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bears the person, who sowing the word in souls, is powerfully proclaiming the light. "Repent; for the kingdom of heaven has drawn near." This was he who from the beginning was awakening the hearts of men, and through many was foretelling the day of his incarnate presence; and pressing out darkness, and openly showing to all the eternal light. Walking about among females courageously, that is, in the Churches, courageously and nobly, as he says: "Behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age." Στ. λβʹ. Or also if you let yourself down into the mind of the Scriptures; or, if you do not have a learner's ear, but are contentious, will you listen? "But if anyone is contentious, we have no such custom." Στ. γʹ. You will not give your wealth to pleasures or to foreign teachings. Drink wine with counsel. Drinking the wine of the true vine, the interpretation of the Scriptures, and the contemplation of existing things, approach with much discernment to the examination of the mind. Στ. ςʹ. Now he called the labor grief. Those therefore who labor and are in pain for God, when they are intoxicated with the richness from the house of the Lord, they forget their pains. Στ. ηʹ. Have your purpose to attend to my words, spoken by God. Στ. κγʹ. The north wind, the devil, stirring up and tempting the saints, they being lofty, and not wishing to work; or raising up arguments against his own doctrines. Στ. γʹ. As therefore these things rather transport the animals to a good condition, so the rod, that is, a rebuke, regulates the lawless nation. Στ. ζʹ. Of such men, he says, he rather takes away their power, and entrust to them neither practical nor rational authority. 39.1645 Στ. ιεʹ. If a tree of life grows from the fruits of righteousness, everyone hiding righteousness with injustice, which is called a hand, will not eat from the tree of life. Στ. κγʹ. of your disciples, so that you may not bring the teaching towards their habit. Στ. κβʹ. The contemplation of things that have come into being, and the contemplation of the holy Trinity, he says is the garment of a pure mind, of fine linen and purple.

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πρόσωπον φέρει, ὃς τὸν λόγον σπείρων ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς, ἰσχυρῶς ἐστι προσαγγέλλων τὸ φῶς. "Μετανοεῖτε· ἤγγικε γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν." Οὗτος ἦν ὁ ἀπ' ἀρχῆς διυπνίζων τὰς καρδίας τῶν ἀνθρώπων, καὶ τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς ἐνσάρκου αὐτοῦ παρουσίας διὰ πολλῶν προμηνύων· καὶ σκότος ἐκθλίβων, καὶ τὸ φῶς αἰώνιον πᾶσι φανερῶς ὑποδεικνύων. Ἐμπεριπατῶν ἐν θηλείαις εὐψύχως, τουτέστιν ἐν ταῖς Ἐκκλησίαις, εὐψύχως καὶ γενναίως, ὥς φησιν· "Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ μεθ' ὑμῶν εἰμι πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος." Στ. λβʹ. Ἢ καὶ ἐὰν εἰς τὸν νοῦν τῶν Γραφῶν καθιῇς σεαυτόν· ἢ, ἐὰν μὴ ἔχῃς μαθητικὸν οὖς, ἀλλ' ἀντιλογητικὸς εἶ, ἀκούσῃ; "Εἰ δέ τις φιλόνεικος εἶ, ἡμεῖς τοιαύτην συνήθειαν οὐκ ἔχομεν." Στ. γʹ. Ἡδοναῖς ἢ διδαχαῖς ἀλλοτρίαις τὸν σὸν πλοῦτον μὴ δώσεις. Μετὰ βουλῆς οἰνοπότει. Τὸν τῆς ἀληθινῆς ἀμπέλου πίνων οἶνον, τὴν τῶν Γραφῶν ἑρμηνείαν, καὶ τὴν τῶν ὄντων θεωρίαν, μετὰ πολλῆς προσέρχου διακρίσεως τῇ τῆς διανοίας ἐπισκέψει. Στ. ςʹ. Νῦν λύπην εἶπε τὸν πόνον. Οἱ οὖν διὰ Θεὸν κοπιῶντες καὶ ὀδυνώμενοι, ἐπ' ἂν μεθυσθῶσι τῆς πρὸς τοῦ οἴκου Κυρίου πιότητος, τῶν ὀδυνῶν ἐπιλανθάνονται. Στ. ηʹ. Τὴν προαίρεσίν σου ἔχε εἰς τὸ προσέχειν τοὺς λόγους μου, εἰρημένους ὑπὸ Θεοῦ. Στ. κγʹ. Ἄνεμος βορέας, ὁ διάβολος, διεγείρων καὶ πειράζων τοὺς ἁγίους ὑψηλοὺς αὐτοὺς ὄντας, καὶ μὴ θέλων ἐργάζεσθαι· ἢ ἐγείρων λόγους κατὰ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ δογμάτων. Στ. γʹ. Ὥσπερ οὖν ταῦτα μεταφέρει μᾶλλον ἐπὶ τὸ εὖ ἔχον τὰ ζῶα, οὕτως ἡ ῥάβδος, τουτέστιν ἐπιτιμία, τὸ παράνομον ἔθνος ῥυθμίζει. Στ. ζʹ. Τῶν τοιούτων, φησὶ, περιαίρει μᾶλλον τὴν δυναστείαν, καὶ μήτε πρακτικὴν ἀρχὴν μήτε λογικὴν τούτοις ἐγχείριζε. 39.1645 Στ. ιεʹ. Εἰ ἀπὸ καρπῶν δικαιοσύνης φύεται δένδρον ζωῆς, πᾶς κρύπτων τὴν δικαιοσύνην τῇ ἀδικίᾳ, ἥτις λέγεται χεὶρ, οὐ βρώσεται ἐκ τοῦ τῆς ζωῆς δένδρου. Στ. κγʹ. Τῶν μαθητῶν σου, ἵνα μὴ πρὸς τὴν ἕξιν ἐπάγῃς τὴν διδασκαλίαν. Στ. κβʹ. Τὴν θεωρίαν τῶν γεγονότων, καὶ τὴν θεωρίαν τῆς ἁγίας Τριάδος, ἔνδυμα εἶναι λέγει νοῦ καθαροῦ, ἐκ βύσσου καὶ πορφύρας.