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Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola, Volume II is unavailable, but you can change that!

These 18 prose letters serve as a spiritual autobiography, providing an intimate view of monastic life in Italy during the fifth century. Volume 2 contains letters 23–51.

itself.13 So God has blessed you, because the innocent and upright have adhered to you, and because you have not sat with the wicked.14 You hate wickedness and love your own soul,15 which you surrendered to Christ so that it might be lost to this life but preserved for eternity. By losing itself, it enriches itself, if only it holds itself cheap through love for Christ. Through such love you hold your soul cheap, but God holds it dear, and I scent its sweetness; I scent it through the honeycombs
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