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THE LETTERS OF OUR FATHER AMONG THE SAINTS DIONYSIUS, CALLED AREOPAGITE, BISHOP OF ATHENS AND DISCIPLE OF THE APOSTLES:
Letter Six: To Sopatros, Priest.

Translated by Rev. John Parker, 1897.


Letter VI

To Sopatros, Priest

Do not imagine this a victory, holy Sopatros, to have denounced a devotion, or an opinion, which apparently is not good. For neither -- even if you should have convicted it accurately -- are the (teachings) of Sopatros consequently good. For it is possible, both that you and others, whilst occupied in many things that are false and apparent, should overlook the true, which is One and hidden. For neither, if anything is not red, is it therefore white, nor if something is not a horse, is it necessarily a man. But thus will you do, if you follow my advice, you will cease indeed to speak against others, but will so speak on behalf of truth, that every thing said is altogether unquestionable.

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    The St. Pachomius Orthodox Library, 1 August 1996.

    Have mercy, O Lord, upon Thy servants the translator John and the scribe Cyrus.

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    THE END, AND TO GOD BE THE GLORY!

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