Letter 133

Nilus of AncyraAmphilochius|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted

To the Same.

You asked me who is the old man, the one corrupted by the lusts, whom the divine Apostle [Paul] exhorts us to put off [cf. Ephesians 4:22]. We consider the old man to be something that has no substantial existence, yet is corrupted: a kind of idol of destruction, formed out of defiled and impious reckonings, and unlawful words, and unclean works, and painted, or compounded, or, as one might say, woven together to our harm.

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Latin / Greek Original

Ἠρώτησάς με, τίς ἐστιν ὁ παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος, ὁ ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις φθειρόμενος, ὅντινα ἀποθέσθαι παραινεῖ ὁ θεῖος Ἀπόστολος. Παλαιὸν ἄνθρωπον ἀνύπαρκτον μέν, φθειρόμενον δέ, τυγχάνειν νομίζομεν εἴδωλον τὶ ἀπωλείας ἐκ μιαρῶν καὶ ἀσεβῶν λογισμῶν, καὶ λόγων ἀθεμίτων, καὶ ἀκαθάρτων ἔργων, ζωγραφούμενον τε, ἢ συντιθέμενον, ἢ καὶ ὡς ἄν τις εἴποι, ἐξυφαινόμενον ἐπιβλαβῶς.

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