Letter 255
To Callimachus the Memorialis. [a memorialis was a clerk or secretary in the late Roman imperial chancery]
The bare letter of the divinely inspired Scripture might be called the honeycomb; but the meaning treasured up within the letter would, figuratively, be called honey.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ψιλὸν τὸ γράμμα τῆς θεοπνεύστου Γραφῆς. κηρύριον ἂν λέγοιτο· ὁ δέ γε ἐν τῷ γράμματι τεθησαυρισμένος νοῦς, μέλι τροπικῶς ῥηθήσεται.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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