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Letters — Letter 27 — To Amphilochius the Younger
You treat it as a joke, but I know the danger of someone from Ozizala starving even when he has worked hardest at his farming.
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Letter 27 — To Amphilochius the Younger
Source: Translated by Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series , Vol. 7. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. ( Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1894. ) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3103c.htm>.
You treat it as a joke, but I know the danger of someone from Ozizala starving even when he has worked hardest at his farming. The only praise that can be given to them is this: even if they die of hunger, they smell sweet and have a magnificent funeral. How is this possible? Because they are covered with an abundance of all kinds of flowers.
You make a joke of it; but I know the danger of an Ozizalean starving when he has taken most pains with his husbandry. There is only this praise to be given them, that even if they die of hunger they smell sweet, and have a gorgeous funeral. How so? Because they are covered with plenty of all sorts of flowers.
