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24 Nov 2021

Accounts And Evils

Ὁ μὴ προσδοκῶν εὐθύνας ὑφέξειν τῶν πεπραγμένων αὐτῷ, πάντως πάσης κακίας ἀνθέξεται.

Ἅγιος Νειλος, Βιβλίον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΣΛΖ' Σοφιανῳ Σκολαριῳ

Source: Migne PG 79.169c
He who does not expect that he shall be called to account for his deeds, he shall certainly embrace every evil.

Saint Nilus of Sinai, Book 1, Letter 237 to Sophianus the Scholarius

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