Letter 66: She who bore you and raised you invites you to the long-awaited feast.
Letter 66
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To Aerius the Sophist.
She that gave you birth and nurtured you invites you to the longed-for feast. The holy shrine is crowned by a roof; it is fitly adorned; it is eager for the inhabitants for whom it was erected. These are Apostles and Prophets, loud-voiced heralds of the old and new covenant. Adorn, therefore, the feast with your presence; receive the blessing which swells forth from it, and make the feast more joyous to us.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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