Letter 3
The other sins are both grievous and are reckoned to be so. Murder is grievous, and adultery; for it both is grievous and is reckoned to be grievous. But the oath is grievous, yet is not reckoned to be grievous. For this reason let us guard against it all the more; whether it be sworn justly or unjustly, lest, being entangled in it, we be banished from eternal life.
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Latin / Greek Original
Τὰ μὲν ἄλλα τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων, καὶ ἔστι χαλεπά,
καὶ νομίζεται εἶναι. Χαλεπὰ ὁ φόνος, καὶ ἡ μοιχεία·
καὶ γάρ ἐστι χαλεπόν, καὶ νομίζεται εἶναι χαλεπόν.
Ὁ δὲ ὅρκος ἐστὶ μὲν χαλεπός, οὐ νομίζεται δὲ εἶναι
χαλεπός. Διόπερ μᾶλλον αὐτὸν φυλαξώμεθα· κἄν τε
δικαίως, κἄν τε οὐ δικαίως ὀμνύηται, ἵνα μὴ εἰς αὐτὸν
χρημισθέντες, τῆς αἰωνίου ζωῆς ἐξορισθῶμεν.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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