VARIOUS EPISTLES

 we do not define Jesus in a human way for he is not only a man -nor super-essential, if only a man-, but truly a man who is pre-eminently a lover of

 For my part, I have not spoken against the Greeks or against others, thinking it sufficient for good men, if they could both know and speak the truth

 represented. By nature, at any rate, Apollophanes [says] these things are not true. Indeed, this is especially borne out in the sacred reports of the

 a man after my own heart. And yet a good law had been given, even to care for an enemy’s beast of burden. And Job was justified as one holding to gu

 For God is divided against himself for how shall his kingdom stand? And if the judgment is God's, as the oracles say, and the priests are messeng

 and to understand deeper things, but to consider only those things assigned to him according to his worth. What then, you say, should not priests who

 He therefore with desire and spirit and reason marked out what was according to worth, but to you the divine ministers, and to these the priests, and

 -this indeed worthy of much shuddering-, whom Christ, being good, seeks wandering on the mountains and calls as he flees and having found him with dif

 to be standing at the chasm, trembling, pitiable, on the very point of being carried down by the instability of their own feet. And from below, from t

 forming certain trees and shoots and flowers and putting forth roots, or springs of water bubbling up, or productive radiances bringing forth light, o

 by the reformations of typical symbols, as such veils are by nature kindred and they show, as many as have heard clear theology without veils, form in

 and in it setting forth both the solid foods and the drinks and the mixing bowl, so that it is clear to those who fittingly contemplate divine things,

 filled with good things. And we consider the reclining a repose from many labors and a life free from harm and a divine way of life in the light and l

 to draw to oneself and partake of the light. But on the contrary, it will not deprive us of the all-radiant ray of John, as we will now encounter the

to draw to oneself and partake of the light. But on the contrary, it will not deprive us of the all-radiant ray of John, as we will now encounter the memory and renewal of your true theology, and a little later—for I will say it, even if it is bold—will be united with you yourselves. But I am certainly trustworthy, both having learned from God and speaking the things foreknown to you, that you will both be released from the prison in Patmos and you will return to the land of Asia and you will do there imitations of the good God and you will hand them down to those after you.

ἐφελκύσασθαι καὶ μεταλαβεῖν τοῦ φωτός. Ἡμᾶς δὲ οὐδὲ τοὐναντίον ἀποστερήσει τῆς Ἰωάννου παμφαοῦς ἀκτῖνος, νῦν μὲν ἐντευξομένους τῇ μνήμῃ καὶ ἀνανεώσει τῆς σῆς ἀληθοῦς θεολογίας, μικρὸν δὲ ὕστερον-ἐρῶ γάρ, εἰ καὶ τολμηρόν-ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς ἑνωθη σομένους. Ἀξιόπιστος δὲ πάντως εἰμὶ τὰ προεγνωσμένα σοι καὶ μαθὼν ἐκ θεοῦ καὶ λέγων, ὅτι καὶ τῆς ἐν Πάτμῳ φυλακῆς ἀφεθήσῃ καὶ εἰς τὴν Ἀσιάτιδα γῆν ἐπανήξεις καὶ δράσεις ἐκεῖ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ θεοῦ μιμήματα καὶ τοῖς μετὰ σὲ παραδώσεις.