Letter 316
To the Same Person.
The hands of Christ, fastened to the cross, and the feet, fixed to it with nails, signify the cessation of wicked deeds, and the checking, abolition, and firm obstruction of the course that runs toward every impiety and sin. For by the strength of the Lord's cross we have wrestled down, and trampled, and forced out the sin that formerly conquered us, and deceived us, and held us under compulsion.
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Latin / Greek Original
Αἱ χεῖρες τοῦ Χριστοῦ προσαπαγεῖσαι τῷ σταυρῷ, καὶ οἱ πόδες προσεληθέντες σημαίνουσι πράξεέν τε πονηρῶν, καὶ τοῦ πρὸς πᾶσαν δυσσέβειαν καὶ ἁμαρτίαν δρόμου κώλυμα, καὶ κατάργησιν, καὶ στερεὸν ἐμποδισμόν. Τῇ γὰρ ἰσχύει τοῦ Δεσποτικοῦ σταυροῦ κατεπαλαίσαμεν, καὶ κατεπατήσαμεν, καὶ ἐξεβιασάμεθα τὴν πρώην ἡμᾶς νικῶσαν, καὶ ἀπατῶσαν καὶ ἐκδιαζομένην ἁμαρτίαν.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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