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and all the holy angels with him, when he sits on the throne of his glory”. And in John he also says: “glorify me with the glory which I had with you before the world was”. 20.v Concerning the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit dwelling in the faithful because of their being consubstantial and of equal power; and against the objection of the heterodox.

20.1 We will yet find the consubstantiality of the Trinity and how unchangeably all things

are possible for it, if we understand that it alone, being immaterial and invisible by essence, is able to be participated in and to fill the temple it created. 20.2 And not only the reality but also the term is fitting for it. 20.3 For immutability follows upon that which can be participated in, and on this follows the uncreated, which is also without beginning. 20.4 But nothing created, from the custom of the Scriptures, can be participated in by way of participation or fill man substantially, but only things of a good or evil disposition. 20.5 For we say metaphorically that some are filled with virtue and knowledge and are able to produce the rewards of virtue and knowledge in a contemplative manner, as those who have purely partaken of the grace of the Holy Spirit. 20.6 It is therefore testified that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit dwell in us; as when Paul writes for the second time to the Corinthians from Jeremiah: “For we are the temple of the living God, as God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God and they will be my people”. And again: “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?” and: “Do you not know that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have from God?” 20.7 And to the Ephesians: “that he might grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.” 20.8 And as when the Lord says in John: “the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you”. And again: “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him”. 20.9 And this will be more manifest to one who considers that, willing it, the all-powerful God the Word both remained immutable and was conceived by the virgin. 20.10 But they again object, arguing: “It is written, forsooth, concerning _ Ananias: ‘why has Satan filled your heart?’ and concerning Judas, that ‘Satan entered into him’.” 20.11 To whom it must be said that he fills not by being participated in nor by mounting the soul as it were, but by deceiving and working evil counsel and a treacherous way and making an accessory of his own wickedness one who does not heed the word, “Lest you give your foot to slipping, and he who guards you will not slumber”. 20.12 in which manner he filled Elymas, his son, with the suggestion of a satanic deed. For Paul says to him, being abominable in mind and deeds and being full of diabolical wickedness and deceiving the saints, so as to seem that his father, the author of evil, dwelt in him: “O full of all deceit and all recklessness, son of the devil”. 20.13 and further, as he also filled the false elders concerning the most venerable Susanna with an intemperate mind; and it goes thus: “And the two elders came, full of lawless thought”. 20.14 And so that we may not prepare a great crowd for the hearing, omitting many things which we could say on this topic, we will say briefly that if this argument of theirs prevails, it is then time not to think it a great thing that the divine serenity dwells in the faithful, but that this has its glory only in appearance.

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καὶ πάντες οἱ ἅγιοι ἄγγελοι μετ' αὐτοῦ, ὅτε καθίσῃ ἐπὶ θρόνου δόξης αὐτοῦ». καὶ παρ' Ἰωάννῃ δέ φησιν· «δόξασόν με τῇ δόξῃ, ᾗ εἶχον παρὰ σοὶ πρὸ τοῦ τὸν κόσμον εἶναι». 20.ν Περὶ τοῦ διὰ τὸ ὁμοούσιον καὶ ἰσοδύναμον κατοικεῖν ἐν πιστοῖς τόν τε πατέρα τόν τε υἱὸν τό τε ἅγιον πνεῦμα· καὶ πρὸς τὴν τῶν ἑτεροδόξων ἀντίθεσιν.

20.1 Εὑρήσομεν ἔτι τὸ ὁμοούσιον τῆς τριάδος καὶ ὡς ἀπαραλλάκτως πάντα

ἐστὶν αὐτῇ δυνατά, εἰ ξυνίδωμεν, ὅτι αὐτὴν μόνη ὑπὲρ τὸ ἄυλον καὶ ἀόρατον οὖσα κατ' οὐσίαν μετέχεσθαι δύναται καὶ πληροῦν ὃν ἔκτισε ναόν. 20.2 καὶ αὐτῇ οὐ τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦτο μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ λέξις ἁρμόζει. 20.3 ἕπεται γὰρ τῷ μεθεκτῷ τὸ ἄτρεπτον καὶ τούτῳ τὸ ἄκτιστον, ὅ ἐστιν καὶ ἄναρχον. 20.4 οὐδὲν δὲ κτιστόν, ὅσον ἀπὸ γραφῶν συνηθείας, μετουσίας τρόπῳ μετέχεσθαι δύναται ἢ πληροῦν οὐσιωδῶς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ μόνῳ τῶν τῆς ἕξεως τῆς ἀγαθῆς ἢ τῆς φαύλης. 20.5 Μεταφορικῶς γὰρ λέγομέν τινας ἀρετῆς καὶ ἐπιστήμης πεπληρῶσθαι καὶ τεθεωρημένως προφέρειν δύνασθαι τὰ ἀρετῆς καὶ ἐπιστήμης ἐπίχειρα, ὡς οἱ ἀκραιφνῶς τῆς χάριτος τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος μεταλαχόντες. 20.6 Μαρτυρεῖται οὖν κατοικεῖν ἐν ἡμῖν ὅ τε πατὴρ ὅ τε υἱὸς καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα· ὡς ἡνίκα Παῦλος Κορινθίοις τὸ δεύτερον γράφει ἐκ τοῦ Ἱερεμίου· «ἡμεῖς γὰρ ναὸς θεοῦ ἐσμεν ζῶντος, καθὼς εἶπεν ὁ θεός· ἐνοικήσω ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσω καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτῶν θεὸς καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μου λαός». καὶ πάλιν· «οὐκ οἴδατε, ὅτι ναὸς θεοῦ ἐστε καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν;» καί· «οὐκ οἴδατε, ὅτι τὰ σώματα ὑμῶν ναὸς τοῦ ἐν ὑμῖν ἁγίου πνεύματός ἐστιν, οὗ ἔχετε ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ;» 20.7 καὶ Ἐφεσίοις· «ἵνα δῴη ὑμῖν κατὰ τὸν πλοῦτον τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ, δυνάμει κραταιωθῆναι διὰ τοῦ πνεύματος αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον, κατοικῆσαι τὸν Χριστὸν διὰ τῆς πίστεως ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν.» 20.8 Καὶ ὡς ὅταν ὁ δεσπότης ἐν Ἰωάννῃ λέγει· «τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας, ὃ ὁ κόσμος οὐ δύναται λαβεῖν, ὅτι οὐ θεωρεῖ αὐτὸ οὐδὲ γινώσκει αὐτό. ὑμεῖς δὲ γινώσκετε αὐτό, ὅτι παρ' ὑμῖν μένει καὶ ἐν ὑμῖν ἔσται». καὶ πάλιν· «ἐάν τις ἀγαπᾷ με, τὸν λόγον μου τηρήσει· καὶ ὁ πατήρ μου ἀγαπήσει αὐτόν, καὶ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐλευσόμεθα καὶ μονὴν παρ' αὐτῷ ποιησόμεθα». 20.9 Ἔσται δὲ τοῦτο πλέον καταφανὲς τῷ ἐπιστάνοντι, ὅτι θελήσας ὁ πάντα δυνάμενος θεὸς λόγος ἄτρεπτός τε διέμεινεν καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς παρθένου ἐκυοφορήθη. 20.10 Οἱ δὲ πάλιν ἐνίστανται ἀντιλέγοντες· «γέγραπται δῆθεν περὶ μὲν _ ̓Ανανία· «διὰ τί ἐπλήρωσεν ὁ σατανᾶς τὴν καρδίαν σου;» περὶ δὲ Ἰούδα, ὡς «εἰσῆλθεν εἰς αὐτὸν ὁ σατανᾶς».» 20.11 Πρὸς οὓς ῥητέον, ὡς οὐ μετεχόμενος οὐδὲ τῇ ψυχῇ ὥσπερ ἐπιβατεύων, ἀλλὰ φενακίζων καὶ κακοβουλίας καὶ παλίμβολον τρόπον ἐνεργαζόμενος καὶ πάρεργον ποιῶν τῆς ἑαυτοῦ πονηρίας πληροῖ τὸν μὴ προσέχοντα τῷ. «μὴ δῴης εἰς σάλον τὸν πόδα σου, καὶ οὐ μὴ νυστάξει ὁ φυλάσσων σε». 20.12 καθ' ὃν τρόπον Ἔλυμαν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἐπλήρωσεν τῇ ὑποβολῇ πράξεως σατανικῆς. λέγει γὰρ αὐτῷ Παῦλος, μυσαρῷ τὴν γνώμην καὶ τὰς πράξεις τυγχάνοντι καὶ ἀνάπλεῳ τῆς διαβολικῆς ὄντι μοχθηρίας καὶ κατασοφιζομένῳ τοὺς ἁγίους, ὡς δοκεῖν ἐν αὐτῷ οἰκεῖν τὸν ἀρχέκακον πατέρα αὐτοῦ· «ὦ πλήρης παντὸς δόλου καὶ πάσης ῥᾳδιουργίας υἱὲ διαβόλου». 20.13 ἔτι δὲ καθὼς καὶ τοὺς ψευδοπρεσβύτας ἐπὶ τῆς σεμνοπρεπεστάτης Σωσάννης ἐπλήρωσεν ἀκολάστου γνώμης· ἔχει δὲ οὑτωσί· «ἦλθον δὲ καὶ οἱ δύο πρεσβύτεροι πλήρεις τῆς ἀνόμου ἐννοίας». 20.14 Καὶ ἵνα μὴ ὄχλον πολὺν τῇ ἀκοῇ παρασκευάζωμεν, πολλὰ, ἃ λέγειν εἴχομεν εἰς τοῦτο, παρέντες, συντόμως ἐροῦμεν, ὡς εἴπερ κρατεῖ ὁ λόγος αὐτῶν οὗτος, ὥρα λοιπὸν μὴ μέγα οἴεσθαι τὸ τὴν θείαν γαληνότητα οἰκεῖν ἐν πιστοῖς, ἀλλ' ὡς ἔν γε δὴ μόνῳ τῷ δοκεῖν τοῦτο τὴν δόξαν ἔχειν.