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Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Series 2 - The Still Small ...

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To Palladius.<br />

Letter CCXCII.<br />

<strong>The</strong> one-half of my desire has God fulfilled in the interview He granted me with our<br />

fair sister, your wife. <strong>The</strong> other half He is able to accomplish; <strong>and</strong> so with the sight of your<br />

excellency I shall render my full thanks to God.<br />

And I am the more desirous of seeing you, now that I hear you have been adorned with<br />

that great ornament, the clothing of immortality, which clokes our mortality, <strong>and</strong> puts out<br />

of sight the death of the flesh; by virtue of which the corruptible is swallowed up in incorruption.<br />

Thus God of His goodness has now alienated you from sin, united you to Himself, has<br />

opened the doors of Heaven, <strong>and</strong> pointed out the paths that lead to heavenly bliss. I entreat<br />

you therefore by that wisdom wherein you excel all other men, that you receive the divine<br />

favour circumspectly, proving a faithful guardian of this treasure, as the repository of this<br />

royal gift, keeping watch over it with all carefulness. Preserve this seal of righteousness<br />

unsullied, that so you may st<strong>and</strong> before God, shining in the brightness of the Saints. Let no<br />

spot or wrinkle defile the pure robe of immortality; but keep holiness in all your members,<br />

as having put on Christ. “For,” it is said, “as many of you as have been baptized into Christ,<br />

have put on Christ.” 3258 Wherefore let all your members be holy as becomes their investment<br />

in a raiment of holiness <strong>and</strong> light.<br />

3258 Gal. iii. 27.<br />

To Palladius.<br />

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