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Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 12 — Section 1593

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Passage referenceNicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 12 — Section 1593
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 12

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Moreover I find you in your epistles seeking with great longing after serenity of mind, and panting for tranquillity of thought apart from perturbation. But I know not in what manner your Fraternity can attain to this. For one who has undertaken the pilotage of a ship must needs watch all the more as he further recedes from shore, so as sometimes to foresee from signs the coming storms; sometimes, when they come, either, if they are small, to ride over them in a straight course, or, if they swell violently, to avoid them as they rush on by steering sideways; and often to watch alone wh…
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library — NPNF2-12 UTF-8 text
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