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Sermo in sanctum Romanum

96.477 Of Nyssa, from the sermon on Saint Romanus. The wonder-workers of Christ do not run across a thin rope, nor upon swords

tumbling upon naked ones, do they escape the wounds by skill, but instead of a rope they run along the narrow and precipitous road of piety with an unshaken step. And they blunt the edges of the tyrant's swords with their ambition for wounds 96.477, not making it their art not to suffer, but training to conquer in suffering.

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Sermo in sanctum Romanum

96.477 Τοῦ Νύσσης, ἐκ τοῦ εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ῥωμανόν. Οὐ μήρυνθον λεπτὴν διαθέουσιν οἱ θαυματοποιοὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, οὐδὲ ξίφεσιν

ἐπικυβιστῶντες γυμνοῖς, τέχνῃ τὰς πληγὰς διαφεύγουσι, ἀλλ' ἀντὶ μὲν σχοινίου τὴν στενὴν καὶ ἀμφίκρημνον τῆς εὐσεβείας ὁδὸν ἀσαλεύτῳ βήματι διατρέχουσι. Τῶν δὲ τυραννουμένων ξιφῶν τὰς ἀκμὰς τῇ τῶν πληγῶν φιλοτιμίᾳ 96.477 ἀμβλύνουσιν, οὐ τὸ μὴ πάσχειν τέχνην ποιούμενοι, ἀλλὰ τὸ νικᾷν ἐν τῷ πάσχειν ἀσκούμενοι.