Nilus of Ancyra→Faustianus|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Faustianus.
Your soul has been estranged from God; and how, then, did you urge me to send you some profitable word, to a man accustomed to make sport of divine things as though they were profane? For how shall I speak to those who have been put to death, and to an ear that will not listen? "How shall I sing the Lord's song in a foreign land" [Psalm 137:4], where there are hedgehogs, and vipers, and night-ravens, [...] of the evil spirits, according to what is written? where onocentaurs [donkey-centaurs, among the desolate creatures of Isaiah 34:14] and demons dance without ceasing, and ravens croak.
Your soul has been estranged from God; and how, then, did you urge me to send you some profitable word, to a man accustomed to make sport of divine things as though they were profane? For how shall I speak to those who have been put to death, and to an ear that will not listen? "How shall I sing the Lord's song in a foreign land" [Psalm 137:4], where there are hedgehogs, and vipers, and night-ravens, [...] of the evil spirits, according to what is written? where onocentaurs [donkey-centaurs, among the desolate creatures of Isaiah 34:14] and demons dance without ceasing, and ravens croak.
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