Letter 1141: The priesthood is a sacred trust, not a career.

To Zosimos On the divine sojourn. The [...] of human sins [...] the incarnate manifestation of the Son of God terrified all things, both men and demons: persuading the one to spare the [human] nature, as having been united to God; and compelling the other to refrain from their plotting against men, as that nature had now become free from sin. You, however, none of these things softened, nor disposed to fear, nor trained to live soberly. If, then, you are a man, be schooled by the first lesson; but if a demon, be taught by the second, and do not lay violent hands upon the most beautiful nature to drag it down into the passions. For you will come to judgment, rendering account for all these things, and for your long insensibility you will be called to a long reckoning.

Περὶ τῆς θείας ἐπιδημίας. Ἡ τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ἁμαρτιῶν.... (22) ἡ τοῦ Υἱοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἔνσαρκος ἐπιφάνεια, πάντα μὲν ἐφόβησε καὶ ἀνθρώπους καὶ δαίμονας, τοὺς μὲν φείδεσθαι τῆς φύσεως πείσασα, ὡς Θεῷ ἐνωθείσης· τοὺς δὲ ἀπέχεσθαι τῆς κατ᾽ αὐτῶν ἐπιβουλῆς ἀναγκάσασα, ὡς ἀναμαρτήτου λοιπὸν γενομένης· σὲ δὲ οὐδὲν τούτων ἐμάλαξεν, οὐδὲ δεδιέναι παρεσκεύασεν, οὐδὲ σωφρονεῖν ἐπαιδαγώγησεν. Εἰ τοίνυν ἄνθρωπος εἶ, τῷ προτέρῳ παιδεύθητι· εἰ δὲ δαίμων, τῷ δευτέρῳ διδάχθητι, μὴ καταχειρησᾶσα τῇ καλλίστῃ φύσει εἰς πάθη. Ἥξεις γὰρ εἰς κρίσιν, τούτων ἁπάντων εὐθύνας ὑφέξων, καὶ τῆς μακρᾶς ἀναλγησίας μακρὸν εἰσπραχθησόμενος λόγον.