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My fellow servants, all who signed, we have anathematized those who, like Arius and Apollinarius, say there is one will and one energy, and do not confess our Lord and God according to each of the natures from which, in which, and which He is, as being by nature intelligent, and for this reason possessing in both a will and an energy for our salvation. 15Γ_060 And they say: If we are burdened by this, we do not eat, we do not drink; but let us rise up and have breakfast and enter. Let us say what we have heard. For this man has sold himself to Satan.

And rising up they had breakfast, and they entered with anger on the eve of the Exaltation of the precious and life-giving cross.

30. And on the following morning, Theodosius the consul went out to the aforementioned abba

Maximus, and took away everything he had, saying to him on behalf of the emperor: THEOD. Because you did not desire honor, it will be far from you. And go where

you judged yourself worthy to be, having the judgment of your disciples, the one in Mesembria, and the one in Perberis, who became the notary of our blessed grandmother. And the patricians were also there, that is, Troilus and Epiphanius, having said that

TRO.EPIPH. We are certainly bringing the two disciples, the one in Mesembria and the one in Perberis, and we will test them too, and we will see the outcome for them as well. However, so that you may see, lord abba, that if we get a little respite from the confusion of the nations, we are ready to deal with you, by the Holy Trinity, and the pope who is now puffed up, and all those there who are speaking, and your other disciples, and we will smelt all of you, each in his proper place, just as Martin was smelted.

And the said consul Theodosius, taking him, handed him over to soldiers, and they led him as far as Salembria.

31. And they remained there for two days, until one of the

soldiers went to the military camp, and said to the whole army, that "The monk who blasphemes the Theotokos is coming here," so that they might incite the army against the said abba Maximus, as one who blasphemes the Theotokos. And after two days the soldier returned, and took him into the military camp, and the general, or rather the general's deputy, being moved to compunction by God, sent 15Γ_062 to him the leaders of the bands, both presbyters and deacons, and the devout standard-bearers, whom the said abba Maximus, seeing them arrive, arose and made a prostration, and they prostrated in return, and they sat down, commanding him also to sit. And a certain very honorable old man said to him with much reverence:

Father, since some have caused us to be scandalized concerning your holiness, saying that you do not call our Lady the All-holy Virgin Theotokos, I adjure you by the holy and consubstantial and life-giving Trinity, to tell us the truth, and to wipe away this scandal from our hearts, so that we may not be harmed by being unjustly scandalized.

And making a prostration, he rose up, and stretching out his hands to heaven with tears, he said:

MAX. Whoever does not call our Lady, the all-hymned and all-holy and immaculate, and venerable to all intelligent nature, who became truly the natural mother of God, the maker of heaven and earth and the sea and all things

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οἱ σύνδουλοί μου, ὅσοι ὑπέγραψαν, τούς κατά τόν Ἄρειον καί Ἀπολινάριον, μίαν θέλησιν καί ἐνέργειαν λέγοντας, ἀνεθεματίσαμεν, καί μή ὁμολογοῦντας τόν Κύριον ἡμῶν καί Θεόν καθ' ἕτερον τῶν ἐξ ὧν, ἐν οἷς τε καί ἅπερ ἐστί φύσει νοερόν, καί διά τοῦτο κατ' ἄμφω θελητικόν καί ἐνεργητικόν τῆς ἡμῶν σωτηρίας. 15Γ_060 Καί λέγουσιν· Ἐάν τούτῳ συνεπαχθῶμεν, οὐ τρώγομεν, οὐ πίομεν· ἀλλ' ἀναστῶμεν καί ἀριστήσωμεν καί εἰσέλθωμεν. Εἴπωμεν ἅ ἠκούσαμεν. Οὗτος γάρ πέπρακεν ἑαυτόν τῷ Σατανᾷ.

Καί ἀναστάντες ἠρίστησαν, καί εἰσῆλθον μετ' ὀργῆς τῇ παραμονῇ τῆς Ὑψώσεως τοῦ τιμίου καί ζωοποιοῦ σταυροῦ.

Λ'. Καί τῇ ἑξῆς ἕωθεν ἐξῆλθε Θεοδόσιος ὁ ὕπατος πρός τόν προειρημένον ἀββᾶν

Μάξιμον, καί ἀφεῖλε πάντα ὅσα εἶχεν, εἰπών αὐτῷ ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ βασιλέως· ΘΕΟ∆. Ὅτι οὐκ ἠθέλησας τιμήν, καί μακρυνθήσεται ἀπό σοῦ. Καί ὕπαγε ὅπου

ἑαυτόν ἄξιον ἔκρινας εἶναι, ἔχων τό κρῖμα τῶν μαθητῶν σου, τοῦ τε ἐν Μεσημβρίᾳ, καί τοῦ ἐν Περβέροις, τοῦ γενομένου νοταρίου τῆς μακαρίας ἡμῶν μάμμης. Ἦσαν δέ καί οἱ πατρίκιοι, τουτέστι Τρώϊλος καί Ἐπιφάνιος εἰρηκότες, ὅτι

ΤΡΩ.ΕΠΙΦ. Πάντως φέρομεν καί τούς δύο μαθητάς, τόν τε ἐν Μεσημβρίᾳ καί τόν ἐν Περβέροις, καί δοκιμάζομεν καί αὐτούς, καί βλέπομεν καί τήν ἐπ' αὐτοῖς ἔκβασιν. Πλην, ἵνα εἶδες, κῦρι ἀββᾶ, ὅτι μικράν ἄνεσιν ἐάν λάβωμεν ἐκ τῆς συγχύσεως τῶν ἐθνῶν, ἁρμόσασθαι ὑμῖν ἔχομεν, μά τήν ἁγίαν Τριάδα, καί τόν πάπαν τόν νῦν ἐπαιρόμενον, καί πάντας τούς ἐκεῖσε λαλοῦντας, καί τούς λοιπούς σου μαθητάς, καί πάντας ὑμᾶς χωνεύομεν ἕκαστον ἐν τῷ ἐπιτηδείῳ αὐτοῦ τόπῳ, ὡς ἐχωνεύθη Μαρτῖνος.

Καί λαβών αὐτόν ὁ ρηθείς ὕπατος Θεοδόσιος, παρέδωκεν αὐτόν στρατιώταις, καί ἤγαγον αὐτόν ἕως Σαλεμβρίας.

ΛΑ'. Καί ἔμειναν ἐκεῖ δύο ἡμέρας, ἕως οὗ ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τό φοσσάτον ὁ εἷς τῶν

στρατιωτῶν, καί εἶπεν ὅλῳ τῷ στρατῷ, ὅτι "Ὁ μοναχός ὁ βλασφημῶν τήν Θεοτόκον ὧδε ἔρχεται, ἵνα κινήσωσι τόν στρατόν κατά τοῦ ρηθέντος ἀββᾶ Μαξίμου, ὡς βλασφημοῦντος τήν Θεοτόκον. Καί μετά δύο ἡμέρας ἐπανελθών ὁ στρατιώτης, ἔλαβεν αὐτόν ἐν τῷ φοσσάτῳ, καί κατανυγείς ὑπό τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁ στρατηγός, ἤγουν ὁ τοποτηρητής τοῦ στρατηγοῦ, ἔπεμψεν 15Γ_062 εγγύς αὐτοῦ τούς προβεβηκότας τῶν βάνδων, πρεσβυτέρους τε καί διακόνους, καί τούς εὐλαβεῖς σιγνοφύλακας, οὕς ἰδών παραγενομένους ὁ ρηθείς ἀββᾶς Μάξιμος, ἐγερθείς ἔβαλε μετάνοιαν, καί ἀντέβαλον κἀκεῖνοι, καί ἐκάθισαν, κελεύσαντες καί αὐτῷ καθίσαι. Καί τις πάνυ γέρων τίμιος εἶπε πρός αὐτόν μετά πολλῆς τῆς εὐλάβειας·

Πάτερ, ἐπειδή ἐσκανδάλισαν ἡμᾶς τινες εἰς τήν σήν ἁγιωσύνην, ὡς οὐ λέγεις Θεοτόκον τήν ∆έσποιναν ἡμῶν τήν Παναγίαν Παρθένον, ὁρκίζω σε κατά τῆς ἁγίας καί ὁμοουσίου καί ζωοποιοῦ Τριάδος, εἰπεῖν ἡμῖν τήν ἀλήθειαν, καί ἀποτρίψασθαι τῶν καρδιῶν ἡμῶν τοῦτο τό σκάνδαλον, ἵνα μή βλαπτώμεθα ἀδίκως σκανδαλιζόμενοι.

Καί βαλών μετάνοιαν, ἀνέστη, καί ἐκτείνας τάς χεῖρας εἰς τόν οὐρανόν μετά δακρύων εἶπεν·

ΜΑΞ. Ὁ μή λέγων τήν ∆έσποιναν ἡμῶν τήν πανύμνητον καί παναγίαν ἄχραντον, καί πάσῃ τῇ φύσει τῇ νοερᾷ σεπτήν, φυσικήν ἀληθῶς μητέρα τοῦ Θεοῦ γενομένην, τοῦ ποιήσαντος τόν οὐρανόν καί τήν γῆν καί τήν θάλασσαν καί πάντα τά