Letter 142: On "Do not practice your righteousness before others to be seen by them" [Matthew 6:1].
Isidore of Pelusium→Retiios|c. 401 AD|Isidore of Pelusium|AI-assisted
monasticism
To Basil. To the Comes. One must reprove one's own faults.
CXLIΙ. - ΑΔ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΟΥ.
ΡΝΘ΄. – ΚΟΜΙΤΙ
Ἐλέγχειν μὲν τὸ οἰκεῖον.
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To Basil. To the Comes. One must reprove one's own faults.
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Latin / Greek Original
CXLIΙ. - ΑΔ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΟΥ.
ΡΝΘ΄. – ΚΟΜΙΤΙ
Ἐλέγχειν μὲν τὸ οἰκεῖον.
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