Letter 21

Nilus of AncyraMarcian|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted

To the same person.

The saying, "He made darkness his hiding place" [Psalm 17:12 LXX, the Septuagint numbering; Psalm 18:11 in Hebrew], spoken in the seventeenth psalm, intimates the incomprehensible, the obscure, and the unsearchable character of the abysses of God's judgments.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.

Latin / Greek Original

Τό, «Ἔθετο σκότος ἀποκρυφὴν αὐτοῦ,» ἐν τῷ ἐπτακαιδεκάτῳ ψαλμῷ εἰρημένον, τὸ δυσκατάληπτον, καὶ ἀσαφές, καὶ ἀνεξερεύνητον τῶν ἀβύσσων τοῦ Θεοῦ κριμάτων ὑπεμφαίνει.

Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.

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