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(ita rursus cod. ut solet) he mentions a friend and friendship; wherefore it is well now to pay attention to the name, what friendship wishes to signify to him; For he says, Grace and friendship set free. And yet the Savior in the gospels says to the Jews who had believed in him: If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and the truth will set you free. But Paul again writes: Christ has set us free from the curse of the law. If therefore friendship sets free, and the truth sets free, and the Savior sets free, Christ is the truth and the friendship; whence also all those who have the knowledge of Christ are friends of one another. Thus also the Savior has called the disciples friends, and John was the friend of the bridegroom, Moses and all the saints; and in this friendship alone are friends of the same one also friends of one another. But keep your ways in good dealing: He who is taught concerning the virtues and acts according to them keeps his ways in good dealing.

114 A golden apple in a necklace of sardius: Just as a golden apple fits a sardius, so does knowledge of God fit a pure soul. A golden (edd. Εἰς ἐνώτ.) earring and a precious sardius are bound together; a wise word to a hearing ear: Cast a precious sardius into a golden earring, and the wisdom of the lord into an impassible mind. As a coming of snow in harvest time during heat helps: Just as snow cools burning heat, so the knowledge of holy things dissolves the weariness of the soul. But a soft tongue breaks bones: Now he has called the irascible soul soft, which breaks the bones that are meant to say: Lord, who is like you? Let your foot be rare toward your (edd. σεαυτοῦ) friend: One must rarely touch upon theological problems and not do this frequently, lest we say something of those things not to be said concerning God, and as being impious we fall away from spiritual knowledge, since the mind, through its own weakness, is not able to gaze continuously on such a contemplation. A tooth (ut cod. Alex, ed. Ro. ὁδὸς) of an evil one and a foot (ex οῦ corr. est οὺ) of a lawless one will perish in an evil day: That is, wickedness and lawlessness will perish in the day of judgment. Thus a passion befalling the body grieves the heart: The passions that befall the heart are the wickednesses; by the privation of which one is called impassible. Thus the grief of a man harms the heart: Grief is blameworthy, the privation of corruptible pleasure; but grief is praiseworthy, the privation of virtues and the knowledge of God. For by doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head (edd. ἐ. τὴν κεφ.): By goodness and beneficence purifying his ruling faculty. But a shameless face provokes the tongue: He called the devil a shameless face, provoking the soul; and everywhere Solomon (cod. rursus ῶν) calls the mind "tongue"; therefore it is not good to respect this face in judgment. 115 But good news from a distant land: Thus is knowledge of God from the land of the meek. Thus it is unseemly for a just man to have fallen before an impious one: Of the thoughts of the mind, some are called its falls, and others risings, and others a seat, and others a standing, and others a walk, and some are named its stumbling blocks; and others hard and soft, and fragrant and foul-smelling, and sweet and bitter, and smooth and straight and crooked; and again some of it are called thorns and thistles, and others light and darkness, and life and death, and others diseases and healths; and others again are named falsehood and truth; and scripture sets many other names both for the soul and for its thoughts. And what it sets for it, to say a few from many, are these: mind, soul, heart, human, man, woman, slave, servant, father, son, spirit, eye, mouth, lips, tongue, throat, belly, bosom, arm, finger, wood, nostril, sheep, kid, shepherd, and there are many more names for the soul, which it is not possible to set forth now because the form of scholia does not admit of much speaking. Here therefore a just mind falls before Satan, having received an unclean thought or a false dogma. and the

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(ita rursus cod. ut solet) φίλου τε μέμνηται καὶ φιλίας· διὸ καλῶς ἔχει νῦν προσέχειν τῷ ὀνόματι, τί βούλεται αὐτῷ σημαίνειν ἡ φιλία· Χάρις γάρ φησιν καὶ φιλία ἐλευθεροῖ. καίτοι ὁ σωτὴρ ἐν τοῖς εὐαγγελίοις πρὸς τοὺς πεπιστευκότας αὐτῷ Ἰουδαίους φησίν· Ἐὰν ὑμεῖς μείνητε ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τῷ ἐμῷ, ἀληθῶς μαθηταί μου ἐστέ, καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια ἐλευθερώσει ὑμᾶς. Παῦλος δὲ πάλιν γράφει· Χριστὸς ἡμᾶς ἠλευθέρωσεν ἐκ τῆς κατάρας τοῦ νόμου. εἰ οὖν ἡ φιλία ἐλευθεροῖ, καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια ἐλευθεροῖ, καὶ ὁ σωτὴρ ἐλευθεροῖ, Χριστός ἐστιν ἡ ἀλήθεια καὶ ἡ φιλία· ὅθεν καὶ πάντες οἱ ἔχοντες τὴν γνῶσιν τοῦ Χριστοῦ φίλοι ἀλλήλων εἰσίν. οὕτω καὶ τοὺς μαθητὰς φίλους εἴρηκεν ὁ σωτήρ, καὶ Ἰωάννης φίλος ἦν τοῦ νυμφίου, Μωσῆς καὶ πάντες οἱ ἅγιοι· καὶ ἐπὶ ταύτης μόνον τῆς φιλίας οἱ τοῦ αὐτοῦ φίλοι καὶ ἀλλήλων εἰσὶν φίλοι. Ἀλλὰ φύλαξον τὰς ὁδούς σου εὐσυναλλάκτως: Ὁ διδαχθεὶς περὶ τῶν ἀρετῶν καὶ κατ' αὐτὰς ἐνεργῶν τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτοῦ φυλάσσει εὐσυναλλάκτως.

114 Μῆλον χρυσοῦν ἐν ὁρμίσκῳ σαρδίου: Ὥσπερ μῆλον χρυσέον ἁρμόζει σαρδίῳ, οὕτως γνῶσις θεοῦ ψυχῇ καθαρᾷ. Ἐνώτιον (edd. Εἰς ἐνώτ.) χρυσοῦν καὶ σάρδιον πολυτελὲς δέδεται· λόγος σοφὸς εἰς οὖς εὐήκοον: Ἔμβαλε σάρδιον πολυτελὲς εἰς ἐνώτιον χρυσοῦν, καὶ σοφίαν κυρίου εἰς νοῦν ἀπαθῆ. Ὥσπερ ἔξοδος χιόνος ἐν ἀμητῷ κατὰ καῦμα ὠφελεῖ: Ὥσπερ χιὼν ψύχει καύσωνα, οὕτως γνῶσις ἁγίων διαλύει κόπον ψυχῆς. Γλῶσσα δὲ μαλακὴ συντρίβει ὀστέα: Νῦν τὴν θυμώδη ψυχὴν ὠνόμασεν μαλακήν, ἥτις συντρίβει τὰ ὀστᾶ τὰ πεφυκότα λέγειν· Κύριε, τίς ὅμοιός σοι; Σπάνιον εἴσαγε σὸν πόδα πρὸς σὸν (edd. σεαυτοῦ) φίλον: Σπανίως δεῖ ἅπτεσθαι θεολογικῶν προβλημάτων καὶ μὴ πυκνῶς τοῦτο ποιεῖν, μήποτε εἴπωμέν τι τῶν οὐ λεγομένων ἐπὶ θεοῦ, καὶ ὡς ἀσεβοῦντες τῆς πνευματικῆς ἐκπέσωμεν γνώσεως, τοῦ νοῦ δι' οἰκείαν ἀσθενείαν συνεχῶς ἐνατενίζειν τῇ τοιαύτῃ θεωρίᾳ μὴ δυναμένου. Ὀδοὺς (ut cod. Alex, ed. Ro. ὁδὸς) κακοῦ καὶ ποὺς (ex οῦ corr. est οὺ) παρανόμου ὀλεῖται ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κακῇ: Τοῦτ' ἔστιν ἡ κακία καὶ ἡ παρανομία ἀπολεῖται ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τῆς κρίσεως. Οὕτως προσπεσὸν πάθος ἐν σώματι καρδίαν λυπεῖ: Τὰ προσπίπτοντα τῇ καρδίᾳ πάθη αἱ κακίαι εἰσίν· ὧν κατὰ στέρησιν ὁ ἀπαθὴς ὀνομάζεται. Οὕτως λύπη ἀνδρὸς βλάπτει καρδίαν: Λύπη ἐστὶν ψεκτή, στέρησις φθαρτῆς ἡδονῆς· λύπη δέ ἐστιν ἐπαινετή, στέρησις ἀρετῶν καὶ γνώσεως θεοῦ. Τοῦτο γὰρ ποιήσας ἄνθρακας πυρὸς σωρεύσεις ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς (edd. ἐ. τὴν κεφ.) αὐτοῦ: ∆ιὰ τῆς χρηστότητος καὶ εὐποιΐας καθαρίζων αὐτοῦ τὸ ἡγεμονικόν. Πρόσωπον δὲ ἀναιδὲς γλῶσσαν ἐρεθίζει: Τὸν διάβολον εἶπεν πρόσωπον ἀναιδές, ἐρεθίζοντα τὴν ψυχήν· πανταχοῦ δὲ ὁ Σολομὼν (cod. rursus ῶν) γλῶσσαν τὸν νοῦν λέγει· τοῦτο οὖν τὸ πρόσωπον αἰδεῖσθαι ἐν κρίσει οὐ καλόν. 115 Ἀγγελία δὲ ἀγαθὴ ἐκ γῆς μακρόθεν: Οὕτως γνῶσις θεοῦ ἐκ γῆς πραέων. Οὕτως ἄκοσμον δίκαιον πεπτωκέναι ἐναντίον ἀσεβοῦς: Τῶν νοημάτων τοῦ νοῦ τὰ μὲν πτώματα αὐτοῦ λέγεται, τὰ δὲ ἐγέρσεις, τὰ δὲ καθέδρα, τὰ δὲ στάσις, καὶ ἄλλα περίπατος καί τινα αὐτοῦ προσκόμματα ὀνομάζεται· καὶ ἄλλα σκληρὰ καὶ μαλακά, καὶ εὐώδη καὶ δυσώδη, καὶ γλυκέα καὶ πικρά, καὶ λεῖα καὶ ὀρθὰ καὶ σκολιά· καὶ πάλιν τὰ μὲν αὐτοῦ καλεῖται ἄκανθαι καὶ τρίβολοι, τὰ δὲ φῶς καὶ σκότος, καὶ ζωὴ καὶ θάνατος, τὰ δὲ νόσοι καὶ ὑγεῖαι· καὶ ἄλλα πάλιν ὀνομάζεται ψεῦδος καὶ ἀλήθεια· καὶ πολλὰ ἕτερα ὀνόματα τίθησιν ἡ γραφὴ κατά τε τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ τῶν νοημάτων αὐτῆς. ἃ δὲ τίθησι κατ' αὐτῆς, ὡς ἔστιν ὀλίγα ἐκ πολλῶν εἰπεῖν, ἔστιν ταῦτα· νοῦν, ψυχήν, καρδίαν, ἄνθρωπον, ἄνδρα, γυναῖκα, δοῦλον, οἰκέτην, πατέρα, υἱόν, πνεῦμα, ὀφθαλμόν, στόμα, χείλη, γλῶσσαν, λάρυγγα, κοιλίαν, κόλπον, βραχίονα, δάκτυλον, ξύλον, μυκτῆρα, πρόβατον, ἔριφον, ποιμένα, καὶ ἄλλα πλείονά ἐστιν ὀνόματα τῆς ψυχῆς, ἃ οὐ δυνατὸν νῦν παραθέσθαι διὰ τὸ εἶδος τῶν σχολίων πολυλογίαν μὴ ἐπιδεχομένων. ἐνταῦθα οὖν πίπτει δίκαιος νοῦς ἐνώπιον τοῦ σατανᾶ, λογισμὸν ἀκάθαρτον ἢ ψευδὲς δόγμα δεξάμενος. καὶ ὁ