Letter 795

To the Same Person. You surely remember the holy James [the Apostle, in his epistle] writing that the one who is divided in his prayers and wavers is a double-minded man, unstable, and resembles a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about. And let not such a person suppose that he will receive any wondrous gift from the Lord.

Μέμνησαι πάντως Ἰακώβου τοῦ ἁγίου γράψαντος, ὅτι ὁ διακρινόμενος ἐν ταῖς προσευχαῖς καὶ διστάζων, ἀνὴρ ἐστι δίψυχος, ἀκατάστατος, καὶ ἔοικε κλύδωνι θαλάσσης ἀνεμιζομένῳ καὶ ῥιπιζομένῳ. Καὶ μὴ οἴεσθω ὁ τοιοῦτος ἄνθρωπος, λήψεσθαί τι παρὰ Κυρίου θαυμάσιον χάρισμα.