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St. Methodius: The Symposium: A Treatise on Chastity is unavailable, but you can change that!

A dialogue written to imitate Plato’s Symposium is a unique early Christian document written in beautiful poetic prose during the patristic period.

their hearts inaccessible to all impure thoughts; and it is especially here that the Holy Spirit takes up His abode as in a sanctuary. Eub. Now just a moment, and answer this question—I think that we can thus proceed on a straighter path in our endeavor to discover what is truly the best: is there anyone you would call a good pilot? Greg. Yes, indeed. Eub. Is it the one who saves his ship in great and overpowering squalls or when he is on calm and quiet seas? Greg. The one who is in great and overpowering
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