Nilus of Ancyra→Eulysius|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Eulysius the Monk.
Neither virtue nor vice remains unchangeable and immovable, since the human race is self-altering by its own will. The brother, therefore, whom you suppose to be most negligent, whom you reckon to be a sinner, you do not know whether perhaps, groaning within himself and changing for the better, he is being saved in God's sight. But you, in your ignorance, often belittle such a man, and revile him, and bitterly condemn the very man who is being saved above yourself.
Neither virtue nor vice remains unchangeable and immovable, since the human race is self-altering by its own will. The brother, therefore, whom you suppose to be most negligent, whom you reckon to be a sinner, you do not know whether perhaps, groaning within himself and changing for the better, he is being saved in God's sight. But you, in your ignorance, often belittle such a man, and revile him, and bitterly condemn the very man who is being saved above yourself.
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