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the Roman kingdom, improvident, naked, unfed, deprived of every resource for living; not approaching the sea, so that they might not have a visit from the merciful. And so they are naked and unfed, having only the hope of God; exhorting all Christians, crying out this:

Pray for the Lord, that God may perfect his mercy 15Γ_108 with our humility, and teach us that those who sail with him experience a savage sea, the boat being shaken by winds and waves, but remaining unshaken. For he allows them to be tried by a great surge, testing their disposition toward him, so that with a great voice they might cry out: Lord, save us, we are perishing; and learn to ascribe all things of their salvation to him alone; and may not be trusting in themselves, and may find a great calm, the wind and the waves having been stilled; and he delivers them into the midst of wolves, and commands them to enter through the narrow gate, and to travel the afflicted path; and he holds out famine, and thirst, and nakedness, and bonds, and prisons, and abductions, and scourges, and the cross, and nails and vinegar, and gall, and spittings, and slaps, and blows, and mockings; and suffering and manifold deaths; of which the end is the all-bright resurrection, bringing with itself peace to those persecuted for his sake; and joy, to those afflicted for his sake; and an assumption into heaven, and a bringing to the Paternal and super-essential throne, and an inheritance being above every principality and authority and power and dominion; and every name that is named, whether in this age, or in the one to come.

May we all attain this, by the prayers and intercessions of the all-hymned, all-venerable and most glorious, who is properly by nature the Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary, and of the holy apostles, prophets and martyrs. Amen.

DISCUSSION OF SAINT MAXIMUS WITH PYRRHUS * A NOTE ON THE DISCUSSION THAT TOOK PLACE concerning the matters that have been raised about

the ecclesiastical dogmas, in the presence of Gregory the most pious patrician, and of the most holy bishops found with him, and of the other God-loving and glorious men, by Pyrrhus, who was Patriarch of Constantinople, and Maximus the most devout monk, in the month of July, of the 3rd indiction. Pyrrhus indeed was an ally to the innovation introduced by him, and by the one before him in Byzantium; that is to say, of one will; while Maximus was an advocate for the patristic and apostolic teaching that has come down to us from above; through the aforementioned extraordinary man, I mean Gregory the most honorable patrician, the aforementioned men; that is, Pyrrhus and Maximus, were brought face to face with each other. And Pyrrhus began the dialogue with Maximus, speaking thus.

15Γ_112 PYRRHUS. What evil have we done to you, lord abba Maximus, both I and

the one before me, that you slander us everywhere in this way, giving us the reputation of heresy among all? And who ever, though unknown by the sight of your face, has honored or revered you as we have?

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ἡῬωμαίων βασιλεία, ἀπρονοήτους, γυμνούς, ἀτρόφους, πάσης τῆς πρός τό ζῇν ἀφορμῆς ἐστερημένους· μή ἐγγίζοντας θαλάσσῃ, ἵνα μή ἔχωσιν ἐκ τῶν ἐλεημόνων ἐπίσκεψιν. Καί οὕτως εἰσί γυμνοί καί ἄτροφοι, μόνην ἔχοντες τήν ἐλπίδα τοῦ Θεοῦ· παρακαλοῦντες πάντας τούς Χριστιανούς, τοῦτο βοῶντες·

Εὔξασθε διά τόν Κύριον, ἵνα τελειώσῃ ὁ Θεός τό ἔλεος 15Γ_108 αὐτοῦ μετά τῆς ταπεινώσεως ἡμῶν, καί διδάξῃ ἡμᾶς ὅτι οἱ συμπλέοντες αὐτῷ, ἠγριωμένης πεῖραν λαμβάνουσι θαλάσσης, ἀνέμοις καί κύμασι δονουμένου μέν τοῦ σκάφους, ἀκατασείστου δέ διαμένοντος. Συγχωρεῖ γάρ κλύδωνος μεγάλου αὐτούς πειραθῆναι, δοκιμάζων αὐτῶν τήν περί αὐτόν διάθεσιν, ἵνα μεγάλῃ τῇ φωνῇ κράξωσι· Κύριε, σῶσον ἡμᾶς, ἀπολλύμεθα· καί μάθωσι πάντα μόνῳ αὐτῷ ἐπιγράφειν, τά τῆς αὐτῶν σωτηρίας· καί μή πεποιθότες ὦσιν ἐφ' ἑαυτοῖς, καί τύχωσι γαλήνης μεγάλης, τοῦ ἀνέμου καί τῶν κυμάτων κατευνασθέντων· καί εἰς μέσον λύκων αὐτούς ἐκδίδωσι, καί διά τῆς στενῆς πύλης εἰσελθεῖν, καί διά τεθλιμμένης ὁδεύειν τρίβου παρακελεύεται· καί λιμόν, καί δίψαν, καί γύμνωσιν, καί δεσμά, καί φυλακάς, καί ἀπαγωγάς, καί μάστιγας, καί σταυρόν, καί ἥλους καί ὄξος, καί χολήν, καί ἐμπτύσματα, καί ῥαπίσματα, καί κολαφίσματα, καί ἐμπαιγμούς προτείνεται· καί πάθος καί θανάτους πολυτρόπους· ὧν τέλος, ἡ παμφαής ἀνάστασις, φέρουσα μεθ' ἑαυτῆς εἰρήνην τοῖς δι' αὐτόν διωχθεῖσι· καί χαράν, τοῖς δι' αὐτόν θλιβεῖσι· καί ἀνάληψιν εἰς οὐρανούς, καί προσαγωγήν τῷ Πατρικῷ καί ὑπερουσίῳ θρόνῳ, καί λῆξιν ὑπέρ ἄνω πάσης ἀρχῆς οὖσαν καί ἐξουσίας καί δυνάμεως καί κυριότητος· καί παντός ὀνόματος ὀνομαζομένου, εἴτε ἐν τῷ αἰῶνι τούτῳ, εἴτε ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι.

Ἧς τύχοιμεν ἅπαντες, εὐχαῖς καί πρεσβείαις τῆς πανυμνήτου πανσέπτου καί ὑπερενδόξου κυρίως φύσει Θεοτόκου καί ἀειπαρθένου Μαρίας, καί τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων, προφητῶν καί μαρτύρων. Ἀμήν.

ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΜΑΞΙΜΟΥ ΜΕΤΑ ΠΥΡΡΟΥ * ΠΑΡΑΣΗΜΕΙΩΣΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΗΣ ΖΗΤΗΣΕΩΣ χάριν τῶν κεκινημένων περί

τῶν ἐκκλησιαστικῶν δογμάτων, παρουσίᾳ Γρηγορίου τῆ εὐσεβεστάτου πατρικίου, καί τῶν συνευρεθέντων αὐτῷ ὁσιωτάτων ἐπισκόπων, καί λοιπῶν θεοφιλῶν καί ἐνδόξων ἀνδρῶν, παρά Πύῤῥου, τοῦ γενομένου πατριάρχου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, καί Μαξίμου τοῦ εὐλαβεστάτου μοναχοῦ, μηνί Ἰουλίῳ, ἰνδικτίωνος γ´. Πύῤῥου μέν συμμαχοῦντος τῇ παρεισαχθείσῃ παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ τε, καί τοῦ πρό αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ Βυζαντίῳ καινοτομίᾳ· τουτέστιν· ἑνός θελήματος· Μαξίμου δέ συνηγοροῦντος τῇ ἄνωθεν εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐλθούσῃ πατρικῇ τε καί ἀποστολικῇ διδασκαλίᾳ· διά τοῦ ῥηθέντος ὑπερφυοῦς ἀνδρός, φημί δέ Γρηγορίου τοῦ ὑπερτίμου πατρικίου, τῶν λεχθέντων ἀνδρῶν· τουτέστιν Πύῤῥου καί Μαξίμου, ἀλλήλοις προσοψισθέντων. Προκατήρξατο δέ τῆς πρός Μάξιμον διαλέξεως ὁ Πύῤῥος, οὕτως εἰπών.

15Γ_112 ΠΥΡΡΟΣ. Τί σοι κακόν ἐποιήσαμεν, κῦρι ἀββᾶ Μάξιμε, ἐγώ τε καί

ὁ πρό ἐμοῦ, ὅτι οὕτω πανταχοῦ διασύρεις ἡμᾶς, αἱρετικήν ὑπόληψιν παρά πᾶσι διδούς ἡμῖν; Τίς δέ οὕτω ποτέ, καίτοι κατά πρόσωπον ἀγνοούμενον θέᾳ, ἐτίμησεν ἤ ἐσεβάσθη σε, ὡς ἡμεῖς;