Letter 315
To Hipponicus the Scriniarius [keeper of the imperial records].
Certain people often pray to be freed from their own body, as though it had conspired with the soul toward sinning. But they ought rather to pray to be freed from their own wicked manner of life, and from their passion-ridden and filth-loving disposition.
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Latin / Greek Original
Εὔχονται πολλάκις τινὲς ἀπαλλαγῆναι τοῦ ἰδίου σώματος, ὡς πρὸς τὸ ἁμαρτάνειν τὴν ψυχὴν συνελθόντος. Ἐχρῆν δὲ αὐτοὺς μᾶλλον εὔχεσθαι ἀπαλλαγῆναι τοῦ ἑαυτῶν μοχθηροῦ τρόπου, καὶ τῆς ἐμπαθοῦς, καὶ φιλορύπου γνώμης.
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