Letter 548
To Julianus, an ecclesiastic [a member of the clergy].
It is possible to strip off our fornicating eyes by intercession to God, so that we may no longer look upon profane pleasure, and to receive from the grace of the Lord new eyes, through which from now on we shall behold the beauty of upright and holy chastity, and, having been set free, shall plunge under the gaze of the fire-loving demons.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
Ἐνδέχεται ἀπεκδύσασθαι τοὺς πορνικοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς
τῇ πρὸς Θεὸν πρεσβείᾳ, ἵνα μηκέτι ὁρῶμεν τὴν βέβη-
λον ἡδονήν, λαβεῖν δὲ ἐκ χάριτος Κυρίου ὀφθαλμοὺς
νέους, δι’ ὧν λοιπὸν τὰ εὐθίους καὶ ἁγίας σωφρο-
σύνης τὸ κάλλος ὀψόμεθα, καὶ τῶν φιλοπυράρων
δαιμόνων τὰς ὄψεις βαπτίσομεν ἐλευθεριάσαντες.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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