Letter 127

To Serapion the Presbyter. "Where your treasure is," he says, "there will your heart be also" [Matthew 6:21]. For whatever a man's pursuits may be, and wherever they are directed, such by all means is his disposition too, and his recollections, and there his mind is fixed. Therefore one ought rather to attend soberly to the heavenly and inviolable treasure.

Ὅπου ἐστὶν ὁ θησαυρός σου, φησίν, ἐκεῖ ἔσται καὶ ἡ καρδία σου. Οἷα γὰρ ἂν ᾖ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα, καὶ ὅποι, τοιοῦτο πάντως καὶ τὸ φρόνημα, καὶ αἱ μνῆμαι, καὶ ὁ νοῦς αὐτοῦ ἵδρυται. Μᾶλλον τοιγάρτοι τῷ οὐρανίῳ, καὶ ἀσυλήτῳ θησαυρῷ νηφόντως προσεκτέον.