Letter 255

To Callimachus the Memorialis. [a memorialis was a clerk or secretary in the late Roman imperial chancery] The bare letter of the divinely inspired Scripture might be called the honeycomb; but the meaning treasured up within the letter would, figuratively, be called honey.

Ψιλὸν τὸ γράμμα τῆς θεοπνεύστου Γραφῆς. κηρύριον ἂν λέγοιτο· ὁ δέ γε ἐν τῷ γράμματι τεθησαυρισμένος νοῦς, μέλι τροπικῶς ῥηθήσεται.