Letter 659
To the same person.
"I will bless the Lord at all times," it says; "his praise shall be continually in my mouth" [Psalm 33:2 LXX]. For it is shameful that we should bless God for the more agreeable things, yet keep silent over the gloomier ones; rather, we ought to give thanks all the more at the time when we suffer evils, knowing that "whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and he scourges every son whom he receives" [Hebrews 12:6, citing Proverbs 3:12 LXX].
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Latin / Greek Original
Εὐλογήσω, φησὶ, τὸν Κύριον ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ· διὰ παντὸς ἡ αἴνεσις αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ στόματί μου. Αἰσχρὸν γάρ ἐστιν εὐλογεῖν μὲν ἡμᾶς Θεὸν ἐπὶ τοῖς χρηστοτέροις, σιωπᾶν δὲ ἐπὶ τοῖς σκυθρωποτέροις πράγμασιν· ἀλλὰ δεῖ πλέον τότε εὐχαριστεῖν, ὅτε κακὰ πάσχωμεν, γινώσκοντας, ὅτι ἣν ἀγαπᾷ Κύριος, παιδεύει· μαστιγοῖ δὲ πάντα υἱὸν ὃν παραδέχεται.
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