many times. From the Jews five times I received forty lashes less one, three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeys often, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils of robbers, in perils among false brethren, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness. Do you reject Paul, Marathonian? You should not have rejected Paul, the one caught up to the third heaven, and with his body was carried into paradise, and there saw the thief harvesting the faith, and heard unspeakable words. And he cries these things: I speak the truth, I do not lie. But if you wish, O Marathonian, to receive this proof from the savior, hear the Lord saying these things to his disciples: When they bring you before governors and kings, do not worry about how or what you will speak; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. Have you seen the divine energy of the Holy Spirit, and that the dwelling of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is one? Therefore, of whom the dwelling is one, of these also the substance is one. But if these things are small for proof, take also what has just been read to us; for it is good to set out the spiritual breakfast with delicacies. What then does Luke, the author of the apostolic Acts? And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, being distributed, and it sat on each one of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and <ἤρξαντο λαλεῖν ἑτέραις γλώσσαις καθὼς> the Spirit gave them utterance. Listen with understanding. As the Spirit gave, <οὐ> as it was commanded; as the Spirit gave, not as it learned. What is more divinely radiant than this truth? The Holy Spirit today, as you heard, opened heaven, multiplied the tongues, enlightened the world, made the apostles radiant, amazed the Jews, astonished the Gentiles, was added to those below, but was not separated from those above; it went out from the Father, but was not taken from the Father; it was sent from the Son, but it did not change place. Because of the hypostases is the difference of the words, not because of the one substance of the Godhead. As we are able to hear, we are taught; not as God is are we able to see. And that the Holy Spirit was, and was sent, and having descended from the Father and the Son was not separated, do not sit by my words, but learn the teaching of the blessed Peter. For you just heard him saying to the Jews who were drunk with envy: He receives a dreadful cloak, the drunkard is neither counted among the dead nor found among the living. Does he speak unerringly to every tongue, as you see the apostles safely instructing all? What of drunkards did you see in the apostles? Do you call sobriety drunkenness, and the gift of the Holy Spirit wine-bibbing? The Gentiles call them blessed and you slander them? Are the apostles drunk? Noah and Lot were drunk; those men, having become drunk, the one pronounced curses of servile documents, the other prepared an unlawful bed of incest. The apostles are not drunk, O Jews; and if they are drunk, they are drunk from the torrent of the Spirit, and not from wine. For about them the prophet said: They will be drunk from the richness of your house, and you will give them to drink of the torrent of your delight. But <τινα> might say: And what torrents did the apostles drink to be intoxicated with the solemn drunkenness of the soul? What torrent? Of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. And who is witness to this? The Lord Christ, who was pierced in the side and brought forth blood and water, that he might give the one to drink, ***. For you just heard the Lord Christ crying out: If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as

πολλάκις. Ὑπὸ Ἰουδαίων πεντάκις τεσσαράκοντα παρὰ μίαν ἔλαβον, τρὶς ἐρραβδίσθην, ἅπαξ ἐλιθάσθην, τρὶς ἐναυάγησα, νυχθήμερον ἐν τῷ βυθῷ πεποίηκα· ἐν ὁδοιπορίαις πολλάκις, κινδύνοις ἐξ ἐθνῶν, κινδύνοις λῃστῶν, κινδύνοις ἐν ψευδαδέλφοις, κινδύνοις ἐν πόλει, κινδύνοις ἐν ἐρημίαις. Παῦλον παραγράφῃ, Μαραθώνιε; Ἔδει μέν σε μὴ παραγράφεσθαι Παῦλον, τὸν ἕως τοῦ τρίτου οὐρανοῦ ἁρπαγέντα, καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ τῷ σώματι εἰς τὸν παράδεισον μετενεχθέντα, κἀκεῖ τὸν λῃστὴν τὴν πίστιν τρυγήσαντα θεασάμενον, καὶ ἄρρητα ῥήματα ἀκούσαντα. Καὶ βοᾷ ταῦτα· Ἀλήθειαν λέγω, οὐ ψεύδομαι. Εἰ δὲ βούλει, ὦ Μαραθώνιε, παρὰ τοῦ σωτῆρος λαβεῖν τὴν ἀπόδειξιν ταύτην, ἄκουε τοῦ κυρίου ταῦτα λέγοντος πρὸς τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ μαθητάς· Ὅταν ἄγωσιν ὑμᾶς ἐπὶ ἡγεμόνας καὶ βασιλεῖς, μὴ μεριμνήσητε πῶς ἢ τί λαλήσητε· οὐ γὰρ ὑμεῖς ἐστε οἱ λαλοῦντες, ἀλλὰ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν τὸ λαλοῦν ἐν ὑμῖν. Εἶδες τὴν ἔνθεον τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἐνέργειαν, καὶ ὅτι μία οἴκησις πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος; Ὦν τοίνυν ἡ οἴκησις μία, τούτων καὶ ἡ οὐσία μία. Εἰ δὲ μικρὰ ταῦτα πρὸς ἀπόδειξιν, λάμβανε καὶ τὰ ἀρτίως ἡμῖν παραναγνωσθέντα· καλὸν γάρ ἐστι τὸ πνευματικὸν ἄριστον ὀψάνοις παραθεῖναι. Τί οὖν ὁ συγγραφεὺς τῶν ἀποστολικῶν Πράξεων Λουκᾶς; Ὤφθησαν δὲ αὐτοῖς διαμεριζόμεναι γλῶσσαι ὡσεὶ πυρός, ἐκάθισέ τε ἐφ' ἕνα ἕκαστον αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπλήσθησαν πάντες πνεύματος ἁγίου , καὶ <ἤρξαντο λαλεῖν ἑτέραις γλώσσαις καθὼς> τὸ πνεῦμα ἐδίδου αὐτοῖς ἀποφθέγγεσθαι. Ἄκουε συνετῶς. Καθὼς τὸ πνεῦμα ἐδίδου, <οὐ> καθὼς ἐκελεύετο· καθὼς τὸ πνεῦμα ἐδίδου, οὐ καθὼς ἐμάνθανεν. Τί τῆς ἀληθείας ταύτης θεοφεγγέστερον; Τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον σήμερον, καθὼς ἤκουες, τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνεπέτασεν, τὰς γλώσσας ἐπλήθυνεν, τὸν κόσμον ἐφώτισεν, τοὺς ἀποστόλους ἐφαίδρυνεν, τοὺς Ἰουδαίους ἐθάμβησεν, τὰ ἔθνη ἐξέπληξεν, τοῖς κάτω προσετέθη , ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἄνω οὐκ ἐχωρίσθη· ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς ἐξῆλθεν, ἀλλὰ τοῦ πατρὸς οὐκ ἀπελήφθη· ἀπὸ τοῦ υἱοῦ ἀπεστάλη, ἀλλὰ τόπον οὐ μετῆλθεν. ∆ιὰ τὰς ὑποστάσεις ἡ διαφορὰ τῶν λέξεων, οὐ διὰ τὴν μίαν οὐσίαν τῆς θεότητος. Ὡς δυνάμεθα ἀκούειν , διδασκόμεθα· οὐχ ὡς ἐστὶ θεὸς ἰδεῖν δυνάμεθα. Καὶ ὅτι ἦν τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον καὶ ἀπεστάλη καὶ κατελθὸν ἐκ πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ οὐκ ἐχωρίσθη, μὴ τοῖς ἐμοῖς ῥήμασι παρακαθέζου, ἀλλὰ τὴν διδασκαλίαν τοῦ μακαρίου Πέτρου μάνθανε. Ἤκουες γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἀρτίως λέγοντος πρὸς Ἰουδαίους τοὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ φθόνου μεθύοντας· Φρικτὸν περιβόλαιον δέχεται, οὔτε ἐν τοῖς νεκροῖς καταλογίζεται οὔτε ἐν τοῖς ζῶσιν εὑρίσκεται ὁ μεθύων. Πρὸς πᾶσαν γλῶσσαν ἀπταίστως δικαιολογεῖ, ὡς ὁρᾶτε τοὺς ἀποστόλους ἀσφάλτως πάντας παιδαγωγοῦντας; Τί τῶν μεθυόντων ἐν τοῖς ἀποστόλοις κατίδετε; Τὴν νηφαλαιότητα μέθην προσαγορεύετε, καὶ τὴν δωρεὰν τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος οἰνοφλυγίαν καλεῖτε; Τὰ ἔθνη μακαρίζουσι καὶ ὑμεῖς διαβάλλετε; Μεθύουσιν οἱ ἀπόστολοι; Νῶε καὶ Λὼτ ἐμεθύσθησαν· μεθυσθέντες ἐκεῖνοι, ὁ μὲν κατάρας γραμματείων δουλικῶν ἀπηγόρευσεν, ὁ δὲ θυγατερομιξίας παράνομον κοίτην ἔστρωσεν. Οὐ μεθύουσιν οἱ ἀπόστολοι, Ἰουδαῖοι· εἰ δὲ καὶ μεθύουσιν, ἀπὸ τοῦ χειμάρρου τοῦ πνεύματος μεθύουσιν, οὐχὶ δὲ ἀπὸ οἴνου. Περὶ αὐτῶν γὰρ ἔλεγεν ὁ προφήτης· Μεθυσθήσονται ἀπὸ πιότητος οἴκου σου, καὶ τὸν χειμάρρουν τῆς τρυφῆς σου ποτιεῖς αὐτούς. Ἀλλ' ἔστιν εἰπεῖν <τινα>· Καὶ ποίους χειμάρρους ἐμέθυσαν οἱ ἀπόστολοι τὴν σεμνοπρεπὴν τῆς ψυχῆς μέθην; Ποίου χειμάρρου; Τῆς τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ ἁγίου ἐνοικήσεως. Καὶ τίς τούτου μάρτυς; Ὁ δεσπότης Χριστός, ὁ τὴν πλευρὰν νυχθεὶς καὶ αἷμα καὶ ὕδωρ προβάλλων, ἵνα τὸν μὲν ποτίσῃ, ***. Ἤκουες γὰρ ἀρτίως τοῦ δεσπότου Χριστοῦ βοῶντος· Εἴ τις διψᾷ, ἐρχέσθω πρός με καὶ πινέτω. Ὁ πιστεύων εἰς ἐμέ, καθὼς