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Nor as one and another; for the monad does not differ from the Trinity by a difference of nature, being a simple and single nature. Nor as one beside another, for the Trinity is not distinguished from the monad by a diminution of power, nor the monad from the Trinity; or as something common and general, contemplated by thought alone among its particulars, has the monad differed (15Γ_246> from the Trinity, being a substance properly subsisting in itself, and a power truly self-sufficient. Nor as one through another; for the Same, which is in every way unrelated(5), is not mediated by a relation, as a cause to an effect. Nor as one from another; for the Trinity is not from the monad by derivation, being unbegotten and self-manifested; but truly the same is both monad and Trinity, both spoken and conceived; the one, according to the principle of substance; 0893 the other, according to the mode of existence; the whole being the same monad, not divided into the hypostases; and the whole being the same Trinity, not confused with the monad; so that neither polytheism through division, nor atheism through confusion, may be introduced; which the word according to Christ, avoiding, is made glorious. And I speak of the word of Christ, the new proclamation of truth in which there is neither male nor female; I mean the signs and the passions of a nature subject to corruption and generation.

Not Greek and Jew, the opposing doctrines concerning divinity; not circumcision and uncircumcision, the forms of worship clearly corresponding to these; the one, through the symbols of the law, maligning the visible creation, and slandering the Creator as a maker of evils; the other, through the passions, deifying it, and setting the creation in opposition to the Creator; and both, to an equal evil, bringing together for each other insult against the divine [Venet. συλλέγουσαι. Fr. συνάγουσαι]. Not barbarian and Scythian; that is, the seditious division of the one nature against itself and its mind; according to which the law of killing one another contrary to nature entered among men. Nor slave and free; the division, that is, of the same nature contrary to its mind; making dishonored the one who is by nature of equal honor; having as its supporting law the disposition of masters, which tyrannizes over the dignity of the image.

(15Γ_248> But Christ is all and in all, through the things beyond nature and law, creating in spirit the formation of the kingdom without beginning; which, as has been shown, humility of heart and meekness are designed to characterize; the union of which shows the perfect man being created according to Christ. For everyone who is humble-minded is in every way also meek, and everyone who is meek is in every way also humble-minded; humble-minded, as knowing himself to have his being on loan; and meek, as discerning the use of the powers given to him by nature; and on the one hand giving the service of these to reason for the generation of virtue; and on the other hand completely restraining their activity from the senses. And for this reason, according to the mind, being ever-moving toward God; but according to the senses, not being moved at all even when experiencing all the bodily pains together, or imprinting a trace of pain on the soul, to the alteration of the joyful disposition within it; for he does not consider pain in the senses to be a deprivation of pleasure. For he knows one pleasure, the soul's life together with the Word, the deprivation of which is an unending punishment, naturally circumscribing all the ages. And for this reason, leaving aside the body and all things of the body, he is borne intensely toward the divine life together; considering it the one loss, even if he rules all things on earth, the failure to attain the awaited deification by grace.

0896 Let us then purify ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, that we may hallow the divine name, having extinguished desire when it is unseemly affected by the passions; and with reason, let us bind down anger when it rages disorderly for pleasures; that through meekness we may receive the coming of God and

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Οὐδ᾿ ὡς ἄλλην καί ἄλλην· οὐ γάρ ἑτερότητι φύσεως τῆς Τριάδος ἡ μονάς διενήνοχεν ἁπλῆ τε καί μία φύσις τυγχάνουσα. Οὐδ' ὡς ἄλλην παρ᾿ ἄλλην, οὐ γάρ ὑφέσει δυνάμεως διακέκριται τῆς μονάδος ἡ Τριάς, ἤ τῆς Τριάδος ἡ μονάς· ἤ ὡς κοινόν τε καί γενικόν ἐπινοίᾳ μόνῃ θεωρητόν τῶν ὑπ᾿ αὐτό μερικῶν, παρήλλακται (15Γ_246> τῆς Τριάδος ἡ μονάς, οὐσία κυρίως ἀνθύπαρκτος οὖσα, καί δύναμις ὄντως αὐτοσθενής. Οὐδ᾿ ὡς δι᾿ ἄλλης ἄλλην· οὐ γάρ μεσιτεύεται σχέσει τό ταυτόν πάντη καί ἄσχετον(5), ὡς πρός αἴτιον αἰτιατόν. Οὐδ᾿ ὡς ἐξ ἄλλης ἄλλην· οὐ γάρ κατά παραγωγήν ἐκ μονάδος Τριάς, ἀγένητος ὑπάρχουσα καί αὐτέκφαντος· ἀλλά τήν αὐτήν ὡς ἀληθῶς μονάδα καί Τριάδα, καί λεγομένην καί νοουμένην· τό μέν, τῷ κατ᾿ οὐσίαν λόγῳ· 0893 τό δέ, τῷ καθ᾿ ὕπαρξιν τρόπῳ· ὅλην μονάδα τήν αὐτήν, μή μεμερισμένην ταῖς ὑποστάσεσι· καί ὅλην Τριάδα τήν αὐτήν, τῇ μονάδι μή συγκεχυμένην· ἵνα μή τῷ μερισμῷ τό πολύθεον, ἤ τῇ συγχύσει τό ἄθεον εἰσκομίζηται· ἅπερ φεύγων ὁ κατά Χριστόν λαμπρύνεται λόγος. Λέγω δέ Χριστοῦ λόγον, τό καινόν κήρυγμα τῆς ἀληθείας ἐν ᾧ οὐκ ἔστιν ἄῤῥεν καί θῆλυ· φημί δέ τά σημεῖα, καί τά πάθη τῆς ὑπό φθοράν καί γένεσιν φύσεως.

Οὐχ Ἕλλην καί Ἰουδαῖος, οἱ περί θεότητος ἀντικείμενοι λόγοι· οὐ περιτομή καί ἀκροβυστία, αἱ τούτοις δηλαδή κατάλληλοι λατρεῖα· ἡ μέν, διά τά σύμβολα τοῦ νόμου, τήν φαινομένην κτίσιν κακίζουσα, καί τόν κτίστην ὡς κακῶν ποιητήν διαβάλλουσα· ἡ δέ, διά τά πάθη ταύτην θεοποιοῦσα, καί τῷ κτίστῃ ἐπανιστῶσα τό ποίημα· καί πρός ἴσον κακόν ἄμφω τήν θείαν ὕβριν ἀλλήλαις συλλήγουσαι [Venet. συλλέγουσαι. Fr. συνάγουσαι]. Οὐ βάρβαρος καί Σκύθης· τουτέστιν, ἡ πρός ἑαυτήν στασιαστική τῆς μιᾶς φύσεως καί γνώμην διάστασις· καθ᾿ ἥν ὁ τῆς ἀλληλοκτονίας παρά φύσιν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις εἰσεφθάρη νόμος. Οὔτε δοῦλος καί ἐλεύθερος· ἡ τῆς αὐτῆς δηλονότι παρά γνώμην διαίρεσις φύσεως· ἄτιμον ποιουμένη τόν κατά φύσιν ὁμότιμον· νόμον ἐπίκουρον ἔχουσα, τήν τυραννοῦσαν τό τῆς εἰκόνος ἀξίωμα, τῶν δεσποζόντων διάθεσιν.

(15Γ_248> Ἀλλά πάντα καί ἐν πᾶσι Χριστός, διά τῶν ὑπέρ φύσιν καί νόμον, τήν τῆς ἀνάρχου βασιλείας δημιουργῶν ἐν πνεύματι μόρφωσιν· ἥν, ὡς ἀποδέδεικται, πέφυκε χαρακτηρίζειν, καρδίας ταπείνωσις καί πραότης· ὧν ἡ σύνοδος τέλειον τόν κατά Χριστόν κτιζόμενον ἀποδείκνυσιν ἄνθρωπον. Πᾶς γάρ ταπεινόφρων, πάντως καί πρᾶος, καί πᾶς πρᾶος, πάντως καί ταπεινόφρων· ταπεινόφρων μέν, ὡς γνούς ἑαυτόν ἔχοντα τό εἶναι δεδανεισμένον· πρᾶος δέ, ὡς διαγνούς τῶν δοθεισῶν αὐτῷ κατά φύσιν δυνάμεων τήν χρῆσιν· καί τῷ μέν λόγῳ πρός ἀρετῆς γένεσιν τούτων διδούς τήν ὑπηρεσίαν· τῆς αἰσθήσεως δέ τελείως τήν τούτων συστέλλων ἐνέργειαν. Καί διά τοῦτο κατά μέν τόν νοῦν, πρός Θεόν ἀεικίνητος ὤν· κατά δέ τήν αἴσθησιν, οὐδέ πάντων ὁμοῦ τῶν πρός σῶμα λυπηρῶν πεῖραν λαμβάνων παντελῶς κινούμενος, ἤ λύπης ἴχνος ἐντυπῶν τῇ ψυχῇ, πρός παραλλαγήν τῆς ἐν αὐτῇ χαροποιοῦ διαθέσεως· οὐ γάρ ἡγεῖται στέρησιν ἡδονῆς ὑπάρχειν, τό κατ᾿ αἴσθησιν ἀλγεινόν. Ἡδονήν γάρ μίαν ἐπίσταται, τήν τῆς ψυχῆς πρός τόν λόγον συμβίωσιν, ἧς ἡ στέρησις κόλασίς ἐστιν ἀτελεύτητος, πάντας φυσικῶς περιγράφουσα τούς αἰῶνας. Καί διά τοῦτο, τό τε σῶμα, καί πάντα τά τοῦ σώματος ἀφείς, πρός τήν θείαν φέρεται σύντονος συμβίωσιν· μίαν ζημίαν ἡγούμενος, κἄν πάντων δεσπόζῃ τῶν ἐπί γῆς, τήν τῆς προσδοκωμένης κατά χάριν θεώσεως ἀποτυχίαν.

0896 Ἁγνίσωμεν οὖν ἑαυτούς παντός μολυσμοῦ σαρκός καί πνεύματος, ἵνα τό θεῖον ἁγιάσωμεν ὄνομα, ἀκκιζομένην τοῖς πάθεσιν ἀπρεπῶς τήν ἐπιθυμίαν κατασβέσαντες· καί λόγῳ, ταῖς ἡδοναῖς ἀτάκτως ἐπιμαινόμενον τόν θυμόν, καταδήσωμεν· ἵνα διά τῆς πραότητος παραγινομένην ὑποδεξώμεθα τήν τοῦ Θεοῦ καί