Letter 115

Isidore of PelusiumAndrew, Monk of Constantinople|isidore pelusium
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Elias. “What have you to do with the way to Egypt with a view to drinking Nile water?”, the prophet said to the turnabout people, or rather God by means of him. What have you to do with the confusion from which you were separated by God’s mighty hand and outstretched arm? How is it that having laid hold on virtue and tasted the summit of philosophy, you revert to wickedness, and do not have in mind the word of Scripture, that “He who turns away from justice towards sin, the Lord will prepare him for the sword. Flee the billow and flee the waves. Christ has rebuked the wind, and no experience of storm will engulf you, if you hold fast to Christ, the harbour.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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