Letter 824
To the Same Person.
"The one who is a leper in soul and unclean is cast out from the camp." [echoing Leviticus 13:46, where the leper must dwell outside the camp] For it is fitting that such a person stand apart, until his cleansing is most complete, and that he be separated from the camp of the divine guides and initiators into the mysteries, and from the Church of the prophets, where Samuel has his appointed place, and David is not left out.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
«Ἔξω τῆς παρεμβολῆς ἐκβάλλεται ὁ λέπρος τὴν
ψυχὴν καὶ ἀκάθαρτος.» Διίστασθαι γὰρ τὸν τοιοῦτον
προσήκει, μέχρι τελειοτάτης καθάρσεως, καὶ ἀπο-
χωρίζεσθαι τῆς παρεμβολῆς τῶν θείων ἀφηγητῶν
καὶ μυσταγωγῶν, καὶ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας τῶν προφητῶν,
ὅπου καθέστηκε Σαμουὴλ, καὶ Δαυῒδ οὐκ ἀπολιμπά-
νεται.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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