Letter 439
To Philoxenus the Archimandrite [head of a monastery, abbot].
I call that man a true Israelite [an allusion to John 1:47] who, through the contemplation of all created things, sees, amid the things that do not appear, God the maker of all.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἀληθινὸν ἐγὼ προσαγορεύω ἐκεῖνον Ἰσραηλίτην, τὸν διὰ τῆς θεωρίας ἁπάντων τῶν κτισμάτων, τῶν μὴ φαινομένων βλέποντα τὸν τῶν ὅλων ποιητὴν Θεόν.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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