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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR *

2nd Volume 14 A ....................................................................................................................... 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS I .......................................................................................................... 1 TO THEOPEMPTUS THE SCHOLASTICUS............................................................................. 70 COMMENTARY ON THE 59TH (59) PSALM ......................................................................... 73

2nd Volume 14 A QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS I * 14Α_010 QUESTION 1 ANSWER *** *** passions and the assault, diminishes evil and again to the

former state is restored, that is, to desire according to nature, if certain *** desire and longing for God. But to put the hand “into the bosom” signifies our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of the Father, being made flesh in the workshop of our nature; for this the bosom and the white hand signifies; and again, by the hand being restored to its former state, it is declared how after the resurrection the Lord, having shone forth, was restored to the paternal bosom. For Moses, having become mediator between God and the people, at one time represents the person of God the Father, and at another time that of our nature.

QUESTION 2 What does the tower being built in the land of Shinar signify? ANSWER We too build a tower whenever we move from the east, that is

whenever we move away from knowledge; and we come to the land of Shinar, that is, to the

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ΑΠΑΝΤΑ, ΜΑΞΙΜΟΥ τοῦ ΟΜΟΛΟΓΗΤΟΥ *

2ος Τόμος 14 Α ....................................................................................................................... 1 ΕΡΩΤΑΠΟΚΡΙΣΕΙΣ Α' .......................................................................................................... 1 ΠΡΟΣ ΘΕΟΠΕΜΠΤΟΝ ΣΧΟΛΑΣΤΙΚΟΝ............................................................................. 70 ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑ ΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΝΘ' (59) ΨΑΛΜΟΝ ......................................................................... 73

2ος Τόμος 14 Α ΕΡΩΤΑΠΟΚΡΙΣΕΙΣ Α' * 14Α_010 ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ 1 ΑΠΟΚΡΙΣΙΣ *** *** πάθεσιν καὶ τὴν προσβολὴν μειοῖ τὴν κακίαν καὶ πάλιν εἰς τὸ

πρότερον ἀποκαθίσταται σχῆμα, τουτέστιν εἰς τὴν κατὰ φύσιν ἐπιθυμίαν εἴ τινες *** ἔφεσις καὶ πόθος Θεοῦ. Τὸ δὲ τὴν χεῖρα βαλεῖν «εἰς τὸν κόλπον» σημαίνει τὸν Κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, τὸν τοῦ Πατρὸς Λόγον, ἐν τῷ ἡμετέρῳ τῆς φύσεως ἐργαστηρίῳ σαρκούμενον· τοῦτο γὰρ ὁ κόλπος καὶ ἡ λευκὴ χεὶρ σημαίνει· καὶ πάλιν ἐν τῷ προτέρῳ σχήματι τῆς χειρὸς ἀποκαθισταμένης δηλοῦται ὡς μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν ὁ Κύριος ἀναλαμφθεὶς ἐν τῷ πατρικῷ κόλπῳ ἀπεκατέστη. Μωυσῆς γὰρ ὡς μεσίτης τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ τοῦ λαοῦ γεγονώς, ποτὲ μὲν τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρὸς πρόσωπον ἐπέχει, ποτὲ δὲ τῆς ἡμετέρας φύσεως.

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ 2 Τί σημαίνει ὁ ἐν γῇ Σενναὰρ οἰκοδομούμενος πύργος; ΑΠΟΚΡΙΣΙΣ Οἰκοδομοῦμεν καὶ ἡμεῖς πύργον ὅτ᾽ ἂν ἐξ ἀνατολῶν κινηθῶμεν, τουτέστιν

ὅτ᾽ ἂν ἀποκινηθῶμεν τῆς γνώσεως· ἐρχόμεθα δὲ εἰς γῆν Σενναάρ, τουτέστιν εἰς τὸ