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I will attempt to speak, beloved; door, way, sheep, shepherd, worm, stone, pearl, flower, angel, man, God, light, spring, sun of righteousness. The many-named Christ, being also one, the many-named Son, being also one, not changing, not altering, for the divinity is unchangeable; but being adapted to each matter according to its working, He has assigned a proper name to each working. And let us see, beloved, if we can present the working for each name. He was called Way; for I am, He says, the way and the truth, since He himself became the author of all virtues and of the ascent into the heavens. The same is Door; for I am the door of the sheep, since through Him, as through a door, we enter into the kingdom of the heavens. He was called Salt, since He wiped away the stench of men’s idolatry and seasoned our souls by faith for a return to piety and bound together the loosened members of the mind with truth. He was called Sheep; for as a sheep He was led to the slaughter and as a lamb before its shearer is silent; He was called sheep on account of the slaughter and on account of the partaking of His holy members and the immortal protection from the seal of His holy blood. He was called Shepherd; for I am the good shepherd, since He turned back the wandering sheep and killed our adversary the lion with the staff of the cross. He was called Pearl because He was born like a pearl in a mussel between two folds of a virgin's body and soul without the seed of a man, or because He is the ornament of the soul or because of His great brilliance and purity and being resplendent on all sides with the splendor of divinity. He was called Light, for He was the true light, which enlightens every man coming into the world, since He drove away the gloomy error of the old darkness from our mind and opened the eyes of our governing mind, so that we might see truly that what we formerly worshipped are not gods, but works of men’s hands, stones and wood. He was called Cornerstone, since having built the two peoples like two walls by faith, He is placed upon them, bringing them together into one harmony of salvation. He was called Sun of Righteousness because of His brightness and warmth -for there is no one who will be hidden from His heat, and because of the twelve-rayed light of the apostles. He was called a Grain of Mustard, since He makes Himself small and condescends to our conditions at the beginnings of faith, then when, having burrowed into the furrows of our soul, He is diffused into the depth, being raised to a heaven-high height, He is rekindled toward piety and wisdom. He was called Worm; for I am a worm and not a man, because having hidden the resplendent divinity as a hook in the worm of the body, He let Himself down into this abyss of life and like a good fisherman drew it up to fulfill what is written: You will draw out the dragon with a hook. He was called Man, since He put on a body not consisting of pleasure and sleep, but having been born of a virgin and the Holy Spirit. But since each of us, beloved, awaits also the honey-flowing teaching of the fathers, here let us seal our purse of words with the Holy Spirit, so that they, coming from the honey-dropping wisdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, may fill the reservoirs of our hearts, and each of you may sprout forth much fruit of piety, and one may produce thirty, another sixty, another a hundred, the crown of the angels, in Christ Jesus our Lord, with whom to the Father be glory, honor, power, together with the holy and life-giving Spirit, now and into all the ages of ages. Amen.

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ἐπιχείρω δὲ λέγειν, ἀγαπητοί· θύρα, ὁδός, πρόβατον, ποιμήν, σκώληξ, λίθος, μαργαρίτης, ἄνθος, ἄγγελος, ἄνθρωπος, θεός, φῶς, πηγή, ἥλιος δικαιοσύνης. Ὁ πολυώνυμος Χριστὸς καὶ εἷς ὑπάρχων, πολυώνυμος ὁ υἱὸς καὶ εἷς ὢν οὐ τρεπόμενος, οὐ μεταβαλλόμενος, ἄτρεπτος γὰρ ἡ θεότης· ἀλλ' ἑκάστῳ πράγματι κατὰ τὴν ἐνέργειαν ἁρμοζόμενος ἴδιον ὄνομα ἑκάστῃ ἐνεργείᾳ τεθεικώς. Καὶ ἴδωμεν, ἀγαπητοί, εἰ δυνάμεθα ἑκάστῳ ὀνόματι τὴν ἐνέργειαν παραστῆσαι. Ὁδὸς ἤκουσεν· Ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι, φησίν, ἡ ὁδὸς καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια, ἐπειδὴ αὐτὸς ἀρχηγὸς πασῶν τῶν ἀρετῶν καὶ τῆς εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἀναβάσεως γέγονεν. Ὁ αὐτὸς θύρα· Ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι ἡ θύρα τῶν προβάτων, ἐπειδὴ δι' αὐτοῦ καθάπερ διὰ θύρας εἰς τὴν τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλείαν εἰσερχόμεθα. Ἅλας ἤκουσεν, ἐπειδὴ τὴν δυσωδίαν τῆς εἰδωλολατρείας τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀπέσμηξεν καὶ τὰς ψυχὰς ἡμῶν πρὸς νοστὸν εὐσεβείας τῇ πίστει ἤρτυσεν καὶ τὰ λελυμένα μέλη τῆς διανοίας τῇ ἀληθείᾳ συνέσφιγξεν. Πρόβατον ἤκουσεν· Ὡς γὰρ πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη καὶ ὡς ἀμνὸς ἐναντίον τοῦ κείραντος αὐτὸν ἄφωνος· πρόβατον ἤκουσεν διὰ τὴν σφαγὴν καὶ διὰ τὴν τῶν ἁγίων μελῶν αὐτοῦ μετάλημψιν καὶ τὴν ἐκ τῆς τοῦ ἁγίου αἵματος αὐτοῦ σφραγίδος ἀθάνατον αὐτοῦ φυλακήν. Ποιμὴν ἤκουσεν· Ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι ὁ ποιμὴν ὁ καλός, ἐπειδὴ τὰ πεπλανημένα πρόβατα ἐπέστρεψεν καὶ τὸν ἀντίδικον ἡμῶν λέοντα τῇ βακτηρίᾳ τοῦ σταυροῦ ἀπέκτεινεν. Μαργαρίτης ἤκουσεν διὰ τὸ αὐτὸν ὥσπερ μαργαρίτην ἐν μύακι ἀνὰ μέσον δύο πτυχῶν σώματος καὶ ψυχῆς παρθενικῆς ἄνευ σπορᾶς ἀνδρὸς γεγεννῆσθαι ἢ διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν κόσμιον ψυχῆς ἢ διὰ τὸ πολυφεγγὲς αὐτοῦ καὶ καθαρὸν καὶ πανταχόθεν τῇ αἴγλῃ τῆς θεότητος ἐξάστραπτον. Φῶς ἤκουσεν, ἦν γὰρ τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινόν, ὃ φωτίζει πάντα ἄνθρωπον ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον, ἐπειδὴ τὴν ζοφερὰν πλάνην τῆς παλαιᾶς σκοτομήνης ἀπὸ τῆς διανοίας ἡμῶν ἀπήλασεν καὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς τοῦ ἡγεμονικοῦ ἡμῶν νοῦ διήνοιξεν, ἵνα ἴδωμεν ἀληθῶς οἷς προσεκυνοῦμεν τὸ πρίν, ὅτι οὐκ εἰσὶ θεοί, ἀλλ' ἔργα χειρῶν ἀνθρώπων, λίθοι καὶ ξύλα. Λίθος ἀκρογωνιαῖος ἤκουσεν, ἐπειδὴ τοὺς δύο λαοὺς καθάπερ δύο τοίχους τῇ πίστει οἰκοδομήσας ἐπάνω αὐτῶν ἐπίκειται εἰς μίαν ἁρμογὴν σωτηρίας συνάγων. Ἥλιος δικαιοσύνης ἤκουσεν διὰ τὸ φωτεινὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ θερμόν -οὐκ ἔστιν γὰρ ὃς ἀποκρυβήσεται τὴν θέρμην αὐτοῦ, καὶ διὰ τὸ δωδεκάκτινον φῶς τῶν ἀποστόλων. Κόκκος σινάπεως ἤκουσεν, ἐπειδὴ σμικρύνει ἑαυτὸν καὶ συγκαταβαίνει ταῖς ἕξεσιν ἡμῶν παρὰ τὰς ἀρχὰς τῆς πίστεως, εἶθ' ὁπόταν εἰς τοὺς αὔλακας τῆς ψυχῆς ἡμῶν ἐμφωλεύσας εἰς βάθος διαχυθῇ, εἰς ὕψος οὐρανομῆκες ἐπαιρόμενος πρὸς εὐσέβειαν καὶ φρόνησιν ἀναθερμαίνεται. Σκώληξ ἤκουσεν· Ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι σκώληξ καὶ οὐκ ἄνθρωπος, διὰ τὸ τὴν ἐξαστράπτουσαν θεότητα καθάπερ ἄγκιστρον τῷ σκώληκι τοῦ σώματος κρύψαντα αὐτὸν εἰς τόνδε τὸν βυθὸν τοῦ βίου χαλάσαντα καὶ ὥσπερ καλὸν ἁλιέα ἀνασπάσαντα πληρῶσαι τὸ γεγραμμένον· Ἄξεις δράκοντα ἐν ἀγκίστρῳ. Ἄνθρωπος ἤκουσεν, ἐπειδὴ σῶμα ἐφόρησεν οὐκ ἐξ ἡδονῆς καὶ ὕπνου συνεστώς, ἀλλ' ἐκ παρθένου καὶ πνεύματος ἁγίου γεγονώς. Ἀλλ' ἐπειδὴ ἕκαστος ἡμῶν, ἀγαπητοί, ἐκδέχεται καὶ τὴν τῶν πατέρων μελίρρυτον διδασκαλίαν, ἐνταῦθα τὸ βαλάντιον ἡμῶν τῶν λόγων σφραγισώμεθα ἁγίῳ πνεύματι, ἵνα αὐτοὶ ἐλθόντες ἐκ τῆς μελισταγοῦς σοφίας τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τὰς δεξαμενὰς τῶν καρδιῶν ἡμῶν πληρώσωσιν, καὶ πολὺν τὸν καρπὸν τῆς εὐσεβείας ἕκαστος ὑμῶν βλαστήσῃ καὶ ὁ μὲν ποιήσῃ τριάκοντα, ὁ δὲ ἑξήκοντα, ὁ δὲ ἑκατὸν τὸν στέφανον τῶν ἀγγέλων, ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν, μεθ' οὗ τῷ πατρὶ δόξα, τιμή, κράτος ἅμα τῷ ἁγίῳ καὶ ζωοποιῷ πνεύματι, νῦν καὶ εἰς τοὺς σύμπαντας αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.