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separated, from its being without a master and self-governing, ruled imperially by its own will. For to whom else does this belong, and not to a king? And in addition to these things, to become the image of the nature that rules over all things is nothing other than for nature to be created a queen from the beginning. For just as, according to human custom, those who make the images of rulers model the character of the form, and with the garment of purple they inscribe also the royal dignity, and the image is also called, by custom, a king; so also human nature, since it was made for rule over others, through its likeness to the king of the universe, was set up as a kind of living image, sharing with the archetype both in dignity and in name; not clothed in purple, nor signifying its dignity with a scepter and diadem (for the archetype is not in these things), but instead of the purple robe, clothed in virtue, which is indeed the most royal of all garments; and instead of the scepter, supported by the blessedness of immortality; and instead of the royal diadem, adorned with the crown of righteousness, so that through all things in the dignity of kingship it might be shown to have been made like the archetypal beauty with exactness. 137 CHAPTER 5. That man is a likeness of the divine kingdom. But the divine beauty is not glorified by any shape, and comeliness of form, through some good complexion, but is contemplated in ineffable blessedness according to virtue. Just as, therefore, painters transfer human forms to their panels by means of certain colors, smearing the appropriate and suitable paints on the copy, so that the archetypal beauty might be transferred with exactness to the likeness; so understand also our Maker, as with certain paints, by the application of the virtues, having made the image blossom toward his own beauty, to show in us his own rule. But the manifold and various, as it were, colors of the image, through which the true form is depicted, are not redness and brightness, and the kind of mixture of these with each other, nor the underlining of some black color anointing both eyebrow and eye, and by a certain mixture shading the hollows of the feature, and as many such things as painters' hands have skillfully devised; but instead of these are purity, passionlessness, blessedness, alienation from all evil, and as many things as are of such a kind, through which the likeness to the Divine is formed in men. With such blossoms did the creator of his own image delineate our nature.

But if you should also examine the other things through which the divine beauty is characterized; you will find that the likeness to those things is also preserved with exactness in the image which is us. The divinity is Mind and Word; for in the beginning was the Word. And the prophets, according to Paul, have the mind of Christ, who speaks in them. The human is not far from these. You see in yourself both word and thought, an imitation of the true mind and word. Again, God is love, and the source of love. For this is what John the great says, that "Love is from God;" and, "God is love;" this the maker of our nature has also made our own person. "By this," he says, "all will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." Therefore, if this is not present, the whole character of the image has been altered. The Divine oversees all things, and hears all things, and searches all things. You also have perception of things through sight and hearing, and the inquiring and searching thought of things.

CHAPTER 6.

An examination of the kinship of the mind with nature, in which also, in passing, the

dogma of the Anomoeans is refuted. And let no one think me according to the likeness of the human

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χωρισμένον, ἐκ τοῦ ἀδέσποτον αὐτὴν εἶναι καὶ αὐτ εξούσιον, ἰδίοις θελήμασιν αὐτοκρατορικῶς διοικουμέ νην. Τίνος γὰρ ἄλλον τοῦτο, καὶ οὐχὶ βασιλέως ἐστίν; Καὶ ἔτι πρὸς τούτοις, τὸ τῆς δυναστευούσης τῶν πάν των φύσεως εἰκόνα γενέσθαι, οὐδὲν ἕτερόν ἐστιν, ἢ εὐθὺς βασιλίδα δημιουργηθῆναι τὴν φύσιν. Ὥσπερ γὰρ κατὰ τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην συνήθειαν οἱ τὰς εἰκόνας τῶν κρατούντων κατασκευάζοντες, τόν τε χαρακτῆρα τῆς μορφῆς ἀναμάσσονται, καὶ τῇ περιβολῇ τῆς πορ φυρίδος τὴν βασιλικὴν ἀξίαν συμπαραγράφουσι, καὶ λέγεται κατὰ συνήθειαν καὶ ἡ εἰκὼν, βασιλεύς· οὕτω καὶ ἡ ἀνθρωπίνη φύσις, ἐπειδὴ πρὸς τὴν ἀρχὴν ἄλλων κατεσκευάζετο, διὰ τῆς πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα τοῦ παντὸς ὁμοιότητος, οἷόν τις ἔμψυχος εἰκὼν ἀνεστάθη, κοινω νοῦσα τῷ ἀρχετύπῳ καὶ τῆς ἀξίας καὶ τοῦ ὀνόμα τος· οὐ πορφυρίδα περικειμένη, οὐδὲ σκήπτρῳ καὶ διαδήματι τὴν ἀξίαν ἐπισημαίνουσα (οὐδὲ γὰρ τὸ ἀρχέτυπον ἐν τούτοις ἐστὶν), ἀλλ' ἀντὶ μὲν τῆς ἁλουργίδος τὴν ἀρετὴν ἠμφιεσμένη, ὃ δὴ πάντων βασιλικώτατον ἐσθημάτων ἐστίν· ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ σκήπ τρου τῇ μακαριότητι τῆς ἀθανασίας ἐρειδομένη· ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ διαδήματος τῷ τῆς δικαιοσύνης στε φάνῳ κεκοσμημένη, ὥστε διὰ πάντων ἐν τῷ τῆς βα σιλείας ἀξιώματι δείκνυσθαι δι' ἀκριβείας πρὸς τὸ ἀρχέτυπον κάλλος ὁμοιωθεῖσαν. 137 ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΝ Εʹ. Ὅτι ὁμοίωμα τῆς θείας βασιλείας ὁ ἄνθρωπος. Τὸ δὲ θεῖον κάλλος οὐ σχήματί τινι, καὶ μορφῆς εὐμοιρίᾳ, διά τινος εὐχροίας ἀγλαΐζεται, ἀλλ' ἐν ἀφράστῳ μακαριότητι κατ' ἀρετὴν θεωρεῖται. Ὥσπερ τοίνυν τὰς ἀνθρωπίνας μορφὰς διὰ χρωμάτων τινῶν ἐπὶ τοὺς πίνακας οἱ γραφεῖς μεταφέρουσι, τὰς οἰ κείας τε καὶ καταλλήλους βαφὰς ἀπαλείφοντες τῷ μιμήματι, ὡς ἂν δι' ἀκριβείας τὸ ἀρχέτυπον κάλλος μετενεχθείη πρὸς τὸ ὁμοίωμα· οὕτω μοι νόει καὶ τὸν ἡμέτερον πλάστην, οἷόν τισι βαφαῖς τῇ τῶν ἀρετῶν ἐπιβολῇ πρὸς τὸ ἴδιον κάλλος τὴν εἰκόνα περιανθίσαντα, ἐν ἡμῖν δεῖξαι τὴν ἰδίαν ἀρχήν. Πολυειδῆ δὲ καὶ ποι κίλα τὰ οἱονεὶ χρώματα τῆς εἰκόνος, δι' ὧν ἡ ἀληθινὴ ἀναζωγραφεῖται μορφὴ, οὐκ ἐρύθρημα καὶ λαμπρό της, καὶ ἡ ποιὰ τούτων πρὸς ἄλληλα μίξις, οὐδέ τινος μέλανος ὑπογραφὴ ὀφρύν τε καὶ ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑπαλεί φουσα, καὶ κατά τινα κρᾶσιν τὰ κοῖλα τοῦ χαρακτῆ ρος ὑποσκιάζουσα, καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα ζωγράφων χεῖρες ἐπετεχνήσαντο· ἀλλ' ἀντὶ τούτων καθαρότης, ἀπά θεια, μακαριότης, κακοῦ παντὸς ἀλλοτρίωσις, καὶ ὅσα τοῦ τοιούτου γένους ἐστὶ, δι' ὧν μορφοῦται τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἡ πρὸς τὸ Θεῖον ὁμοίωσις. Τοιούτοις ἄνθε σιν ὁ δημιουργὸς τῆς ἰδίας εἰκόνος τὴν ἡμετέραν δι εχάραξε φύσιν.

Εἰ δὲ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα συνεξετάζοις, δι' ὧν τὸ θεῖον κάλλος χαρακτηρίζεται· εὑρήσεις καὶ πρὸς ἐκεῖνα δι' ἀκριβείας σωζομένην ἐν τῇ καθ' ἡμᾶς εἰκόνι τὴν ὁμοιότητα. Νοῦς καὶ λόγος ἡ θειότης ἐστίν· ἐν ἀρχῇ τε γὰρ ἦν ὁ Λόγος. Καὶ οἱ προφῆται κατὰ Παῦλον νοῦν Χριστοῦ ἔχουσι, τὸν ἐν αὐτοῖς λαλοῦντα. Οὐ πόῤῥω τούτων καὶ τὸ ἀνθρώπινον. Ὁρᾷς ἐν σεαυτῷ καὶ τὸν λόγον, καὶ διάνοιαν, μίμημα τοῦ ὄν τως νοῦ τε καὶ λόγου. Ἀγάπη πάλιν ὁ Θεὸς, καὶ ἀγάπης πηγή. Τοῦτο γάρ φησιν Ἰωάννης ὁ μέγας, ὅτι «Ἀγάπη ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ;» καὶ, «Ὁ Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστί·» τοῦτο καὶ ἡμέτερον πεποίηται πρόσωπον ὁ τῆς φύσεως πλάστης. «Ἐν τούτῳ» γὰρ, φησὶ, «γνώσονται πάντες, ὅτι μαθηταί μου ἐστὲ, ἐὰν ἀγαπᾶτε ἀλλήλους.» Οὐ κοῦν μὴ παρούσης ταύτης, ἅπας ὁ χαρακτὴρ τῆς εἰ κόνος μεταπεποίηται. Πάντα ἐπιβλέπει, καὶ πάντα ἐπακούει τὸ Θεῖον, καὶ πάντα διερευνᾶται. Ἔχεις καὶ σὺ τὴν δι' ὄψεως καὶ ἀκοῆς τῶν ὄντων ἀντίληψιν, καὶ τὴν ζητητικήν τε καὶ διερευνητικὴν τῶν ὄντων διάνοιαν.

ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΝ ςʹ.

Ἐξέτασις τῆς τοῦ νοῦ πρὸς τὴν φύσιν συγγε νείας, ἐν ᾧ καὶ ἐκ παρόδου τὸ

τῶν Ἀνομοίων δι ελέγχεται δόγμα. Καί με μηδεὶς οἰέσθω καθ' ὁμοιότητα τῆς ἀνθρω