Letter 706

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

To Tapiscus the Deacon.

"In the fullness of bread," it says [Ezekiel 16:49, LXX], "Sodom lived in luxury, and grew proud." For the soul that is becoming like Sodom, once it has been filled with the bread of knowledge, then kicks back in revolt, and becomes insufferable.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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

Ἐν πλησμονῇ, φησίν, ἄρτων ἐσπατάλησε Σόδομα,
καὶ ὑπερηφανεύσατο. Ἡ γὰρ σοδομουμένη ψυχὴ χορ-
τασθεῖσα τῶν ἄρτων τῆς γνώσεως, ἀπολακτίζει λοι-
πὸν, καὶ δυσφόρητός ἐστιν.

Revision history

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

    Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.

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