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to be grateful for her piety and for doing what is proper towards us, which the Savior of all may accept the more, coming down to us the least in imitation of him, not by the necessity of force but by the genuineness of love, and offering this as a gift to him. And the things sought are those appended. [The chapters were indeed in the petition, but so that we might not write them twice, we have combined each chapter in the interpretation.]

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ὁσιότητα καὶ εἰς ἡμᾶς τὰ εἰκότα πράττουσαν εὐγνωμονεῖν, ἣν πλέον ὁ τῶν ὅλων Σωτὴρ ἀποδέξηται καὶ εἰς ἡμᾶς τοὺς ἐλαχίστους κατὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ μίμησιν καταγομένην οὐ βίας ἀνάγκῃ, ἀλλ' ἀγάπης γνησιότητι καὶ τοῦτο δῶρον αὐτῷ προσφέρουσαν. ἔστι δὲ τὰ ζητούμενα τὰ ὑποτεταγμένα. [Τὰ μὲν κεφάλαια ἐνέκειντο τῇ ἀξιώσει, ἀλλ' ἵνα μὴ δὶς ταῦτα ἐγγράψωμεν, συνεξεύξαμεν ἕκαστον κεφάλαιον ἐν τῇ ἑρμηνείᾳ.]