so that the flowing water might be compared to the abyss, and the rivers of the spiritual belly. But I provoke the Most High in a waterless land, if after the teaching I sin again, forgetting the words that nourished me, and the water from the rock, which is Christ. And Christ is likened to a rock because He is unbreakable and unshakable. For the divine and most high nature is established in its own goods. Against whom the synagogue also spoke, as in the person of Moses, accusing him before Pilate, and cried out, “Away with him, crucify him.” Then they grieved him with two blows, as Moses struck the rock twice. For they killed the author of life, and then they wished to persuade that he had remained among the dead. But the rock has richly given forth its stream, and has given drink to the whole synagogue. For Christ has flooded the world with holy and divine streams. He who springs forth the divine stream for the thirsty, and pours out the water from his side, when the iron opened this vein, and changed the bitterness of Marah, of the punishing 17.144 law, into sweetness by the acceptance of the wood of the cross, and of the mystery upon it. For the letter and the law kill, but the spirit and the evangelical worship in spirit give life. And God, taking great care of man, both opens heaven for him, and gives him heavenly food, and leads him by the hand Himself, becoming a light for those who journey, and leading them on ways which human nature on its own does not know. However, in the evening He sends down the quail, and at dawn the manna, the example indirectly showing us that the lover of earthly things is not in the intelligible light; which are signified by the quail, which God gives to those who seek it, not drawing them Himself into desire, but not yet granting the overcoming of passions. But the manna is a shadow of the teachings and gifts through Christ, which are from above and from heaven, and have nothing earthly, but rather are devoid of even carnal defilement. And so the right and unadulterated knowledge in these things is food for spirits, whose provision comes in light and day, when the Sun of righteousness of the Lord rises, who nourishes us for eternal life. For he who has eaten the divine manna will be superior to corruption and will leap over death. And he will gather, he says, for his tent-mates, and you shall not leave any of it until the morning. For it is necessary to be filled with our divine words together with the fellow believers, those who inhabit the tent, the Church, and not to keep the shadow after the manifestation of the truth. For whoever, he says, are justified by the law, you have fallen from grace. Nevertheless, having arrived through faith at the sabbath rest understood in Christ, that is, to the idleness and cessation from sin, we do not reject as useless the accumulated instruction of the law, leading us to Christ. For we engage with the shadows through Moses, that we may seek the truth in them, bringing forth from the treasury things new and old. And if you wish, what we gather here in preparation, these things we shall find and be nourished by when we keep the sabbath there. Of old, therefore, God gave bread from heaven to his people, effortlessly availing for every pleasure; for it was transformed into whatever one wished. And such is the nature of the word that nourishes the soul, changing according to the capacity of the one being nourished. If the law nourishes an infant, it becomes milk; if a weak soul, a vegetable; if a perfect one, solid food. But the manna does not come to us as we are sitting down, but as we are going outside the camp; I mean, of the body, in which the soul has been confined. For the soul must no longer be in the flesh, but in the spirit. And no one, bearing the image of the earthy, can eat the heavenly bread; because the natural man 17.145 does not receive the things of the spirit. Concerning which food you too were taught to pray. If therefore the supersubstantial bread, which does not pass away, which is not excreted, which is given up into the substance of the soul, whenever I discourse concerning God, concerning Christ, concerning his divinity, concerning the in

ὡς παραβληθῆναι τὸ ῥέον ὕδωρ ἀβύσσῳ, καὶ τοὺς τῆς πνευματικῆς κοιλίας ποτα μούς. Ἐγὼ δὲ παραπικραίνω τὸν Ὕψιστον ἐν ἀνύ δρῳ, ἐὰν μετὰ τὴν διδασκαλίαν πάλιν ἁμαρτάνω, ἐπιλανθανόμενος τῶν λόγων τῶν θρεψάντων με, καὶ τοῦ ὕδατος, τοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς πέτρας, ἥτις ἐστὶν ὁ Χρι στός. Πέτρᾳ δὲ ἀπεικάζεται ὁ Χριστὸς διὰ τὸ ἄθραυ στον καὶ ἀκλόνητον. Ἐρήρεισται γὰρ ἰδίοις ἀγαθοῖς ἡ θεία τε καὶ ὑπέρτατος φύσις. Οὗ καὶ κατελάλησαν, ὡς ἐν προσώπῳ Μωσέως, ἡ συναγωγὴ, κατηγο ροῦντες ἐπὶ Πιλάτου, καὶ τὸ, Αἶρε, σταύρου, ἀνα κεκράγασιν. Εἶτα δὲ δυσὶ λελυπήκασι πληγαῖς, ὡς τὴν πέτραν Μωϋσῆς δὶς ἐπάταξεν. Ἀπεκτείνασι γὰρ τὸν ἀρχηγὸν τῆς ζωῆς, εἶθ' ὅτι μεμένηκεν ἐν νεκροῖς, ἀναπείθειν ἤθελον. Ἀλλ' ἐκδέδωκεν ἡ πέ τρα πλουσίως τὸ νᾶμα, καὶ πεπότικε πᾶσαν τὴν συναγωγήν. Ἐπέκλυσε γὰρ τὴν οἰκουμένην Χριστὸς ἱεροῖς τε καὶ θείοις νάμασιν. Ὁ πηγάζων τὸ θεῖον νᾶμα τοῖς διψῶσι, καὶ προχέων τὸ ὕδωρ ἐκ τῆς πλευρᾶς, τοῦ σιδήρου τὴν φλέβα ταύτην ἀναστομί σαντος, καὶ τὸ πικρὸν τῆς Μεῤῥᾶς, τοῦ κολαστοῦ 17.144 νόμου, μετέβαλεν εἰς γλυκύτητα τῇ παραδοχῇ τοῦ ξύλου τοῦ σταυροῦ, καὶ τοῦ ἐπ' αὐτῷ μυστηρίου. Τὸ γὰρ γράμμα καὶ ὁ νόμος ἀποκτείνει, τὸ δὲ πνεῦμα καὶ ἡ ἐν πνεύματι λατρεία ἡ εὐαγγελικὴ ζωο ποιεῖ. Μεγάλην δὲ πρόνοιαν ποιούμενος ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ ἀν θρώπου, καὶ οὐρανὸν αὐτῷ ἀνοίγει, καὶ τροφὴν αὐ τῷ δίδωσιν οὐράνιον, καὶ χειραγωγεῖ αὐτὸν αὐτὸς, γινόμενος τοῖς ὁδεύουσι φῶς, καὶ ἄγων ἐπὶ ὁδοὺς, ἃς καθ' ἑαυτὴν ἡ ἀνθρωπίνη φύσις οὐκ ἐπίσταται. Πλὴν ἑσπέρας μὲν τὴν ὀρτυγομήτραν, ἅμα δὲ τῇ ἕῳ τὸ μάννα καθίησι, πλαγίως ἡμῖν τοῦ παραδείγματος ὑπεμφαίνοντος, ὅτι μή ἐστιν ἐν φωτὶ νοητῷ τῶν γηΐνων ὁ ἐραστής· ἃ διὰ τῆς ὀρτυγομήτρας σημαί νεται, ἣν ὀρέγει ἐπιζητοῦσι Θεὸς, οὐχ ἕλκων αὐτὸς εἰς ἐπιθυμίαν, οὔπω δὲ διδοὺς τὸ κατανεανιεύεσθαι παθῶν. Τὸ δὲ μάννα σκιὰ τῶν διὰ Χριστοῦ παιδευ μάτων τε καὶ χαρισμάτων, ἃ ἄνωθέν ἐστι καὶ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ τὸ γεῶδες οὐκ ἔχει, ἀμοιρεῖ δὲ μᾶλλον καὶ βδελυρίας σαρκικῆς. Καὶ οὕτως τροφὴ πνευμά των ἐστὶν ἡ ἐν τούτοις ὀρθὴ καὶ ἀκίβδηλος γνῶσις, ἧς ἡ χορηγία, ὡς ἐν φωτὶ καὶ ἡμέρᾳ γίνεται, ἀνίσχον τος τοῦ Ἡλίου τῆς δικαιοσύνης Κυρίου, ὃς ἀπο τρέφει ἡμᾶς εἰς ζωὴν ἀμήρυτον. Ὁ γὰρ τὸ θεῖον μάννα κατεδηδοκὼς ἀμείνων ἔσται φθορᾶς καὶ ὑπεραλεῖται θανάτου. Συλλέξεται δὲ, φη σὶ, τοῖς συσκήνοις, καὶ οὐ καταλείψετε ἀπ' αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸ πρωΐ. Χρὴ γὰρ ὁμοῦ τοῖς ὁμοπίστοις, τοῖς τὴν οἰκοῦσι σκηνὴν, τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν, τῶν θείων ἡμῶν ἐμφορεῖσθαι λόγων, καὶ μὴ τηρεῖν τὴν σκιὰν μετὰ τὴν τῆς ἀληθείας ἔνδειξιν. Οἵτινες γὰρ, φησὶν, ἐν νόμῳ δικαιοῦσθε, τῆς χάριτος ἐξεπέσετε. Πλὴν ἀφιγμένοι διὰ τῆς πίστεως εἰς τὸν ἐν Χριστῷ νοού μενον σαββατισμὸν, τουτέστιν εἰς ἀργίαν καὶ κατά ληξιν τὴν ἐξ ἁμαρτίας, οὐχ ὡς ἄχρηστον παραιτού μεθα τὴν προσωρευθείαν τοῦ νόμου παίδευσιν, χειραγωγοῦσαν ἡμᾶς εἰς Χριστόν. Περιτυγχάνομεν γὰρ ταῖς διὰ Μωσέως σκιαῖς, ἵνα τὴν ἐν αὐταῖς ζη τῶμεν ἀλήθειαν, καινὰ καὶ παλαιὰ ἐκ θησαυροῦ ἐκ βάλλοντες. Εἰ δὲ βούλει, ἅπερ ἐνταῦθα συλλέξομεν ἐν παρασκευῇ, ταῦτα ἐκεῖσε σαββατίσαντες εὑρήσο μεν καὶ τραφησόμεθα. Πάλαι μὲν οὖν ἄρτον ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ ἔδωκεν ὁ Θεὸς τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ, ἀκοπιάστως πρὸς πᾶσαν ἡδονὴν ἰσχύοντα· πρὸς ὃ γάρ τις ἐβούλετο μετε κρίνατο. Τοιαύτη δὲ ἡ τοῦ τρέφοντος τὴν ψυχὴν λό γου φύσις, πρὸς τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ τρεφομένου μετα βάλλουσα. Ἐὰν νήπιον τρέφῃ ὁ νόμος, γάλα γίνεται· ἐὰν ψυχὴν ἀσθενοῦσαν, λάχανον· ἐὰν τέλειον, στε ρεὰ τροφή. Οὐ καθεζομένοις δὲ ἡμῖν ἔρχεται τὸ μάννα, ἀλλ' ἐρχομένοις ἔξω τῆς παρεμβολῆς· λέγω δὴ τοῦ σώματος, ἐν ᾧ ἐνεῖρκται ἡ ψυχή. ∆εῖ γὰρ τὴν ψυχὴν μηκέτ' εἶναι ἐν σαρκὶ, ἀλλ' ἐν πνεύματι. Οὐδεὶς δὲ, φορῶν τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ χοϊκοῦ, δύναται ἄρτον οὐράνιον φαγεῖν· διότι ψυχικὸς ἄνθρωπος 17.145 οὐ δέχεται τὰ τοῦ πνεύματος. Περὶ ἧς τροφῆς καὶ σὺ ἐδιδάχθης εὔχεσθαι. Ἐὰν οὖν τὸν ἐπιούσιον ἄρτον, τὸν μὴ ἐκχωροῦντα, τὸν μὴ ἀποκρινόμενον, τὸν ἀναδιδόμενον εἰς τὴν οὐσίαν τῆς ψυχῆς, ὅταν διαλαμβάνω περὶ Θεοῦ, περὶ Χριστοῦ, περὶ τῆς θεότητος αὐτοῦ, περὶ τῆς ἐν