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p.lond.6.1919 Herakleopolites bzw. Kynopolites

Letter from Pennes to apa Paieous with prayers and greetings. A Christian letter from Pennes to apa Paieous, a monastic leader, offering prayers and greetings from himself, the blessed Paulos and the brothers. It praises the love (charity) of Paieous's community, attested by two fishermen, Psais and Harpokras. It comes from the Herakleopolite or Kynopolite nome. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r,1] τῷ κυρίῳ καὶ ἀδελφῷ ἡμῶν […]ἄπα Παιηοῦτι Πέννης ἐν κυρίῳ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαι τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ […]…τ… ἀγαγόντων σὺν […]…[…] τῶ ἔχοντι πάντα[…]ἀδελφῶν συμπονούντων […] διάθεσιν τὴν ἀδελφῷ […]σε μάλιστα ὅτι σὺν θεῷ […]υασμε…[…] ἀλλήλων τὴν […]τὴν ἐν ἡμῖν προοδεύουσαν […]ταύτην. εὔχομαι οὖν τῷ ἀειμνήστῳ θεῷ πάσαις ὥραις περὶ σοῦ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἐν Χριστῷ· καὶ γὰρ προσῆκόν ἐστιν ἀλλήλων μιμνήσκεσθαι ἐν κυρίῳ Χριστῷ διὰ τὴν ἑκατέρων ὑγίειαν· τοῦτο δὲ ποιοῦντες Χριστιανοὶ κληθήσομεν ἐν Χριστῷ. τοῦτο δὲ ἐν στέρνοις ἔχω ὅτι καὶ ἂν ἤμεθα μακρὰν ἀλλήλων ἐν τῇ πίστει τοῦ ἀειμνήστου θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν …ι…αμεν καὶ ἐπʼ αὐτόν [r,2] ἐστιν ἡ σωτηρία ἡμῶν Χριστοῦ δυνάμει ὄντων σὺν τοῖς πράττουσι τὴν αὐτοῦ μεγάλην δύναμιν καὶ συνεσχηκότων τὴν προσηγορίαν. προσαγορεύω σε πολλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς πάντας κατʼ ὄνομα τοὺς σὺν σοί, καὶ ὁ μακάριος Παῦλος προσαγορεύει σε καὶ τοὺς σὺν σοὶ ἀδελφούς, καὶ οἱ σὺν ἡμῖν πάντες ἀδελφοὶ προσαγορεύουσί σε μετὰ καὶ πάντων τῶν σὺν σοὶ ἀδελφῶν. ἐφάνη δὲ ἡ ἀγάπη ὑμῶν ἐν πᾶσι ἡ προκηρυσσομένη, μάλιστα ἡ μαρτυρηθεῖσα ἡμῖν ὑπὸ Ψάιτος καὶ Ἁρποκρᾶ ἁλιέων, ὡς καὶ συνηρίθμηται ταῖς ἄλλαις ἀγάπαις. τοῦτο δὲ ποιοῦντες συγχριστοὶ κληθήσομεν. [v] […]ἄπα Παιηοῦτι […]ος. [… 1 line lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[column 1] [To our lord and] brother […] apa Paieous, Pennes, [in the Lord very many] greetings. [Before all things] I pray to the Lord God […] having brought with […] the one who has all things […] of the brothers toiling together […] the disposition toward the brother […] you especially that with God […] one another the […] which advances among us […] this. I pray therefore to the ever-remembered God at all hours for you and for [the brothers] in Christ; for indeed it is fitting to remember one another in the Lord Christ for the health of us both; and doing this we shall be called Christians in Christ. And this I hold in my breast, that even if we are far from one another, in the faith of the ever-remembered God and our Saviour we […] and on him [column 2] is our salvation, being by the power of Christ with those who practise his great power and who have held fast to the name. I greet you much and all the brothers by name who are with you, and the blessed Paulos greets you and the brothers with you, and all the brothers with us greet you together with all the brothers with you. Your love has appeared in all things, that which is proclaimed beforehand, especially that attested to us by Psais and Harpokras, fishermen, so that it has also been counted together with the other acts of love. And doing this we shall be called fellow-Christs. [verso] […] to apa Paieous […]os. […]

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