Nilus of Ancyra→Julian|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Julian.
You will be reckoned faithful at that time, when, not yet having received the eternal good things, you remain expecting, and awaiting that you will most certainly receive the eternal good things and the divine promise in the age to come. For if the Lord now, readily and on the spot, were to furnish the recompenses for good work, the affair would amount to trade rather than to godliness; for then we would consent to be righteous, not on account of piety, but on account of gain.
You will be reckoned faithful at that time, when, not yet having received the eternal good things, you remain expecting, and awaiting that you will most certainly receive the eternal good things and the divine promise in the age to come. For if the Lord now, readily and on the spot, were to furnish the recompenses for good work, the affair would amount to trade rather than to godliness; for then we would consent to be righteous, not on account of piety, but on account of gain.
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