Letter 264
To the Same Person.
Repentance gives life to the one who has been put to death by his transgressions; for it is the mark of regeneration [new birth], and a trophy of the resurrection, a resurrection already now visible to the eyes.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Ἡ μετάνοια ζωοποιεῖ τὸν τοῖς παραπτώμασι νεκρωθέντα· αὕτη γὰρ γνώρισμα ὑπάρχει τῆς παλιγγενεσίας, τρόπαιον δὲ ἀναστάσεως, ἐντεῦθεν ἤδη ὀφθαλμοῖς βλεπομένης.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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