the Scripture said, Rivers of living water will flow from his belly. But this, he says, he said concerning the Holy Spirit, which those who believed in him were about to receive. From this torrent the apostles were given drink, and having been intoxicated they sent forth rivers of teaching and watered the whole world with the divine word, and they nourished the newly-lit ear of corn of piety. For they did not flood only Egypt like the river Nile, nor did they pour out grace by the cubit, nor did they water Havilah alone like the Pishon, nor did they irrigate Ethiopia alone like the Gihon, nor did they fill Assyria alone like the Tigris, nor did they make Augustus Euphrasia alone fertile like the Euphrates, but they gladdened every city and fatherland and country and island together, they filled them through the grace of the Holy Spirit. And David bears witness to my word, crying out: Their sound went out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. Therefore the apostles were not full of new wine, but filled with the Holy Spirit. Whence also the blessed Peter, reproaching the Jews, said, as you just heard: <For these are not, as you suppose,> drunk, for it is the third hour of the day. O the paradoxical wonder. At the third hour the Holy Spirit came upon them. At the first hour the Father formed Adam, at the second hour the Son created Eve, at the third hour the Holy Spirit multiplied the tongues of the apostles. Let us then long for this intoxication; for the Lord stands crying: If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. O the Lord's abundance. He did not say: If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink, but If anyone thirsts, let him keep coming to me and drink. This is: Let him draw this drink every day, and it heals by night and by day. For it does not stop a bodily fever, but persuades a spiritual love; nor does it raise a swelling of the belly, but sharpens a desire of the mind; nor does it inflict the harm of a cold drink, but provides the gain of the knowledge of God. Longing for this thirst, the blessed David also cried out, saying: As the hart longs for the fountains of waters, so my soul longs for you, O God. Say you also, O man, with David: As the hart longs for the fountains of waters, so my soul longs for you, O God. See that you do not lie to God, that you are not found slower than the hart. Imitate that hart, run swiftly to the Lord; for the animal is swift-legged. Bear the horn of the cross upon your forehead; for the animal is also adorned with a prominence of horns. Never be separated from the apostolic mountains; for the hart also gladly frequents the mountains. Slay the venomous beasts of the heretics with the pious word [of the heretical serpents]; for the hart indeed ***. Never drink the muddied water of the Pneumatomachians; for it is impossible for a hart to drink muddied water. Ascend to the height of the evangelical thoughts and make your feet perfect in the blameless way of piety, so that you too may be able to say with the thankful mouth of the prophet: God who girds me with strength and has made my way blameless, making my feet like a hart's and setting me on high places. I would also wish, with much accord, to call the Lord Christ a hart; for he himself raised up for us the saving horn of the cross. Whence, being confident, we will gore our enemies; for just as the bodily hart *** from the abysses of the baptismal waters he seized the deep-swimming devil as a many-headed dragon. Whence the prophetic choir, singing the victory hymn to him, said: You crushed the heads of the dragon upon the water. And just as the horn of this bodily hart again with † the same things †

εἶπεν ἡ γραφή, ποταμοὶ ἐκ τῆς κοιλίας αὐτοῦ ῥεύσουσιν ὕδατος ζῶντος. Τοῦτο δὲ ἔλεγέ φησι περὶ τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ ἁγίου οὗ ἔμελλον λαμβάνειν οἱ πιστεύοντες εἰς αὐτόν. Ἀπὸ τούτου τοῦ χειμάρρου ἐποτίσθησαν οἱ ἀπόστολοι, καὶ μεθυσθέντες ποταμοὺς διδασκαλίας ἐπαφῆκαν καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκουμένην ἤρδευσαν τῷ θείῳ λόγῳ, καὶ τὸν νεόλυχον στάχυν τῆς εὐσεβείας ἔθρεψαν. Οὐ γὰρ τὴν Αἴγυπτον μόνον ἐλίμνασαν ὡς ὁ Νεῖλος ὁ ποταμός, οὐδὲ πηχυσμῷ τὴν χάριν ἐξέχεαν, οὐδὲ τὴν Εὐΐλατον μόνην ἐπότισαν ὡς ὁ Φυσσών, οὐδὲ τὴν Αἰθιοπίαν μόνην ἤρδευσαν ὡς ὁ Γεών, οὐδὲ τὴν Ἀσσυρίαν μόνην ἐνέπλησαν ὡς ὁ Τίγρις, οὐδὲ τὴν Αὐγούστου Εὐφρασίαν μόνην ἐπίανα ὡς ὁ Εὐφράτης, ἀλλὰ πᾶσαν ὁμοῦ πόλιν καὶ πατρίδαν καὶ χώραν καὶ νῆσον ηὔφραναν, διὰ τῆς τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος χάριτος ἐνέπλησαν. Καὶ μαρτυρεῖ μοι τῷ λόγῳ ὁ ∆αυῒδ βοῶν· Εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν καὶ εἰς τὰ πέρατα τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰ ῥήματα αὐτῶν. Οὐ γλεύκους οὖν μεμεστωμένοι ἦσαν οἱ ἀπόστολοι, ἀλλὰ πνεύματος ἁγίου πεπληρωμένοι. Ὅθεν καὶ ὁ μακάριος Πέτρος ὀνειδίζων τοὺς Ἰουδαίους ἔλεγεν , καθὼς ἀρτίως ἤκουες· <Οὐ γὰρ ὡς ὑμεῖς ὑπολαμβάνετε> οὖτοι μεθύουσιν, ἔστι γὰρ ὥρα τρίτη τῆς ἡμέρας. Ὢ τοῦ παραδόξου θαύματος. Τρίτῃ ὥρᾳ ἐπέστη τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον. Πρώτῃ ὥρᾳ ὁ πατὴρ τὸν Ἀδὰμ ἔπλασεν, δευτέρᾳ ὥρᾳ ὁ υἱὸς τὴν Εὕαν ἐδημιούργησεν, τρίτῃ ὥρᾳ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον τὰς γλώσσας τῶν ἀπο στόλων ἐπλήθυνεν. Ποθήσωμεν τοίνυν ταύτην τὴν μέθην· ἕστηκε γὰρ ὁ κύριος κράζων· Εἴ τις διψᾷ, ἐρχέσθω πρός με καὶ πινέτω. Ὢ τῆς τοῦ κυρίου δαψιλείας. Οὐκ εἶπεν· Εἴ τις διψᾷ, ἔλθῃ πρός με καὶ πινέτω, ἀλλ' Εἴ τις διψᾷ, ἐρχέσθω πρός με καὶ πινέτω. Τοῦτό ἐστιν Ἀρρυέσθω καθ' ἑκάστην τοῦτο τὸ πόμα, καὶ ἐν νυκτὶ καὶ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θεραπεύει. Οὐ γὰρ σωματικὸν καύσωνα παύει, ἀλλὰ ψυχικὸν ἔρωτα πείθει· οὐδὲ κοιλίας ὄγκον ἐγείρει, ἀλλὰ διανοίας πόθον ὀξύνει· οὐδὲ ψυχροποσίας βλάβην ἐντίθησιν, ἀλλὰ θεογνωσίας κέρδος παρέχει. Ταύτην τὴν δίψαν ποθήσας καὶ ὁ μακάριος ∆αυῒδ ἐβόα λέγων· Ὃν τρόπον ἐπιποθεῖ ἡ ἔλαφος ἐπὶ τὰς πηγὰς τῶν ὑδάτων, οὕτως ἐπιποθεῖ ἡ ψυχή μου πρὸς σέ, ὁ θεός. Λέγε καὶ σύ, ὦ ἄνθρωπε, μετὰ τοῦ ∆αυΐδ· Ὃν τρόπον ἐπιποθεῖ ἡ ἔλαφος ἐπὶ τὰς πηγὰς τῶν ὑδάτων, οὕτως ἐπιποθεῖ ἡ ψυχή μου πρὸς σέ, ὁ θεός. Βλέπε μὴ ψεύσῃ θεῷ, μὴ τῆς ἐλάφου εὑρεθῇς ἀργότερος. Μίμησαι τὴν ἔλαφον ἐκείνην, ταχυδρόμησον πρὸς τὸν κύριον· εὐσκελὲς γὰρ τὸ ζῷον. Τὸ σταυρικὸν κέρας ἐπὶ τοῦ μετώπου βάσταζε· ἐξοχῇ γὰρ κεράτων καὶ τὸ ζῷον πεποίκιλται. Τῶν ἀποστολικῶν ὀρέων μὴ χωρίσῃς ποτέ· ἡδέως γὰρ καὶ ἡ ἔλαφος τοῖς ὄρεσι φιλοχωρεῖ. Τὰ ἰοβόλα τῶν αἱρετικῶν θηρία τῷ εὐσεβεῖ λόγῳ κατάσφαξε [τῶν αἱρετικῶν ὄφεων]· καὶ γὰρ ἡ ἔλαφος ***. Τεθολωμένον ὕδωρ πνευματομαχίας μὴ πίῃς ποτέ· ἀμήχανον γὰρ ἔλαφον τεθολωμένον ὕδωρ πιεῖν. Ἐπίβηθι ἐπὶ τῷ ὕψει τῶν εὐαγγελικῶν νοημάτων καὶ καταρτίσαι τοὺς πόδας σου εἰς τὴν ἄμωμον τῆς εὐσεβείας ὁδόν, ὅπως δυνηθῇς καὶ σὺ εἰπεῖν εὐχαρίστῳ στόματι τοῦ προφήτου· Ὁ θεὸς ὁ περιζωννύων με δύναμιν καὶ ἔθετο ἄμωμον τὴν ὁδόν μου, καταρτιζόμενος τοὺς πόδας μου ὡσεὶ ἐλάφου καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ ὑψηλὰ ἱστῶν με. Ἤθελον δὲ μετὰ συμφήμης πολλῆς καὶ τὸν δεσπότην Χριστὸν ἔλαφον εἰπεῖν· αὐτὸς γὰρ ἡμῖν ἀνέτειλε τὸ σταυρικὸν τῆς σωτηρίας κέρας. Ὅθεν θαρροῦντες τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἡμῶν κερατιοῦμεν· ὥσπερ γὰρ ἡ σωματικὴ ἔλαφος *** ἐκ τῶν ἀβύσσων τῶν βαπτισμαίων ὑδάτων τὸν βυθονήκτην διάβολον ὡς πολυκέφαλον εἷλε δράκοντα. Ὅθεν ὁ προφητικὸς χορὸς τὸν ἐπινίκιον ὕμνον ἀναμέλπων πρὸς αὐτὸν ἔλεγεν· Σὺ συνέθλασας τὰς κεφαλὰς τοῦ δράκοντος ἐπὶ τοῦ ὕδατος. Καὶ ὥσπερ τῆς σωματικῆς πάλιν ταύτης ἐλάφου τὸ κέρας μετὰ † τῶν αὐτῶν †