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I have said, and now I say the same, that the Typos was badly done, and to the harm of many. But the pretext for its being published was the contention among the orthodox with one another concerning wills and energies; and so that all might be at peace with one another, some approved that such utterances be silenced. MAX. And what faithful person accepts an economy that silences utterances, which the God of all has ordained to be spoken through apostles, and prophets, and teachers? And let us consider, my great lord, to what evil this matter leads when it is closely examined. For if God has set in the Church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers for the perfecting of the saints; having said in the Gospel to the apostles, and through them also to those after them: What I say to you, I say to all. And again: He that receives you, receives me; and he that rejects you, rejects me. It is therefore clear and manifest, that he who does not receive the apostles and prophets and teachers, but rejects their utterances, rejects Christ himself.

10. And let us consider another thing: God, having chosen, raised up apostles, and

prophets, and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints; but the devil, having chosen, raised up false apostles and false prophets and false teachers against piety, so that both the old law and the evangelical law might be assailed. By false apostles, and (145) false prophets, and false teachers I mean only the heretics, whose words and reasonings are perverse. As therefore he who receives the true apostles, and prophets, and teachers, receives God; so also he who receives the false apostles, and false prophets, and false teachers, receives the devil. He, therefore, who casts out the saints together with the accursed and impure heretics (accept one who speaks the truth), manifestly condemns God together with the devil.

11. If therefore, exercising ourselves on the innovations that have arisen in our times,

we find that they arrive at this supreme evil, see to it lest, under the pretext of peace, we be found to have fallen ill with the apostasy, and to be proclaiming that which the divine Apostle said would be the forerunner of the coming of the Antichrist. These things I have said to you without reserve, my lords, that you may spare both yourselves and us. Do you command that I, having these things written in the book of my heart, should come to commune in the Church in which these things are preached; and become a partaker with those who in truth cast out God, but seemingly cast out the devil with God? May it not be so for me from God, who for my sake was made man without sin. And making a prostration he said: I, if you command anything to be done to your servant, do it; I will never be a communicant with those who accept these things.

12. And being struck dumb at what had been said, they cast down their heads and were silent for

a considerable time; and looking up, and gazing at Abba Maximus, Theodosius the bishop said: We answer for you to our lord the emperor, that if you commune he will lighten the Typos. MAX. We are still very far from one another; what are we to do about the synodically confirmed utterance of the one will, to the exclusion of all energy, by Sergius and Pyrrhus? THEOD. That document was taken down and cast out. MAX. It was taken down from the stone walls, but not from the minds of souls.

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εἶπον, καί νῦν τά αὐτό λέγω, ὅτι κακῶς γέγονεν ὁ Τύπος, καί ἐπί βλάβῃ πολλῶν. Πρόφασις δέ γέγονε τό ἐκτεθεῖναι αὐτόν, ἡ πρός ἀλλήλους τῶν ὀρθοδόξων περί θελημάτων καί ἐνεργειῶν ζυγομαχία· καί διά τό πρός ἀλλήλους εἰρηνεῦσαι πάντας, συνεῖδόν τινες τάς τοιαύτας κατασιγασθῆναι φωνάς. ΜΑΞ. Καί ποῖος πιστός δέχεται οἰκονομίαν κατασιγάζουσαν φωνάς, ἅσπερ λαλεῖσθαι δι' ἀποστόλων, καί προφητῶν, καί διδασκάλων ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεός ᾠκονόμησε; Καί σκοπήσωμεν, κῦρι ὁ μέγας, εἰς ποῖον κακόν καταντᾷ ψηλαφούμενον τό κεφάλαιον τοῦτο. Εἰ γάρ ὁ μέν Θεός ἔθετο ἐν τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ, πρῶτον μέν ἀποστόλους, δεύτερον προφήτας, τρίτον διδασκάλους πρός τόν καταρτισμόν τῶν ἁγίων· εἰρηκώς ἐν τῷ Εὐαγγελίῳ τοῖς ἀποστόλοις, καί δι' αὐτῶν καί τοῖς μετ' αὐτούς· Ὅ ὑμῖν λέγω, πᾶσι λέγω. Καί πάλιν· Ὁ δεχόμενος ὑμᾶς, ἐμέ δέχεται· καί ὁ ἀθετῶν ὑμᾶς, ἐμέ ἐθετεῖ· δῆλον ὅτι καί προφανές, ὡς ὁ μή δεχόμενος τούς ἀποστόλους καί προφήτας, καί διδασκάλους, ἀλλ' ἀθετῶν αὐτῶν τάς φωνάς, αὐτόν ἀθετεῖ τόν Χριστόν.

Ι΄. Καί ἄλλο δέ σκοπήσωμεν· Ὁ Θεός ἐκλεξάμενος, ἐξήγειρεν ἀποστόλους, καί

προφήτας, καί διδασκάλους, πρός τόν καταρτισμόν τῶν ἁγίων· ὁ δέ διάβολος, ψευδαποστόλους καί ψευδοπροφήτας, καί ψευδοδιδασκάλους κατά τῆς εὐσεβείας ἐκλεξάμενος ἐξήγειρεν, ὥστε καί τόν παλαιόν πολεμηθῆναι νόμον, καί τόν εὐαγγελικόν. Ψευδαποστόλους δέ, καί (145) ψευδοπροφήτας, καί ψευδοδισκάλους μόνους νοῶ τούς αἱρετικούς· ὧν οἱ λόγοι καί οἱ λογισμοί διεστραμμένοι εἰσίν. Ὥσπερ οὖν ὁ τούς ἀληθεῖς ἀποστόλους, καί προφήτας, καί διδασκάλους δεχόμενος, Θεόν δέχεται· οὕτως καί ὁ τούς ψευδαποστόλους, καί ψευδοπροφήτας, καί ψευδοδιδασκάλους δεχόμενος, τόν διάβολον δέχεται. Ὁ τοίνυν συνεκβαλών τούς ἁγίους τοῖς ἐναγέσι καί ἀκαθάρτοις αἱρετικοῖς (δέξασθε λέγοντα τήν ἀλήθειαν), τῷ διαβόλῳ προφανῶς τόν Θεόν συγκατέκρινεν.

ΙΑ΄. Εἰ τοίνυν γυμνάζοντες τάς γενομένας καινοτομίας ἐν τοῖς ἡμετέροις χρόνοις,

εἰς τοῦτο καταντούσας αὐτάς εὑρίσκομεν τό ἀκρότατον κακόν, ὁρᾶτε μήπως εἰρήνην προφασιζόμενοι, τήν ἀποστασίαν εὑρεθῶμεν νοσήσαντες, καί κηρύττοντες ἥν πρόδρομον εἶπεν ἔσεσθαι τῆς τοῦ Ἀντιχρίστου παρουσίας ὁ θεῖος Ἀπόστολος. Ταῦτα χωρίς ὑποστολῆς εἶπον ὑμῖν, δεσπόται μου, ἵνα φείσησθε ἑαυτῶν τε καί ἡμῶν. Κελεύετε ἵνα ταῦτα γεγραμμένα ἔχων ἐν τῇ βίβλῳ τῆς καρδίας, ἔλθω κοινωνήσων ἐν ᾗ ταῦτα κηρύττεται Ἐκκλησίᾳ· καί γένωμαι κοινωνός τῶν ἀληθῶς μέν τόν Θεόν, δῆθεν δέ τόν διάβολον τῷ Θεῷ συνεκβαλλόντων; Μή γένοιτό μοι παρά τοῦ Θεοῦ, τοῦ δι' ἐμέ γενομένου χωρίς ἁμαρτίας. Καί βαλών μετάνοιαν εἶπεν· Ἐγώ, εἴ τι κελεύετε εἰς τόν δοῦλον ἡμῶν ποιῆσαι, ποιήσατε· ἐγώ τοῖς ταῦτα δεχομένοις, οὐδέποτε γένωμαι συγκοινωνός.

ΙΒ΄. Καί ἀποπαγέντες ἐπί τοῖς λαληθεῖσι, κάτω βαλόντες τάς κεφαλάς ἐσίγησαν ἐπί

ὥραν ἱκανήν· καί ἀνακύψας, καί τῷ ἀββᾷ Μαξίμῳ ἀτενίσας Θεοδόσιος ὁ ἐπίσκοπος, εἶπεν· Ἡμεῖς ἀντιφωνοῦμέν σοι, τόν δεσπότην ἡμῶν τόν βασιλέα, ὅτι σοῦ κοινωνοῦντος κουφίζει τόν Τύπον. ΜΑΞ. Πολύ ἀπεχόμεθα ἀπ' ἀλλήλων ἀκμήν· τί ποιοῦμεν περί τῆς συνοδικῶς βεβαιωθείσης φωνῆς, τοῦ ἑνός θελήματος, ἐπ' ἐκβολῇ πάσης ἐνεργείας ὑπό Σεργίου καί Πύῤῥου ; ΘΕΟ∆. Ἐκεῖνος ὁ χάρτης κατηνέχθη καί ἀπεβλήθη. ΜΑΞ. Κατηνέχθη ἐκ τῶν λιθίνων τοίχων, οὐ μήν ἐκ τῶν νοερῶν ψυχῶν.