Letter 660

Nilus of AncyraTheodotus|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted

To the Same.

"But I am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of the Lord" [Psalm 52:8 (51:10 LXX)], never stripped bare of the blessed hope. Let us, therefore, become a fruitful olive tree, not anywhere else, not in Hellenism [paganism], not in Judaism, not in any wicked heresy, but in the house of God, that is, in faith and in piety. For the impious bear fruit in vain outside the Church.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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

Ἐγὼ δὲ ὡς ἡ ἐλαία κατάκαρπος ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ Κυρίου, μηδέποτε γυμνούμενος τῆς μακαρίας ἐλπίδος. Γενώμεθα τοιγαροῦν ἐλαία κατάκαρπος, μὴ ἀλλαχοῦ, μὴ ἐν Ἑλληνισμῷ, μὴ ἐν Ἰουδαϊσμῷ, μὴ ἐν αἱρέσει κακῇ, ἀλλ’ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ, τουτέστιν ἐν τῇ πίστει καὶ ἐν τῇ εὐσεβείᾳ. Οἱ γὰρ δυσσεβεῖς ἔξω τῆς Ἐκκλησίας μάτην καρποφοροῦσι.

Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.

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