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concerning the economy of God towards us, and the revelation of the mystery of our salvation, which is in the innermost shrines of the divine hiddenness. "For I will not drink," says God the Word to His disciples, "from now on of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father."

17. OF WHAT IS THE DIVINE KISS A SYMBOL 14__116 17. Of what is the divine kiss a symbol The spiritual kiss addressed to all the future [state] of all

towards one another at the time of the revelation of the future ineffable goods, according to faith and love, concord and unanimity and rational identity, through which the worthy receive appropriation to the Word and God, prefigures and foreshadows. For the mouth is a symbol of the Word, according to which especially all who have partaken of reason, as rational beings, are conjoined with the first and only Word and cause of all reason.

18. WHAT DOES THE DIVINE SYMBOL OF FAITH SIGNIFY 14__118 18. What does the divine Symbol of faith signify The confession of the divine Symbol of faith made by all the

mystical thanksgiving that will take place in the age to come for the paradoxical words and ways of the all-wise providence of God concerning us, by which we were saved, signifies beforehand, through which the worthy show themselves grateful for the divine benefaction, having nothing else whatsoever to offer in return for the infinite divine goods concerning them, apart from this.

19. WHAT DOES THE TRISAGION DOXOLOGY SIGNIFY 14__120 19. What does the Trisagion doxology signify The threefold outcry of the sanctification of the divine hymnology which is made by

all the faithful people indicates the union and equality of honor with the bodiless and intellectual powers which will be manifested in the future, according to which human nature will be taught, in harmony with the powers above, through the identity of the immutable perpetual motion around God, to hymn and to sanctify the one three-hypostatic Godhead with three sanctifications.

20. OF WHAT IS THE HOLY PRAYER OF "OUR FATHER.." A SYMBOL. 14__122 20. Of what is the holy prayer of "Our Father who art in heaven

..". The all-holy and revered invocation of the great and blessed God and Father

is a symbol of the hypostatic and real adoption as sons to be given by the gift and grace of the Holy Spirit, according to which all the saints will be named and will be sons of God, every human property being overcome and covered by the visitation of grace, as many as have already from here, through virtues, brightly and gloriously brightened themselves with the divine beauty of goodness.

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περὶ τῆς οἰκονομίας τοῦ Θεοῦ τῆς εἰς ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἀποκάλυψις τοῦ ἐν ἀδύτοις τῆς θείας κρυφιότητος ὄντος μυστηρίου τῆς ἡμῶν σωτηρίας. "Οὐ γὰρ μὴ πίω», φησὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ μαθητὰς ὁ Θεὸς καὶ Λόγος, "ἀπ᾽ ἄρτι ἐκ τοῦ γεννήματος τῆς ἀμπέλου, ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ἐκείνης, ὅταν αὐτὸ πίνω μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν καινὸν ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τοῦ Πατρὸς ἐμοῦ».

ΙΖ. ΤΙΝΟΣ ΕΣΤΙ ΣΥΜΒΟΛΟΝ Ο ΘΕΙΟΣ ΑΣΠΑΣΜΟΣ 14__116 ΙΖ. Τίνος ἐστὶ σύμβολον ὁ θεῖος ἀσπασμός Ὁ δὲ πᾶσι προσφωνούμενος πνευματικὸς ἀσπασμὸς τὴν ἐσομένην πάντων

πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τῆς τῶν μελλόντων ἀρρήτων ἀγαθῶν ἀποκαλύψεως, κατὰ πίστιν τε καὶ ἀγάπην, ὁμόνοιάν τε καὶ ὁμογνωμοσύνην καὶ ταυτότητα λογικήν, δι᾽ ἣν τὴν πρὸς τὸν Λόγον καὶ Θεὸν οἰκείωσιν οἱ ἄξιοι δέχονται, προτυποῖ καὶ προδιαγράφει. Λόγου γὰρ σύμβολον τὸ στόμα, καθ᾽ ὃν μάλιστα πᾶσιν ἅπαντες οἱ λόγου μετειληφότες, ὡς λογικοί, καὶ τῷ πρώτῳ καὶ μόνῳ Λόγῳ καὶ παντὸς αἰτίῳ λόγου συμφύονται.

ΙΗ. ΤΙ ΣΗΜΑΙΝΕΙ ΤΟ ΘΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΠΙΣΤΕΩΣ ΣΥΜΒΟΛΟΝ 14__118 ΙΗ. Τί σημαίνει τὸ θεῖον τῆς πίστεως Σύμβολον Ἡ δὲ τοῦ θείου Συμβόλου τῆς πίστεως γινομένη παρὰ πάντων ὁμολογία τὴν

ἐφ᾽ οἷς ἐσώθημεν παραδόξοις λόγοις τε καὶ τρόποις τῆς πανσόφου περὶ ἡμᾶς τοῦ Θεοῦ προνοίας γενησομένην μυστικὴν εὐχαριστίαν κατὰ τὸν αἰῶνα τὸν μέλλοντα προσημαίνει, δι᾽ ἧς εὐγνώμονα ἐπὶ τῇ θείᾳ εὐεργεσίᾳ ἑαυτοὺς συνιστῶσιν οἱ ἄξιοι, πλὴν ταύτης τῶν περὶ αὐτοὺς ἀπείρων θείων ἀγαθῶν ἀντεισαγαγεῖν ἄλλο τι καθ᾽ ὁτιοῦν οὐκ ἔχοντες.

ΙΘ. ΤΙ ΣΗΜΑΙΝΕΙ Η ΤΟΥ ΤΡΙΣΑΓΙΟΥ ∆ΟΞΟΛΟΓΙΑ 14__120 ΙΘ. Τί σημαίνει ἡ τοῦ Τρισαγίου δοξολογία Ἡ δὲ γινομένη τρισσὴ τοῦ ἁγιασμοῦ τῆς θείας ὑμνολογίας ἐκβόησις παρὰ

παντὸς τοῦ πιστοῦ λαοῦ τὴν πρὸς τὰς ἀσωμάτους καὶ νοερὰς δυνάμεις κατὰ τὸ μέλλον φανησομένην ἕνωσίν τε καὶ ἰσοτιμίαν παραδηλοῖ, καθ᾽ ἣν συμφώνως ταῖς ἄνω δυνάμεσι διὰ ταυτότητα τῆς ἀτρέπτου περὶ Θεὸν ἀεικινησίας τρισὶν ἁγιασμοῖς ὑμνεῖν τε καὶ ἁγιάζειν τὴν τρισυπόστατον μίαν θεότητα διδαχθήσεται τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἡ φύσις.

Κ. ΤΙΝΟΣ ΕΣΤΙ ΣΥΜΒΟΛΟΝ Η ΑΓΙΑ ΠΡΟΣΕΥΧΗ ΤΟΥ «ΠΑΤΕΡ ΗΜΩΝ..». 14__122 Κ. Τίνος ἐστὶ σύμβολον ἡ ἁγία προσευχὴ τοῦ «Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς

..». Ἡ δὲ παναγία τε καὶ σεπτὴ τοῦ μεγάλου καὶ μακαρίου Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρὸς

ἐπίκλησις τῆς δοθησομένης ἐνυποστάτου τε καὶ ἐνυπάρκτου κατὰ δωρεὰν καὶ χάριν τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος υἱοθεσίας ἐστὶ σύμβολον, καθ᾽ ἣν πάσης ὑπερνικωμένης τε καὶ καλυπτομένης ἀνθρωπίνης ἰδιότητος τῇ ἐπιφοιτήσει τῆς χάριτος υἱοὶ Θεοῦ χρηματίσουσί τε καὶ ἔσονται πάντες οἱ ἅγιοι, ὅσοι δι᾽ ἀρετῶν ἀπ᾽ ἐντεῦθεν ἤδη τῷ θείῳ τῆς ἀγαθότητος κάλλει ἑαυτοὺς λαμπρῶς τε καὶ ἐπιδόξως ἐφαίδρυναν.