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p.berl.zill.14 VI
Brief an einen Bischof via HGV-meta
Letter to a bishop asking for prayers for release from service. A Christian letter of the 6th century AD from a cleric to a bishop and to his brother Phoibammon, thanking them for their letter, mentioning the expected arrival of Bishop Petros with people from Oxyrhynchos, and asking for prayers that his master will release him from service on good terms. It ends with greetings to Abba Marinos, priests, deacons, Kiamoul and other brothers. machine translation
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Inscription #1
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Transcription
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ἐδεξάμην νῦν τὸ τίμιον γράμμα τῆς ὑμετέρας πατρικῆς καὶ ὁσίας δεσποτείας καὶ
τῆς ἐντίμας καὶ γνησίας ἀδελφικῆς θεοφιλίας, καὶ χαρᾶς ἐνεπλήσθην γνοὺς
ἐξ αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐν κυρίῳ ὑμῶν κατάστασιν καὶ ὅλων τῶν ἀδελφῶν ὑγιείαν υσαρ μερίμναν ἡμῶν. ἐκδέχομαι δὲ ἑκάστης ἡμέρας τὸν ὁσιώτατον ἄββα
Πέτρον τὸν ἐπίσκοπον …ων[…]ιε ησαν οἱ ἀπὸ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως καὶ
σὺν αὐτοῖς ἐρχομένου αὐτοῦ ἐὰν ἔχω μέτρον ζωῆς […] ἐξ […]υν
αὐτῷ […] διὰ δὲ Κόματος καὶ Παχεως ἔστειλα κ[…]δ[…]υ[…]δ…
εἰς τοῦτον ἵνα πεμφθῶσιν ὑμῖν ἐκ τῶν ἐκεὶ […]σ[…]λου[…]τε οὖν
δέξασθαι αὐτὰ ἕως οὗ ἀξιωθῶ προσκυνῆσαι ὑμῶν τοὺς ἁγιωτάτους πόδας
ἀλλὰ παρακαλῶ ὑμᾶς εὔξασθαι ὑπὲρ τῆς ταπεινώσεώς μου ἵνα
ὁ δεσπότης θεὸς κατευοδώσῃ τὰς ὁδούς μου καὶ διανύξῃ τὸν κοινὸν
δεσπότην ἀπολῦσαί με μετὰ ἀγάπης καὶ μὴ […]σω λοιπῶν
αὐτοὺς ἐμποδίσαι μοι γὰρ ζητεῖ τὴν μίαν ταύτην καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω
μέτρον ζωῆς οὐ δύναμαι μὴ ἐξελθεῖν ἀλλὰ μετὰ ἀγάπης θέλω
ἵνα μὴ μετὰ τοσαῦτα ἔτη ἃ ἐδούλευσα αὐτῷ λυπήσω αὐτὸν,
ἀλλʼ ἐλπίδας ἔχω εἰς τὸν Θεὸν καὶ εἰς τὰς εὐχὰς ὑμῶν, ὅτι πληροφορεῖ αὐτὸν ὁ θεὸς καὶ μετὰ καλοῦ ἀπολύει με. πλεῖστα δὲ ἐν κυρίῳ
προσκυνῶ καὶ κατασπάζομαι γνησίως καὶ εὐτυχῶς τὴν τοῦ
δεσπότου μου ἁγιωσύνην καὶ σὲ τὸν θεοφιλέστατον καὶ γνήσιόν μου ἀδελφὸν Φοιβάμμωνα δια… τοῦτο δὲ ποιοῦσι ὁ ὁσιώτατός μου
ἀδελφὸς ὁ σύγκελλος καὶ πάντες ἐξ ἐμοῦ δὲ […]σθη καταξιωσάτω τοὺς θεοσεβεστάτους ἄββα Μαρῖνον καὶ τοὺς ἀλλους πρεσβυτέρους κατʼ ὄνομα καὶ τοὺς θεοφιλεστάτους διακόνους καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν
Κιαμοῦλ καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς κατʼ ὄνομα. ὁ δὲ κύριος δεσπότης ἡμῶν
ἀξιώσῃ με ἐν τάχει πάντας ὑμᾶς περιπτύξασθαι. ὁ θεοφιλέστατος
ἀδελφὸς Μηνᾶς σὺν ἐμοὶ προσκυνεῖ τὰ ἴχνη ὑμῶν […]ας τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς
ἵνα δε…τα…τι ελ… χάρισμα ἐκ τοῦ θεοφιλεστάτου ἀδελφοῦ μου
……… οἴκου τῆς μητρὸς … τάχει ε…ο λευκοι[…]νος
[…]εκφέρω αὐτὸ ἐρχόμενος ἐὰν ζήσω. †Translations (1)
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I have just received the honoured letter of your fatherly and holy lordship and of your honourable and genuine brotherly God-belovedness, and I was filled with joy on learning from it of your well-being in the Lord and the health of all the brothers [...] our concern. I am expecting every day the most holy Abba Petros the bishop [...] those from the city of the Oxyrhynchites, and when he comes with them, if I have a measure of life, [...] from [...] to him [...]. Through Komas and Pachis I sent [...] to him, so that they may be sent to you from those there [...]. So [...] receive them until I am deemed worthy to venerate your most holy feet. But I beg you to pray for my humble self, that the Lord God may prosper my ways and bring the common master to release me with love, and not [...] the rest [...] to hinder them; for he seeks this one thing from me, and if I have a measure of life I cannot fail to leave, but I want to do it with love, so that after so many years that I have served him I may not grieve him. But I have hope in God and in your prayers that God will persuade him and he will release me on good terms.
I venerate many times in the Lord and greet sincerely and happily the holiness of my master, and you, my most God-beloved and genuine brother Phoibammon [...]. My most holy brother the synkellos and everyone do the same. On my behalf [...] let him deign to greet the most God-fearing Abba Marinos and the other priests by name, and the most God-beloved deacons, and brother Kiamoul and all the brothers by name. May our Lord and master deem me worthy soon to embrace you all. The most God-beloved brother Menas with me venerates your footsteps [...] the brothers, so that [...] gift from my most God-beloved brother [...] of the house of the mother [...] soon [...] white [...] I will bring it when I come, if I live. †
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 36099 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.berl.zill;;14 tier-1
- HGV-Text 36099 tier-1
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