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not being able to gaze continually at such contemplation. 311 25, 19 The tooth of an evil man and the foot of a lawless one will perish in an evil day That is, evil and lawlessness will perish on the day of judgment. 312 25, 20 Just as vinegar is unprofitable to a wound, so a passion befalling the body grieves the heart The passions that befall the heart are the vices, and the one free from passion is so named by his lack of them. 313 25, 20a As a moth to a garment and a worm to wood, so a man’s grief harms his heart Blameworthy grief is the privation of corruptible pleasure; praiseworthy grief is the privation of virtues and the knowledge of God. 314 25, 21 If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; 25, 22.1 for by doing this you will heap coals of fire upon his head By kindness and good deeds cleansing his governing faculty. 315 25, 23 A north wind stirs up clouds; and a shameless face provokes a tongue He called the devil a shameless face, provoking the soul. And everywhere Solomon calls the mind a tongue. Therefore it is not good to respect this face in judgment. 316 25, 25 As cold water is pleasing to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country So is the knowledge of God from the land of the meek. 317 25, 26 As if someone were to block a spring and spoil the outflow of water, so it is unseemly for a righteous man to have fallen before an ungodly one Of the thoughts of the mind, some are called its falls, some its risings, some its seats, and some its standings; and others its walking, and some are called its stumbling blocks; and others hard and soft and fragrant and sweet and bitter and smooth and straight and crooked; and again some of them are called thorns and thistles, and others light and darkness and life and death, and others sicknesses and healths; and others again are called falsehood and truth; and scripture applies many other names to both the soul and its thoughts. And what it applies to it, to name a few of many, are these: mind, soul, heart, man, husband, wife, slave, servant, father, son, spirit, eye, mouth, lips, tongue, throat, belly, bosom, arm, finger, wood, nostril, sheep, goat, shepherd; and there are many more names for the soul, which it is not possible to set forth now, because the genre of scholia does not admit of verbosity. Here, then, a righteous mind falls before Satan, having received an unclean thought or a false dogma. And David also says: “before him all who go down to the dust will fall”; but this fall contains true knowledge and pure thoughts. 318 25, 28 Like a city whose walls are thrown down and unfortified, so is a man who does anything without counsel Here he called counsel the inclination of the heart toward the better.

319 26, 3 As a whip for a horse and a goad for a donkey, so a rod for a lawless nation

The rod is now a symbol of punishment. 320 26, 6 He who sends a message by the hand of a foolish messenger makes reproach for his own ways One must not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast pearls before swine. 321 26, 7 Take away the going of legs, and lawlessness from the mouth of fools Take away the evil way of a fool, and make false knowledge far from him. 322 26, 8 He who binds a stone in a sling is like one who gives glory to a fool Knowledge will not befit a fool, nor a worthless stone in a golden sling. 323 26, 10 All the flesh of fools suffers much hardship, for their ecstasy is crushed If the ecstasy of fools is crushed, by which they departed from God, having become clean again they approach God; “for all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” It must be noted here that he called the souls fattened by wickedness the flesh of fools. And so the Lord also says: “My Spirit shall not abide in these men, because they are flesh.” 324 26, 11 As a dog when it returns to its own vomit and becomes hateful,

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συνεχῶς ἐνατενίζειν τῇ τοιαύτῃ θεωρίᾳ μὴ δυναμένου. 311 25, 19 ὀδοὺς κακοῦ καὶ ποὺς παρανόμου ὀλεῖται ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κακῇ Τουτέστιν ἡ κακία καὶ ἡ παρανομία ἀπολεῖται ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τῆς κρίσεως. 312 25, 20 ὥσπερ ὄξος ἕλκει ἀσύμφορον, οὕτω προσπεσὸν πάθος σώματι καρδίαν λυπεῖ Τὰ προσπίπτοντα τῇ καρδίᾳ πάθη αἱ κακίαι εἰσίν, ὧν κατὰ στέρησιν ὁ ἀπαθὴς ὀνομάζεται. 313 25, 20α ὥσπερ σὴς ἱματίῳ καὶ σκώληξ ξύλῳ, οὕτως λύπη ἀνδρὸς βλάπτει καρδίαν Λύπη ἐστὶ ψεκτὴ στέρησις φθαρτῆς ἡδονῆς· λύπη δέ ἐστιν ἐπαινετὴ στέρησις ἀρετῶν καὶ γνώσεως θεοῦ. 314 25, 21 ἐὰν πεινᾷ ὁ ἐχθρός σου, τρέφε αὐτόν, ἐὰν διψᾷ, πότιζε αὐτόν· 25, 22.1 τοῦτο γὰρ ποιῶν ἄνθρακας σωρεύσεις ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴναὐτοῦ ∆ιὰ τῆς χρηστότητος καὶ εὐποιΐας καθαρίζων αὐτοῦ τὸ ἡγεμονικόν. 315 25, 23 ἄνεμος βορέας ἐξεγείρει νέφη· πρόσωπον δὲ ἀναιδὲς γλῶσσαν ἐρεθίζει Τὸν διάβολον εἶπεν πρόσωπον ἀναιδὲς ἐρεθίζοντα τὴν ψυχήν. Πανταχοῦ δὲ ὁ Σολομὼν γλῶσσαν τὸν νοῦν λέγει. Τοῦτο οὖν τὸ πρόσωπον αἰδεῖσθαι ἐν κρίσει οὐ καλόν. 316 25, 25 ὥσπερ ὕδωρ ψυχρὸν ψυχῇ διψώσῃ προσηνές, οὕτως ἀγγελία ἀγαθὴ ἐκ γῆς μακρόθεν Οὕτως γνῶσις θεοῦ ἐκ γῆς πραέων. 317 25, 26 ὥσπερ εἴ τις πηγὴν φράσσοι καὶ ὕδατος ἔξοδον λυμαίνοιτο, οὕτως ἄκοσμον δίκαιον πεπτωκέναι ἐνώπιον 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 μαλακὰ καὶ εὐώδη καὶ γλυκέα καὶ πικρὰ 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, ἔστι 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 ἐπιδεχόμενον. Ἐνταῦθα οὖν πίπτει δίκαιος νοῦς ἐνώπιον τοῦ σατανᾶ, λογισμὸν ἀκάθαρτον ἢ ψευδὲς δόγμα ὑποδεξάμενος. Καὶ ὁ ∆αυὶδ δέ φησιν· «ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ προπεσοῦνται πάντες οἱ καταβαίνοντες εἰς γῆν»· ἀλλὰ τοῦτο τὸ πτῶμα περιέχει γνῶσιν ἀληθῆ καὶ λογισμοὺς καθαρούς. 318 25, 28 ὥσπερ πόλις τὰ τείχη καταβεβλημένη καὶ ἀτείχιστος, οὕτως ἀνὴρ ὃς οὐ μετὰ βουλῆς τι πράσσει Βουλὴν εἶπεν ἐνταῦθα τὴν ἐπὶ τὸ κρεῖττον ῥοπὴν τῆς καρδίας.

319 26, 3 ὥσπερ μάστιξ ἵππῳ καὶ κέντρον ὄνῳ, οὕτως ῥάβδος ἔθνει

παρανόμῳ Ἡ ῥάβδος νῦν σύμβολόν ἐστι κολάσεως. 320 26, 6 ἐκ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ ὁδῶν ὄνειδος ποιεῖται ὁ ἀποστείλας δι' ἀγγέλου ἄφρονος λόγον Οὐ δεῖ τοῖς κυσὶ διδόναι τὰ ἅγια οὐδὲ βάλλειν τοὺς μαργαρίτας ἔμπροσθεν τῶν χοίρων. 321 26, 7 ἀφελοῦ πορείαν σκελῶν καὶ παρανομίαν ἐκ στόματος ἀφρόνων Περίελε ἄφρονος ὁδὸν κακὴν καὶ γνῶσιν ψευδῆ μακρὰν ποίησον ἀπ' αὐτοῦ. 322 26, 8 ὃς ἀποδεσμεύει λίθον ἐν σφενδόνῃ, ὅμοιός ἐστι τῷ διδόντι ἄφρονι δόξαν Οὐχ ἁρμόσει ἄφρονι γνῶσις καὶ λίθος ἄτιμος ἐν σφενδόνῃ χρυσῇ. 323 26, 10 πολλὰ χειμάζεται πᾶσα σὰρξ ἀφρόνων· συντρίβεται γὰρ ἡ ἔκστασις αὐτῶν Ἐὰν συντριβῇ ἡ ἔκστασις τῶν ἀφρόνων, καθ' ἣν ἐξέστησαν θεοῦ, πάλιν καθαροὶ γενόμενοι προσέρχονται θεῷ· «πᾶσα γὰρ σὰρξ ὄψεται τὸ σωτήριον τοῦ θεοῦ.» Προσεκτέον δὲ ἐνταῦθα ὅτι τὰς παχυνθείσας ψυχὰς ἀπὸ τῆς κακίας σάρκας ἀφρόνων ὠνόμασεν. Οὕτω δὲ καὶ ὁ κύριός φησιν· «οὐ μὴ καταμείνῃ τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τούτοις διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτοὺς σάρκας.» 324 26, 11 ὥσπερ κύων ὅταν ἐπέλθῃ ἐπὶ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ἔμετον καὶ μισητὸς γένηται,