Letter 790
Nilus of Ancyra→Theocles|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To the same person.
Whomever God wishes to save, He will frighten him, He will shake him, He will afflict him in various ways, so that he may have no occasion to be stirred up toward pride.
Ὄντινα βούλεται σῶσαι ὁ Θεός, φοβήσει αὐτόν,
τινάξει αὐτόν, ποικίλως λυπήσει αὐτόν, ὅπως μὴ
ἔχῃ καιρὸν διεγείρεσθαι πρὸς ὑπερηφανίαν.
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To the same person.
Whomever God wishes to save, He will frighten him, He will shake him, He will afflict him in various ways, so that he may have no occasion to be stirred up toward pride.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Ὄντινα βούλεται σῶσαι ὁ Θεός, φοβήσει αὐτόν,
τινάξει αὐτόν, ποικίλως λυπήσει αὐτόν, ὅπως μὴ
ἔχῃ καιρὸν διεγείρεσθαι πρὸς ὑπερηφανίαν.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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