Letter 252

To the Same Person. If all are saved, as you say, how is it that I became all things to all men, that I might by all means save some [echoing Paul, 1 Corinthians 9:22]? And how shall I provoke my own flesh to jealousy, so that I might save some of them [Romans 11:14], and not all?

Εἰ πάντες, ὡς λέγεις, σῴζονται, πῶς πᾶσι γέγονα πάντα, ἵνα πάντως τινὰ σώσω; « Πῶς δὲ παραζηλώσω μου τὴν σάρκα ὅπως σώσω τινὰς ἐξ αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐ πάντας; »