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Epistles of Paul the Apostle to Seneca, with Seneca's to Paul: Chapter IX

Annæus Seneca to

Paul

Greeting.

1. I KNOW that my letter, wherein I acquainted you, that I had read to the Emperor your Epistles, does not so much affect of as the nature of the things (contained in them),

2. Which do so powerfully divert men's minds from their former manners and practices, that I have always been surprised, and have been fully convinced of it by many arguments heretofore.

3. Let us therefore begin afresh; and if any thing heretofore has been imprudently acted, do you forgive.

4. I have sent you a book de copia verborum. Farewell, dearest Paul.