Letter 842: The spiritual life is a journey with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
To Palladius.
Humanity is prone, for the most part, to be temperate in adversity but to grow insolent in prosperity. And this is shown most plainly from what the Hebrews experienced. For they passed through the Red Sea and endured nothing perilous; but when they came into the land, they suffered shipwreck.
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Latin / Greek Original
Κινδυνεύει ἡ ἀνθρωπότης, ὡς τὰ πολλά, ἐν μὲν δυσημερίᾳ σωφρονεῖν, ἐν δὲ εὐημερίᾳ παροινεῖν. Καὶ τοῦτο ἐξ ὧν Ἑβραῖοι πεπόνθασιν ἀριθμήτατα δείκνυται. Παρῆλθον μὲν γὰρ τὴν Ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν, καὶ οὐδὲν κινδυνῶδες ὑπέμειναν· ἐλθόντες δὲ εἰς τὴν γῆν, ἐναυάγησαν.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
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