wise virgins, so that you may not be left outside the door, but that you may enter into the bridal chamber with the bridegroom, if you have perceived that your spirit and your soul and your body were blamelessly united and rise up spotless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ, if you have become irreproachable and uncondemned by your conscience and if you have become a child according to the word of the Savior who says: "do not hinder" "the children" from coming "to me; for of such is the kingdom of heaven." If you have truly become a bride for him and his Holy Spirit has taken possession of you while you are still in the body, expect a kingdom, but if not, expect sorrow and groaning, because shame and reproach go before you in the presence of the saints. But know this, that as a certain virgin of this world, rising in the morning each day, does not touch any other care, before she has adorned herself for her bridegroom, looking in the mirror many times, lest there be a blemish on her face. For if she has a blemish she will not please her bridegroom. So there is much care for the saints night and day to examine their own thoughts and to learn, whether they are under the yoke of the Holy Spirit or not. Therefore, strive, brother, diligently in pain of heart and mouth, in knowledge to acquire that eternal joy, because rare are those who have been deemed worthy of it, who have acquired "the sword of the Spirit" and led their soul to progress and freed all its senses from every defilement of the passions, as the apostle said: that we may provide their growth in us in all things, "which is the head, Christ." And it is possible for his holy name to help "our weakness," so that we may be deemed worthy to arrive with all his saints. Amen.

φρόνιμοι παρθένοι, ἵνα μὴ ἀφεθῇς ἔξωθεν τῆς θύρας, ἀλλ' ἵνα εἰσέλθῃς εἰς τὸν νυμφῶνα σὺν τῷ νυμφίῳ, εἰ ᾐσθάνθης ὅτι τὸ πνεῦμά σου καὶ ἡ ψυχή σου καὶ τὸ σῶμά σου ἡνώθησαν ἀμέμπτως καὶ ἀνίστανται τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἄσπιλα, εἰ ἀνέλεγχος καὶ ἀκατάγνωστος ἐγένου ἀπὸ τῆς συνειδήσεώς σου καὶ εἰ νήπιον ἐγένου κατὰ τὸν λόγον τοῦ σωτῆρος τὸν λέγοντα· «μὴ κωλύετε» «τὰ παιδία» ἔρχεσθαι «πρός με· τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν». εἰ ἀληθῶς γέγονας αὐτῷ νύμφη καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ ἐκληρονόμησέ σε ἔτι ὄντος σοῦ ἐν τῷ σώματι, προσδόκησον βασιλείαν, εἰ δὲ μήγε, λύπην καὶ στεναγμὸν προσδόκα, διότι αἰσχύνη καὶ ὄνειδος προάγει σου ἐνώπιον τῶν ἁγίων. τοῦτο δὲ γίνωσκε, ὅτι ὡς παρθένος τις τοῦ κόσμου τούτου ἀνισταμένη πρωίας καθ' ἑκάστην ἡμέραν ἄλλης μερίμνης οὐχ ἅπτεται, πρὶν ἢ καλλωπίσει ἑαυτὴν τῷ νυμφίῳ ἑαυτῆς ἐσοπτριζομένη πολλάκις, μήποτε ἔστι μῶμος ἐν τῷ προσώπῳ αὐτῆς. ἐχούσης γὰρ αὐτῆς μῶμον οὐ μὴ ἀρέσῃ τῷ νυμφίῳ ἑαυτῆς. οὕτω μέριμνα πολλή ἐστι τοῖς ἁγίοις ἐν νυκτὶ καὶ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἐρευνῆσαι ἑαυτῶν τοὺς λογισμοὺς καὶ μαθεῖν, εἴ εἰσιν ὑπὸ ζυγὸν τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἢ οὔ. λοιπὸν ἀγωνίζου, ἀδελφέ, ἐπιμελῶς ἐν πόνῳ καρδίας καὶ στόματος, ἐν γνώσει τοῦ κτήσασθαι τὴν αἰώνιον χαρὰν ἐκείνην, διότι σπάνιοί εἰσιν οἱ ἀξιωθέντες αὐτῆς, οἵτινες ἐκτήσαντο «τὴν μάχαιραν τοῦ πνεύματος» καὶ εἰς προκοπὴν ἤγαγον τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτῶν καὶ ἠλευθέρωσαν πάσας τὰς αἰσθήσεις αὐτῆς ἀπὸ παντὸς μολυσμοῦ τῶν παθῶν, καθὼς εἶπεν ὁ ἀπόστολος· ὅτι αὔξησιν αὐτῶν παρασχώμεθα ἐν ἡμῖν ἐν πᾶσιν, «ὅ ἐστιν ἡ κεφαλὴ Χριστός». δυνατὸν δέ ἐστι τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ συναντιλαβέσθαι «τῇ ἀσθενείᾳ ἡμῶν», ὅπως ἀξιωθῶμεν φθάσαι μετὰ πάντων τῶν ἁγίων αὐτοῦ. Ἀμήν.