἐν ἑαυτῷ τὴν σοφίας χορηγὸν τε καὶ πρύτανιν.
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