Letter 355
To Callistianus.
Just as, in our craving for life, we are accustomed to eat and to drink, and likewise to speak and to listen, so too we ought to attend to the reading of the oracles of God [the Scriptures], insatiable in our disposition.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ὥσπερ ὀρεγόμενοι τῆς ζωῆς ἐσθίειν, καὶ πίνειν, φράζειν τε, καὶ ἀκροᾶσθαι εἰώθαμεν, οὕτω καὶ τῇ ἀναγνώσει τῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ λογίων προσανέχειν ὀφείλομεν ἀκορέστως τῇ γνώμῃ.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
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