Epistula Magna

 are possible with the God who has promised for the passions of sin later came upon the soul and the body because of the transgression of the first-fo

 gives himself to all the well-pleasingness of the commandments, to that extent he also acquires the participation of the spirit for the spiritual incr

 [as] one who, as a bride of Christ, longs to be joined to the heavenly king who is pure and undefiled. For the soul that longs to be joined to him and

 the worse work of destruction, numbering hidden and manifest sins as one, he says: And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up

 to have fellowship and to be united, but only with the Spirit of God, 247 being united and clinging to it, he commanded the soul to bear the sacred of

 But in another epistle, teaching about the same things and showing the disciples the abundance of spiritual wealth and exhorting them to hasten to att

 he sets forth the goal. And because we are not sufficient for the struggle against the principalities and the powers and the spiritual forces of wicke

 let us have affliction and struggle and a ceaseless race, daily stretching forward always to the things that are before and forgetting the things that

 and having entered with exultation, since indeed he has become the agent of great salvation for himself, if with long-suffering and patience he remain

 he who humbles himself will be exalted and again: Whoever wishes to be first among you, let him be the last of all and the servant of all just as th

 the adversary always hinders the mind in good things, from loving the things above by the memory of good things, but rather, by enticing the will thro

 occupying ourselves with love always. and thus we shall be able to receive daily increase and progress towards divine love, being helped by the divine

 the soul's love is stretched out toward God and therefore if someone wishes to persevere unceasingly in prayers and to be at leisure for fasting acco

 surrendering the mind to such things and by reason of a lack of discernment being fully convinced by the bodily kneeling, while the mind is in a state

 a lack, his own work and toil, should he think the fruits of the spirit to be, he possesses much vain conceit and falls from great spiritual goods, no

 the future hope of the resurrection 279 immortal and it is possible to take up the sufferings of Christ readily and easily. Let those who have not ye

 being done That, he says, they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. And the apostles, having legislated through the Spir

 the need of those who serve and give rest, and again the surplus of those who serve and work for the need of those who devote themselves to prayers. F

 we are deemed worthy of Christ, let us have communion with one another in all good things for the edification and benefit both of ourselves and of our

 of practices will it be to attain unless through what we have said before, setting forth through many things at the same time also the scriptural test

 believe in truths, that it is necessary for the one who has truly come to serve God to arrive at the measures of impassibility and freedom. Since ther

 workers or certain slaves are told by their master to reap three plethra each day, and one worker, having received such a command from his master, giv

 is promised to those who have consecrated themselves. For those who consider it impossible for this accomplishment to happen in men through the Spirit

 to those who obey the spirit, that it is necessary for the one who has approached God in truth, believing in his promises with a whole heart and striv

to those who obey the spirit, that it is necessary for the one who has approached God in truth, believing in his promises with a whole heart and striving with all power in his commandments and renewing the mind day by day, to perceive within himself the grace of spiritual progress; so that we may thus be able to attain to the true rest of perfect sanctification, that is, to arrive at the perfect love of the adoption of the adorable spirit, through whom we are also able to acquire the complete deliverance from the passions; and thus, having been wholly sanctified from here on in soul and body, and having been made spotless and blameless through the spirit, and having received from here on the heavenly treasure of perfect grace in the earthen vessels of our body in all fullness, and having become a pure dwelling place of God, being perfectly glorified with Christ in the coming day of the resurrection of the kingdom, and being deemed worthy to become conformed to the body of his glory, we shall rest with him in inexpressible rest for the endless ages of ages, amen.

πνεύματος πειθομένοις, ὅτι χρὴ τὸν ἐν ἀληθείᾳ προσεληλυθότα θεῷ, ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ πιστεύοντα ταῖς ἐπαγγελίαις αὐτοῦ καὶ πάσῃ δυνάμει ἐν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς αὐτοῦ ἀγωνιζόμενον καὶ ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας τὸν νοῦν ἀνακαινούμενον, προκοπῆς πνευματικῆς χάριν αἰσθέσθαι ἐν ἑαυτῷ· ἵν' οὕτως καταντῆσαι δυνηθῶμεν εἰς τὴν ἀληθινὴν τοῦ τελείου ἁγιασμοῦ κατάπαυσιν, τουτέστι φθάσαι εἰς τὴν τελείαν ἀγάπην τῆς υἱοθεσίας τοῦ προσκυνητοῦ πνεύματος, δι' οὗ καὶ τὴν παντελῆ τῶν παθῶν ἀπαλλαγὴν κτήσασθαι δυνάμεθα· καὶ οὕτως ψυχῇ καὶ σώματι ὁλοτελῶς ἀπεντεῦθεν ἁγιασθέντες καὶ ἄσπιλοι καὶ ἄμωμοι διὰ τοῦ πνεύματος καταρτισθέντες καὶ τὸν ἐπουράνιον τῆς τελείας χάριτος θησαυρὸν ἐν τοῖς ὀστρακίνοις ἡμῶν τοῦ σώματος σκεύεσιν ἐν πάσῃ πληροφορίᾳ ἐντεῦθεν κομισάμενοι καὶ θεοῦ οἰκητή301 ριον καθαρὸν γενόμενοι, ἐν τῇ μελλούσῃ τῆς ἀναστάσεως ἡμέρᾳ τῆς βασιλείας τελείως Χριστῷ συνδοξασθέντες καὶ σύμμορφοι τῷ σώματι τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ καταξιωθέντες γενέσθαι σὺν αὐτῷ ἐν ἀναπαύσει ἀνεκλαλήτῳ ἀναπαυσώμεθα εἰς τοὺς ἀπεράντους αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων ἀμήν.