Letter 713
To Hyacinth the Referendarius [a court official who conveyed petitions and the emperor's replies].
Understand Samaria in Scripture to mean knowledge falsely so called, and Sodom to mean the knowledge and the disposition that is forever innovating, dissolving away into transient and perishable luxury, and, through its excess of incontinence, even disregarding the breast and seeking the female in the male.
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Latin / Greek Original
Σαμάρειαν νόησον ἐν τῇ Γραφῇ τὴν ψευδώνυμον γνῶσιν, Σόδομα δὲ τὴν νεωτερίζουσαν διὰ παντὸς γνῶσιν καὶ πρόθεσιν, καὶ τῇ προσκαίρῳ καὶ φθειρομένῃ τρυφῇ διαῤῥέουσαν, καὶ διὰ τὴν ὑπερβολὴν τῆς ἀκρασίας, καὶ τοῦ στήθους παραβλέπουσαν, καὶ ἐν τῷ ἄρρενι τὸ θῆλυ ζητησοῦσαν.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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