Letter 433
To Alexander the Monk.
Saving, save your own soul [echoing the angel's command to Lot at Genesis 19:17]; do not look around at the evils behind you, just as you also rightly renounced them; run up to the mountain of dispassion [apatheia, the goal of ascetic life: freedom from disordered passion], lest you be carried off together with the sinful world into the eternal fire.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
Σώζων σῶζε τὴν σεαυτοῦ ψυχήν· μὴ περιβλέπου
εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω κακά, ὥσπερ καὶ καλῶς ἀπετάξω· εἰς
τὸ ὄρος τῆς ἀπαθείας ἀνάδραμε, μήποτε συμπαρα-
ληφθῇς τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ κόσμῳ εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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