Letter 37
To the same man. Let us hope in God, brother, let us hope, even if we do not see [our hope] ready at hand, even if it is not easy to obtain our request, and even if we do not know what sort of thing will befall us. For God wishes us to hope in him, who has so ordered affairs that the enjoyment of the things we have asked for, both the temporal and the eternal goods, comes to us who have hoped beforehand.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἐλπίσωμεν ἐπὶ τὸν Θεόν, ἀδελφέ, ἐλπίσωμεν, κἄν.
μὴ πρόχειρον ὁρῶμεν, μηδὲ ῥᾴδιον τὸ λαβεῖν τὴν αἴτησιν, μηδὲ γινώσκωμεν ὁποῖον ἔσται τὸ συμβησόμενον ἡμῖν. Βούλεται γὰρ ἡμᾶς ὁ Θεὸς ἀπ’ ἐλπίζειν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν, ὃς καὶ τὰ πράγματα οὕτως κατεστήσατο, ὥστε προελπίπασιν ἐλθεῖν ἡμῖν τὴν ἀπόλαυσιν τῶν αἰτηθέντων προσκαίρων τε, καὶ αἰωνίων ἀγαθῶν.
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