Letter 874: The spiritual life is a journey with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Those who sin in kindred fashion, it seems to me, are both those who have betrayed the truth by their silence regarding the greatest achievements -- for they waste away with envy...
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Latin / Greek Original
᾿Αδελφὰ ἁμαρτάνειν μοι δοχοῦσιν. οἵ τε ἐπὶ τοῖς μεγίστοις χατορθώμασι σιγῇ προέμενοι (ὃ) τὴν ἀλῆ- θειαν, (φθόνῳ γὰρ τήχονται, πάθει χαλεπωτάτῳ, χαὶ συγγνώμης παρά γε τοῖς ἐχέφροσιν ἀμοίρῳ) καὶ οἱ προχείρως ἐπαινοῦντες τοὺς πάσης εὐφημίας ἐρήμους. Τὴν γὰρ τῶν χολάχων ἐναπομάττονται δύσ- χλειᾶν, τοῦ σωφρονισμοῦ δεομένους ἐγχωμιάζειν ἐπιχειροῦντες.
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