Nilus of Ancyra→Sophronius|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Sophronius the Tribune.
The Lord, having beheld your magnanimity, and your hand spread out ungrudgingly to all who are in need, has caused great inheritances to come running to you all at once; and for this we glorify God.
That the ox, and at the same time the bear, and the lion, and the rest, should graze together in a more friendly manner, according to Isaiah [Isaiah 11:6-7, the messianic vision of predatory and gentle beasts at peace], signifies the condition of the Church: both the popular magistrates and those subject to them being at once regulated by rule and nourished by the doctrines of piety.
The Lord, having beheld your magnanimity, and your hand spread out ungrudgingly to all who are in need, has caused great inheritances to come running to you all at once; and for this we glorify God.
That the ox, and at the same time the bear, and the lion, and the rest, should graze together in a more friendly manner, according to Isaiah [Isaiah 11:6-7, the messianic vision of predatory and gentle beasts at peace], signifies the condition of the Church: both the popular magistrates and those subject to them being at once regulated by rule and nourished by the doctrines of piety.
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