Letter 154
To Crispus the Scholarius [scholarius: an advocate, member of the schola or legal corps].
Certain people, having stretched out in their thinking beyond what is proper, as though they imagined they were grasping something greater, fell away indeed from true knowledge, but lapsed instead into knowledge falsely so called [echoing 1 Timothy 6:20]. And this too is vanity, as Solomon says [Ecclesiastes].
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Latin / Greek Original
Τινὲς ὑπὲρ τὸ δέον τῇ ἐννοίᾳ ἐπεκταθέντες, ὡς δοκοῦντές τι μεῖζον καταλαβεῖν, ἐξέπεσαν μὲν τῆς ἀληθοῦς γνώσεως, μεταπεπτώκασι δὲ εἰς ψευδώνυμον γνῶσιν· καί γε τοῦτο ματαιότης, καθά φησι Σολομών.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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