Letter 27 #catechesis/fathers/theodoret
Letters · Theodoret · Church Fathers
To Aquilinus, Deacon and Archimandrite.
No one who has won the divine adoption weeps for orphanhood, for what guardian care can be more powerful than that of our Father which is on high, because of Him fathers of earth are fathers. By His will some are made fathers by nature, some by grace. To Him then let us hold fast and keep alive the memory of them that are dead. For we shall be the better for the recollection of them that have lived well, rousing us to imitation of them.
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Translated by Blomfield Jackson. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series Vol. 3. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1892.
Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. fathers/2707027.htm
