Letter 815: Character is revealed not by what a person says but by what he does when no one is watching.
To Abopontios.
On why the Law settled those who had committed involuntary homicide together with the Levites.
... [the Law] fixes for him, as the limit of his exile, the lifetime of the high priest; and after that man's death it grants him his return, and restores him to his homeland.
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Latin / Greek Original
Cur eos qui involuntariam caedem patrarent cum Levitia lex collocavit.
αὐτῷ τῆς φυγῆς ὁρίζει, τὸν τοῦ ἀρχιερέως βίον· καὶ μετὰ τὸν θάνατον ἐκείνου, κάθοδον αὐτῷ χαρίζεται, καὶ ἀποδίδωσιν αὐτὸν τῇ πατρίδι.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern isidore pelusium workflow v1.
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