Letter 37: You honor the Lord well by offering us the firstfruits of your harvest and tithing the produce of your land to the...
To Erminos.
Many people reach out after virtue, yet they shrink from walking the road that leads to it. Others do not even believe that virtue exists at all. It is necessary, then, to persuade the former to lay aside their hesitation, and to teach the latter that virtue is in truth virtue.
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Latin / Greek Original
Πολλοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὀρέγονται μὲν ἀρετῆς, τὴν δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτὴν φέρουσαν ὁδὸν ὀκνοῦσιν ἰέναι. Ἄλλοι δὲ οὐδ’ ἀρετὴν εἶναι ἡγοῦνται. Χρὴ γοῦν, τοὺς μὲν πεπεῖσθαι (92) τὸν ὄκνον ἀποθέσθαι, τοὺς δὲ διδάξαι, ὅτι ὄντως ἀρετή ἐστιν ἡ ἀρετή.
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Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/PatrologiaGraeca (PG vol.78)
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