Nilus of Ancyra→Martyrius|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Martyrius.
Every kind of impurity-such as fornication, adultery, licentiousness, and sodomy [arsenokoitia], and the things resembling these-is named "winter" by Solomon. Since, then, all who through repentance have employed right reasoning are set free from such transgressions, and thereafter attend lovingly to words that lead to self-control, for this reason it is written that "The winter is past, the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land" [Song of Songs 2:11-12]; for the turtledove signifies chastity.
Every kind of impurity-such as fornication, adultery, licentiousness, and sodomy [arsenokoitia], and the things resembling these-is named "winter" by Solomon. Since, then, all who through repentance have employed right reasoning are set free from such transgressions, and thereafter attend lovingly to words that lead to self-control, for this reason it is written that "The winter is past, the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land" [Song of Songs 2:11-12]; for the turtledove signifies chastity.
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