Nilus of Ancyra→Domninus|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To the same person.
It must be awaited, and with prayer and hope [the opening words here stand in the original partly as Latin written in Greek letters and partly in Latin script: "Exspectandum esse, atque cum oratione et spe, quid efficiet Dominus"] one must see what the Lord will accomplish; and it is to be observed, from the reading of the Acts, where Luke says that "We were staying some days in the city of Philippi." [Acts 16:12] And that great things are administered through the providence of God even from small beginnings and from the most insignificant persons, he says: "Having sat down outside the city at the place of prayer, we were speaking to the women who had come together, and a certain seller of purple named Lydia, who came from the city of Thyatira, was listening to the things spoken by us, and the Lord opened her heart to understand them exactly." [Acts 16:13-14] Call to my remembrance the lowly Samaritan woman in the Gospel, and the Canaanite woman, and the woman with the flow of blood, and Simon the leper. But Simon too, the tanner at Joppa who later gave hospitality to the great Peter, having become a small occasion for the divine proclamation, was honored with divine praises before the great Caesarea in Palestine; and yet this man opened the gate of salvation to the multitudes.
It must be awaited, and with prayer and hope [the opening words here stand in the original partly as Latin written in Greek letters and partly in Latin script: "Exspectandum esse, atque cum oratione et spe, quid efficiet Dominus"] one must see what the Lord will accomplish; and it is to be observed, from the reading of the Acts, where Luke says that "We were staying some days in the city of Philippi." [Acts 16:12] And that great things are administered through the providence of God even from small beginnings and from the most insignificant persons, he says: "Having sat down outside the city at the place of prayer, we were speaking to the women who had come together, and a certain seller of purple named Lydia, who came from the city of Thyatira, was listening to the things spoken by us, and the Lord opened her heart to understand them exactly." [Acts 16:13-14] Call to my remembrance the lowly Samaritan woman in the Gospel, and the Canaanite woman, and the woman with the flow of blood, and Simon the leper. But Simon too, the tanner at Joppa who later gave hospitality to the great Peter, having become a small occasion for the divine proclamation, was honored with divine praises before the great Caesarea in Palestine; and yet this man opened the gate of salvation to the multitudes.
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