22.  To turn however to the ends in view in each of these forms of healing, for this point is still left to be considered, the one preserves, if it already exists, the health and good habit of the flesh, or if absent, recalls it; though it is not yet clear whether or not these will be for the advantage of those who possess them, since their opposites very often confer a greater benefit on those who have them, just as poverty and wealth, renown or disgrace, a low or brilliant position, and all other circumstances, which are naturally indifferent, and do not incline in one direction more than in another, produce a good or bad effect according to the will of, and the manner in which they are used by the persons who experience them.  But the scope of our art is to provide the soul with wings, to rescue it from the world and give it to God, and to watch over that which is in His image,46    Gen. i. 26. if it abides, to take it by the hand, if it is in danger, or restore it, if ruined, to make Christ to dwell in the heart47    Eph. iii. 17. by the Spirit:  and, in short, to deify, and bestow heavenly bliss upon, one who belongs to the heavenly host.

ΚΒʹ. Τά γε μὴν ἀμφοτέρων τῶν θεραπειῶν τέλη, τοῦτο γὰρ ἡμῖν εἰς τὴν ἐξέτασιν ἔτι λείπεται, τῇ μὲν ὑγίειαν, ἢ εὐεξίαν σαρκὸς, ἢ οὖσαν φυλάξαι, ἢ ἀπελθοῦσαν ἀνακαλέσασθαι, ὧν οὔπω δῆλον, εἴ τι συνοίσει τοῖς κεκτημένοις: ἐπεὶ καὶ τὰ ἐναντία πολλάκις πλείω τοὺς ἔχοντας ὤνησεν, ὥσπερ πενίαι τε καὶ πλοῦτοι, δόξαι τε καὶ ἀδοξίαι, ταπεινότητες καὶ λαμπρότητες, καὶ ὅσα ἐν μέσῳ κείμενα κατὰ τὴν φύσιν, καὶ οὐδὲν μᾶλλον τῇδε ἢ τῇδε νεύοντα, τῇ χρήσει καὶ τῇ προαιρέσει τῶν κεκτημένων τὸ βέλτιον ἢ τὸ χεῖρον λαμβάνει: τῇ δὲ τὸ προκείμενον πτερῶσαι ψυχὴν, ἁρπάσαι κόσμου, καὶ δοῦναι Θεῷ, καὶ τὸ κατ' εἰκόνα ἢ μένον τηρῆσαι, ἢ κινδυνεῦον χειραγωγῆσαι, ἢ διαῤῥυὲν ἀνασώσασθαι, εἰσοικίσαι τε τὸν Χριστὸν ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις διὰ τοῦ Πνεύματος: καὶ τὸ κεφάλαιον, Θεὸν ποιῆσαι, καὶ τῆς ἄνω μακαριότητος, τὸν τῆς ἄνω συντάξεως.