Nilus of Ancyra→Pierius|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To the same person.
"And you sat for them like a crow," said the prophet; that is, having forgotten God for a long time, you persisted diligently in your sins, and through your transgressions you persisted with the unclean demons. For the crow lives a long time, and is fond of its young. So too, then, every pleasure-loving and world-loving person loves and cherishes his own offspring, that is, his ruinous and abominable deeds.
"And you sat for them like a crow," said the prophet; that is, having forgotten God for a long time, you persisted diligently in your sins, and through your transgressions you persisted with the unclean demons. For the crow lives a long time, and is fond of its young. So too, then, every pleasure-loving and world-loving person loves and cherishes his own offspring, that is, his ruinous and abominable deeds.
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