Letter 485: You share my name, Isidoros, and I take that as a reason to write to you with particular care.
To Strategios the Monk, on the text "Every sin that a man commits is outside the body": It is possible, blessed one, to bring many interpretations to the passage "Every sin that a man commits is outside the body..."
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Latin / Greek Original
ΡΚΘ. – ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΙΩ ΜΟΝΑΖΟΝΤΙ.
Εἰς τὸ · · Πᾶν ἁμάρτημα, ὁ ἐὰν ποιῇ ἄνθρωπος
ἐκτὸς τοῦ σώματος. »
Πολλὰς, ὦ μακάριε, δυνατὸν εἰς τὸ· « Πᾶν
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