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cannot do spiritual things, nor can spiritual men do carnal things, so that neither can faith do the things of unbelief, nor unbelief the things of faith. But you, being full of the Holy Spirit, do nothing carnal, but all things spiritual. You are perfected in Christ Jesus, who is the savior of all men, especially of believers. But I have learned of some who passed through among you, holding a bad teaching of a strange and evil spirit, to whom you did not give entry to sow their tares, stopping your ears so as not to receive the error proclaimed by them, being persuaded that the people-deceiving spirit speaks not the things of Christ, but its own things; for it is a liar. But the Holy Spirit speaks not its own things, but the things of Christ, and not from itself, but from the Lord, just as the Lord also announced to us the things from the Father. For 'the word,' He says, 'which you hear, is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me.' And concerning the Holy Spirit: 'He will not speak,' He says, 'of Himself, but whatever He hears from Me.' And concerning Himself He says to the Father: 'I have glorified You,' He says, 'on the earth; the work which You have given Me, I have finished; I have manifested Your name to men.' And concerning the Holy Spirit: 'He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.' Therefore each glorifies Him from whom He also received what He will do; and He preaches Him and proclaims His words. But the deceiving spirit preaches itself, speaks its own things, for it is self-pleasing; it glorifies itself, for it is full of pride; it is a liar, deceitful, fawning, flattering, insidious, a rhapsodist, verbose, discordant, of measureless speech, greedy, cowardly, from whose working Jesus Christ will deliver us, who has founded us upon the rock, as chosen stones, well-fitted for the building of God the Father, being carried up to the heights through Christ who was crucified for us, using the Holy Spirit as a rope, being drawn up by faith and lifted by love from earth to heaven, journeying together with the blameless. For 'blessed,' He says, 'are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.' And the unerring way is Jesus Christ; for 'I,' He says, 'am the way and the life.' And the way leads to the Father; for 'no one,' He says, 'comes to the Father, except through Me.' Blessed therefore are you, the God-bearers, spirit-bearers, temple-bearers, bearers-of-what-is-holy, in all things adorned in the commandments of Jesus Christ, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession; on whose account I, exulting, was counted worthy through this letter to converse with the saints who are in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus. I rejoice therefore over you, that you pay no attention to vanity nor love according to the flesh, but according to God.

And for the other men, pray unceasingly; for there is in them a hope of repentance, that they may attain to God. For does not he who falls rise again, or he who turns away not turn back? Allow them, therefore, to be discipled by you. Become, therefore, ministers of God and the mouth of Christ; for the Lord says: 'If you bring forth the precious from the worthless, you shall be as My mouth.' Toward their anger, be you humble-minded; against their blasphemies, oppose you earnest prayers; while they are in error, stand you firm in the faith; conquer their savage temper with gentleness, their wrathfulness with meekness. For blessed are the meek, and Moses was meek above all men, and David was exceedingly meek; wherefore Paul exhorts, saying a servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those who oppose him. not being eager to defend yourselves against those who wrong you (for 'if I have rendered,' he says, 'to those who rendered evil to me'), let us make them brothers by our gentleness. For say to those who hate you: 'You are our brothers,' that the name of the Lord may be glorified. And let us imitate the Lord, who when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when crucified, did not resist; when suffering, did not threaten, but on behalf of those who

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πνευματικὰ πράττειν οὐ δύνανται οὐδὲ οἱ πνευματικοὶ τὰ σαρκικά, ὥστε οὐδὲ ἡ πίστις τὰ τῆς ἀπιστίας οὐδὲ ἡ ἀπιστία τὰ τῆς πίστεως. ὑμεῖς δέ, πλήρεις ὄντες τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, οὐδὲν σαρκικόν, ἀλλὰ πνευματικὰ πάντα πράσσετε. ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τελειοῦσθε, ὅς ἐστιν σωτὴρ πάντων ἀνθρώπων, μάλιστα πιστῶν. Ἔγνων δέ τινας παροδεύσαντας δι' ὑμῶν, ἔχοντας κακὴν διδαχὴν ἀλλοκότου καὶ πονηροῦ πνεύματος, οἷς οὐκ ἐδώκατε πάροδον σπεῖραι τὰ ζιζάνια, βύσαντες τὰ ὦτα, εἰς τὸ μὴ παραδέξασθαι τὴν ὑπ' αὐτῶν καταγελλομένην πλάνην, πεπεισμένοι τὸ λαοπλάνον πνεῦμα οὐ τὰ Χριστοῦ, ἀλλὰ τὰ ἴδια λαλεῖν· ψευδολόγον γάρ ἐστιν. τὸ δὲ ἅγιον πνεῦμα οὐ τὰ ἴδια, ἀλλὰ τὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἀφ' ἑαυτοῦ, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ κυρίου, ὡς καὶ ὁ κύριος τὰ παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῖν κατήγγελλεν. ὁ λόγος γάρ, φησίν, ὃν ἀκούετε, οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμός, ἀλλὰ τοῦ πέμψαντός με πατρός. καὶ περὶ τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ ἁγίου· Oὐ λαλήσει, φησίν, ἀφ' ἑαυτοῦ, ἀλλ' ὅσα ἂν ἀκούσῃ παρ' ἐμοῦ. καὶ περὶ ἑαυτοῦ φησι πρὸς τὸν πατέρα· Ἐγώ σε, φησίν, ἐδόξασα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς· τὸ ἔργον, ὃ ἔδωκάς μοι, ἐτελείωσα· ἐφανέρωσά σου τὸ ὄνομα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος· Ἐκεῖνος ἐμὲ δοξάσει, ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ ἐμοῦ λαμβάνει καὶ ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν. οὐκοῦν ἑκάτερος αὐτὸν δοξάζει, παρ' οὗ καὶ ἔλαβεν, ὃ ποιήσει· καὶ αὐτὸν κηρύττει καὶ αὐτοῦ τὰ ῥήματα καταγγέλλει. τὸ δὲ πλάνον πνεῦμα ἑαυτὸ κηρύττει, τὰ ἴδια λαλεῖ, αὐτάρεσκον γάρ ἐστιν· ἑαυτὸ δοξάζει, τύφου γάρ ἐστι μεστόν· ψευδολόγον ὑπάρχει, ἀπατηλόν, θωπευτικόν, κολακευτικόν, ὕπουλον, ·αψωδόν, φλύαρον, ἀσύμφωνον, ἀμετροεπές, γλίσχρον, ψοφοδεές, οὗτῆς ἐνεργείας ῥύσεται ἡμᾶς Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστός, ὁ θεμελιώσας ἡμᾶς ἐπὶ τὴν πέτραν, ὡς λίθους ἐκλεκτούς, εὐαρμολογουμένους εἰς οἰκοδομὴν θεοῦ πατρός, ἀναφερομένους εἰς τὰ ὕψη διὰ Χριστοῦ τοῦ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν σταυρωθέντος, σχοίνῳ χρωμένους τῷ ἁγίῳ πνεύματι, πίστει δὲ ἀναγομένους καὶ ἀγάπῃ κου-φιζομένους ἐκ γῆς πρὸς οὐρανόν, συνοδοιποροῦντας ἅμα ἀμώμοις. μακάριοι γάρ, φησίν, οἱ ἄμωμοι ἐν ὁδῷ, οἱ πορευόμενοι ἐν νόμῳ κυρίου. ὁδὸς δέ ἐστιν ἀπλανὴς Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστός· ἐγὼ γάρ, φησίν, εἰμὶ ἡ ὁδὸς καὶ ἡ ζωή. ὁδηγεῖ δὲ ἡ ὁδὸς πρὸς τὸν πατέρα· οὐδεὶς γάρ, φησίν, ἔρχεται πρὸς τὸν πατέρα, εἰ μὴ δι' ἐμοῦ. μακάριοι οὖν ἐστε ὑμεῖς οἱ θεοφόροι. πνευματοφόροι, ναοφόροι, ἁγιοφόροι, κατὰ πάντα κεκοσμημένοι ἐν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, βασίλειον ἱεράτευμα, ἔθνος ἅγιον, λαὸς εἰς περιποίησιν· δι' οὓς ἀγαλλιώμενος ἠξιώθην, δι' ὧν γράφω προσομιλῆσαι τοῖς ἁγίοις τοῖς οὖσιν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ, τοῖς πιστοῖς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ. χαίρω οὖν ἐφ' ὑμῖν, ὅτι μὴ τῇ ματαιότητι προσέχετε οὐδὲ κατὰ σάρκα ἀγαπᾶτε, ἀλλὰ κατὰ θεόν.

Kαὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἄλλων δὲ ἀνθρώπων ἀδιαλείπτως προσεύχεσθε· ἔστιν γὰρ αὐτοῖς ἐλπὶς μετανοίας, ἵνα θεοῦ τύχωσιν. μὴ ὁ πίπτων γὰρ οὐκ ἀνίσταται, ἢ ὁ ἀποστρέφων οὐκ ἐπιστρέφει; ἐπιτρέψατε οὖν αὐτοῖς μαθητευθῆναι ὑμῖν. γίνεσθε οὖν διάκονοι θεοῦ καὶ στόμα Χριστοῦ· λέγει γὰρ ὁ κύριος· Ἐὰν ἐξαγάγητε ἐξ ἀναξίου τίμιον, ὡς στόμα μου ἔσεσθε. γίνεσθε πρὸς τὰς ὀργὰς αὐτῶν ὑμεῖς ταπεινόφρονες, ἀντιτάξατε πρὸς τὰς βλασφημίας αὐτῶν ὑμεῖς τὰς ἐκτενεῖς εὐχάς, αὐτῶν πλανωμένων στήκετε ὑμεῖς ἐν τῇ πίστει ἑδραῖοι, νικήσατε τὸ ἄγριον ἦθος ἐν ἡμερότητι, τὸ ὀργίλον ἐν πραότητι. μακάριοι γὰρ οἱ πραεῖς, καὶ Mωσῆς πρᾶος παρὰ πάντας ἀνθρώπους, καὶ ∆αυὶδ πρᾶος σφόδρα· διὸ παραινεῖ Παῦλος, δοῦλον λέγων κυρίου οὐ δεῖ μάχεσθαι, ἀλλ' ἤπιον εἶναι πρὸς πάντας, διδακτικόν, ἀνεξίκακον, ἐν πραότητι παιδεύοντα τοὺς ἀντιδιατιθεμένους. μὴ σπουδάζοντες ἀμύνεσθαι τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας ὑμᾶς (εἰ ἀνταπέδωκα γάρ, φησί, τοῖς ἀνταποδιδοῦσί μοι κακά), ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοὺς ποιήσωμεν τῇ ἐπιεικείᾳ. εἴπατε γὰρ τοῖς μισοῦσιν ὑμᾶς· Ἀδελφοὶ ἡμῶν ἐστε, ἵνα τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ κυρίου δοξασθῇ. καὶ μιμησώμεθα τὸν κύριον, ὃς λοιδορούμενος οὐκ ἀντελοιδόρει, σταυρούμενος οὐκ ἀντέτεινε, πάσχων οὐκ ἠπείλει, ἀλλ' ὑπὲρ τῶν