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and the Spirit of God according to power providentially moving through all things and stirring up the natural principle in each one and through it leading to an awareness of the things done amiss against the law of nature, the one who is aware and has a will flexible to the reception of right reasonings from nature. Indeed, we find many even of the most barbarous and nomadic men striving after virtue and rejecting the bestial laws that have long held sway among them.

Thus, then, the Holy Spirit is in all things simply. But in a more specific and different sense, it is in all those under the Law as a lawgiver and a foreteller of future 14Β_100 mysteries, creating in them an awareness of the transgression of the commandments, and knowledge of the perfection foretold according to Christ. Whence we find many of these also abandoning the old worship that lay in shadows, and eagerly turning to the new and mystical worship.

And in addition to the ways mentioned, it is also in all those who have by faith received the divine and deifying name of Christ, not only as a guardian and one who providentially stirs up the natural principle and as an indicator of the transgression and observance of the commandments and a herald of the proclamation according to Christ, but also as a creator of the adoption given by grace through faith. For as a maker of wisdom it is present only in those who have purified both soul and body through the precise ascetic practice of the commandments, conversing with them as its own through simple and immaterial knowledge and impressing their mind with the undefiled conceptions of ineffable things for the purpose of deification.

Therefore, it is in all things simply, insofar as it is the sustainer and provider for all things and the stirrer of the natural seeds; and more specifically in all those under the Law, inasmuch as it is an indicator of the transgression of the commandments and an illuminator of the promise foretold according to Christ; and in all those who are in Christ, in addition to the things mentioned, as an bestower of adoption. But as a maker of wisdom it is simply in none of the aforementioned, except those who understand and have made themselves worthy of its contemplative indwelling through a life in God. For everyone who does not do the divine will, even if he is a believer, has an undiscerning heart, as a workshop of evil reasonings, and a body laden with sins, as being continually held by the pollutions of the passions.

14Β_102 SCHOLIA 1. That the Holy Spirit is in all things as the maker and provider for all.

2. That the Holy Spirit is also in those under the Law as a lawgiver and a foreteller.

3. That the Holy Spirit is pre-eminently in Christians as the maker of divine adoption.

16. CONCERNING THE MOLTEN CALF IN THE WILDERNESS. 16. QUESTION 16 Who is the molten calf, and why does it say calf in the singular, but these are your gods, O Israel, in the plural, and what is the meaning of being ground to powder and scattered on the water, and what are the earrings and the other ornaments?

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καὶ Θεοῦ Πνεῦμα κατὰ δύναμιν προνοητικῶς διὰ πάντων χωροῦν καὶ τὸν ἐν ἑκάστῳ κατὰ φύσιν λόγον ἀνακινοῦν καὶ δι᾽ αὐτοῦ πρὸς συναίσθησιν τῶν πλημμελῶς παρὰ τὸν θεσμὸν τῆς φύσεως πεπραγμένων ἄγον τὸν αἰσθανόμενον καὶ τὴν προαίρεσιν εὔεικτον ἔχοντα πρὸς ὑποδοχὴν τῶν ἐκ φύσεως ὀρθῶν λογισμῶν. Ἀμέλει τοι πολλοὺς εὑρίσκομεν καὶ τῶν ἄγαν βαρβάρων καὶ νομάδων ἀνθρώπων καλοκἀγαθίας μεταποιουμένους καὶ τοὺς ἀνέκαθεν κρατήσαντας ἐν αὐτοῖς θηριώδεις ἀθετοῦντας νόμους.

Οὕτω μὲν οὖν ἐν πᾶσιν ἁπλῶς ἐστι τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον. Προσδιωρισμένως δὲ καὶ κατ᾽ ἄλλην ἐπίνοιάν ἐστιν ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς κατὰ νόμον ὡς νομοθετητικὸν καὶ προαγορευτικὸν μελλόντων 14Β_100 μυστηρίων, ἐμποιοῦν αὐτοῖς αἴσθησιν μὲν τῆς τῶν ἐντολῶν παραβάσεως, ἐπιστήμην δὲ τῆς προαγορευθείσης κατὰ Χριστὸν τελειότητος. Ὅθεν κἀκ τούτων πολλοὺς εὑρίσκομεν τὴν μὲν παλαιὰν καὶ ἐν σκιαῖς κειμένην καταλιμπάνοντας λατρείαν, πρὸς δὲ τὴν νέαν καὶ μυστικὴν προθύμως μεταβαλλομένους.

Ἔστι δὲ πρὸς τοῖς εἰρημένοις τρόποις καὶ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς τὸ θεῖον καὶ θεοποιὸν ὄντως ὄνομα τοῦ Χριστοῦ κληρωσαμένοις διὰ τῆς πίστεως οὐ μόνον ὡς φρουρητικὸν καὶ προνοητικῶς λόγου τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ἀνακινητικὸν καὶ ὡς δεικτικὸν τῆς τῶν ἐντολῶν παραβάσεως καὶ φυλακῆς καὶ τῆς κατὰ Χριστὸν ἐξαγγελτικὸν προαγορεύσεως, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς δημιουργικὸν τῆς κατὰ χάριν διὰ τῆς πίστεως δοθείσης υἱοθεσίας. Ὡς γὰρ σοφίας ποιητικὸν ἐν μόνοις ἐκείνοις γίνεται τοῖς καὶ ψυχὴν καὶ σῶμα καθαρθεῖσι διὰ τῆς τῶν ἐντολῶν ἀκριβοῦς συνασκήσεως, ὡς οἰκείοις προσομιλοῦν διὰ τῆς ἁπλῆς καὶ ἀΰλου γνώσεως καὶ τὸν νοῦν αὐτῶν ταῖς ἀχράντοις τῶν ἀρρήτων νοήσεσι πρὸς ἐκθέωσιν ἐντυποῦν.

Ἔστιν οὖν ἐν πᾶσι μὲν ἁπλῶς, καθ᾽ ὃ πάντων ἐστὶ συνεκτικὸν καὶ προνοητικὸν καὶ τῶν φυσικῶν σπερμάτων ἀνακινητικόν, προσδιωρισμένως δὲ καὶ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐν νόμῳ, καθότι τῆς τῶν ἐντολῶν ἐστιν ὑποδεικτικὸν παραβάσεως καὶ τῆς κατὰ Χριστὸν προαγορευθείσης ἐπαγγελίας φωτιστικόν, ἐν δὲ πᾶσι τοῖς κατὰ Χριστόν, πρὸς τοῖς εἰρημένοις, ὡς υἱοθετητικόν. Ὡς δὲ σοφίας ποιητικὸν ἐν οὐδενὶ τῶν εἰρημένων ἐστὶν ἁπλῶς, πλὴν τῶν συνιέντων καὶ ἑαυτοὺς διὰ τῆς ἐνθέου πολιτείας ἀξίους ποιησαμένων τῆς αὐτοῦ θεωτικῆς ἐνοικήσεως. Πᾶς γὰρ μὴ ποιῶν τὰ θεῖα θελήματα, κἂν πιστός ἐστιν, ἀσύνετον ἔχει τὴν καρδίαν, ὡς πονηρῶν λογισμῶν ἐργαστήριον, καὶ τὸ σῶμα κατάχρεων ἁμαρτίαις, ὡς διαπαντὸς μολυσμοῖς παθῶν ἐνεχόμενον.

14Β_102 ΣΧΟΛΙΑ 1. Ὅτι ὡς πάντων ποιητικόν τε καὶ προνοητικόν ἐν πᾶσίν ἐστιν τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ

ἅγιον. 2. Ὅτι ὡς νομοθετητικὸν καὶ προαγορευτικόν ἐστι τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον καὶ ἐν

τοῖς κατὰ νόμον. 3. Ὅτι κατ' ἐξαίρετον ἐν τοῖς Χριστιανοῖς ἐστιν ὡς θείας υἱοθεσίας ποιητικὸν

τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον. ΙS (16). ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΧΩΝΕΥΘΕΝΤΟΣ ΜΟΣΧΟΥ ΕΝ ΤΗ ΕΡΗΜΩ. 16. ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΙS' Τίς ὁ χωνευτὸς μόσχος, καὶ διὰ τί μόσχον ἑνικῶς λέγει, τὸ δὲ οὗτοι οἱ θεοί

σου, Ἰσραήλ, πληθυντικῶς, καὶ τί τὸ λεπτυνθῆναι καὶ διασπαρῆναι ὑπὸ τὸ ὕδωρ, καὶ τίνα τὰ ἐνώτια καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς κόσμια;

Ἀπόκρισις.