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you will be required to give the due account. For this very reason, I too, although I am about to cause pain, will spare none of the more burdensome things. For it is much better for us to be pained here and delivered from the coming judgment, than by indulging you with words to be punished then with you. For it is not safe for us, nor without danger, to bear such things in silence. For each of you will give an account for himself; but I am responsible for the salvation of all. For this very reason I will not cease doing and saying everything, even if it is necessary to cause pain, even if I appear burdensome, even if oppressive, so that I may be able to stand before that fearful tribunal, having no spot or wrinkle, or any such thing. And may it be by the prayers of the saints that those who have already been corrupted may quickly return, and that those who have remained unharmed may advance to a greater degree of decency and self-control; so that you may be saved, and we may rejoice, and God may be glorified now and always, and unto the endless ages of ages. Amen.

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τὰς τυχούσας ἀπαιτηθήσῃ εὐθύνας. ∆ιά τοι τοῦτο καὶ ἐγὼ, καίτοι γε μέλλων λυπεῖν, οὐδενὸς φείσομαι τῶν ἐπαχθεστέρων. Πολλῷ γὰρ βέλτιον ἐνταῦθα λυπηθέντας ἡμᾶς ἐξελέσθαι τῆς μελλούσης κρίσεως, ἢ ῥήμασι χαρισάμενον μεθ' ὑμῶν κολασθῆναι τότε. Οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀσφαλὲς ἡμῖν, οὐδὲ ἀκίνδυνον, σιγῇ τὰ τοιαῦτα φέρειν Ὑμῶν γὰρ ἕκαστος ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ δώσει τὰς εὐθύνας· ἐγὼ δὲ τῆς ἁπάντων σωτηρίας ὑπεύθυνος. ∆ιὰ δὴ τοῦτο οὐ παύσομαι πάντα ποιῶν καὶ λέγων, κἂν λυπῆσαι δέῃ, κἂν ἐπαχθῆ φανῆναι, κἂν φορτικὸν, ὥστε δυνηθῆναι παραστῆναι τῷ βήματι ἐκείνῳ τῷ φοβερῷ, μὴ ἔχων σπῖλον ἢ ῥυτίδα, ἤ τι τῶν τοιούτων. Γένοιτο δὲ εὐχαῖς τῶν ἁγίων τούς τε διαφθαρέντας ἤδη ταχέως ἐπανελθεῖν, τούς τε μείναντας ἀσινεῖς ἐπὶ μεῖζον προκόψαι κοσμιότητος καὶ σωφροσύνης· ἵνα καὶ ὑμεῖς σώζοισθε, καὶ ἡμεῖς εὐφραινώμεθα, καὶ ὁ Θεὸς δοξάζηται νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ, καὶ εἰς τοὺς ἀτελευτήτους αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.