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is demonstrated; and clearly rejecting the monarchy and the hypostatic unity of the Father.

We show that our dogma is venerable and from antiquity, and as being complete, it in no way needs addition.

Then, having also said this, that the things commonly said by the fathers must be cherished more than the things said privately by some of them to an individual, and that things not commonly spoken are suspect, and especially when put forward by the Latins who tamper even with manifest things, we promised, but with God be the discourse, in (p. 180) the second discourse to present the things that seem to disagree as being in agreement.

These things, then, have been demonstrated above through many points; and that we and our confession are from every side secure and is for us a crown of boasting and a hope that does not put to shame. For if we are thus lacking in this, much more so are the apostles, prophets, venerable and numerous synods of fathers, from of old and initiated from above and who initiated our race by divine impulse. And if, knowing otherwise, as the race of the Latins now insists, they did not reveal it to us, and this, though the Lord said to them, "what you heard in the darkness, preach in the light," how could they not be among the responsible? But God justified them here also through the greatest works.

For they did not think according to the Latins, far from it, as has also been shown, but they have both known and handed down to us one and only principle of the Godhead, one unbegotten Father, one Son proceeding from him by generation, one co-eternal Holy Spirit, itself also proceeding from the Father before the ages and unto the ages; and furthermore also glorified together with the Father and the Son, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

CONCERNING THE PROCESSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

SECOND DISCOURSE (p. 182)

Therefore, having previously, to the best of our ability, gone through those things which were necessary even for the list of the pious, for the clarification and confirmation of right belief, and through which in brief all the impiety of the opposing Latins is revealed, but not yet having brought forth into the light nor having refuted all those things which they themselves propose against us and piety, and by which they claim to innovate nothing, but to think and speak in harmony with the divine words of Christ himself and in no way discordant with those who have theologized according to Christ, let us now see, one by one, what things they say and what reasonings or even scriptural words and thoughts, using, or rather, misusing, they have fallen away from the God-spoken and patristically-handed-down confession. And the most terrible thing of all, they do not wish even to re-examine and securely take hold of that from which they have fallen, but to those who give a hand for correction, the power of the word of truth leading up to truth, like some who are truly uneducated, they are greatly annoyed and contradict.

To fall away, therefore, became common to all the churches, at one time or another through the long course of time, with the worse thing doing harm. But to have fallen away and no longer to return has happened only to the church of the Latins, although it was the greatest and chief and of the patriarchal thrones, a pre-eminent eminence; and the same thing has happened to it, greatest of the

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ἀποδείκνυται˙ καί ἀθετοῦντες σαφῶς τήν μοναρχίαν καί τό καθ᾿ ὑπόστασιν ἑνιαῖον τοῦ Πατρός.

Ἀναφαίνομεν τό αἰδέσιμον ἔχειν καί ἀπό τῆς ἀρχαιότητος τό καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς δόγμα, καί ὡς ἀνελλιπές μηδαμῶς προσθήκης δεῖσθαι.

Ἔπειτα καί τοῦτ᾿ εἰπόντες, ὅτι τά κοινῶς εἰρημένα παρά τῶν πατέρων στερκτέα μᾶλλον τῶν ἰδίως τισί τούτων εἰρημένων ἑκάστῳ, καί ὅτι τά μή καθωμιλημένα ὕποπτά ἐστι, καί μάλιστα παρά Λατίνων προαγόμενα τῶν καί τοῖς φανεροῖς παρεγχειρούντων, ὑπεσχέθημεν, σύν Θεῷ δ᾿ ὁ λόγος ἐν (σελ. 180) δευτέρῳ λόγῳ τά διαφωνεῖν δοκοῦντα συμφωνοῦντα παραστήσειν.

Ταῦτα μέν οὖν ἀνωτέρω διά πλειόνων ἀποδέδεικται˙ καί ὡς ἡμεῖς καί ἡ καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς ὁμολογία πανταχόθεν ἔχει τό ἀσφαλές καί στέφανος ἡμῖν ἐστι καυχήσεως καί ἀκαταίσχυντος ἐλπίς. Εἰ γάρ μή οὕτω καί ἡμεῖς κατά ταύτην ἐλλιπεῖς, πολλῷ μᾶλλον οἱ ἐκ παλαιοῦ καί μυηθέντες ἄνωθεν καί τό καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς γένος θεοκινήτως μυήσαντες ἀπόστολοι, προφῆται, σεπταί σύνοδοι πατέρων πολλαί τε καί πολυάριθμοι. Εἰ δέ καί γινώσκοντες ἑτέρως, ὡς νῦν ἰσχυρίζονται τό τῶν Λατίνων γένος, οὐ πεφανερώκασιν ἡμῖν, καί ταῦτα τοῦ Κυρίου πρός αὐτούς εἰπόντος, «ἅ ἠκούσατε ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ, κηρύξατε ἐν τῷ φωτί», πῶς οὐκ ἄν τῶν ὑπευθύνων εἶεν; Ἀλλ᾿ ὁ Θεός αὐτούς δι᾿ἔργων κἀνταῦθα μεγίστων ἐδικαίωσεν.

Οὐ γάρ ἐφρόνουν κατά τούς Λατίνους, ἄπαγε, ὡς καί τοῦτο δέδεικται, ἀλλά καί ἐγνώκασι καί παραδεδώκασιν ἡμῖν μίαν καί μόνην ἀρχήν τῆς θεότητος, ἕνα Πατέρα ἀγέννητον, ἕνα Υἱόν ἐξ αὐτοῦ γεννητῶς προερχόμενον, ἕν Πνεῦμα ἅγιον συναΐδιον, ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός καί αὐτό ἐκπορευόμενον πρό αἰώνων καί εἰς αἰῶνας˙ καί ἔτι καί συνδοξαζόμενον τῷ Πατρί καί τῷ Υἱῷ νῦν καί ἀεί καί εἰς τούς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.

ΠΕΡΙ ΕΚΠΟΡΕΥΣΕΩΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΟΣ

ΛΟΓΟΣ ∆ΕΥΤΕΡΟΣ (σελ. 182)

Ὧν μέν οὖν ἔδει καί αὐτῷ τῷ τῶν εὐσεβούντων καταλόγῳ πρός διασάφησίν τε καί βεβαίωσιν τοῦ ὀρθοῦ φρονήματος καί δι᾿ ὧν ἐν βραχεῖ τό δυσσεβές ἅπαν τῶν ἐνισταμένων ἀναφαίνεται Λατίνων, πρότερον εἰς δύναμιν διεξελθόντες, ἅ δέ αὐτοί προτείνουσι καθ᾿ ἡμῶν τε καί τῆς εὐσεβείας, καί δι᾿ ὧν ἰσχυρίζονται μηδέν καινοτομεῖν, ἀλλά τοῖς αὐτοῦ Χριστοῦ θείοις λόγοις συνῳδά φρονεῖν καί λέγειν καί τοῖς κατά Χριστόν θεολογήσασι κατ᾿ οὐδέν ἀπᾴδοντα, ταῦτα δέ μήπω πάνθ᾿ ἑξῆς εἰς τοὐμφανές παραγαγόντες μηδέ ἀπελέγξαντες, νῦν ἴδωμεν καθ᾿ ἕκάστον ἅττα λέγουσι καί τίσι λογσιμοῖς ἤ καί γραφικοῖς ρήμασί τε καί νοήμασι χρησάμενοι, μᾶλλον δέ παραχρησάμενοι, τῆς θεολέκτου τε καί πατροπαραδότου διαπεπτώκασιν ὁμολογίας. Καί τό δεινότατον ἁπάντων, οὐδ᾿ ἐπαναλῦσαι καί ἀσφαλῶς ἐπιλαβέσθαι οὗ διαπεπτώκασιν ἐθέλουσιν, ἀλλά τοῖς πρός ἐπανόρθωσιν διδοῦσι χεῖρα, ἀληθείας λόγου δύναμιν πρός ἀλήθειαν ἀναγωγόν, οἷά τινες ὡς ἀληθῶς ἀνάγωγοι, δυσχεραίνουσί τε ἐς τά μάλιστα καί ἀντιλέγουσι.

Τό μέν οὖν διαπεσεῖν κοινόν ἐγένετο ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις ἁπάσαις, ἄλλοτε ἄλλῃ διά τοῦ μακροῦ χρόνου λυμηναμένου χείρονος. Τό δέ διαπεσοῦσαν μηκέτ᾿ ἐπανελθεῖν μόνης τῆς τῶν Λατίων ἐγένετο, καίτοι μεγίστης τε καί κορυφαίας οὔσης καί τῶν πατριαρχικῶν θρόνων ἐξόχου περιωπῆς˙ καί ταὐτόν ταύτῃ συμβέβηκε, μεγίστη τῶν