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Sermon 16 (On Slander)

Brother, if it should happen that you are reviled by someone in your absence, and another comes and reports to you that a certain brother has reviled you, you, as a prudent man, recognize whose plot this is. And do not be embittered against your brother. But say this to the one who came and informed you: even if my brother happens to have insulted me, nevertheless he did not do this of himself; the evil one contrived this, so that he might cast strife between us; but the Lord will destroy the evil one, and he will have mercy on my brother, and may he not abandon us.

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Sermo 16 (De calumnia)

Ἀδελφέ, ἐὰν ἀπόντος σου συμβῆσαι λοιδορηθῆναι ὑπό τινος, καὶ ἐλθὼν ἕτερος ἐπαγγείλῃ σοι ὅτι ὁ δεῖνα ἀδελφὸς ἐλοιδόρησέ σε, σὺ ὡς φρόνιμος ἐπίγνωθι τίνος ἡ ἐπιβουλή. Καὶ μὴ πικράνθῃς κατὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου. Εἰπὲ δὲ καὶ τῷ ἐλθόντι καὶ μηνύσαντί σοι οὕτως· εἰ καὶ ὑβρῖσαί με ἀδελφός μου τυγχάνει, ὅμως οὐκ ἀφ' ἑαυτοῦ τοῦτο ἐποίησε· τοῦτο ὁ πονηρὸς παρεσκεύασεν, ἵνα μάχην βάλῃ ἀναμεταξὺ ἡμῶν· ὁ δὲ κύριος τὸν πονηρὸν καταργήσει, τὸν δὲ ἀδελφόν μου ἐλεήσει, καὶ ἡμᾶς μὴ ἐγκαταλείπῃ.