Letter 156
To the same virgin.
Have you read? Many times, in his writing, the holy Moses speaks concerning a certain excellent and most wise man, that it was thus. He made a bronze laver, and its base likewise of bronze, out of the mirrors of the women who fasted, who fasted beside the door of the Tabernacle of witness [the Tent of Meeting; cf. Exodus 38:8].
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἀνέγνω; πολλάκις, τῇ γράφει ὁ ἅγιος Μωϋσῆς περί τινος ἀρίστου καὶ σοφωτάτου ἀνδρός, ὅτι οὕτως.
πεποιήκε λουτῆρα χαλκοῦν, καὶ τὴν βάσιν αὐτοῦ ὁμοίως χαλκῆν ἐκ τῶν κατόπτρων νηστευσασῶν, αἵτινες παρὰ τῆς θύρας τῆς Σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου ἐνήστευσαν.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
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