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17 May 2020

Neglect Chastised


Εἰ μήτε τῆς θείας παιδείας εἰς νουθέτησιν ὑμῖν γινομένης αἰσθάεσθε, μήτε τὰς ἡμετέρας ὑπομνήσεις εἰς μετάγνωσιν δέχεσθε, Χάρυββις τίς ἐστε, ἃδῃ καὶ ἀπωλείᾳ ἐοικυῖα, πάντα τὰ διδόμενα εἰς ἀφανισμὸν καταπίνουσα, ἧς ὁ πάντων δυνάστης Χριστὸς ἐμφράξει τὸ στόμα, ἵνα φυλάξητε τὰς θείας ἐντολάς, καὶ κἂν ὀψέ ποτε παλινῳδιαν ᾄσῃτε.

Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλίον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΤΜΖ' Μαρτινιανῳ και Ζωσιμῳ

Source: Migne PG 78.382a
If neither the Divine teachings are able to move you to correction, nor do you receive our reminders that would induce you to change your mind, you are a sort of Charybdis, an apparent hell and place of destruction, where everything given to it is sucked down into oblivion, which mouth may Christ, the ruler of all things, block up, until you come to guard the Divine commandments and after sing the palinode.

Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter 347, To Martinianus and Zosimus

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