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How God was seen by him as by Stephen and Paul the apostles, here the father, being astonished, narrates. (68)............................................................................ 36

12................................................................................................................................. 39 Theology concerning the one in all respects of the tri-hypostatic divinity; and through which, using humility, he speaks about himself, rebuking the conceit of those who seem to be something. (72) ........................................................................................................................ 39

14. ............................................................................................................................... 44 Thanksgiving to God on account of the gifts, of which he was deemed worthy by Him; and that the dignity of the priesthood and of the abbacy is dreadful even to angels. (81).................. 44 15. ................................................................................................................................ 46 How, seeing the glory of God, he was moved by the All-Holy Spirit, and that the Divine is within and without the universe, but is both comprehensible and incomprehensible to the worthy, and that we are the house of David, and that Christ and our God, becoming many members, is one and the same and remains undivided. (85) ....................... 46

16. ............................................................................................................................. 53 That only the Divine is by nature yearned for and desired, of which he who partakes has come into a participation of all good things (94) .................................................................. 53 17................................................................................................................................. 54 That fear begets love, but love roots out fear from the soul and remains alone in it, being the Divine and Holy Spirit. (96).................................... 54 18. ............................................................................................................................... 75 Teaching with theology concerning the energies of holy love, that is, of the light itself of the Holy Spirit. (124)........................................................................ 75 19. ............................................................................................................................... 80 Teaching with theology, in which also concerning the priesthood and at the same time dispassionate contemplation.

(132).................................................................................................................................... 80 20. ................................................................................................................................. 84 Thanksgiving and confession with theology; and concerning the gift and participation of the Holy Spirit. (138)................................................................................................... 84 21. .............................................................................................................................. 91 A letter to a monk who asked: How do you separate the Son from the Father, by thought or in reality? In which you will find a wealth of theology overturning his blasphemy. (147)............................................................................................................ 91

22. ............................................................................................................................ 103 Thanksgiving with theology; and concerning those things which the divine grace of the Spirit has been named through its energies. (164)......................................................................................... 103 23.............................................................................................................................. 108 Precise theology concerning the incomprehensible and uncircumscribable Godhead; and that the divine nature, being uncircumscribable, is neither within nor without the universe, but both within and without as the cause of all things; and that the Divine is apprehensible to man only by the mind, in an inapprehensible way, as the rays of the sun are to the eyes. (171) ........................ 108

24. ............................................................................................................................ 121 Through what he writes in the present discourse, making confession, he shows the depth of his own humility, and proceeding, he teaches it to the one who has reached the measure of perfection and been deemed worthy of such revelations in contemplation, imitating in this also the divine Paul, calling himself a sinner and unworthy to be called an apostle. (188).......................................................................................... 121

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Ὅπως ὡράθη αὐτῷ Θεός ὡς Στεφάνῳ καί Παύλῳ τοῖς ἀποστόλοις, ἐνταῦθα ὁ πατήρ ἐκπληττόμενος διηγεῖται. (68)............................................................................ 36

ΙΒ'................................................................................................................................. 39 Περί τοῦ ἑνός κατά πάντα τῆς τρισυποστάτου θεότητος θεολογία˙ καί δι᾿ ὧν τῇ

ταπεινώσει χρώμενος λέγει περί ἑαυτοῦ, τῶν δοκούντων εἶναί τι ἐντρέπων τήν οἴησιν. (72) ........................................................................................................................ 39

Ι∆'. ............................................................................................................................... 44 Εὐχαριστία πρός Θεόν τῶν δωρεῶν ἕνεκα, ὧν παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἠξιώθη˙ καί ὅτι

φρικτόν καί ἀγγέλοις τό τῆς ἱερωσύνης καί ἡγουμενείας ἀξίωμα. (81).................. 44 ΙΕ'. ................................................................................................................................ 46 Ὅπως βλέπων τήν δόξαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐνηργεῖτο ὑπό τοῦ Παναγίου Πνεύματος,

καί ὅτι τό Θεῖον ἐντός καί ἐκτός ἐστι τοῦ παντός, ἀλλά καί ληπτόν τε καί ἄληπτον τοῖς ἀξίοις, καί ὅτι οἶκος ∆αυίδ ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν, καί ὅτι εἰς πολλά γινόμενος ὁ Χριστός καί Θεός ἡμῶν μέλη εἷς ἐστι καί ὁ αὐτός καί μένων ἀμέριστος. (85) ....................... 46

ΙΣΤ'. ............................................................................................................................. 53 Ὅτι ποθεινόν τε καί ἐπιθυμητόν κατά φύσιν μόνον τό Θεῖον, οὗ ὁ μετέχων

πάντων ἐν μετοχῇ γέγονε τῶν καλῶν (94) .................................................................. 53 ΙΖ'................................................................................................................................. 54 Ὅτι ὁ φόβος γεννᾷ τήν ἀγάπην, ἡ δέ ἀγάπη ἐκριζοῖ τόν φόβον ἀπό τῆς ψυχῆς

καί μένει μόνη ἐν αὐτῇ, Πνεῦμα Θεῖον οὖσα καί Ἅγιον. (96).................................... 54 ΙΗ'. ............................................................................................................................... 75 ∆ιδασκαλία σύν θεολογίᾳ περί τῶν ἐνεργειῶν τῆς ἁγίας ἀγάπης, ἤγουν αὐτοῦ

τοῦ φωτός τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος. (124)........................................................................ 75 ΙΘ'. ............................................................................................................................... 80 ∆ιδασκαλία σύν θεολογίᾳ, ἐν ᾗ καί περί ἱερωσύνης ἅμα καί ἀπαθοῦς θεωρίας.

(132).................................................................................................................................... 80 Κ'. ................................................................................................................................. 84 Εὐχαριστία καί ἐξομολόγησις σύν θεολογίᾳ˙ καί περί δωρεᾶς καί μετουσίας

Πνεύματος Ἁγίου. (138)................................................................................................... 84 ΚΑ'. .............................................................................................................................. 91 Ἐπιστολή πρός μοναχόν ἐρωτήσαντα˙ Πῶς χωρίζεις τόν Υἱόν ἀπό τοῦ Πατρός,

ἐπινοίᾳ ἤ πράγματι; Ἐν ᾗ εὑρήσεις πλοῦτον θεολογίας ἀνατρεπούσης τήν αὐτοῦ βλασφημίαν. (147)............................................................................................................ 91

ΚΒ'. ............................................................................................................................ 103 Εὐχαριστία σύν θεολογίᾳ˙ καί περί ὧν ἡ θεία χάρις τοῦ Πνεύματος διά τῶν

ἐνεργειῶν ὠνόμασται. (164)......................................................................................... 103 ΚΓ'.............................................................................................................................. 108 Περί τῆς ἀκαταλήπτου καί ἀπεριγράπτου Θεόητος ἀκριβής θεολογία˙ καί ὅτι

ἀπερίγραπτος οὖσα ἡ θεία φύσις οὔτε ἐντός οὔτε ἐκτός ἐστι τοῦ παντός, ἀλλά καί ἐντός καί ἐκτός ὡς τῶν ὅλων αἰτία˙ καί ὅτι μόνον κατά νοῦν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ληπτόν ἀλήπτως τό Θεῖον ὡς τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς αἱ τοῦ ἡλίου ἀκτῖνες. (171) ........................ 108

Κ∆'. ............................................................................................................................ 121 ∆ι᾿ ὧν ἐξομολογούμενος ἐν τῷ παρόντι γράφει λόγῳ, δείκνυσι τό βάθος τῆς

ἑαυτοῦ ταπεινώσεως, καί προϊών διδάσκει αὐτήν τόν εἰς μέτρον ἐλάσαντα τελειότητος καί ἀξιωθέντα τοιούτων ἐν θεωρίᾳ ἀποκαλύψεων, Παῦλον τόν θεῖον κἀν τούτῳ μιμούμενος, ἁμαρτωλόν ἑαυτόν ἀποκαλοῦντα καί ἀνάξιον τοῦ καλεῖσθαι ἀπόστολον. (188).......................................................................................... 121

ΚΕ'.............................................................................................................................. 130