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watch of the night He comes to them, walking on the sea, and He wished to pass them by. But where? And rising up from there, He went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And when He had entered a house, He wanted no one to know it, and yet He could not be hidden. and again: And they departed from there and passed through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know it. and: The next day He wanted to go into Galilee. And after these things, again: Jesus walked in Galilee; for He did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill Him. and: Where do you want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover? 0160 and: They gave Him vinegar to drink mixed with gall; and when He had tasted it, He was not willing to drink. For these things, I mean "He wished to pass them by," and, "He wanted to go out," and "He did not want to walk," and "to want to eat the Passover," and "not to want to drink the vinegar," confirm His human will and energy, which is according to us. For to want and not want to pass by, or to eat, or to walk, or to drink, is manifestly a will, through which He was known as being by nature willing. But by tasting and eating, and going out, and transitively journeying and walking, that is the energy, He was shown to be energetic, in that by nature He later became man for our sakes, but not in that He existed without beginning for Himself as God by nature. Since it is not in His nature, as He was God and the Word, Son of God by nature, to will something bodily and to eat, or to be circumscribed locally by transitory movements, being everywhere and infinitely beyond the all an infinite number of times; thus also [Scripture], presenting Him as having the divine and paternal will and energy super-essentially, 15Α_208 clearly teaches: As the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He will. Here, therefore, the willing to give life to the dead testifies to His divine will; but the act of giving life, His all-creating energy proper. And simply, if anything else of this kind, it is dependent on the nature that is set apart from beings, for its manifestation, as is possible.

But by these things He Himself, the Word of our salvation, through His disciples, presents Himself as being by nature willing and energetic according to both His natures, from which and in which He consists; but those after them, their successors, and the revealers of the theophany of the Word in the flesh, the God-chosen Fathers of the Catholic Church, [proclaim] equally each of the same, both the divine and the human nature; and not only this, but also proclaiming the will and the energy, they say these things with a great voice. For he who is named for immortality, in his discourse on the Incarnation and the Trinity: "And when He says, 'Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done;' and again: 'The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak,' He shows two wills here: the human, on account of the weakness of the flesh, declines the passion, but His divine [will] is ready." And Gregory, who is named for theology, in his second discourse on the 0161 Son: " Seventh, let it be said, that the Son has come down from heaven, not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him. If, then, these things were not said about the one who came down, we might say that the saying is molded with reference to the man, not to the one understood as the Savior. For His will is not at all contrary to God, being wholly deified, but that 15Α_210 which is according to us; for the human will does not in every way follow the divine, but for the most part opposes and struggles against it."

And his namesake, who became the instructor of the Nyssenes, or rather the Teacher of the world, in his discourse on Pascha: "The leper approaches, his body already wasting away and ruined. How does the healing from the Lord happen to him? The soul wills, the body touches, through both the affliction flees. He departed

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φυλακήν τῆς νυκτός ἔρχεται πρός αὐτούς περιπατῶν ἐπί τῆς θαλάσσης, καί ἤθελε παρελθεῖν αὐτούς· πῆ δέ· Καί ἀναστάς ἐκεῖθεν εἰς τά ὅρια Τύρου καί Σιδῶνος, καί εἰσελθών εἰς οἰκίαν, οὐδένα ἤθελε γνῶναι, καί οὐκ ἠδυνήθη λαθεῖν· καί πάλιν· Ἐκεῖθεν ἐξελθόντες παρεπορεύοντο διά τῆς Γαλιλαίας, καί οὐκ ἤθελεν ἵνα τις γνῷ· καί· Τῇ ἐπαύριον ἤθελεν ἐλθεῖν εἰς τήν Γαλιλαίαν. Καί μετά ταῦτα πάλιν· Περιεπάτει ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἰς τήν Γαλιλαίαν, οὐ γάρ ἤθελε ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ περιπατεῖν, ὅτι ἐζήτουν αὐτόν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ἀποκτεῖναι· καί· Ποῦ θέλεις ἑτοιμάσωμέν σοι τό πάσχα φαγεῖν; 0160 καί· Ἔδωκαν αὐτῷ ὄξος μετά χολῆς μεμιγμένον, καί γευσάμενος οὐκ ἠθέλησε πιεῖν. Ταῦτα γάρ, φημί δή τό Ἤθελε παρελθεῖν αὐτούς, καί, Ἤθελε ἐξελθεῖν, καί Οὐκ ἤθελε περιπατεῖν, καί Θέλειν φαγεῖν τό Πάσχα, καί μή θέλειν τό ὄξος πιεῖν, τήν καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς ἀνθρωπίνην αὐτοῦ πιστοῦται θέλησιν καί ἐνέργειαν. Οἷον τό μέν θέλειν καί οὐ θέλειν παρελθεῖν, ἤ φαγεῖν, ἤ βαδίζειν, ἤ πιεῖν, προδήλως ἐστί θέλησις, δι᾿ ἧς φύσει θελητικός ὤν ἐγνωρίζετο. Τῷ δέ γεύσασθαι καί φαγεῖν, καί ἐξελθεῖν, καί μεταβατικῶς πορεύεσθαι καί βαδίζειν, δηλαδή τήν ἐνέργειαν ἐνεργητικός ὑπάρχων ἐδείκνυτο, καθ᾿ ὅ φύσει δι᾿ ἡμᾶς ὕστερον γέγονεν ἄνθρωπος, ἀλλ᾿ οὐ καθ᾿ ὅπερ ὑπῆρχεν ἀνάρχως δι᾿ ἑαυτόν φύσει Θεός. Ἐπεί μηδέ πέφυκεν, ᾖ Θεός ἦν καί Θεοῦ κατά φύσιν Υἱός ὁ Λόγος, σωματικῶς ἐθέλειν τι καί ἐσθίειν, ἤ μεταβατικαῖς κινήσεσι τοπικῶς περιστέλλεσθαι, πανταχοῦ καί ὑπέρ τό πᾶν ἀπειράκις ἀπείρως ὑπάρχων· οὕτω δι᾿ ἄν καί τήν θείαν αὐτόν καί πατρικήν ὑπερουσίως 15Α_208 ἔχοντα θέλησιν καί ἐνέργειαν παριστῶσα (ἡ Γραφή) διδάσκει σαφῶς· Ὥσπερ ὁ Πατήρ ἐγείρει τούς νεκρούς, καί ζωοποιεῖ, οὕτω καί ὁ Υἱός οὕς θέλει ζωοποιεῖ. Κἀνταῦθα τοίνυν, τό μέν τούς νεκρούς ἐθέλειν ζωοποιεῖν, τήν τοῦ αὐτοῦ θεϊκήν μαρτύρεται θέλησιν· αὐτό δέ τό ζωοποιεῖν, τήν παντουργόν αὐτοῦ κυρίως ἐνέργειαν. Καί ἁπλῶς, εἴ τιπερ ἄλλο τοιοῦτο, τῆς ἐξῃρημένης τῶν ὄντων ἐξήρτηται φύσεως, εἰς τήν ταύτης, ὡς οἷόν τε, δήλωσιν.

Ἀλλά τούτοις μέν αὐτός, ἑαυτόν διά τῶν αὐτοῦ μαθητῶν κατ' ἄμφω τάς αὐτοῦ φύσεις, ἐξ ὧν καί ἐν αἷς συνέστηκε, θελητικόν ὑπάρχοντα φύσει καί ἐνεργητικόν παρίστησι τῆς ἡμῶν σωτηρίας ὁ Λόγος· οἱ δέ μετ᾿ ἐκείνους ἐκείνων διάδοχοι, καί τῆς ἐν σαρκί τοῦ Λόγου θεοφανείας ἐκφάντορες, θεόκριτοι τῆς καθολικῆς Ἐκκλησίας Πατέρες, ἑκατέραν ὁμοίως τοῦ αὐτοῦ, τήν τε θείαν καί τήν ἀνθρωπίνην φύσιν· οὐ μόνον δέ, ἀλλά καί τήν θέλησιν καί τήν ἐνέργειαν κηρύττοντες, τάδε μεγαλοφώνως φασίν. Ὁ μέν γάρ τῆς ἀθανασίας ἐπώνυμος, ἐν τῷ περί σαρκώσεως καί Τριάδος λόγῳ· "Καί ὅταν λέγῃ, Πάτερ, εἰ δυνατόν, παρελθέτω ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ τό ποτήριον τοῦτο, πλήν μή τό ἐμόν, ἀλλά τό σόν γενέσθω θέλημα· καί πάλιν· Τό μέν πνεῦμα πρόθυμον, ἡ δέ σάρξ ἀσθενής, δύο θελήματα ἐνταῦθα δείκνυσι· τό μέν ἀνθρώπινον, διά τήν ἀσθένειαν τῆς σαρκός, παραιτεῖται τό πάθος, τό δέ θεϊκόν αὐτοῦ πρόθυμον». Γρηγόριος δέ ὁ τῆς θεολογίας ἐπώνυμος ἐν τῷ περί 0161 Υἱοῦ δευτέρῳ λόγῳ· " Ἕβδομον λεγέσθω, τό καταβεβηκέναι ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τόν Υἱόν, οὐχ ἵνα ποιῇ τό θέλημα τό ἑαυτοῦ, ἀλλά τοῦ πέμψαντος. Εἰ μέν οὖν μή περί τοῦ κατεληλυθότος ταῦτα ἐλέγετο, εἴποιμεν ἄν ὡς περί τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τυποῦσθαι τόν λόγον, οὐ τοῦ κατά τόν Σωτῆρα νοουμένου. Τό γάρ ἐκείνου θέλημα, οὐδέ ὑπεναντίον Θεῷ θεωθέν ὅλον, ἀλλά τοῦ 15Α_210 καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς· ὡς τοῦ ἀνθρωπίνου θελήματος, οὐ πάντως ἑπομένου τῷ θείῳ, ἀλλ᾿ ἀντιπίπτοντος ὡς τά πολλά καί ἀντιπαλαίοντος».

Ὁ δέ τούτου ὁμώνυμος τῆς Νυσσαέων γενόμενος καθηγητής, μᾶλλον δέ τῆς οἰκουμένης ∆ιδάσκαλος, ἐν τῷ εἰς τό Πάσχα λόγῳ· "Προσέρχεται ὁ λεπρός διεῤῥυηκός ἤδη καί ἠχρειωμένος τῷ σώματι. Πῶς γίνεται ἐπί τούτῳ παρά τοῦ Κυρίου ἡ ἴασις; Ἡ ψυχή θέλει, τό σῶμα ἅπτεται, δι᾿ ἀμφοτέρων φεύγει τό πάθος. Ἀπῆλθε