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AGAINST THE CONSTANTINOPOLITANS Page 201 Vol. 2. .................................................... 61 Service I. Of Saint Maximus. VOLUME 2. Page 206. ............................................... 62 SERVICE I. ......................................................................................................... 62

Page 244 Vol. 2. ............................................................................................................. 70 To Thalassius the most holy presbyter and abbot, Concerning Various

Difficulties in Holy Scripture. .................................................................................................. 70 To the most holy servant of God, lord Thalassius, presbyter and abbot,

Maximus, humble monk, greetings.............................................................................. 70 PROLOGUE.................................................................................................................. 76 Of the scholia placed in the margins........................................................ 76 From Photius.......................................................................................................... 78 QUESTION I ............................................................................................................. 79 Are the passions evil in and of themselves, or are they evil because of their use? I mean pleasure and

pain, desire and fear, and the things that follow them. .............................................. 79 QUESTION II . (272) If the Creator made all the forms that complete the world in the six

days, what does the Father work after these things? For the Lord said: "My Father is working until now, and I am working." Does he perhaps mean the preservation of the forms that were once made?............................................................................. 80

QUESTION III . ............................................................................................................ 80 Who, according to the Gospel, is the one in the city carrying the pitcher of water, whom

the disciples sent by Christ meet, and are commanded to follow? And who is the householder? How is his name (and why by the) evangelists kept silent? And what is the large, furnished upper room, in which the awesome mystery of the divine supper is celebrated? ......................................................................................................... 80

QUESTION IV .............................................................................................................. 82 How did the Lord command the disciples not to possess two tunics, when he

himself possessed five, according to the holy evangelist John, as is clear from those who divided them; and what were these garments? ......................................... 82

QUESTION V. .............................................................................................................. 82 What is the cursed ground in the works of Adam according to the anagogical sense, and what does it mean to eat

of it in sorrows; and what does it mean, after it brought forth thorns and thistles, to eat grass; and what is the last thing, to eat bread in the sweat of his face? And yet never was a man seen eating earth, nor grass; nor the

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ΙΖ '................................................................................................................................ 53 ΙΘ΄. ............................................................................................................................... 54 Κ ΄ . ............................................................................................................................... 54 ΚΑ'. .............................................................................................................................. 55 ΚΒ΄. .............................................................................................................................. 55 ΚΓ΄................................................................................................................................ 56 Κ∆΄. .............................................................................................................................. 56 ΚΕ΄................................................................................................................................ 56 Κστ΄. ............................................................................................................................. 57 ΚΖ΄................................................................................................................................ 57 ΚΗ΄. .............................................................................................................................. 58 ΚΘ΄. .............................................................................................................................. 58 Λ΄.................................................................................................................................. 58 ΛΑ΄. .............................................................................................................................. 59 ΛΒ΄. .............................................................................................................................. 60 ΛΓ΄................................................................................................................................ 60

ΚΑΤΑ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ Σελ. 201 Τόμ. β'. .................................................... 61 Ἀκολουθία α΄. Ἁγίου Μαξίμου. ΤΟΜΟΣ Β΄. Σελ. 206. ............................................... 62 ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΙΑ α ΄. ......................................................................................................... 62

Σελ. 244 Τόμ. Β΄. ............................................................................................................. 70 Πρός Θαλάσσιον τόν ὁσιώτατον πρεσβύτερον καί ἡγούμενον Περί ∆ιαφόρων

ἀπόρων τῆς θείας Γραφῆς. .................................................................................................. 70 Τῷ ὁσιωτάτῳ δούλῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ, κυρίῳ Θαλασσίῳ πρεσβυτέρῳ καί ἡγουμένῳ,

Μάξιμος ταπεινός μονάζων, χαίρειν............................................................................. 70 ΠΡΟΛΟΓΟΣ.................................................................................................................. 76 Τῶν παρακειμένων τοῖς μετωπίοις σχολίων........................................................ 76 Ἐκ τῶν Φωτίου.......................................................................................................... 78 ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ Α ΄ ............................................................................................................. 79 Τά πάθη αὐτά καθ᾿ ἑαυτά κακά, ἤ παρά τήν χρῆσιν κακά; Λέγω δέ ἡδονήν καί

λύπην, ἐπιθυμίαν καί φόβον, καί τά τούτοις ἑπόμενα. .............................................. 79 ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ Β΄ . (272) Εἰ πάντα τά εἴδη τά συμπληροῦντα τό κόσμον, ἐν ταῖς ἑξ

ἡμέραις ὁ ∆ημιουργός ἐποίησεν, τί μετά ταῦτα ὁ Πατήρ ἐργάζεται; Ἔφη γάρ ὁ Κύριος· " Ὁ Πατήρ μου ἕως ἄρτι ἐργάζεται, κἀγώ ἐργάζομαι." Μή τι ἄρα τῶν ἅπαξ γεγονότων εἰδῶν συντήρησιν λέγει;............................................................................. 80

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ Γ ΄ . ............................................................................................................ 80 Τίς ἐστι κατά τό Εὐαγγέλιον ὁ ἐν πόλει τό κεράμιον βαστάζων τοῦ ὕδατος, ᾧ

οἱ ὑπό Χριστοῦ πεμπόμενοι μαθηταί ἀπαντῶσι, καί κελεύονται ἀκολουθεῖν; Τίς τε ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης; πῶς τοῖς (καί διά τί παρά τοῖς) εὐαγγελισταῖς σιωπᾶται τό ὄνομα; καί τί τό ἀνώγεων τό μέγα καί ἐστρωμένον, ἐν ᾧ τό φρικτόν τοῦ θείου δείπνου τελεῖται μυστήριον; ......................................................................................................... 80

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ∆΄ .............................................................................................................. 82 Πῶς τοις μαθηταῖς ἐνετείλατο ὁ Κύριος, μή κτήσασθαι δύο χιτῶνας, αὐτός

πέντε κεκτημένος, κατά τόν ἅγιον εὐαγγελιστήν Ἰωάννην, ὡς ἐκ τῶν μερισαμένων αὐτά δῆλόν ἐστι· καί τίνα ταῦτα τά ἱμάτια; ......................................... 82

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ Ε΄. .............................................................................................................. 82 Τίς ἡ κατηραμένη γῆ ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τοῦ Ἀδάμ κατά τήν ἀναγωγήν, καί τί τό ἐν

λύπαις αὐτήν φαγεῖν· καί τί τό, μετά τό ἀνατεῖλαι ἀκάνθας καί τριβόλους, τόν χόρτον ἐσθίειν· καί τί τό τελευταῖον, ἐν ἱδρῶτι τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ τόν ἄρτον φαγεῖν; Καί μέν τοι οὐδέποτε ὤφθη ἄνθρωπος γῆν ἐσθίων, οὐδέ χόρτον· οὐδέ οἱ